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

Heloise Berkowitz () and Antoine Souchaud ()
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Heloise Berkowitz: CNRS (UMR5303), TSM-Research
Antoine Souchaud: NEOMA Business School

Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, vol. 159, issue 4, No 3, 976 pages

Abstract: 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 platforms’ partial meta-organizing 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
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