Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing

Attila Marton; Ioanna Constantiou; Georgios Lagoudakos

Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing

Attila Marton, Ioanna Constantiou, Georgios Lagoudakos

Institut for Digitalisering

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Abstract

Sharing economy start-ups are claiming legitimacy by drawing on notions of openness and, at the same time, by adapting to business institutions. We use the case of CouchSurfing to investigate how openness, which has been part of the organization’s raison-d’être, contributed in the legitimacy building efforts and why it was replaced by notions of profitability and revenue generation. Thus, we contribute the concepts of legitimacy and legitimacy building to the academic discourse of openness.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017
Redaktører	Tung X. Bui, Ralph Sprague
Antal sider	10
Udgivelsessted	Honolulu
Forlag	Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Publikationsdato	2017
ISBN (Trykt)	9780998133102
Status	Udgivet - 2017
Begivenhed	The 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS 2017 - Waikoloa Village, USA Varighed: 4 jan. 2017 → 7 jan. 2017 Konferencens nummer: 50 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/

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Konference	The 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS 2017
Nummer	50
Land/Område	USA
By	Waikoloa Village
Periode	04/01/2017 → 07/01/2017
Internetadresse	http://hicss.hawaii.edu/

Navn	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ISSN	1060-3425

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Marton, A., Constantiou, I., & Lagoudakos, G. (2017). Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing. I T. X. Bui, & R. Sprague (red.), Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41337

Marton, Attila ; Constantiou, Ioanna ; Lagoudakos, Georgios. / Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy : An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing. Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017. red. / Tung X. Bui ; Ralph Sprague. Honolulu : Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2017. (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing. / Marton, Attila ; Constantiou, Ioanna; Lagoudakos, Georgios.
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