The aim of this workshop is to bring together research and researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines in order to gain a better understanding of each perspective, its peculiarities, research focus and main insights as well as the blind spots related to each perspective; secondly, to stimulate academic discourse across perspectives, identify commonalities and differences as well as areas of complementarities; thirdly, to develop a comprehensive picture and common understanding of the sharing economy phenomenon.

Das zweite Symposium steht unter dem Motto “Sharing Economy in Deutschland – Neue Formen des nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens”. Auch diesmal möchten wir Mitglieder von Sharing Economy Organisationen, Entscheidungsträger aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaftler und Interessierte an der Sharing Economy zusammenbringen, um neue Einsichten über die dynamische Entwicklung der Sharing Economy zu generieren und die Debatte zum Thema konstruktiv voranzutreiben.

What are the promises and myths of the sharing economy? What are its ideological underpinnings? What are the emergent business models and governance forms in the sharing economy? How do sharing technologies create new forms of work, identity and work relationships? If you have a paper in which you address one of these (or various other) questions, you should read this call for papers for a special issue of "Technological Forecasting and Social Change"!