ABSTRACT
The sharing economy has received much attention in recent years by practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and businesses alike. Across the globe, international corporations and small, local initiatives have sprung up to support the sharing of, for example, rooms, rides, books or bikes – for profit, pleasure or both. New social relations underpin these novel connections of supply and demand or forms of (collective) ownership that have been conceptualised as ‘social innovations’ without losing sight of the oftentimes central and crucial role that technology may play as an enabler or facilitator (Haxeltine et al. 2016).
