(Self-)Regulation of Sharing Economy Platforms Through Partial Meta-organizing

Héloïse Berkowitz () and Antoine Souchaud
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Héloïse Berkowitz: TSM - Toulouse School of Management Research - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - TSM - Toulouse School of Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse
Antoine Souchaud: NEOMA - Neoma Business School

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Abstract: Can platforms close the governance gap in the sharing economy, and if so, how? Through an in-depth qualitative case study, we analyze the process by which new regulation and self-regulation emerge in one sector of the sharing economy, crowdfunding, through the actions of a meta-organization. We focus on the principal French sectoral meta-organization, Financement Participatif France (FPF-Crowdfunding France). We show that this multi-stakeholder meta-organization not only closed the governance gap through collective legal, ethical, and utilitarian work but also preceded and shaped the new market. We present a hybrid governance approach combining a) soft multi-agency regulation, b) self-regulation through a process of "partial meta-organizing", and c) direct civil society participation. We expand the literature by highlighting features of partial meta-organizing by sharing economy platforms and by identifying conditions for successful joint regulation and self-regulation of the sector.

Keywords: Sharing economy; crowdfunding; self-regulation; meta-organization; partial organization; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-11
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Published in Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, 159 (4), pp.961-976. ⟨10.1007/s10551-019-04206-8⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04206-8

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