Germany: Co-Creating Cooperative and Sharing Economies

Soenke Zehle, Hannes Käfer, Julia Hartnik and Michael Schmitz

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Abstract: The chapter describes the sharing economy in Germany as a heterogeneous dynamic, combining local trends and histories with economic forms drawing on experiences mainly from across Europe and North America. Increasingly taken into account by policymakers in the regulation of markets and the redesign of innovation governance frameworks, “sharing” as a complex nexus linking the exercise of citizenship to sustainable consumption and informational self-determination in digital societies will continue to drive and frame the creation of value chains. Of particular interest are linkages between sharing economies and the traditions of cooperativism, currently experiencing a renaissance. The latter is key because it shapes the context in which sharing economy initiatives exist and expand—an opening of definitions and narrative of innovation, of (public) value, and of collaborative agency and cooperative management. M4 - Citavi

Keywords: Cooperativism; German Sharing Economy; Platform Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L31 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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