Sharing Economy Making Supply Meet Demand /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hu, Ming (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, 6
• Subjects: Business logistics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Supply Chain Management.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.

This edited book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from today's sharing economy from an operations management perspective. Individual chapter authors present state-of-the-art research that examines the general impact of sharing economy on production and consumption; the intermed...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I Impact of Sharing Economy
• Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing
• The Strategic and Economic Implications of Consumer-to-Consumer Product Sharing
• Operational Factors in the Sharing Economy: A Framework
• Ride Sharing
• Part II Intermediary Role of a Sharing Platform
• The Role of Surge Pricing on a Service Platform with Self-Scheduling Capacity
• Time-Based Payout Ratio for Coordinating Supply and Demand on an On-demand Service Platform
• Pricing and Matching in the Sharing Economy
• Large-Scale Service Marketplaces: The Role of the Moderating Firm
• Inducing Exploration in Service Platforms
• Design of an Aggregated Marketplace Under Congestion Effects: Asymptotic Analysis and Equilibrium Characterization
• Operations in the On-Demand Economy: Staffing Services with Self-Scheduling Capacity
• On Queues with a Random Capacity: Some Theory, and an Application
• Part III Crowdsourcing Management
• Online Group Buying and Crowdfunding: Two Cases of All-or-Nothing Mechanisms
• Threshold Discounting: Operational Benefits, Potential Drawbacks, and Optimal Design
• Innovation and Crowdsourcing Contests
• Part IV Context-Based Operational Problems in Sharing Economy
• Models for Effective Deployment and Redistribution of Shared Bicycles with Location Choices
• Bike Sharing
• Operations Management of Vehicle Sharing Systems
• Agent Pricing in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Airbnb
• Intermediation in Online Advertising.