scholarly journals ICT-Enabled Sharing Economy and Environmental Sustainability—A Resource-Oriented Approach

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria J. Pouri ◽  
Lorenz M. Hilty
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Oriented Approach

The Impact of Circular Economy on the Fashion Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-160
Author(s):  
Tugce Aslan ◽  
Adem Akbiyik
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Commercial Markets ◽  
New Business ◽  
Consumer Perspective

The fundamental changes in technology and globalization have changed consumer preferences along with the way people buy and consume. This change has profoundly affected new business models and consumption systems in all commercial markets, including the fashion industry in particular. Moreover, fashion businesses have begun to shift from traditional proprietary access business models to the sharing economy. The effect of the sharing economy or circular economy on the fashion industry is increasing day by day. Clothing sharing services, recycling, and re-use of used garments contribute to environmental sustainability and contribute to economic and social sustainability through sales revenue and employment. However, there is limited academic research on clothing sharing models. This research focuses on Dolap application, a clothing sharing service. It examines the role of trust in clothing sharing services from a consumer perspective. As a result of the analysis, it was found that trust in the platform positively and significantly affected the trust given to the service provider.

scholarly journals The Sharing Economy: Do e-scooters make the cut?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brady Bailey ◽  
Sarah Sereda
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Strategic Model ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Source Of Information

Sharing is as old as civilization itself. Corporations now are taking an old idea and creating a strategic model with the help of technology. This modern sharing economy, while having roots in sustainable practices, can often be mistaken as an inherently sustainable business model. We present the outcomes of a project on e-scooters as an example to emphasize the potential impacts and characteristics of a business operating within the sharing economy. To understand and gain public opinion, a survey was conducted gathering 222 responses regarding e-scooter usage in Edmonton, Alberta. Another source of information was the interview with a top executive of Lime Scooters, an e-scooter company operating in Edmonton. We found that while online platforms make resource sharing between peers easier to access, they are not always economically sustainable. Literature review on life-cycle analysis of e-scooters revealed that environmental sustainability is also not ingrained in practice, and careful consideration of business operations is needed to mitigate potentially negative impacts. In addition, thoughtful policies need to be considered and put into place in-order to encourage public and private trust. Overall, the sharing economy can be quite effective in creating a sense of community and social sustainability, but it should not be graded as a wholly sustainable practice without evidence.

The Oxford Handbook of Consumption

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Credit Scoring ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Culture Theory ◽  
Urban Scenes ◽  
Psychology History ◽  
The World ◽  
Consumer Culture Theory

This book examines the most pressing questions addressed by consumption studies scholars today. The volume counteracts the tendency towards disciplinary myopia as it engages scholars from around the world drawing on sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, consumption studies, and marketing. The volume’s thirty-one chapters are organized around six themes, facilitating cross-disciplinary exploration. The volume covers consumer transactions and credit scoring as important drivers of consumer behaviors, race and ethnicity and consumer inequality, brands and branding, the embeddedness of marketing, consumer culture theory, the sharing economy, ethical consumption, environmental sustainability, and variations in urban scenes where consumption thrives.

scholarly journals Sharing Economy: Promote Its Potential to Sustainability by Regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xufeng Liu ◽  
Hongmin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Potential Factors ◽  
Current Window ◽  
Resource Utilization Efficiency

The sharing economy is an emerging economic form with the potential to promote sustainable development; it is highly malleable but tends to not be environmentally friendly or necessarily lead to saving resources. Therefore, to give it the inherent logic of sustainable development and realize its great potential, the sharing economy must be made to meet the necessary conditions and be appropriately regulated in the current window of opportunity. This paper proposes that the potential factors of the sharing economy that can promote sustainable development are mainly improving resource utilization efficiency, market impetus and plasticity and transforming consumption patterns and concepts, while the main limiting factors are the excessive demand that is likely to result from to the descending consumption threshold, lack of maintenance motivation due to the sharing of property rights, and uncertainty in the proportions of increased welfare levels and resource consumption. Then, the paper explores the necessary conditions to promote sustainable development in the sharing economy, namely, the required characteristics of shared products and the need to place constraints on consumers. Next, it discusses how to incorporate these conditional factors into the regulatory framework for the future development of the sharing economy and proposes overall principles and ideas for the governance and regulation of producers, consumers, and platform operators in the operation of and participation in the sharing economy. Finally, the paper emphasizes that the line of regulatory thinking should change because the sharing economy differs from traditional economic forms, and it also emphasizes the importance of exploring conditions and explores the related research prospects for studying regulation with environmental sustainability as the regulatory objective.

scholarly journals Understanding Global Food Surplus and Food Waste to Tackle Economic and Environmental Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Hsu Huang ◽  
Shih-Min Liu ◽  
Nai-Yun Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Global Food

Although food surplus and food waste issues are extremely important, the amount of literature published on these topics is astonishingly low by our observation. The relationships between food surplus/food waste and economic/environmental sustainability have not yet been holistically assessed and discussed. The main purpose of this study is to understand global food surplus and food waste issues in order to tackle the economic sustainability and environmental sustainability crisis. Content analysis was used to analyze 500 relevant materials and was conducted by NVivo 12 Plus software. The results contain seven countries, six organizations, and six continents, providing a framework to recognize the economic and environmental sustainability crisis. In addition, six major organizations and regions were identified and were found to be relevant to the important issues of food surplus, food waste, the sharing economy, economic sustainability, and environmental sustainability. With the trend of globalization, this study highlights some preliminary evidence for reducing food waste, for conflicts of the sharing economy, and for regulated sustainability. Further research and regulations in terms of economic and environmental sustainability are strongly suggested.

Sustainability Policies for the Fashion Industry: A Comparative Study of Asian and European Brands

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-748
Author(s):  
Anupama Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Oriented Approach

Sustainability has become an increasingly important value in the business of the global fashion industry. All leading brands have been taking initiatives in promoting notions of environmental and social sustainability. This article discusses the similarities and differences in sustainability-related approaches, activities and collaborations of selected fashion brands. It does so as part of a comparative study of typical Asian and European brands. The European brands analysed here tend to take a holistic, structured and goal-oriented approach towards marketing their links to environmental sustainability. In contrast, the article proposes that a typical Asian brand approach seems to be more fundamental in terms of social sustainability. This is the larger context that the global fashion industry continues, embracing the concept of sustainability in terms of how businesses should not just be concerned with profits but also with commitments to society and the environment.

Cooperative game-based profit allocation for joint distribution alliance under online shopping environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longxiao Li ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
Yun Lin ◽  
Fuli Zhou ◽  
Shan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Game ◽  
Shapley Value ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Joint Distribution ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Service Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Logistics Service ◽  
Profit Allocation

PurposeIn the context of sharing economy and online shopping, establishing a stable urban joint distribution alliance (JDA) is extremely necessary for the entire logistics service market. The purpose of this paper is to rationally allocate the profits and determine the most stable allocation scheme for the urban JDA as well as provide a direction for cooperation between express enterprises and lead managers to pay more attention to the comprehensive performance.Design/methodology/approachCooperative game-based methodologies including the proportion method, the core theory, nucleolus and Shapley value have been employed. Four criteria consisting of enterprise operation, customer satisfaction, environmental sustainability and information technology have been incorporated into Shapley value for improvement.FindingsThis paper reveals that express enterprises in logistics service market can achieve more benefit from JDA than those who operate separately. Among proposed profit allocation schemes, improved Shapley value scheme shows more rationality by considering partners’ asymmetric contribution. Besides, a stable alliance can be always ensured with partners’ lower propensity to disrupt and relatively balanced negotiation power under improved Shapley value scheme.Originality/valueThis paper makes a few attempts to contribute to the literature on the improvement of Shapley value and applies the concept of “propensity to disrupt” into the field of logistics. Besides, this paper provides various profit allocation schemes and incorporates influencing factors into Shapley value for an improvement thus helping policy-makers make better-informed decisions on urban distribution. Additionally, a case study based on urban express enterprises in Southwest China has been conducted to verify the proposed profit allocation schemes.

scholarly journals The sharing economy and management of a sustainable environment in the tourism sector on a global scale

Turyzm ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Ruhet Genç
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Collaborative Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Impact

The paper will discuss the impact of development of sharing economy on ecological sustainability for the tourism sector at global scale since the main focus in the literature is generally limited to economic and social impacts. It will provide a mathematical model in order to measure the impact of the sharing economy on the welfare of individuals who take part in particular tourism destinations as well as providing benefits for other individuals as a positive external outlook. The development of the model will be dependent on the findings obtained in this study. The results will show that the sharing economy together with collaborative consumption in the tourism sector is an increasing trend in global economy that contributes to ecological sustainability as well. By sharing the means of production, transportation, communication etc both tourists and service providers are capable of decreasing their ecological footprints. In conclusion the paper will contribute to the literature by filling a gap with respect to the lack of connection between environmental sustainability and sharing economy in tourism sector.

scholarly journals Environmental Aspects of Generation Y’s Sustainable Mobility

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Suchanek ◽  
Agnieszka Szmelter-Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Mobility Service ◽  
Oriented Approach

This research paper identifies and explores the opinions and attitudes of young people about urban transport. It is the first study on this topic, based on the survey, analysing the mobility choices of young adults (more specifically, Generation Y) in Poland and for countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of the paper is to show their travel behaviour from sustainable mobility perspective. The primary data was obtained through the online survey. The data analysis was held with use of factor analysis and ANOVA. The research results indicated the variables influencing the environmental dimension of sustainable mobility attitudes of young adults in four areas: the ecology-oriented approach to transport, opinions about sharing economy, public car concept and future transport system. The analysis of variance revealed significant differences in the ecology-oriented approach between people born in different decades, between men and women and between people with driving licences and people without them. Those results provide the insights for local authorities and mobility service providers. The recommendations at the end of the paper focus on the need for continuation of research in similar fields.

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