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