UPCOMING BOOK CHAPTER - MUNICIPAL GOVERNANCE OF THE SHARING ECONOMY: GLOBAL INSIGHTS

Yuliya Voytenko Palgan at Sharing Cities Sweden Exhbition in Sege Park, Malmö, October 2019

Lately, municipalities have been facing multiple socio-economic and environmental challenges brought by the sharing economy. The emerging research on municipal governance of the sharing economy provides a broad overview of examples for how municipalities address these challenges by regulating the sharing economy while leaving out other potential municipal governance mechanisms and roles. Earlier Sharing and the City researcher Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Urban Sharing researcher Oksana Mont identified a need to systematically explore the differences in the governance approaches, strategies, instruments, mechanisms and roles chosen by various municipalities in relation to the sharing economy in general, its specific segments (e.g. sharing of accommodation, mobility or physical goods), and different types of sharing economy organisations. A new upcoming book chapter by the researchers “Municipal Governance of the sharing economy: Global insights” addresses this research need as it aims to deliver a cross-case and cross-sectoral comparative analysis of municipal governance of the sharing economy in eight global cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, Gothenburg, London, Malmö, San Francisco, Shanghai and Toronto. It seeks to advance academic knowledge by unpacking the reasons behind the differences in municipal governance mechanisms of the sharing economy across cities and sectors. Specifically, the researchers contribute with a tentative framework for classifying the contextual factors influencing the diverse responses and engagements of municipal governments with sharing economy organisations. The book chapter is submitted for a publication in the edited book “The Sharing Economy: Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges” by Babak Taheri, Roya Rahimi, and Dimitrios Buhalis.

Oksana Mont at Sharing Cities Sweden Exhbition in Sege Park, Malmö, October 2019