With the diffusion of digital technologies, new forms of sharing have emerged called 'the
sharing economy'. Digitalization has been the enabler for covering a broad range of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify strategic options and challenges that arise
when an industrial firm moves from providing smart service toward providing a platform …

Platform ecosystems have captured a variety of markets, enabling coordination,
transactions, and value co-creation between independent actors. A focal platform constitutes …

Platform-based ecosystems dominate e-commerce, generating value through participant
growth and resulting network effects. However, research has lacked any conceptualization …

Trust is considered to be one of the key factors influencing the sustainable development of
the sharing economy. In this paper, we focus on the trust issue of peer-to-peer …

In this paper, we present an evolutionary trust game, taking punishment and protection into
consideration, to investigate the formation of trust in the so-called sharing economy from a …

Two-sided markets are gaining increasing importance. Examples include accommodation
and car sharing, resale, shared mobility, crowd work, and many more. As these businesses …

Establishing and curating online reputation is becoming more important and inherent in day-
to-day life. Until now, a plethora of research has focused on either a) the role of reputation …

Online labor platforms have been criticized for fueling precarious working conditions. Due to
their platform-bound reputation systems, switching costs are prohibitively high and workers …

Financial technology (FinTech) platforms often exclude certain countries from their services
due to global political conflicts. As a result, immigrants from these neglected countries …