American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting | San Francisco | 29 March - 2 April 2016 | Sharing Economies: The Struggle for Consolidation Time | Thursday, 31 March 2016 | 1:20 pm - 7:00 pm Place | Union Square 11, Hilton Hotel | 4th Floor Session Organizers | Gernot Grabher (HCU Hamburg) | Koen Frenken (Utrecht University) | Peter Pelzer (Utrecht University) Sponsorship | Economic Geography Specialty Group Session 1 | Sharing Economies: The Struggle for Consolidation 1 | Shared Mobility Chair | Koen Frenken (Utrecht University), http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=25305 1:20 pm *Karla Muenzel (Utrecht University), Wouter Boon (Utrecht University), Koen Frenken (Utrecht University) Explaining the adoption of B2C and P2P car-sharing in Western Europe: a city-level analysis 1:40 pm Mário Vale (Universidade de Lisboa, IGOT, CEG) Unfolding the sharing economy in the city: the case of car sharing in Lisbon 2:00 pm Peter Pelzer (Utrecht University) Institutional entrepreneurship in the sharing economy 2:20 pm Shauna Brail (University of Toronto) Uber vs city hall: 'new' industry models within traditional systems of governance 2:40 pm Hongmou Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Adding preferences of people to the ridesharing model Session 2 | Sharing Economies: The Struggle for Consolidation 2 | Transitions Chair | Gernot Grabher (HCU Hamburg), http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=25307 3:20 pm *Martin Kenney (University of California, Davis), John Zysman (BRIE, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy) The Rise of the Platform Economy 3:40 pm *Piergiuseppe Morone (Unitelma-Sapienza University of Rome), Pasquale Marcello Falcone (University of Ancona), Enrica Imbert (Sapienza University of Rome), Andrea Morone (University of Bari and University of Castellon) Tackling food waste through a sharing economy approach: an experimental analysis 4:00 pm Francesco Pasimeni (SPRU - University of Sussex) Adoption and diffusion of shared goods in consumers' coalitions: an agent-based simulation 4:20 pm *Christoph Mazur (Imperial College London), Elena Denaro (London School of Economics) Transitions pathways to alternative sharing economies: a multi-level perspective 4:40 pm *Vadim Grinevich (University of Southampton), Franz Huber (University Seeburg Castle) Upscaling in the sharing economy: socio-technical enablers and constraints Session 3 | Sharing Economies: The Struggle for Consolidation 3| Sociality and Valuation Chair | Peter Pelzer (Utrecht University), http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=25308 5:20 pm Elena Denaro (London School of Economics) Is sharing still caring if money is involved? The effects of monetizing collaborative consumption services: a case study of Airbnb and CouchSurfing 5:40 pm Marco Berlinguer (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona - IGOP) Valuing sharing 6:00 pm *Katarzyna Gruszka (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business), Elena Denaro (London School of Economics) The many faces of the 'collaborative economy': exploring the subjective perspectives of OuiShare connectors. 6:20 pm Koen Frenken (Utrecht University) Policy concerns regarding the sharing economy: an overview 6:40 pm Gernot Grabher (HCU Hamburg) Concluding remarks and discussion: congruences, dissonances, and loose ends