Sharing is a phenomenon as old as humankind, while collaborative consumption and the “sharing economy” are phenomena born of the Internet age. This paper compares sharing and collaborative consumption and finds that both are growing in popularity today. Examples are given and an assessment...

The text addresses some of the definitions and origins of the term "Internet Balkanization." Drawing upon U.S. constitutional law and interstate commerce regulations, it argues that the term also carries strong connotations on the realms of jurisdiction and commerce. The text adds examples of...

We present the results of an empirical study on German customers' motives to participate in the shareconomy. We focus on four different industries with two companies each: accommodation renting (Airbnb vs. Couchsurfing), car sharing (DriveNow vs. tamyca), commodities (Leihdirwas vs. WHY own it)...

The concepts of ‘sharing’ Economy and Collaborative Consumption are gaining popularity in the business world because of internet based products and services. The widespread use and virtue of one of the extensions of collaborative consumption is collaborative education, which is...

Dem Dienstleistungssektor kam beim Aufbau einer neuen wirtschaftlichen Basis in den neuen Bundesländern eine Schlüsselrolle zu. Im Vergleich zu den alten Bundesländern war dieser Bereich in der ehemaligen DDR nur wenig entwickelt. Zahlreiche neue Arbeitsplätze sollten dort entstehen, und...

Lewis D., Frisch M. and Greenberg M. (2004) Downsizing and worker separations: modelling the regional economic impacts of alternative Department of Energy workforce adjustment policies, Reg. Studies 38, 67-83. Fifty years of huge investments by the US Department of Energy (DOE) in some regions...

Im Juni 2000 fand in Wien die 49. EUROCONSTRUCT-Konferenz statt. Die Mitgliedsinstitute der Bauforschungsgruppe aktualisierten ihre im Januar vorgelegten Prognosen des realen Bauvolumens für 15 westeuropäische Länder und vier Ost-mitteleuropäische Staaten. Die Aggregation der nationalen...