Sharing Economy, Sharing Responsibility? Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Age

Michael Etter; Christian Fieseler; Glen Whelan

doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04212-w

Sharing Economy, Sharing Responsibility? Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Age

Michael Etter^*
, Christian Fieseler
, Glen Whelan

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The sharing economy has transformed economic transactions, created new organizational forms, and contributed to changes in consumer culture. Started as a movement with promises of a more sustainable, democratic, and inclusive economy, the sharing economy, and its impact on issues such as privacy, discrimination, worker rights, and regulation, is now the subject of heated debate. Many of these issues root in the changes that digital technologies have brought and the unresolved moral and ethical questions emerging therefrom. This special issue contributes to this ongoing debate with five articles that develop theoretical frameworks and conduct empirical investigations, providing fine-grained analyses of urgent issues in the sharing economy. In this article, we highlight these and other issues that we believe deserve further attention from business ethics scholarship.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	935-942
Number of pages	8
Journal	JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
Volume	159
Issue number	4
Early online date	26 Jun 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04212-w
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2019

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

Collaborative consumption
Digital transformation
Platform governance
Sharing economy

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