The shift from owning to sharing
Employing action research to facilitate SMEs’ business model transformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12949699 |
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| Authors | Sebastián Huber (0000-0002-6902-7637, corresponding author), Santidhorn Pooripakdee |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 204-220 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IJAR – International Journal of Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1861-1303 • E-ISSN: 1861-9916 |
| Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3224/ijar.v18i3.02 |
| OpenAlex | W4317831289 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
The sharing economy has witnessed tremendous growth inamultitude of industries around the world over the past decade. Access to, and a more sustainable use of, resources, cost saving potential, and a multitude of strategic benefits have been identified as attractive opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in business-to-business (B2B) sharing with some frustration by governments, researchers and practitioners that so little actual B2B sharing can be observed in industry practice. It remains a strategic challenge for SMEs to manage the shift from resource ownership to sharing since that transition requires a permanent change in their business model. In light of the transformational nature of this qualitative research gap, an Action Research methodology has been developed and implemented in partnership with a selected sample of Swiss SMEs favourably inclined towards B2B sharing activities. While discussing how Action Research might bridge the research gap and develop tangible, empirically grounded management recommendations, this paper also contributes specific Action Research methodology for other cases of transformational nature which present an ever more frequent and common scenario in business management research
Action (physics · Action research · Business · Business model · Economics · General partnership · Industrial organization · Knowledge management · Management · Multitude · Political science · Public relations · Transformational leadership · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Marketing
Qualitative Methods in Business Research
Promises and paradoxes of the sharing economy
The sharing economy
Value creation in E‐business
Competitive Strategy
The Vanishing Hand
The contemporary civilizational crisis from the perspective of critical realism
Sanitary Crisis, Civilizational Crisis
Abductive Reasoning as the Integrating Mechanism between First- Second- and Third-Person Practice in Action Research
Reframing civilization(s)
The Rise of the Platform Business Model and the Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
Gifts Among Strangers
| Highly cited | No |
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