Information Technology & People: Volume 33 Issue 3

Guest editorial

William Wang, Yichuan Wang

Mapping the economics, social and technological attributes of the sharing economy

Dinara Davlembayeva, Savvas Papagiannidis, Eleftherios Alamanos

The sharing economy is a socio-economic system in which individuals acquire and distribute goods and services among each other for free or for compensation through internet…

Sharing economy and the lodging websites: Antecedents and mediators of accommodation purchase intentions

Tahir M. Nisar, Nick Hajli, Guru Prabhakar, Yogesh Dwivedi

The purpose of this paper is to understand the main determinants that affect accommodation purchase intentions through lodging websites in sharing economy context. This industry…

Participants’ interaction with sharing economy platforms in Russia

Mayya Shmidt

The objective of this contribution is to pinpoint the practices of users' interactions with sharing economy platforms in Russia, as well as explore the source of motivation to use…

Fostering sustainability through technology-mediated interactions: Conviviality and reciprocity in the sharing economy

Marylyn Carrigan, Solon Magrizos, Jordon Lazell, Ioannis Kostopoulos

This article addresses the lack of scholarly attention paid to the sharing economy from a sociological perspective, with respect to the technology-mediated interactions between…

Analysing online reviews to investigate customer behaviour in the sharing economy: The case of Airbnb

Carmen Kar Hang Lee, Ying Kei Tse, Minhao Zhang, Jie Ma

The purpose of this paper is to investigate attributes that influence Airbnb customer experience by analysing online reviews from users staying in London. It presents a text…

Sociomaterial practices for value co-creation in the sharing economy: Evidence from Xbed's access-based accommodation service

Peng Du, Hsin-Hui Chou

The purpose of this paper is to address the research question of how human actors and technology interact together in practices in the context of a sharing economy. The…

Spatial and socioeconomic analysis of host participation in the sharing economy: Airbnb in New York City

Avijit Sarkar, Mehrdad Koohikamali, James B. Pick

In recent years, short-term sharing accommodation platforms such as Airbnb have made rapid forays in populous cities worldwide, impacting neighborhoods profoundly. Emerging work…

E-book adoption behaviors through an online sharing platform: A multi-relational network perspective

Xi Wang, Wuyu Wang, Yibo Chai, Yang Wang, Ning Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to construct a multi-relational network for an online sharing platform in the age of the sharing economy, to identify the factors impacting users’…

Assessing user perceptions of the interplay between the sharing, access, platform and community‐based economies

Andrea Geissinger, Christofer Laurell, Christina Öberg, Christian Sandström, Yuliani Suseno

Digitally intermediated peer-to-peer exchanges have accelerated in occurrence, and as a consequence, they have introduced an increased pluralism of connotations. Accordingly, this…