Sharing-Economy-and-Platform-Cooperativism_Angelina-Staub-10-611-044.pdf

Summary

Proseminar Paper Sharing Economy & Platform Cooperativism submitted to Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Bern “This paper explains the basic concept of the sharing economy. In a second step this elaborated concept get adapted to Uber and Airbnb and outlines their role in the sharing economy. The paper closes off by clarifying the con- cept of platform cooperativism and how the shared economy should be man- aged unto a next level to evolve from a shared economy to a more social model, which profits not only the platforms, but rather society itself, by im- plementing the basic model of platform cooperativism.”