The paper discusses the so-called sharing economy from an industrial structure perspective. The illustrative cases examined are Airbnb and Uber. The research question raised is concerned with the extent to which transaction cost theory can be used to explain the changing industrial structures in...

The analysis addresses the issues of how businesses interact in the light of continuous maturation of business-to-business e-commerce. The development of cheaper and more standardised information and communication technologies (ICTs) extends and deepens electronic networks, which may lead to...