The Share Economy is Failing: Abort or Retry was my 2015 SxSW Interactive presentation. I talk about what the Share Economy is, how it promises to help us, and the dangers it presents. I outline three ways we can try to reap its benefits while eschewing its more predacious aspects.
Share Economy in metropolitan tourism:The role of authenticity-seekingAndreas Kagermeier
Paper presented at the:
RSA-Tourism Research Network Workshop:
Metropolitan Tourism Experience Development
Budapest, 28-30th January 2015
by Natalie Stors & Andreas KagermeierUniversity of Trier, Germany
Thinking psychoanalytically about desire in organizations - why we need a 3rd...Boxer Research Ltd
Psychoanalytic understanding has approached the organization as being like the ego in its pursuit of sovereign autonomy, its inter-subjective discursive practices organizing its work in relation to its markets. The corporate entity has been approached as an a priori. Psychoanalytic understanding has addressed the ways in which individuals take up roles within the life of an organization, but not the ways in which an organization may support a multiplicity of roles one-by-one in the lives of its citizen-clients.
The a priori status of the sovereign corporate entity leads to the unconscious being referred to as descriptively unconscious, ‘below the surface’ of the inter-subjective practices it supports. The implication is that what lies ‘below the surface’ can in principle be made conscious. This repressed unconscious is distinct from the wider compass of the radically unconscious. Distinguishing the repressed from this radically unconscious enables us to establish a ‘beyond’ of the libidinally-invested-in identifications supported by the organization. Defenses against anxiety may thus become defenses against a ‘beyond’ of innovation, through which a posteriori organization might support innovative roles in the lives of its citizen-clients.
We need to understand how a radically unconscious valency for innovation becomes realized. This would enable us to address how individuals might support identifications with an organization when it was itself having to innovate continuously ‘under their feet’. Without such an understanding, we can only expect an organization to betray its citizen-clients through serving its a priori interests to the exclusion of ‘others’.
Is it really "sharing"?
Presentation of the so-called "Sharing" Economy, for a lecture about service innovation at Linköping University (LiU), during a course in Service Management and Marketing.
I talk about Unicorns; collaborative... consumption-production-finance-learning-governance; “platform cooperativism” and my research focus on shared mobility.
- First upload: 11 March 2016 (v.2016)
- Update: 20 March 2017 (v.2017)
- Update: 14 March 2018 (v.2018 ~ http://bit.ly/2GtkxIk)
How will the collaborative economy impact supply chains?
That's the main question Jonathan Wichmann tried to answer in his presentation at the EXCHAiNGE supply chain conference in Frankfurt on 24 June 2014.
Share Economy in metropolitan tourism:The role of authenticity-seekingAndreas Kagermeier
Paper presented at the:
RSA-Tourism Research Network Workshop:
Metropolitan Tourism Experience Development
Budapest, 28-30th January 2015
by Natalie Stors & Andreas KagermeierUniversity of Trier, Germany
Thinking psychoanalytically about desire in organizations - why we need a 3rd...Boxer Research Ltd
Psychoanalytic understanding has approached the organization as being like the ego in its pursuit of sovereign autonomy, its inter-subjective discursive practices organizing its work in relation to its markets. The corporate entity has been approached as an a priori. Psychoanalytic understanding has addressed the ways in which individuals take up roles within the life of an organization, but not the ways in which an organization may support a multiplicity of roles one-by-one in the lives of its citizen-clients.
The a priori status of the sovereign corporate entity leads to the unconscious being referred to as descriptively unconscious, ‘below the surface’ of the inter-subjective practices it supports. The implication is that what lies ‘below the surface’ can in principle be made conscious. This repressed unconscious is distinct from the wider compass of the radically unconscious. Distinguishing the repressed from this radically unconscious enables us to establish a ‘beyond’ of the libidinally-invested-in identifications supported by the organization. Defenses against anxiety may thus become defenses against a ‘beyond’ of innovation, through which a posteriori organization might support innovative roles in the lives of its citizen-clients.
We need to understand how a radically unconscious valency for innovation becomes realized. This would enable us to address how individuals might support identifications with an organization when it was itself having to innovate continuously ‘under their feet’. Without such an understanding, we can only expect an organization to betray its citizen-clients through serving its a priori interests to the exclusion of ‘others’.
Is it really "sharing"?
Presentation of the so-called "Sharing" Economy, for a lecture about service innovation at Linköping University (LiU), during a course in Service Management and Marketing.
I talk about Unicorns; collaborative... consumption-production-finance-learning-governance; “platform cooperativism” and my research focus on shared mobility.
- First upload: 11 March 2016 (v.2016)
- Update: 20 March 2017 (v.2017)
- Update: 14 March 2018 (v.2018 ~ http://bit.ly/2GtkxIk)
How will the collaborative economy impact supply chains?
That's the main question Jonathan Wichmann tried to answer in his presentation at the EXCHAiNGE supply chain conference in Frankfurt on 24 June 2014.
My slide deck from the EXCHAiNGE conference in Frankfurt, 24-25 June 2014, focusing on how the collaborative economy impacts the supply chain. The research relies heavily on the work done by Jeremiah Owyang in this space.
Read more: http://cultbizztech.com/most-promising-start-ups-in-logistics/
Birnbach Communications Predictions For 2012NormanB
For 10 years, Birnbach Communications has compiled an annual list of media trends for its clients. The trends help the agency\'s clients work more effectively with reporters, analysts, bloggers, and customers on social networking sites.
A transformation in the market place is being driven by four major trends; transparency of data, real-time synchronization of data, responsive optimization, and digital platforms (social and analytical tools).
Grievance mechanisms: Responsible growth paths - policies and practices from...IIED
The presentation of Emma Blackmore, a researcher in IIED’s Sustainable Markets Group and project lead of Shaping Sustainable Markets, at a Business Humanitarian Forum event on "Responsible Growth Paths: Policies and Practices from the Extractive Sector’ held in Geneva on 15 and 16 May, 2014.
This presentation gave an overview of IIED’s research on the design and implementation of company-community grievance mechanisms in oil and gas, mining and forestry, taking lessons from cases in Russia, Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines and Indonesia.
More information on the Sustainable Markets Group can be found here: http://www.iied.org/sustainable-markets.
More information on Shaping Sustainable Markets can be found here: http://shapingsustainablemarkets.iied.org/.
For more event information: http://bit.ly/1kd8M4t.
Long before the phrase “the sharing economy” was ever uttered, many businesses leveraged sharing. Bed-and-breakfast inns, timeshares and car pools are old ideas.
Etude PwC sur l'économie collaborative (mai 2015)PwC France
En dix ans, le concept d'économie collaborative est devenu un véritable marché impliquant de nombreuses startups comme des grandes entreprises internationales. Alors que ce marché représente aujourd’hui 15 milliards de dollars, le cabinet d’audit et de conseil PwC estime qu’il atteindra 335 milliards de dollars d’ici à 2025.
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Les données relatives aux consommations collaboratives des Américains sont issues de l’étude « Consumer Intelligence Series: The Sharing Economy » publiée par PwC en avril 2015. Pour cette étude, 1 000 consommateurs américains, âgés de plus de 18 ans, ont été sondés en ligne entre les 17 et 22 décembre 2014.
By unlocking the sharing economy today, can companies transform today's threat into tomorrow's opportunity? What must incumbents and challengers do to position themselves ahead of disruption and to capitalize on new sources of revenue? Through consumer surveys, conversations with influencers, interviews with business executives and social listening, PwC's research presents a holistic view of what's unfolding across business and consumer landscapes.
Data-Driven Platform and Marketing: Consumer Intelligence Series the Sharing ...Dinh Le Dat (Kevin D.)
Data-Driven Platform and Marketing: Consumer Intelligence Series the Sharing Economy.
Like many other companies and sectors in today’s economy, the sharing economy’s success— indeed, its very existence—has been built upon data.
Data is the fuel that powers the modern information economy. The widespread collection and use of data helps expand the array of
services available and keeps prices low—or even at zero—for a great number of digital services.
In the case of the sharing economy, data about interactions is also what facilitates the reputational feedback mechanisms that have been so crucial to the development of trust among diverse parties. (The importance of those reputational mechanisms is discussed at
greater length in section VI.)
Análisis en detalle de las ventajas que la economía colaborativa puede aportar a su negocio y cómo ésta puede aplicarse en múltiples sectores de actividad.
Consumer Intelligence Series: The sharing economyPwC
By unlocking the sharing economy today, can companies transform today's threats into tomorrow's opportunity? What must incumbents and challengers do to position themselves ahead of disruption and to capitalize on new sources of revenue? Through consumer surveys, conversations with influencers, interviews with business executives and social listening, PwC's research presents a holistic view of what's unfolding across business and consumer landscapes.
PWC Sharing Economy Survey 2015
Selon PWC Le marché mondial de l'économie collaborative devrait atteindre près de 335 milliards de dollars d'ici à 2025, contre 15 milliards en 2014
Power and Privacy: What Superheroes Can Teach UsGadi Ben-Yehuda
Slide Deck from the SxSW presentation I delivered on the relationship between power and privacy in the civic space and how we can use superheroes as a model for understanding the most popular privacy regimes.
My slide deck from the EXCHAiNGE conference in Frankfurt, 24-25 June 2014, focusing on how the collaborative economy impacts the supply chain. The research relies heavily on the work done by Jeremiah Owyang in this space.
Read more: http://cultbizztech.com/most-promising-start-ups-in-logistics/
Birnbach Communications Predictions For 2012NormanB
For 10 years, Birnbach Communications has compiled an annual list of media trends for its clients. The trends help the agency\'s clients work more effectively with reporters, analysts, bloggers, and customers on social networking sites.
A transformation in the market place is being driven by four major trends; transparency of data, real-time synchronization of data, responsive optimization, and digital platforms (social and analytical tools).
Grievance mechanisms: Responsible growth paths - policies and practices from...IIED
The presentation of Emma Blackmore, a researcher in IIED’s Sustainable Markets Group and project lead of Shaping Sustainable Markets, at a Business Humanitarian Forum event on "Responsible Growth Paths: Policies and Practices from the Extractive Sector’ held in Geneva on 15 and 16 May, 2014.
This presentation gave an overview of IIED’s research on the design and implementation of company-community grievance mechanisms in oil and gas, mining and forestry, taking lessons from cases in Russia, Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines and Indonesia.
More information on the Sustainable Markets Group can be found here: http://www.iied.org/sustainable-markets.
More information on Shaping Sustainable Markets can be found here: http://shapingsustainablemarkets.iied.org/.
For more event information: http://bit.ly/1kd8M4t.
Long before the phrase “the sharing economy” was ever uttered, many businesses leveraged sharing. Bed-and-breakfast inns, timeshares and car pools are old ideas.
Etude PwC sur l'économie collaborative (mai 2015)PwC France
En dix ans, le concept d'économie collaborative est devenu un véritable marché impliquant de nombreuses startups comme des grandes entreprises internationales. Alors que ce marché représente aujourd’hui 15 milliards de dollars, le cabinet d’audit et de conseil PwC estime qu’il atteindra 335 milliards de dollars d’ici à 2025.
Source
Les données relatives aux consommations collaboratives des Américains sont issues de l’étude « Consumer Intelligence Series: The Sharing Economy » publiée par PwC en avril 2015. Pour cette étude, 1 000 consommateurs américains, âgés de plus de 18 ans, ont été sondés en ligne entre les 17 et 22 décembre 2014.
By unlocking the sharing economy today, can companies transform today's threat into tomorrow's opportunity? What must incumbents and challengers do to position themselves ahead of disruption and to capitalize on new sources of revenue? Through consumer surveys, conversations with influencers, interviews with business executives and social listening, PwC's research presents a holistic view of what's unfolding across business and consumer landscapes.
Data-Driven Platform and Marketing: Consumer Intelligence Series the Sharing ...Dinh Le Dat (Kevin D.)
Data-Driven Platform and Marketing: Consumer Intelligence Series the Sharing Economy.
Like many other companies and sectors in today’s economy, the sharing economy’s success— indeed, its very existence—has been built upon data.
Data is the fuel that powers the modern information economy. The widespread collection and use of data helps expand the array of
services available and keeps prices low—or even at zero—for a great number of digital services.
In the case of the sharing economy, data about interactions is also what facilitates the reputational feedback mechanisms that have been so crucial to the development of trust among diverse parties. (The importance of those reputational mechanisms is discussed at
greater length in section VI.)
Análisis en detalle de las ventajas que la economía colaborativa puede aportar a su negocio y cómo ésta puede aplicarse en múltiples sectores de actividad.
Consumer Intelligence Series: The sharing economyPwC
By unlocking the sharing economy today, can companies transform today's threats into tomorrow's opportunity? What must incumbents and challengers do to position themselves ahead of disruption and to capitalize on new sources of revenue? Through consumer surveys, conversations with influencers, interviews with business executives and social listening, PwC's research presents a holistic view of what's unfolding across business and consumer landscapes.
PWC Sharing Economy Survey 2015
Selon PWC Le marché mondial de l'économie collaborative devrait atteindre près de 335 milliards de dollars d'ici à 2025, contre 15 milliards en 2014
Power and Privacy: What Superheroes Can Teach UsGadi Ben-Yehuda
Slide Deck from the SxSW presentation I delivered on the relationship between power and privacy in the civic space and how we can use superheroes as a model for understanding the most popular privacy regimes.
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2. Sharing is not new
• Libraries
• Used clothing/toy sales
• Frag Swaps
• TimeShares
• Cars
• Houses
3. What Is New: Peer-to-Peer Economy
• Reach - in terms of people served
• Growth - Companies can form and immediately scale
• Seamlessness - easier transactions, lowered barriers to entry
• Impact - Reliance on public goods/public spaces without first participating
in a public dialogue.
4. Base Requirements of P2P
Platform
1. Supply: Sizable, searchable inventory
2. Demand: a customer base for that inventory
3. Transaction layer that enables:
a. Secure payment
b. Trustworthy Delivery
c. Comprehensive Insurance
5. Requirements for Sustainability
• Redress of grievances – e.g. Ratings of service providers/service users
• Communication/cooperation with appropriate government agencies – to
protect public goods, spaces, and interests
• Lifecycle support for employees – e.g. ability to turn “job” into “career”, or at
least “gig” into “job.”
6. Benefits of P2P Economy
1. More efficient allocation of resources
– Homes, cars, food, time
1. Lowers barriers to entering markets (MicroEntrepreneurs)
– Pop-up restaurants that require no buildings; rideshares that require no medalions.
1. Enables work/life balance (as worker's needs change)
– Lawyers, writers, chefs can go join share economy and make their own hours
1. Creates an access-based rather than an owner-based economy
– People can trade management skills for all the privileges of ownership: plan shopping/errands and pay
dollars a month for a car rather than hundreds of dollars.
7. Five Problems of P2P Economy
• A host of –isms: racism,
sexism, ageism;
• The changing of incentives
for owners and of
expectations for public
spaces and public goods;
• Increased uncertainty for
individuals and families;
• Lack of benefits (e.g.
insurance); and
• Pitting professionals vs.
freelancers
Sharing is not new Community Goods and Services (mandatory sharing paid for with taxes) Clothing/food drives and swaps Humane Society "shares" pets Rental companies of all stripes Cars Houses Time NetFlix Libraries
So what IS new? Reach - in terms of people served Seamlessness - easier transactions, lowered barriers to entry Growth - Companies can form and immediately scale – Uber went to 160K drivers in three years. For scale: that’s the entire populations of the town I was born in (Butler, PA) and Gainesville, FL, the town I almost went to school in working as Uber Drivers. Reliance on public goods/public spaces without first participating in a public dialogue.What is new is not sharing, but a peer-to-peer economy
This new economy requires these base-line elements:1. Supply: Sizable, searchable inventory
2. Demand: a customer base for that inventory
3. A method of matching the two: An easy transaction layer which includes: a. Secure payment b. Trustworthy Delivery c. Comprehensive Insurance
Redress of grievances – e.g. Ratings of service providers/service usersCommunication/cooperation with appropriate government agencies – to protect public goods, spaces, and interestsLifecycle support for employees – e.g. ability to turn “job” into “career”
Let's first talk about the benefits of Share Economy:1. More efficient allocation of resources Homes - VRBO; AirBnB; SabbaticalHomes Cars - GetAround; RelayRides Food - LeftoverSwap; Ratatouille; MealShare Time - TaskRabbit; MechanicalTurk;
2. Lowers Barriers to Entering Markets (MicroEntrepreneurs) Food trucks "share" public parking spaces Popup restaurants I can buy a car and plan to subsidize its cost either by renting it out or driving it for Lyft
3. Enables Work/Life Balance (As worker's needs change) Lawyers, writers, chefs can go join share economy and make their own hours
4. Enables an access-based society rather than an owner-based society People can trade management skills for all the privileges of ownership: plan shopping/errands and pay dollars a month for a car rather than hundreds of dollars.
So what are the problems? Why do I say the share economy is failing?Uber is being banned and the share economy can become its own trapprofessionals are being displaced by freelancers (this is the flip-side of the ownership vs. access economy)Families as well as businesses require a certain degree of certainty to make their own projectionsInsuranceThe changing of incentives for owners and of expectations for public spaces and public goods
And of course: a host of –isms: racism, sexism, ageism,
First, let’s talk about the ‘isms.’
Let’s start by acknowledging that we’re all prejudiced: we all have biases. Hotel chains, car rental agencies, and other institutions have rules of conduct that help to create a barrier between people’s biases and their behavior. AirBnB, however, has no such safeguards, and that’s why, as ValleyWag so delicately put it “Harvard Study: Black People Get Screwed on Airbnb”
Incentives for owners:Why do you buy a home or an apartment?Why do you buy a car?What happens when anyone can become a landlord for people who stay only a few days?What happens when every street could potentially be a parking lot for a rental company?What about homes? It makes sense (in a capitalist way) to rent out your apartment in NYC if (a) you can stay with friends for a night or you are planning on being away and especially if (b) you are in a rent-stabilized unit. Until, of course, you get evicted.But let’s say that you don’t get evicted. Let’s say it’s just your neighbors who get annoyed at people coming and going at all hours of the day and night. Is it reasonable for them to be annoyed?
And what about owners of rental properties?
In New York City, here’s what one building charges for rentals:
Studio 1 ba $3480+/mo1 Bedroom 1 ba $5300+/mo2 Bedrooms 2 ba $9170+/mo
That comes out to about
115 a day for a studio
175 a day for a 1-bedroom,
300 a day for a 2-bedroom.
. What do those same spaces list for on AirBnB?170 for a studio;
275 for a one-bedroom;
479 for a two-bedroom;
That would be the same as charging4395 for a studio. 7110 for a one-bedroom; 12385 for a two-bedroom,
And that’s only if they are able to rent out their properties 85% of the time.
34 % more for a one-bedroomEven if a property owner does not list an apartment on AirBnB, simply by being in the market, the company has the potential to raise prices on renters.That makes it a public policy issue.
CertaintyLet’s talk about Uber. One of the phrases that is bandied about quite a bit is “monetizing downtime,” which is great for people who ~have~ downtown time and need to monetize it. Think: people who are unemployed, underemployed, or with few other commitments. But let’s talk about three people to whom these do not apply, but whom they certainly affect:
People who do not have downtime, and rely on a steady job for all their income, e.g. working parents, older workers.People who do have downtime, but don’t want to monetize it: the fully employed who do community service, volunteer work, intellectual pursuits.People who have neither: think people who are over-employed, working multiple skilled jobs or shifts to make ends meetBut other people monetizing their downtime has a direct effect upon these three groups of people in the form of lower wages, fewer hours, and an expectation that their income is fungible for time according to their employers’ schedules.Without the certainty that comes with full employment, employees lose in critical ways:Skill development, because investing time now in training that will pay off later is unwise if you can’t be assured of “later.”Family planning. During the Great Recession, fertility declined. People do plan their families around the assumption of wages.Uncertainty also leads to anxiety, which itself leads to a whole host of medical issues, which is pretty bad if you don’t have insurance.
InsuranceThis is a very big deal. In an article in Global Post, Anne-Marie Slaughter, includes insurance as the only dark cloud in an otherwise sunny piece on the share economy. Robert Riech, however, is much more bearish, citing the lack of insurance as a huge factor.
But let’s just take a look at the numbers. Even if you made exactly the same take-home salary in the share economy, you’d be making 29% less than your fully-employed colleagues.
Professionals vs. freelancersAnd that is only one way in which the share economy pits professionals against freelancers, setting up what could be a return to guilds and the use of city hall--or even congress--as a cudgel for one to use against the other. Recall why child labor was finally curtailed in the US: because during the great depression, adults had to compete against children for wages. That’s what the share economy may come down to: professionals battling freelancers for total compensation. But it doesn’t have to be this way. When time and money are fungible, employers can look for workers who are paid in “flexibility.” People with set schedules cannot compete against that.
1. Go Local – What may save a company is giving people a stake in the entire company, not only in their own profit they derive from it. Think: true cooperatives—which are closer to sharing—than designing “platforms” that allow two groups of people to negotiate with one another while the company takes a slice of each transaction. Instead of a “Bank of America” Model, think a “Credit Union” model.
2. Work directly with government – there’s a reason that restaurants are so heavily regulated. Working with governments will help prospective share-economy companies at least understand what traditional companies have had to face to ensure safe operating. (Think: what is a restaurant’s responsibility for food-borne pathogens that it spreads?)
3. Think systemically – what are public goods that a company relies upon but doesn’t pay for? Think: Uber drivers who pick people up from air ports, but don’t pay fees that ensure adequate security, repavement of roads, etc.
In the end, this might not be enough. We may not be able to continue developing peer-to-peer models for every conceivable industry. The costs may simply outweigh the benefits. But in the meantime, we can all do something to make share economy models more humane and sustainable