Being A Declaration Of The New Sharing Economy

“Enabling access to work for people who would otherwise be excluded, (e.g. people with disabilities and people in developing economies), enabling consumers to access affordable services on a just-in-time basis. Creating new opportunities for flexible ways to combine work and private life. Enabling low-cost entry into the market for new enterprises or firms trying out new products or services, thus contributing to growth and competitiveness. Enabling social innovation, creativity and self-expression and the generation of new cultural products and services in addition to helping consolidate European digital single market. ” (Huws, 2015 p: 19)

The online marketing today has become an integral part of people’s lives. There people can buy digital products or services from a seller through companies such as Uber, Lyft, Amazon, E-bay, or Airbnb, This development in the online environment calls for new laws to regulate them. The laws reflect the needs, represent solutions to problems that people have noticed in their daily activities, and influence the society. They created within a society will work to develop it, to bring order in it, and to protect its citizens. Along with Uber and Lyft , Airbnb activities were the target of complaints by Chicago residents. In the article “Chicago May Regulate Airbnb,” by John Byrne, the author presents a huge debate about Airbnb regulation. John Byrne

Sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, other times the sharing economy, this movement is growing momentum at a stunning rate. Individuals are sharing anything from car rides to accommodation, to their front lawns to grow vegetables to even their pets. Whilst their industries are all different they all have significant factors that are the same. They are all disrupting conventional business models, impacting those traditional bottom lines and are doing so by providing platforms that promote peer to peer engagement, interaction and collaboration. This movement towards a collaborative economy affects so many of today’s industries and services and not just as a macro level, but more deeply effecting change within each industries ecosystem.

Consumerism turned out to be a big part in modern human life, the modern form of consumption brings with it the promise of a good life and good feelings; that is probably why it became a type of entertainment rather than necessity, a luxurious and leisure activity exchanged for free time. The idea of exchanging your time for materialistic goods is part of the capital economy; it is said that consumer culture came to be because capitalism surfaced as an economy force, along with the beginning of modernity (Storken, 2009). Modernity is more understood here as the mass production, industrial revolution, and people moving to urban centers that happened during the

Uber started out as a ridesharing mobile application in 2009, a pioneer in the modern sharing economy. Today, Uber has expanded its services to include food delivery and are now operating in more than 450 cities (Elliott, 2015). However, Uber’s international growth is threatened by stiff competition from other ridesharing applications such as Gett, Lyft, and Grab, coupled with accusations of unethical business practices (Davis, 2015; Garrett, Bradford, Meyers & Becker, 1989) and bans from operating in certain countries. To make matters worse, Uber’s recent data breach cover-up scandal has shown consistency in their poor decision making.

Uber, an application that connects ride-hailing users with drivers, and Airbnb, an online lodging platform that derives its name from bed and breakfasts, have practically become synonymous with collaborative consumption. Companies compete to become the next “Uber of” an industry. There is an “Uber of flowers” that delivers bouquets, an “Uber of lawn care” that encourages lawnmower sharing, and even an “Uber of medical marijuana” (Entis, 2014). The analogy is precarious considering the variations between these companies, but the basic premise of the sharing

However, in challenging the idea of identity as commodity, we could take a Marxist approach which would often suggest that in late modernity there is a fear with the preoccupation of spending, trying to fulfill other people’s lives and not live our own, the fear that ‘we are losing touch with more worthwhile values and ways of living’ (Schor,1999) can be assumed to be caused by the shift towards mass production. The idea that people have more freedom is to say that we have more choice, we can argue choice as an “illusion” that our choices are being dressed by producers, to support this argument, we could refer to Ted Talks who centers his notions on the paradox of choice, the idea that choice “produces paralysis as opposed to liberation, with so much to choose from people can not choose at all.” (Ted Talks) this notion driven by nature of the capitalist society in which we live, mass marketization to produce for mass consumption has surrounded us with a

Is the gig economy a win-win solution for both the outsourced workers and struggling companies to survive this economic crisis? Although it may look as though the jobs-based economy is the call of the time to alleviate the increasing unemployment rate, there are underlying implications socially and economically. A full-time job for most workers means a true sense of security with employer-provided benefits in contrast to irregular employees. Now in the gig economy, work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as freelance assignments, consulting projects and contract opportunities among others which provide more flexibility but also with uncertainty (Mulchany, 2016). This essay intends to evaluate the implications of the flourishing “Gig Economy” by reviewing the economic aspects, the current situation, and key players. It will explore the gap of the gig economy that may be useful to promote equal benefits for all workers regardless whether a full-time or outsource worker.

Presently, many companies are seemingly willing to practice corporate political activism. Uber Technologies Former CEO Travis Kalanick had been very vocal about his political positions. Unfortunately, the support faced harsh criticism from Uber’s customer base over the support of President Trump and his political decisions. Kalanick, as well as other technology CEO's, joined Donald Trump's business advisory council as a way for their company to have a relationship with the Republican Party as well as with the White House.

They used to tell you not to get into a car with strangers that you’ve never met before. Nowadays, it’s almost easier than ever to get into that situation. With ridesharing services becoming an ever more popular option for people to get around in cities, there has also been a change in the culture of transportation around the world. There are many benefits as a well as negatives to such rideshare services such as Uber, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, Careem, and Grab. Now with nearly a median of 43% of people in the world that owns a smartphone, it’s never been easier to access ridesharing applications (Poushter, 2016). These ridesharing apps aren’t such smoothing sailing ideas and has met a lot of opposition to get to where it is today. Yet despite all these hurdles it comes with, ridesharing applications is the way of getting around in the future as it creates job opportunities and offers better service.

A sharing economy, is when owners utilize digital clearinghouses to capitalize the unused capacity of things they already have, and consumers rent from their peers rather than rent or buy from a company (Geron, 2013). Consumers today can share or offer resources like cars, room rentals, dog sitting and skills to people that require their services for low cost. Companies today, like Airbnb and Uber are capitalizing off “The Share Economy” market by providing services based of the consumer needs. The share economy does create a new economy that can be beneficial to those people trying to save and earn addition income, but detrimental to companies in the car service and hospitality industry. This lead us the main discussion in the essay: Can the sharing economy market be disruptive to the traditional economy or will it enhance the businesses in the near future.

As for the practical side, this study can be used by managers of Airbnb as well by other managers of sharing economy-based companies, as this study provides the results of primary data analysis. It shows, how aware people are of Airbnb in some countries, like Russia or Germany and gives some insights into the main reasons to use collaborative consumption on the example of Airbnb. Moreover, this study emphasizes the importance of trust in the creation and maintaining the relationships with customers.

The collaborative economy is defined as an economy built upon a distributed network of connected individuals and communities working together, contrasted with centralized institutions, redefining how individuals and companies produce, consume, finance and learn (Botsman 2013). Crowdfunding, a subset of the financial component, is a method in which a large number of individuals fund a project, activity or cause.

Convenience is key in any consumer market, and technology allows for an easy transmission of data and information to and from users of collaborative markets. Improvements in technology have reduced transaction costs dramatically and created a pathway for physical assets to be transformed into services worldwide. The sharing economy involves items that are owned by many, but generally expensive to purchase individually (Economist). It is especially attractive because it allows owners to generate income from their underused assets, while allowing consumers to live a life they desire while remaining within their budget (Boesler). Based on these two perks, it is no wonder that the sharing economy started to really establish a firm ground during the financial crisis of 2008.

These players (not always necessarily but could) have an inclination to give something back to the environment or want to have an economic association with their tasks. These could be something that any Gamification design for ShareAll needs to be