Reengineering the Sharing Economy

Babak Heydari is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. He is the director of the MAGICS LAB and an affiliate faculty at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and the Network Science Institute. Ozlem Ergun is the COE Distinguished Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Northeastern University College of Engineering. Rashmi Dyal-Chand is Professor of Law and affiliate faculty at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the author of Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities: Reforming Urban Market Regulations (2018) and co-editor of Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core: From the Ground Up (2019). Yakov Bart is Associate Professor of Marketing and Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor at D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He is the co-founder and faculty director of the Digital, Analytics, Technology and Automation (DATA) Initiative and core faculty at interdisciplinary Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University.

1. Introduction Babak Heydari, Ozlem Ergun, Rashmi Dyal-Chand and Yakov Bart; Part I. Cross-Cutting Foundations and Norms for the Sharing Economy of Tomorrow: 2. A sociotechnical ecosystem perspective of sharing economy platforms Babak Heydari; 3. The sharing economy and environmental sustainability Matthew J. Eckelman and Yuliya Kalmykova; 4. Sharing economy and privacy Laetitia Lambillotte and Yakov Bart; 5. Sharing and reputation Steve Tadelis; 6. Labor and the platform economy Juliet B. Schor and Steven P. Vallas; 7. Contemplating the next generation of sharing economy regulation Rashmi Dyal-Chand; Part II. Sharing in Context – Domains, Applications, and Effects: 8. Understanding the impact of ridesharing services on traffic congestion Mehdi Behroozi; 9. Increasing shareability in ride-pooling systems: opportunities and empirical studies Haris N. Koutsopoulos and Zhenliang Ma; 10. How the sharing economy is reshaping the dynamics of neighborhoods: a theoretical presentation and a test case Dan O'Brien, Babak Heydari and Laiyang Ke; 11. Sharing in future energy systems Michael Kane, Elizabeth Allen, Yutong Si and Jennie C. Stephens; 12. Shared last mile delivery: current trends and future opportunities Necati Duman, Ozlem Ergun and Mehdi Behroozi; 13. Future themes in sharing economy Babak Heydari, Ozlem Ergun, Rashmi Dyal-Chand and Yakov Bart.