Research Article

The Dark Side of Ridesharing in China: A Case Study of Qiangsheng Taxi

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Literature review.

Author/yearArticle/titleSourceResults

Hart et al. (2016)Do We Need Rules for “What’s Mine Is Yours”?Journal of Business ResearchThe sharing economy is based on the principle of sharing access to products and services in peer-to-peer (P2P) markets.
The extension of the principle of sharing into the P2P domain, however, is a relatively recent development that is driven by economic crises and an increasing awareness of the importance of protecting the environment.

Belk (2014)You Are What You Can Access: Sharing and Collaborative Consumption OnlineJournal of Business ResearchThe principle of sharing is not new.

Hamari et al. (2016)The Sharing Economy: Why People Participate in Collaborative ConsumptionJournal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyThe development is made possible by advances in information and communications technology (ICT), changing consumer preferences, the proliferation of collaborative web communities, and the emergence of social commerce.
Sustainability (i.e., a preference for greener consumption), enjoyment of the activity, and economic gains were the primary participation drivers for the sharing economy. However, the influence of sustainability is only significant if it is also associated with a positive disposition toward this new mode of consumption, which suggests that the factor may only be important for those who are environmentally conscious.

Barann et al. (2017)An Open-Data Approach for Quantifying the Potential of Taxi RidesharingAmerican Journal of SociologySharing economy businesses tend to be digital platforms that are based on an online website and/or a mobile app.

Schor (2016)Debating the Sharing EconomyJournal of Self-Governance and Management EconomicsThe platforms can be classified into four categories arranged in a 2 × 2 matrix depending on whether they are for-profit or not-for profit, and whether they have a P2P or B2C business model.

Cramer and Krueger (2016)Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of UberAmerican Economic ReviewThe category of platforms has been the most extensively studied to date.

Zhu et al. (2017)Inside the Sharing Economy: Understanding Consumer Motivations behind the Adoption of Mobile ApplicationsInternational Journal of Contemporary Hospitality ManagementThe functional, emotional, and social value of a sharing economy platform will have a positive influence on the attitude of its users, which will translate to the intention to adopt.
The developmental trajectory of a sharing economy platform, and it argues that a platform should first emphasize its pro-social objectives before ensuring business viability and, finally, striking a balance between the market and social logics.

Puschmann and Alt (2016)Sharing EconomyBusiness & Information Systems EngineeringThe sharing of forestry machinery and the services of public libraries, for example, are manifestations of the principle in the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) domains, respectively.

Tan et al. (2017)How GoGet Carshare’s Product-Service System Is Facilitating Collaborative ConsumptionMIS Quarterly Executive (16 : 4)The developmental trajectory of a sharing economy platform and it argues that a platform should first emphasize its pro-social objectives before ensuring business viability and, finally, striking a balance between the market and social logics.