Abstract
The success of home-sharing platforms like Airbnb has introduced the role of sharing
providers, i.e. those users who list their properties on the website and share them in exchange
for an income. Different from micro-entrepreneurs within other types of peer-to-peer platforms
such as e-marketplaces, the experience of home-sharing often presumes face-to-face
interactions and physical sharing of private spaces and goods. For providers, this can give rise
to concerns about the integrity of the personal possessions they share (“physical privacy”; Lutz,
Hoffmann, Bucher, & Fieseler, 2018). Employing Belk’s theory of the Extended Self, which
postulates that individuals’ owned objects and spaces become part of their identity (1988), and
based on a sample of European home-sharing providers, we investigate strategic selfpresentation,
reputational concerns, and attachment to shared properties as predictors of their
physical privacy concerns.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| Journal | International Journal of Hospitality Management |
| Volume | xxx |
| Issue number | xxx |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 19 Nov 2019 |