“The war of the worlds won't occur”: Decentralized evaluation systems and orders of worth in market organizations of the sharing economy

Anne-Sophie Barbe and Caroline Hussler

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, vol. 143, issue C, 64-75

Abstract: Market organizations of the sharing economy have gained economic and social prominence. Most of these market organizations incorporate decentralized evaluation systems into their digital platform. However, these market organizations involve users and organizers with different ideas on what is valuable and what is not in sharing-economy transactions. Building on neo-institutional insights coupled with French pragmatist sociology, we investigate the role of decentralized evaluation systems in supporting/solving the co-existence and/or competition of several conceptions of worth in market organizations of the sharing economy.

Keywords: Evaluation system; Sharing economy; Market organization; Institutional logics; Orders of worth; BlaBlaCar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2019.02.011

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