VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10
“Blade Entrepreneurship” In Shared Economic Model–Experience and Lessons from Shared Bicycles
Abstract
The
concept of sharing is a unique social practice that has been redefined and
extended under the vast horizon of “sharing economy” by means of influencing
the energy of Web 2.0 technology. Besides the passing time since the evolution
of this concept there is no one concrete definition yet designed to explain
what is concept of sharing economy. The ideology encompasses very varied
practices and sectors and covers an extensive spectrum of organizational
dimensions, such as from profit making organizations to non-profit making
organizations. The sharing economy is an idea that has encompassed its roots
through contemporary economics at a massive scale and continues to present
digitalization at its forefront. Moreover, the sharing economy has experienced
rapid increase and has a persistent impact on society; it is presently supplied
with absurdities and rigidities about its limitations, effects, and logic. In
addition, few believe that shared based economy as a substitute to market
capitalism although in reality it strengthens capitalism. On one side of the
coin if the share-based economy encourages ‘more sustainable intake and
manufacturing practices, [it also] urge[s] the contemporary unsustainable
economic paradigm.’ This study addresses the unique problem as a whole – offers
a technique to investigate that takes account of the inner range, complexity
and contradictions of the sharing economy under the global, institutional and
economy level dimensions. In the subsequent, we first shed light on the
characteristics of the share-based economy system as a theoretical concept and
later on explain the concept with the aid of case study on shared bicycles,
which are not yet much explored in academic arena.
Keywords: shared based model; self-organized
entrepreneurial behaviour; blade entrepreneurship, China bicycle sharing.
