cam a22 2 4500 555292614 CHVBK 20201114073644.0 cr nn|008mamaa 190111s2019 xx ||||-s---- 0 0|eng-d 978-3-030-01863-4 ebook 10.1007/978-3-030-01863-4 doi (OCoLC)1085406231 (IDSSG)001032242 Springer ger SzZuIDS HSG HD38.5 658.7 23 DEAGIF34AB614BE5BA94DC12583800023AF12 iCapture Sharing Economy Making Supply Meet Demand edited by Ming Hu Cham Springer International Publishing 2019 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 528 S. 76 illus., 35 illus. in color.) Text txt rdacontent/ger Computermedien c rdamedia/ger Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier/ger text file PDF rda Springer Series in Supply Chain Management 2365-6395 6 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 intermediary role of a sharing platform; crowdsourcing management; and context-based operational problems. Sharing economy refers to a market model that enables and facilitates the sharing of access to goods and services. For example, Uber allows riders to share a car. Airbnb allows homeowners to share their extra rooms with renters. Groupon crowdsources demands, enabling customers to share the benefit of discounted goods and services, whereas Kickstarter crowdsources funds, enabling backers to fund a project jointly. Unlike the classic supply chain settings in which a firm makes inventory and supply decisions, in sharing economy, supply is crowdsourced and can be modulated by a platform. The matching-supply-with-demand process in a sharing economy requires novel perspectives and tools to address challenges and identify opportunities. The book is comprised of 20 chapters that are divided into four parts. The first part explores the general impact of sharing economy on the production, consumption, and society. The second part explores the intermediary role of a sharing platform that matches crowdsourced supply with demand. The third part investigates the crowdsourcing management on a sharing platform, and the fourth part is dedicated to context-based operational problems of popular sharing economy applications. "While sharing economy is becoming omnipresence, the operations management (OM) research community has begun to explore and examine different business models in the transportation, healthcare, financial, accommodation, and sourcing sectors. This book presents a collection of the state-of-the-art research work conducted by a group of world-leading OM researchers in th... Business logistics Operations research Hu Ming Herausgeber edt http://id edt Printed edition 9783030018641 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01863-4 Full text for the University of St. Gallen BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 noalma ids I IDSSG HSG HSG ONL HONL001032242 IDSSG 490 1- Springer Series in Supply Chain Management 2365-6395 6 IDSSG 700 1- Hu Ming Herausgeber edt http://id edt IDSSG 776 08 Printed edition 9783030018641 IDSSG 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01863-4 Full text for the University of St. Gallen SWISSBIB 555292614