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Temporal Ownership Boundary in Sharing Economy

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We investigate the temporal ownership boundary that exists in the sharing economy. We find that temporal factors play an important role in the decisions of collaborative contribution. A collaborative contributor need not only consider the engagement duration and the potential income, but also the holding/inventory/maintenance costs during its ownership. We define the temporal ownership boundary as the limit when the owner is indifferent of transferring the ownership from its current in-usage or sharing status. By this definition, we can decompose a merchandise as two substitute goods: the ownership good and the transferring good. The ownership good can be consumed or shared by the owner. The transferring good can either be given as a gift or be resold for an income. The temporal ownership boundary can be found by considering the owner’s holding cost, various transaction costs, and the potential income from the sharing economy activities. We find that there exists various conditions when this boundary may lean towards sharing, gift giving or reselling.

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  1. Information and Operations Management, ESCP Europe, Paris, France

    Huihui Chi & Wei Zhou

  2. Big Data and Business Analytics, ESCP Europe, Paris, France

    Wei Zhou

  3. Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Selwyn Piramuthu

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  1. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Ming Fan

  2. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Jukka Heikkilä

  3. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hongxiu Li

  4. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

    Michael J. Shaw

  5. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Han Zhang

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Chi, H., Zhou, W., Piramuthu, S. (2017). Temporal Ownership Boundary in Sharing Economy. In: Fan, M., Heikkilä, J., Li, H., Shaw, M., Zhang, H. (eds) Internetworked World. WEB 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 296. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69644-7_5

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