Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing

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dc.contributor.authorMarton, Attila
dc.contributor.authorConstantiou, Ioanna
dc.contributor.authorLagoudakos, Georgios
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-29T00:38:46Z
dc.date.available2016-12-29T00:38:46Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-04
dc.description.abstractSharing economy start-ups are claiming legitimacy by drawing on notions of openness and, at the same time, by adapting to business institutions. We use the case of CouchSurfing to investigate how openness, which has been part of the organization’s raison-d’être, contributed in the legitimacy building efforts and why it was replaced by notions of profitability and revenue generation. Thus, we contribute the concepts of legitimacy and legitimacy building to the academic discourse of openness.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2017.184
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-0-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/41337
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectsharing economy
dc.subjectopenness
dc.subjectlegitimacy
dc.subjectcouchsurfing
dc.titleOpenness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing
dc.typeConference Paper
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