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.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Sustainable Business Model Innovation: Evidence from a Sharing Economy Platform in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haibo Hu ◽  
Tao Huang ◽  
Yang Cheng ◽  
Haitao Lu
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Sustainable Value

In this paper, we explore the emergence of Sheke Network (SKN), an architecture design company whose network platform permits architecture design institutes to seek suitable architects for their architectural design projects. The concepts of sustainable business model (SBM) innovation are used to analyze the SKN’s novel business model, which is built around modern internet technologies, and SKN’s distinct appeal, which centers on cost savings, resource sharing, and the potential for access to more architects’ experiences. Although SBM innovation theory has had a significant impact on management practices and aroused plenty of rich debate within academia, it is still not clearly understood how a company might successfully build a sharing economy (SE) platform using SBM innovation. Thus, this article analyzes the process of SBM innovation in terms of its three essential factors—sustainable value proposition (SVP), sustainable value creation and delivery (SVC&D), and sustainable value capture (SVC)—aiming to disambiguate the black box by examining SKN as a case study. The findings highlight the dynamic evolution of SBM innovation in the development of a sharing economy platform.

scholarly journals A sharing economy beyond the consumer : an exploration of micro-retail sharing enterprises

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachel LoMonaco-Benzing
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
Retail Format

With today's changes in a highly competitive retail environment and increased emphasis on the sharing economy in consumption patterns, there is a need to understand alternative methods used for independent retailer viability. Using new institutionalism, business resource sharing, and retail innovation literature, the study explored the retail activities micro-retail sharing enterprises (MRSEs) engage in, how and why business owners form these businesses, whether MRSEs are a new retail format, and their potential role in sustainable business opportunities. In an exploratory, ethnomethodological approach, I triangulated data sources and collection methods across five MRSEs, each in a different region of the United States, by conducting interviews with MRSE participants, in-store observations, and website text analysis. Using analytic induction, I first detailed the operations and retail mixes of MRSEs, the majority of which used a membership model for vendors to join and sell their products. Thematic analysis then revealed two main themes: the evolutionary path leading to their formation and activities, and the role they play as business incubators for local entrepreneurs. By minimizing financial risk MRSEs can then provide a fertile ground for entrepreneurs to test products, build a customer base, learn new business skills, and gain a support network and locational advantage. The findings provide insight into what I argue is a new retail format, as well as the MRSE model's methods of viability for independent retailers and entrepreneurs, and an extension of the concepts of business incubators and a business-to-business sharing economy.

An Analysis of Web Home Page Disclosure Practices of Top Public and Private Indian Banks

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandeep Kaur ◽  
Manpreet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Home Page ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Indian Banks ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
The Web

Internet is a very powerful communication device to disclose financial and non-financial information. Almost every company today maintains its website and disseminates their information voluntarily. Internet is very exciting medium to disclose information in the form of presentation. It has become most frequently used source of information. This paper tries to examine the web home page disclosure practices of top public and private Indian banks and try to find out the relationship between the disclosure score and size of bank by using the sample of 20 banks which constitute of top public and private sector banks. The results show that there is positive relationship between the disclosure score and size of bank.

scholarly journals Engineering Design Process of Face Masks Based on Circularity and Life Cycle Assessment in the Constraint of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4948
Author(s):  
Núria Boix Rodríguez ◽  
Giovanni Formentini ◽  
Claudio Favi ◽  
Marco Marconi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
New Device ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective ◽  
Different Types ◽  
3D Printed ◽  
Negative Impacts

Face masks are currently considered key equipment to protect people against the COVID-19 pandemic. The demand for such devices is considerable, as is the amount of plastic waste generated after their use (approximately 1.6 million tons/day since the outbreak). Even if the sanitary emergency must have the maximum priority, environmental concerns require investigation to find possible mitigation solutions. The aim of this work is to develop an eco-design actions guide that supports the design of dedicated masks, in a manner to reduce the negative impacts of these devices on the environment during the pandemic period. Toward this aim, an environmental assessment based on life cycle assessment and circularity assessment (material circularity indicator) of different types of masks have been carried out on (i) a 3D-printed mask with changeable filters, (ii) a surgical mask, (iii) an FFP2 mask with valve, (iv) an FFP2 mask without valve, and (v) a washable mask. Results highlight how reusable masks (i.e., 3D-printed masks and washable masks) are the most sustainable from a life cycle perspective, drastically reducing the environmental impacts in all categories. The outcomes of the analysis provide a framework to derive a set of eco-design guidelines which have been used to design a new device that couples protection requirements against the virus and environmental sustainability.

scholarly journals KINERJA PENGELOLAAN LIMBAH HOTEL PESERTA PROPER DAN NON PROPER DI KABUPATEN BADUNG, PROVINSI BALI

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Putri Nilakandi Perdanawati Pitoyo ◽  
I Wayan Arthana ◽  
I Made Sudarma
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Hotel Performance ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Parameter Values

Bali tourism development can lead to positive and negative impacts that threatening environmental sustainability. This research evaluates the hotel performance of the waste management that includes management of waste water, emission, hazardous, and solid waste by hotel that participate at PROPER and non PROPER. Research using qualitative descriptive method. Not all of non PROPER doing test on waste water quality, chimney emissions quality, an inventory of hazardous waste and solid waste sorting. Wastewater discharge of PROPER hotels ranged from 290.9 to 571.8 m3/day and non PROPER ranged from 8.4 to 98.1 m3/day with NH3 parameter values that exceed the quality standards. The quality of chimney emissions were still below the quality standard. The volume of the hazardous waste of PROPER hotels ranged from 66.1 to 181.9 kg/month and non PROPER ranged from 5.003 to 103.42 kg/month. Hazardous waste from the PROPER hotel which has been stored in the TPS hazardous waste. The volume of the solid waste of PROPER hotel ranged from 342.34 to 684.54 kg/day and non PROPER ranged from 4.83 to 181.51 kg/day. The PROPER and non PROPER hotel not sort the solid waste. The hotel performance in term of wastewater management, emission, hazardous, and solid waste is better at the PROPER hotel compared to non PROPER participants.

scholarly journals Building a green economy of low carbon: the Greek post-crisis experience of photovoltaics and financial 'green grabbing'

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoi Christina Siamanta
Keyword(s):  
Green Energy ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Green Economies

Abstract Under the global rhetoric of 'the green economy' Renewable Energy Resources (RES) projects have proliferated across the world. This article examines the growth of photovoltaic projects in post-crisis Greece, grounded in a green energy discourse. The aim is to provide insights into how green economies are built and what new appropriations they (might) entail. It is based on a Foucauldian oriented discourse analysis, in depth semi-structured interviews and review of a variety of other sources. The article argues that justificatory discourses for green growth implicated in 'green grabbing' involve the complex interplay of neoliberal and disciplinary 'environmentalities.' These seek to construct 'green economy' entrepreneurs and compliant subjects. A relatively undocumented and understudied aspect of green grabs is the appropriation of public and private financial resources for photovoltaic projects, with significant negative impacts on livelihoods. In Greece, this has resulted in the accumulation of capital by a few large RES companies, as well as significant impacts on the livelihoods of domestic and small business electricity consumers and small/medium photovoltaic investors through debt. Key words: Greece, green economy, photovoltaics, green grabbing, environmentality, Foucault, green energy

scholarly journals The Case for Stimulating a Planetary Protection Framework for Emerging Private Space Activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Profitiliotis
Keyword(s):  
Biological Material ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Planetary Protection ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
Financing Mechanism ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Space Activities

The emergence of private space activities is pushing the boundaries of the space industry with technological innovations that may soon enable the targeting of the novel market segments of space research and exploration, space resources utilization, and human access to space. Planetary protection is defined as a set of guidelines that aim to prevent the forward contamination of celestial bodies with biological material from Earth and the backward contamination of the terrestrial biosphere with extraterrestrial biological material. Significant questions are expected to be raised in the future with respect to potential forward and backward contamination issues of emerging private space activities. Unfortunately, the jurisdiction over and the enforcement of forward and backward contamination prevention measures to private space endeavors are currently facing policy and regulatory gaps and ambiguities. The key challenges with the current planetary protection policy landscape indicate that these contamination issues of private space activities can indeed have lasting negative impacts on social, economic, and environmental equity, sustainable development on Earth, and the sustainable exploration and development of other celestial bodies. Drawing on its multidisciplinary expertise, the UN system is favorably positioned to play a key role in stimulating a novel planetary protection framework for emerging private space activities. Firstly, it can provide an international forum for the harmonization and agreement on such a framework. Secondly, it can create a financing mechanism to fund international research and development consortia of public and private organizations under a pre-competitive collaboration scheme for planetary protection technologies. Thirdly, it can establish a process of civic engagement to promote the meaningful participation of the civil society in the formulation of this framework. A prudent consideration of this matter may not only counteract the inequitable distribution of any unintended negative consequences, but may also facilitate economic development in a respectful, sustainable, and responsible manner.

scholarly journals The Qatar crisis: Challenges and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-167
Author(s):  
Hani Albasoos ◽  
Gubara Hassan ◽  
Sara Al Zadjali
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Positive Force

This study reviews the challenges and opportunities encountered by Qatar because of the blockade imposed by the neighboring countries, namely Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt. It endeavors to highlight potential scenarios of the crisis. This paper employs a secondary source of information to achieve the objectives, such as books, articles, reports, and academic research, which were later subjected to thematic analysis. The findings of this research reveal that crisis management was an effective strategy implemented by the Qatari Government. It helped Qatari officials to change and transfer the negative impacts to a positive force. The crisis management strategy encouraged Qatar to rely on their local industries, improve education and media institutes, and use Qatar’s soft power internationally. Although 2017 was a challenging year for Qatar due to the crisis, yet the national economy showed an accelerated growth of 5% in the second half of the same year. 

scholarly journals Sustainable Business Models – What Do Management Theories Say?

2016 ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
Gyula Zilahy
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Sharp Reduction ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Sustainable Business Models ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Literature describing the notion and practice of business models has grown considerably over the last few years. Innovative business models appear in every sector of the economy challenging traditional ways of creating and capturing value. However, research describing the theoretical foundations of the field is scarce and many questions still remain. This article examines business models promoting various aspects of sustainable development and tests the explanatory power of two theoretical approaches, namely the resource based view of the firm and transaction cost theory regarding their emergence and successful market performance. Through the examples of industrial ecology and the sharing economy the author shows that a sharp reduction of transaction costs (e.g. in the form of internet based systems) coupled with resources widely available but not utilised before may result in fast growing new markets. This research also provides evidence regarding the notion that these two theoretical approaches can complement each other in explaining corporate behaviour.

scholarly journals Sustainable business digital technology-based model: BikePoa case study as an example

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 544
Author(s):  
Gabriel Roberto Dellacasa Levrini ◽  
Walter Meucci Nique
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Google Docs ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable ◽  
Bicycle Sharing System ◽  
Business Technology

Environmental disasters attributed to global warming, strong media pressures towards an ecologically sustainable consumption, give path to alternative forms of green and sustainable consumption, like the sharing economy, a rising pattern in consumption behavior, based on accessing and reusing products to utilize idle capacity. The sharing economy holds the potential to bring effectiveness toward widespread sustainable business practices.The research objective is to propose a sustainable business technology-based model using technology as mediator among the shared economy agents under the lens of Actor Network Theory (ANT). We have chosen, as a sample, BikePoa bicycle sharing system has 40 stations and more than 2,000 bikes, throughout the city of Porto Alegre, in Brazil. The research methodology followed Kozinets’s (2006) participant-observational netnography. It was done 23 personal interviews with users and 7 with employees’ provider, and later through Google Docs 251 questionaries’ were selected. Findings point for two different factors consumers’ inductors and providers ‘connection factors.

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