Sharing Economy \u2013 a term often has been mentioned during the last decade. Its importance and rapid rise results from ongoing technological progress. Several ideas and visions were turned into business and people are able to share their private apartments, cars and even their food. All this is enabled and coordinated via Internet. In 2013, \u2018Shareconomy\u2019 has been the main theme of CeBIT, the world\u2019s largest trade fair for information technology taking place in Germany. That emphasizes once again the impact of information management & technolgy within our society and economic system. Due to proceeding digitalization the boundaries between producers and consumers are becoming increasingly blurred.<\/p>\n
What I would like to elaborate in this paper is the role of information management and digitalization with regard to sharing economy. The object is not an evaluation whether sharing economy is good or bad but rather its influence to our society and economic system in general.<\/p>\n
The paper is organized in the following manner. A first step will be to define the terms \u2018Sharing Economy\u2019, \u2018Information Management\u2019 as well as \u2018Digitalization\u2019 to create a common understanding of what is being discussed in this paper. Second, the rapid rise of sharing economy that has been observed in recent years will be analyzed. In connection with this, I will put different examples where people are using this principle on record. Based on this, the significance and relation of digitalization and information management is being examined.<\/p>\n
Finally, I comment on social and economical implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sharing Economy \u2013 a term often has been mentioned during the last decade. Its importance and rapid rise results from ongoing technological progress. Several ideas and visions were turned into business and people are able to share their private apartments, cars and even their food. All this is enabled and coordinated via Internet. In 2013, … Continue reading Information Management & Digitalization with regard to Sharing Economy<\/span>