1st Edition

Digital Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy

Edited By Evgueni Vinogradov, Birgit Leick, Djamchid Assadi Copyright 2021
238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The digital and increasingly digitised world is shaped by the interplay of new technological opportunities and ubiquitous societal trends. Both lead to drastic changes facing artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrencies and block-chain technologies, internet of things, technology-based surveillance, and other disruptive innovations. These developments facilitate the rise of the sharing economy... Read more

Part I: Conceptualization of digital entrepreneurship and sharing economy

1. Regional sharing-economy entrepreneurs and the diversity of their business models

Birgit Leick, Mehtap Aldogan Eklund, Susanne Gretzinger, Anna Marie Dyhr Ulrich

2. Digital subsistence entrepreneurs in developed countries: Opportunities and limitations of peer-to-peer platforms

Eva Delacroix, Florence Benoit-Moreau, Béatrice Parguel

3. Digital entrepreneurship across P2P, B2C and B2B contexts: A bibliometric analysis deconstructing extant research on sharing economy business models

Karl Joachim Breung, Henrik Johansen, Jørgen Røste Kristiansen

4. The sharing economy as an entrepreneurial evolution of electronic commerce

Andrea Geissinger, Christofer Laurell, Christina Öberg, Christian Sandström

Part II: Digital entrepreneurship and sharing economy: various cases and contexts

5. Asymmetries of local economic impacts of digital entrepreneurship in Denmark: The case of Airbnb

Jie Zhang, Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen

6. How can digital entrepreneurship address social issues? The case of EkoHarita in fighting ecological disruption

Zeynep Özsoy, Beyza Oba

7. Fostering open innovation in digital startups – an explorative study of Norwegian coworking spaces

Anh Nguyen Duc, Simode Sperinde

8. Gigging with an MBA: when elite workers join the "gig economy for finance people"

Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, Erica Janko, Ken Cai Kowalski

9. Coworking spaces in the sharing economy - examples from an emerging country

Ozge Kirezli, M.G. Serap Atakan

Part III: Governance and legal structure

10. The EU legal-regulatory framework for digital entrepreneurs in the sharing economy

Emily M. Weitzenboeck

11. U.S. Securities Crowdfunding: A Way to Economic Inclusion for Low-Income Entrepreneurs?

Joan MacLeod Heminway

Biography

Evgueni Vinogradov is a senior researcher and former research director at Nordland Research Institute, Norway.

Birgit Leick is an associate professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the School of Business at University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway.

Djamchid Assadi is a professor of Digital and Sharing Economy and Strategy at Burgundy School of Business (BSB), France.