Information Technology & People, Volume 33, Number 3
ebook ∣ Interactions of people, technologies, and organisations the era of sharing economy · Information Technology & People
By William Wang

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The research articles appearing in this ebook have contributed to the sharing economy literature by demonstrating the impact of sharing economy from the economic, social, and technological and environmental perspectives. To gain a deeper and richer understanding of sharing economy, the guest editors offer three suggestions for future research. First, as emerging technologies such as social media apps (as it can facilitate communications, e.g., Wang, Pauleen, and Zhang, 2016), Blockchain technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) play a crucial role in driving the growth of sharing economy, future research can be focused on examining the impact of these technologies on sharing economy, for example, how to stimulate service providers' intention to share their goods through the applications of Blockchain and how can AI address privacy and security issues from the IT design aspects in the sharing economy. Second, as users' motivation of sharing economy precipitation has been well studied, future research could take the contextual factors (e.g., the different type of sharing economy business model), cultural factors (e.g., country settings), and socio economic factors (e.g., aging and regional development) into consideration. Third, sharing economy research mainly focuses on the B2C and C2C contexts. The implementation of sharing economy in the B2B context has not been explored, for example, how the value of sharing economy can be co-created with stakeholders in B2B markets. Overall, we hope the future research can refine our understanding of sharing economy through the diverse perspectives. We would like to express our gratitude to Professor Jyoti Choudrie, Professor Kevin Crowston, Professor Yulin Fang, and Professor Edgar A Whitley, the Editors-in-Chief, to support and publish this ebook. The guest editors are also grateful to all the reviewers for their insightful comments and useful suggestions throughout the reviewing processes. Finally, we thank all the authors and submissions for their research works in this area.