Co-evolution of three mega-trends nurtures un-captured GDP – Uber’s ride-sharing revolution

Chihiro Watanabe, Kashif Naveed and Pekka Neittaanmäki

Technology in Society, 2016, vol. 46, issue C, 164-185

Abstract: Uber used a disruptive business model driven by digital technology to trigger a ride-sharing revolution. The institutional sources of the company’s platform ecosystem architecture were analyzed to explain this revolutionary change.

Keywords: Ride-sharing revolution; ICT-driven disruptive business model; Uber’s system success; Two-faced nature of ICT; Un-captured GDP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2016.06.004

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