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How does collaborative economy contribute to common good?

Rosario Gomez‐Alvarez and Rafael Morales‐Sánchez

Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 2023, vol. 32, issue S2, 68-83

Abstract: Collaborative economy emerged as a response to the need of people to exchange, produce and share in a more humane and cooperative manner. However, the growth of collaborative economy organizations and the terminological confusion have led to debates about their possible effects, both positive and negative. In this study, we have created a guideline that can be used to evaluate the contribution of organizations considered within collaborative economy to common good. We used the conceptualization of common good, which, from its Aristotelian‐Thomist philosophy, was developed by the personalist‐humanist perspective of management. Our analysis leads us to conclude that the evaluation of the contribution of any organization to the common good must take into account how the participants develop their virtues, the creation of the community and its impact on the common good of society. At the end of the article, we present the aspects that society must take into account regarding collaborative economy. Firstly, society, in general, must approach collaborative economy as a tool that must complement others in the search for solutions to economic and social problems and, secondly, the governance of the platform‐network is essential to foster organizational models that favour the common good.

Date: 2023
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