TY - CHAP

T1 - Regulating the sharing economy

T2 - A field perspective

AU - Kirchner, Stefan

AU - Schüßler, Elke

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 by Emerald Publishing Limited.

PY - 2020/4/10

Y1 - 2020/4/10

N2 - Critics increasingly highlight the dark sides of the sharing economy resulting from the insufficient regulation of competition, labor, or taxes in its for-profit sector. In this chapter, the authors argue that regulatory solutions for the sharing economy hinge on the understanding of the ways in which the sharing economy is organized. Here, digitalization undermines established regulation through underlying organizational shifts pertaining to places, labor inputs and output responsibilities. Mapping out the field of actors that are or could be involved in regulating the sharing economy, the authors highlight a particular role played not only by digital platforms as market organizers, but also of a variety of other public and private actors such as standard setting organizations, social movements, trade unions, organized buyers and sellers, incumbents, or policy makers. The authors suggest that an understanding of sharing economy markets as fields can not only capture the highly organized nature of the sharing economy, but also serve to untangle the contestations and power dynamics unfolding among various actors engaged in different regulatory issues associated with the sharing economy. Seeing “Uberization” as a next development stage away from the modern corporation after global supply chains, the authors highlight regulatory challenges associated with the even more individualized and dispersed way in which sharing economy markets are organized and also discuss new opportunities for regulation provided by digital technology.

AB - Critics increasingly highlight the dark sides of the sharing economy resulting from the insufficient regulation of competition, labor, or taxes in its for-profit sector. In this chapter, the authors argue that regulatory solutions for the sharing economy hinge on the understanding of the ways in which the sharing economy is organized. Here, digitalization undermines established regulation through underlying organizational shifts pertaining to places, labor inputs and output responsibilities. Mapping out the field of actors that are or could be involved in regulating the sharing economy, the authors highlight a particular role played not only by digital platforms as market organizers, but also of a variety of other public and private actors such as standard setting organizations, social movements, trade unions, organized buyers and sellers, incumbents, or policy makers. The authors suggest that an understanding of sharing economy markets as fields can not only capture the highly organized nature of the sharing economy, but also serve to untangle the contestations and power dynamics unfolding among various actors engaged in different regulatory issues associated with the sharing economy. Seeing “Uberization” as a next development stage away from the modern corporation after global supply chains, the authors highlight regulatory challenges associated with the even more individualized and dispersed way in which sharing economy markets are organized and also discuss new opportunities for regulation provided by digital technology.

KW - Management studies

KW - Sharing economy

KW - market organization

KW - organizational fields

KW - regulation

KW - sociology of markets

KW - new forms of organizing

KW - global supply chains

KW - sharing economy

KW - market organization

KW - organizational fields

KW - regulation

KW - sociology of markets

KW - new forms of organizing

KW - global supply chains

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/e6da7896-3f32-3720-b7e9-707c450ef5f1/

U2 - 10.1108/S0733-558X20200000066010

DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20200000066010

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85084746436

SN - 978-1-78756-180-9

T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations

SP - 215

EP - 236

BT - Theorizing the Sharing Economy

A2 - Maurer, Indre

A2 - Mair, Johanna

A2 - Oberg, Achim

PB - Emerald Publishing Limited

ER -