There seem to be lots of new articles on this topic. Try the first three links below for a sample.

I myself have written about the diffusion of a traffic app with Twitter interactivity for motorists. It's not quite a sharing economy article, but the interactive feature and transport focus may be of interest. It's in the last link and I can send the text privately if you're interested.

http://questromworld.bu.edu/platformstrategy/files/2014/07/platform2014_submission_2.pdf

http://collaborativeeconomy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Belk-R.2014.-You-are-what-you-can-access-Sharing-and-collaborative-consumption-online.Journal-of-Business-Research.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692314002324

Article The Sharing Economy: Why People Participate in Collaborative...

Dear Emmanuel,

here some more articles that may be of interest to you. I'd be interested to read your chapter if you can send it...

Jan

Sorry, I meant Dear Deike of course.

Jan, sorry about the belated response. THanks so much for sending these, will check out!

"Combining data from Airbnb and the Texas hotel industry, we

estimate the impact of Airbnb’s entry into the Texas market on hotel room revenue,

and study the market response of hotels."

Luca

http://cs-people.bu.edu/dproserp/papers/airbnb.pdf

Luca, Great, thanks for sharing!

Dear Deike

You might be interested in reading this MA thesis, by Sara Garcia Betorz, about Barcelona:

http://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/76287/Garc%c3%ada%20Betorz.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

And about the Berlin case, see, by Andreas Kagermeier, Julia Köller and Natalie Stors:

http://www.freizeit-tourismus-geographie.de/mediapool/15/157354/data/Publikationen_ab_2006/SFT_11_Kagermeier-Koeller-Stros_Airbnb-Berlin-Hotellerie_Korrekturabzug.pdf

Best regards

d.

Hi Deike there was a great presentation at ASCP on this topic by Carolina Sarmiento (Wisconsin) and Anna Kim (Georgia Tech) including a close look at organizations that are trying to shape this phenomenon so as not to cause harm to immigrant populations (who of course have been "sharing" for a long time, but this informality is harshly regulated or criminalized).

Denis and Laura, thanks so much for those answers, they are super helpful! Sorry for my belated response, I don't seem to get notification alerts for this outside of actually visiting this site, which I rarely do).