Entrepreneurs, Sustainability and the Sharing Economy

This cumulative dissertation captures the sharing economy’s sustainability dynamics by applying a macro-, meso-, and micro-level analysis to investigate the actors and elements involved in constituting the field. On a macro-level, the first study examines the social, political, and economic context that shapes (non-)sustainable sharing entrepreneurs’ behavior. The second study's meso-level analysis investigates how sharing entrepreneurs affect other organizations and communities to act more sustainable. Lastly, the third study adopts a micro-level analysis that focuses on entrepreneurs’ identity formation in the contested sharing economy. Overall, this dissertation contributes to a more fine-grained understanding of sustainability in the sharing economy and the various actors and elements involved in constituting the field. Moreover, the dissertation highlights the actions and interventions necessary for the sharing economy’s sustainability path.

Level thesis:degree_level

thesis.doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher

HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Year

2020

Author dc:creator

• Pankov, Susanne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Velamuri, Vivek K.
• Schneckenberg, Dirk

• sharing economy
• collaborative consumption
• sustainability
• sustainable entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurial ecosystems
• organizational identity work
• Ökonomie des Teilens
• Nachhaltigkeit
• nachhaltiges Unternehmertum
• nachhaltige Unternehmensgründungen
• unternehmerische Ökosysteme
• organisationale Identität