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

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017
Editors	Tung X. Bui, Ralph Sprague
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Honolulu
Publisher	Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Publication date	2017
ISBN (Print)	9780998133102
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017 - Waikoloa Village, United States Duration: 4 Jan 2017 → 7 Jan 2017 Conference number: 50 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/

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Conference	50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
Number	50
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikoloa Village
Period	04/01/2017 → 07/01/2017
Internet address	http://hicss.hawaii.edu/

Series	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. In T. X. Bui, & R. Sprague (Eds.), 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. editor / 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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Marton, A , Constantiou, I & Lagoudakos, G 2017, Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing. in TX Bui & R Sprague (eds), Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017, Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, United States, 04/01/2017. <http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41337>

Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing. / Marton, Attila ; Constantiou, Ioanna; Lagoudakos, Georgios.
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017. ed. / 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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Marton A , Constantiou I, Lagoudakos G. Openness and Legitimacy Building in the Sharing Economy: An Exploratory Case Study about CouchSurfing. In Bui TX, Sprague R, editors, Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017. Honolulu: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). 2017. (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).