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The Economy of Collaboration: The New Digital Platforms of Production and Consumption book cover

1st Edition

The Economy of Collaboration The New Digital Platforms of Production and Consumption

By Francesco Ramella, Cecilia Manzo Copyright 2021
216 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Over the past few decades, the world economy has undergone radical transformations, in part connected to the expansion of the ‘digital economy’, in part to the growing interconnection via the internet of the world of objects and physical processes. This ‘great transformation’ poses the dilemma on the capitalism’s ability to reconcile economic and social value, keeping together economic... Read more

Introduction: What is the Economy of Collaboration?

Part I: Between Production and Consumption

1. The Drivers of the Economy of Collaboration

2. What is Smart Manufacturing?

3. What is the Sharing Economy?

Part II: Sectoral Perspectives

4. The Sphere of Innovation

5. The Sphere of Consumption, Production and Services

6. The Sphere of Financing

Part III: Research Perspectives: The Infrastructures of Collaboration

7. The Fab Labs: Collective Goods in the Collaborative Economy

8. Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Three Case Studies

Conclusions

Biography

Francesco Ramella is a Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Torino, Italy, where he is Co-Director of the ‘Luigi Bobbio’ Center. He co-founded and was the first president of the Italian Society of Economic Sociology. In 2016, he published the Sociology of Economic Innovation.

Cecilia Manzo is an Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.

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