Mergers and Acquisitions within the Sharing Economy: Placing All the Players on the Board

Cristina Pérez-Pérez, Diana Benito-Osorio and Susana María García Moreno
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Cristina Pérez-Pérez: Business Administration (ADO), Applied Economics II and Foundations of Economic Analysis, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Paseo de los Artilleros s/n, 28032 Madrid, Spain
Diana Benito-Osorio: Business Administration (ADO), Applied Economics II and Foundations of Economic Analysis, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Paseo de los Artilleros s/n, 28032 Madrid, Spain
Susana María García Moreno: Business Administration (ADO), Applied Economics II and Foundations of Economic Analysis, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Paseo de los Artilleros s/n, 28032 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: The sharing economy is changing the way customers perceive businesses and making traditional companies face new challenges. Many outmoded companies have decided to embrace these changes either by creating their own sharing platforms or by acquiring an already existing one. This paper is an initial attempt to shed light on the reasons behind mergers and acquisitions involving at least one sharing platform. We conduct an in-depth analysis of M&As over the period 2012–2019 with a sample of 108 operations, covering countries all around the world. Our analysis reveals how important and commonplace these operations are becoming, and how widely spread sharing platforms are. The paper also shows how traditional companies are dealing with these new competitors and how sharing companies need the specific knowledge provided by established companies with outmoded approaches.

Keywords: mergers and acquisitions; sharing economy; collaborative consumption; internationalization; growth methods; cross-border operations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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