Call for Papers - WI 2020: Platforms And The Sharing Economy

Manuel Trenz, in cooperation with Timm Teubner (TU Berlin) and Marc Adam (University of Newcastle), is offering a track on "Platforms and The Sharing Economy" as part of the International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatk (WI2020).

• The sharing economy, collaborative consumption and the collaborative economy (e.g., sharing practices, innovative business models)
• Crowdfunding (philanthropic, reward-based, peer-to-peer lending, equity-based)
• Crowdsourcing (open-source, open innovation, commons-based peer production)
• The economics of peer-to-peer marketplaces and platforms (e.g., platforms as two-sided markets, network effects)
• The sociology of peer-to-peer marketplaces and platforms (e.g., interactions, social order, social behavior, deviant behavior, discrimination)
• The influence of platform-, crowd-, and sharing-based models on innovation and entrepreneurship
• Digital labor markets, peer-to-peer work arrangements, and their effects on the workforce
• Trust, reputation, and rating/review systems on digital platforms (e.g., outcomes, cues and design elements, fake and hired reviews)
• Implications, opportunities, and risks of algorithmic rankings and choice in the platform and sharing economy (e.g. fairness, concentration, manipulation)
• Pricing mechanisms in peer-to-peer marketplaces and platforms
• Policy challenges (e.g., consumer and labor protection, insurance and taxation, competitive and antitrust considerations)
• Data governance, ethics, and regulatory issues related to platforms and the sharing economy (e.g., data privacy, data portability)

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