THEORIZING THE SHARING
ECONOMY
RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS
Volume 41: Religion and Organization Theory
Volume 42: Organizational Transformation and Scientific Change: The Impact of Institutional Restructuring on Universities and Intellectual Innovation
Volume 43: Elites on Trial
Volume 44: Institutions and Ideals: Philip Selznicks Legacy for Organizational Studies
Volume 45: Towards a Comparative Institutionalism: Forms, Dynamics and Logics Across the Organizational Fields of Health and Higher Education
Volume 46: The University Under Pressure
Volume 47: The Structuring of Work in Organizations
Volume 48A: How Institutions Matter!
Volume 48B: How Institutions Matter!
Volume 49: Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: Post Millennium Perspectives
Volume 50: Emergence
Volume 51: Categories, Categorization and Categorizing: Category Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads
Volume 52: Justification, evaluation and critique in the study of organizations: contributions from French pragmatist sociology
Volume 53: Structure, content and meaning of organizational networks: extending network thinking
Volume 54A: Multimodality, Meaning, and Institutions
Volume 54B: Multimodality, Meaning, and Institutions
Volume 55: Social Movements, Stakeholders and Non-Market Strategy
Volume 56: Social Movements, Stakeholders and Non-Market Strategy
Volume 57: Toward Permeable Boundaries of Organizations?
Volume 58: Agents, Actors, Actorhood: Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority
Volume 59: The Production of Managerial Knowledge and Organizational Theory: New Approaches to Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory
Volume 60: Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process
Volume 61: Routine Dynamics in Action
Volume 62: Thinking Infrastructures
Volume 63: The Contested Moralities of Markets
Volume 64: Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views
Volume 65A: Microfoundations of Institutions
Volume 65B: Microfoundations of Institutions
RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY
OF ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 66
THEORIZING THE SHARING
ECONOMY: VARIETY AND
TRAJECTORIES OF NEW
FORMS OF ORGANIZING
EDITED BY
INDRE MAURER
University of Gttingen, Germany
JOHANNA MAIR
Hertie School, Germany / Stanford University, USA
ACHIM OBERG
WU Vienna University, Austria / University of Mannheim, Germany
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CONTENTS
Indre Maurer, Johanna Mair and Achim Oberg
Philipp C. Mosmann and Jennifer Klutt
Eliane Bucher, Christian Fieseler, Christoph Lutz and Gemma Newlands
Koen Frenken, Taneli Vaskelainen, Lea Fnfschilling and Laura Piscicelli
Aurlien Acquier, Valentina Carbone and Latitia Vasseur
Dominika Wruk, Tino Schllhorn and Achim Oberg
Pinar Ozcan, Kerem Gurses and Mareike Mhlmann
Sebastian Vith and Markus A. Hllerer
Stefan Kirchner and Elke Schler
CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
Aurlien Acquier (Ph.D., HDR) is Professor of Management at the ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, France, and Co-director of the ESCP Europe Deloitte Research Chair in Circular Economy. Combining institutional, organizational, and historical analysis, he explores how the sharing economy is framed both conceptually and empirically. Mapping out the heterogeneous and paradoxical roots of the notion, he explores how the sharing economy is giving birth to various societal promises and controversies, business models, and organizational forms. His research on the sharing economy has been published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Revue Franaise de Gestion, or the Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy.
Eliane Bucher is an Assistant Professor with the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway. She received the Doctorate degree in Management from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where she is currently a Lecturer for Digital Media and Communications Management. She was a visiting scholar at Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research, Stanford University as well as the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. Her research interests include digital platforms and algorithmic labor and virtual and hyper-connective work environments. In particular, she is interested in how workers make sense of and reverse-engineer algorithmic decision-making mechanisms in increasingly digital work environments. Her research has been published, among others, in the Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Discoveries, Computers in Human Behavior and the Journal of Managerial Psychology.
Valentina Carbone (Ph.D., HDR) is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Sustainability at the ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, France, and Co-director of the ESCP Europe Deloitte Research Chair in Circular Economy. Her current research covers the sustainable dimension of SCM, corporate social and environmental responsibility, and sharing and circular economy business models. She explores the theoretical and ideological roots of the sharing economy and the multiple organizational configurations observed in the field, and in particular in the transportation/logistics sector. Her research on the sharing economy has been published in the Journal of Business Logistics, the International Journal of PhysicalDistribution and Logistics Management, the Revue Franaise de Gestion, and the Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy