 Self-regulating a collaborative engagement platform: case REKOHanna Leipämaa-Leskinen, Elina Närvänen and Hannu Makkonen Chapter 5 in Understanding Collaborative Consumption, 2024, pp 54-66 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter discusses how self-regulation appears in the context of collaborative consumption (CC) communities. Utilising the construct of collaborative engagement platform (CEP), we analyse a self-regulated CC platform and explore what kinds of collaborative practices are being created and applied in a CC community. Our empirical illustration is a local food platform REKO whose development we have analysed during 2014-2020. Findings show how REKO members engage in five types of collaborative practices: facilitating, mutual learning, recruiting, bonding, and socialising. We further discuss how these practices are used as soft regulation mechanisms in the platform by characterising and dividing the practices according to 1) the objective of regulation (regulation aiming to maintain the CEP or to expand it) and 2) the focus of regulation (regulation focusing on exchange or community). This chapter offers an empirical analysis and theoretical conclusions of collaborative practices as an alternative for centralised regulation of CC communities. Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22104_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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