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Reengineering the Sharing Economy

Reengineering the Sharing Economy
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Reengineering the Sharing Economy

Design, Policy, and Regulation
Babak Heydari, Northeastern University, Boston
Ozlem Ergun, Northeastern University, Boston
Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Northeastern University, Boston
Yakov Bart, Northeastern University, Boston
April 2023
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    The current sharing economy suffers from system-wide deficiencies even as it produces distinctive benefits and advantages for some participants. The first generation of sharing markets has left us to question: Will there be any workers in the sharing economy? Can we know enough about these technologies to regulate them? Is there any way to avoid the monopolization of assets, information, and wealth? Using convergent, transdisciplinary perspectives, this volume examines the challenge of reengineering a sharing economy that is more equitable, democratic, sustainable, and just. The volume enhances the reader's capacity for integrating applicable findings and theories in business, law and social science into ethical engineering design and practice. At the same time, the book helps explain how technological innovations in the sharing economy create value for different stakeholders and how they impact society at large. Reengineering the Sharing Economy is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    • Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on how to design a fairer and more just sharing economy
    • Covers a broad range of sharing economy industries and platforms, including more well-established industries and very new ones
    • Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

    Product details

    April 2023
    Hardback
    9781108496032
    232 pages
    236 × 157 × 19 mm
    0.51kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction Babak Heydari, Ozlem Ergun, Rashmi Dyal-Chand and Yakov Bart
    • Part I. Cross-Cutting Foundations and Norms for the Sharing Economy of Tomorrow:
    • 2. A sociotechnical ecosystem perspective of sharing economy platforms Babak Heydari
    • 3. The sharing economy and environmental sustainability Matthew J. Eckelman and Yuliya Kalmykova
    • 4. Sharing economy and privacy Laetitia Lambillotte and Yakov Bart
    • 5. Sharing and reputation Steve Tadelis
    • 6. Labor and the platform economy Juliet B. Schor and Steven P. Vallas
    • 7. Contemplating the next generation of sharing economy regulation Rashmi Dyal-Chand
    • Part II. Sharing in Context – Domains, Applications, and Effects:
    • 8. Understanding the impact of ridesharing services on traffic congestion Mehdi Behroozi
    • 9. Increasing shareability in ride-pooling systems: opportunities and empirical studies Haris N. Koutsopoulos and Zhenliang Ma
    • 10. How the sharing economy is reshaping the dynamics of neighborhoods: a theoretical presentation and a test case Dan O'Brien, Babak Heydari and Laiyang Ke
    • 11. Sharing in future energy systems Michael Kane, Elizabeth Allen, Yutong Si and Jennie C. Stephens
    • 12. Shared last mile delivery: current trends and future opportunities Necati Duman, Ozlem Ergun and Mehdi Behroozi
    • 13. Future themes in sharing economy Babak Heydari, Ozlem Ergun, Rashmi Dyal-Chand and Yakov Bart.
      Contributors
    • Babak Heydari, Ozlem Ergun, Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Yakov Bart, Matthew J. Eckelman, Yuliya Kalmykova, Laetitia Lambillotte, Steve Tadelis, Juliet B. Schor, Steven P. Vallas, Mehdi Behroozi, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Zhenliang Ma, Dan O'Brien, Laiyang Ke, Michael Kane, Elizabeth Allen, Yutong Si, Jennie C. Stephens, Necati Duman

    • Editors
    • Babak Heydari , Northeastern University, Boston

      Babak Heydari is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. He is the director of the MAGICS LAB and an affiliate faculty at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and the Network Science Institute.

    • Ozlem Ergun , Northeastern University, Boston

      Ozlem Ergun is the COE Distinguished Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Northeastern University College of Engineering.

    • Rashmi Dyal-Chand , Northeastern University, Boston

      Rashmi Dyal-Chand is Professor of Law and affiliate faculty at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the author of Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities: Reforming Urban Market Regulations (2018) and co-editor of Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core: From the Ground Up (2019).

    • Yakov Bart , Northeastern University, Boston

      Yakov Bart is Associate Professor of Marketing and Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor at D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He is the co-founder and faculty director of the Digital, Analytics, Technology and Automation (DATA) Initiative and core faculty at interdisciplinary Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University.