Ethnographies Of Collaborative Economies Across Europe Understanding Sharing And Caring Penny Travlou by Penny Travlou, Luigina Ciolfi 9781914481246, 9781914481260, 9781914481277, 9781914481253, 1914481240, 1914481267, 1914481275, 1914481259 instant download after payment.

“Sharing economy” and “collaborative economy” refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models, digital platforms and forms of work that characterise contemporary life: from community-led initiatives and activist campaigns, to the impact of global sharing platforms in contexts such as network hospitality, transportation, etc.
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Sharing the common lens of ethnographic methods, this book presents in-depth examinations of collaborative economy phenomena.
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The book combines qualitative research and ethnographic methodology with a range of different collaborative economy case studies and topics across Europe. It uniquely offers a truly interdisciplinary approach. It emerges from a unique, long-term, multinational, cross-European collaboration between researchers from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, geography, business studies, law, computing, information systems), career stages, and epistemological backgrounds, brought together by a shared research interest in the collaborative economy.
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This book is a further contribution to the in-depth qualitative understanding of the complexities of the collaborative economy phenomenon.