TY - JOUR
T1 - A sustainability perspective for sharing economy business model and its unintended effects
AU - Foroozanfar, Mohammad Hossein
AU - Imanipour, Narges
AU - Sajadi, Seyed Mojtaba
AU - Habibi, Mohammad Reza
N1 - Copyright © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2025/4/1
Y1 - 2025/4/1
N2 - The sharing economy business model (SEBM) creates a new type of business that offers goods and services more efficiently than traditional exchange markets. This study conducts a systematic literature review complying with the PRISMA protocol to enhance our comprehension of the SEBM through three key contributions. First, it performs a descriptive analysis of the included publications to offer the overall picture of publication outlets, country and sector contexts, and the methodological designs. Second, and more importantly, it identifies and categorizes the negative and positive unintended effects of SEBMs through a sustainability perspective by performing two thematic analyses that encompass themes and subthemes. And finally, it develops an integrated framework for SEBM and its unintended effects, incorporating both dimensions of the business model and pillars of sustainability. This framework facilitates the discussion of findings, identifies gaps in the literature, and provides directions for future research.
AB - The sharing economy business model (SEBM) creates a new type of business that offers goods and services more efficiently than traditional exchange markets. This study conducts a systematic literature review complying with the PRISMA protocol to enhance our comprehension of the SEBM through three key contributions. First, it performs a descriptive analysis of the included publications to offer the overall picture of publication outlets, country and sector contexts, and the methodological designs. Second, and more importantly, it identifies and categorizes the negative and positive unintended effects of SEBMs through a sustainability perspective by performing two thematic analyses that encompass themes and subthemes. And finally, it develops an integrated framework for SEBM and its unintended effects, incorporating both dimensions of the business model and pillars of sustainability. This framework facilitates the discussion of findings, identifies gaps in the literature, and provides directions for future research.
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262500527X?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145177
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145177
M3 - Article
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 500
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
M1 - 145177
ER -