Guest editorial

摘要

Facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges and promoting access over ownership, the sharing economy is enjoying fast growth and transforming a great variety of sectors. "Sharing economy" is an umbrella term encompassing heterogeneous initiatives that create different types of economic, environmental and/or social value (Acquier et al, 2017). PwC has estimated the sharing economy at $15bn in revenue worldwide in 2015, with the potential to reach $335bn by 2025 (PWC, 2015) and to disrupt several established industries (Belk 2014). In 2019, the sharing economy in China amounted to $464bn (compared to $99bn in 2015), and car-hailing apps accounted for 37.1% of the total taxi passenger traffic (Chan etal,2020).