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Author(s)
Leonel Corona-Treviño
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2018.05.003
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National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
ABSTRACT
Firms such as Airbnb, Uber,
Blablacar have platforms for connecting owners of underused assets with clients
through, the internet, thus allowing people to rent out their spare rooms, or
book relay rides by acting as matchmakers, allocating resources where they are
needed and charging a percentage of the cost in return. This phenomenon could
be regarded from the point of view: (1) of Internet technology evolution from a network of
computers to a network of people devoted to sharing their knowledge and user
experience, coming further, as the Internet of Things (IoT), and (2) as part of the
increasing involvement of the user (consumer/client) in production and
innovation processes. These approaches allow us to analyze service-user platform
firms according to the different kinds of specific assets distribution and
risks. The new organization is based on internet platform tools which integrate
information, machinery, energy, and science, and costumer collaboration. We
conclude that there are large profits for those firms based on platforms, as
there are not yet any counterbalances through competition, posing the question
about the needed or not of technology management regulation during this phase
of service sharing economy. A selection of 17 service platform firms in Mexico
involved in transportation and crowdfunding are described on the basis of their
business model, the market and the distribution of assets and income.
KEYWORDS
platform firms, concentration of income, uberization, service economy, sharing economy, crowdfunding, Mexico
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