Sharing economy enabled digital platforms for development

ABSTRACT

The special issue on Sharing Economy Enabled Digital Platforms for Development focuses on an investigation of an emerging form of collaborative consumption, known as sharing economy. This special issue aims to address several issues regarding important and novel research questions, analytical approaches, and to understand how the sharing economy brings about economic, social, and environmental development. After articulating the motivations that led us to launch this special issue call, we first outline the sharing economy ecosystem and its impact on sustainable development. Secondly, we propose a framework on the sharing economy development to connect all aspects of sharing economy ecosystem. Finally, we summarize the eight papers in this collection. These eight papers mainly focus on the sharing economy issues in developing regions. The accepted papers investigate the factors influencing SEDPs for development, factors influencing individuals’ intention to engage in the sharing economy, and the related trust, privacy, and regulatory issues.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Sajda Qureshi, Manoj Thomas, Yan Li and Monideepa Tarafdar for their extremely valuable feedback on earlier versions of this work.

Additional information

Funding

The authors would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 71871061 and 72061147005], Fund for Building World-Class Universities (Disciplines) of Renmin University of China [Project No. KYGJA2021004] and the framework of international cooperation program managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea (2020K2A9A2A1110432911, FY2020) for providing funding for part of this research.

Notes on contributors

Xusen Cheng

Xusen Cheng is a Professor of Information Systems in the School of Information at Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. He has obtained his PhD in informatics atManchester Business School at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on trust development in virtual teams, collaboration process, and system design, sharing economy and e-commerce, and the integration of behavior and design issues in information system. His research paper has been accepted/appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Tourism Management, Decision Sciences, Information and Management, Information Processing and Management, International Journal of Information Management, Information Technology and People, Computers in Human Behavior, Information Technology for Development, amongst others. His research has also been included in numerous conference proceedings such as ICIS, HICSS, AMCIS, PACIS, amongst many others.

Jian Mou

Jian Mou is an associate professor of Management Information Systems in the School of Business, Pusan National University, South Korea. He received his PhD degree in Information Systems from University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr Mou was previously an adjunct professor at the Business School of Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. In addition, Dr Mou engaged in research as a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois-Chicago, USA. His research interests include electronic commerce, human computer interaction, trust and risk issues in electronic services, and the dynamic nature of systems use. His work has been accepted/appeared in journals such as Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Computers in Human Behavior, Industrial Management & Data Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Electronic Commerce Research, International Journal of Innovation Studies, Information Processing & Management, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, IT and People, Behaviour and Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Development, and proceedings of ICIS (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018), ECIS, PACIS, and ACIS.

Xiangbin Yan

Xiangbin Yan is a Professor and head of the School of Economics and Management in the University of Science & Technology Beijing, China. He was previously the Chair of the Department of Management Science & Engineering in the School of Management at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. He received a PhD from the Department of Management Science & Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting research scholar in the AI Lab in the MIS Department at the University of Arizona from 2008 to 2009. His current research interests include electronic commerce, social media analytics, social network analysis, and business intelligence. His work has appeared in journals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, Information and Management, Journal of Informetrics, Information Systems Frontiers, amongst others.