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(Self-)Regulation of Sharing Economy Platforms Through Partial Meta-organizing
- Source :
- Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Ethics, Springer Verlag, 2019, 159 (4), pp.961-976. ⟨10.1007/s10551-019-04206-8⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- Can platforms close the governance gap in the sharing economy, and if so, how? Through an in-depth qualitative case study, we analyze the process by which new regulation and self-regulation emerge in one sector of the sharing economy, crowdfunding, through the actions of a meta-organization. We focus on the principal French sectoral meta-organization, Financement Participatif France (FPF—Crowdfunding France). We show that this multi-stakeholder meta-organization not only closed the governance gap through collective legal, ethical, and utilitarian work but also preceded and shaped the new market. We present a hybrid governance approach combining (a) soft multi-agency regulation, (b) self-regulation through a process of “partial meta-organizing”, and (c) direct civil society participation. We expand the literature by highlighting features of platforms’ partial meta-organizing and by identifying conditions for successful joint regulation and self-regulation of the sector. This study was funded by laboratory of excellence ReFi, of heSam University (Grant No. ANR-10-LABX-0095) and by Agence nationale de la Recherche (Grant No. ANR-11-IDEX-0006-02).
- Subjects :
- self-regulation
Economics and Econometrics
Civil society
meta-organization
Process (engineering)
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sharing economy
0502 economics and business
Business and International Management
Quality of Life Research
crowdfunding
Corporate governance
05 social sciences
06 humanities and the arts
partial organization
General Business, Management and Accounting
Principal (commercial law)
governance
Work (electrical)
[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration
060301 applied ethics
Business
Economic system
Business ethics
Law
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730697 and 01674544
- Volume :
- 159
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Business Ethics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9303c6591140382260bd9ab5970fda7c