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Role of the sharing economy in the contemporary economy
Role of the sharing economy in the contemporary economy

Author(s): Agnieszka Budziewicz-Guźlecka
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: sharing economy; collaborative economy; prosumer; ICT

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the essence and role of the sharing economy. Sharing economy owe its rapid development in recent years, the fast development of technologies like social communications, mobile technologies and portals supporting direct cooperation of people. The article presents the role of youth as current and future prosumers in sharing economy. The generation that is currently growing up surrounded by so widely and rapidly developing techniques and technologies of information transfer will be a very aware prosumer on the market.

  • Issue Year: 126/2017
  • Issue No: 1/1
  • Page Range: 27-36
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English