Type of Credit: Elective
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The emergence of sharing economy and gig economy is seen as an economic revolution or a disruptive innovation to the capitalistic market-mediated exchange. This new economic paradigm marks the rise of crowd-based capitalism, enabled by the development of digital technologies. In about 10-years time, different models of sharing economy and gig economy sweep the world and change the human lifestyle. Despite the fact that various sharing economy and gig economy activities have penetrated into our daily lives, questions and debates about the legitimacy as well as the social and cultural impact brought by this new form of economic model continue. The development path, typology and business models of sharing economy and gig economy will be introduced in this course. Both non-for-profit and profit-oriented sharing practices will be discussed. The driving forces and consumer motivation, legal and cultural aspects, and emerging technologies enabling the development of the sharing economy and gig economy will also be presented in the course. The smart city development is an important movement in urbanization. The development path, planning and execution strategies and business models of the smart city will be introduced in this course. The PPP (public and private partnership) model, which is often adopted in the smart city operation, will also be discussed. At the same time, the relevant topics such as the environment protection, governance and sustainability will also be included in this course.
This course aims to provide students’ with knowledge and insight about the new economic paradigm of sharing economy and gig economy, and understanding of the digital technologies, infrastructure, and social political forces shaping the future of our urban environments. We begin by defining smart cities through lectures and case studies, discussing the sharing economy application in smart cities and drill down into the technologies shaping new and existing cities. |
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This course is targeted at achieving the following objectives:
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W1: Introduction to Course Syllabus W4: Typology of Sharing Economy
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The final grade consists of:
1. Attendance & Participation 20%
The various in-class activities will include case discussion, class participation, and peer review. Students who are unable to attend class should please apply for a leave of absence in advance.
2. Class Reflection 20%
The class reflection should consist of the students’ takeaway, lesson learnt, or insights from the course. It should be a maximum of 2-pages, 12points Times New Roman/Arial, double-spaced.
3. Midterm Report - An analysis of a sharing economy case 30%
The midterm report is a group project. More explanation on group sizes and how the assignment can be conducted will be provided in class.
The midterm paper aims to understand the students’ knowledge about sharing economy. Each group shall write a short analysis paper about a sharing economy case. This assignment should include the concepts from previous lessons and the students’ comments about the case.
It should be a maximum of 5-pages, 12points Times New Roman/Arial, double- spaced.
4. Final Presentation – Innovative Idea of Sharing Economy Application in Smart City Development 30%
The final project is a group project. More explanation on group sizes and how the assignment can be conducted will be provided in class.
Prior to the final presentation, students will be arranged a session to present their proposal about their final projects for obtaining feedback from the instructor.
Each team shall present an innovative idea of smart city for the final project. The final project includes an oral presentation and a 2-pages executive summary. |
Text Book:
1. Sundararajan, A. (2016). The sharing economy: The end of employment and the rise of crowd-based capitalism. Mit Press.
Reading Materials:
1. Aptekar, S. (2016). Gifts among strangers: the social organization of freecycle giving. Social Problems, 63(2), 266-283.
2. Christensen, C. M., Raynor, M. E., & McDonald, R. (2015). What is disruptive innovation. Harvard business review, 93(12), 44-53
3. Cohen, M., & Sundararajan, A. (2015). Self-regulation and innovation in the peer- to-peer sharing economy. U. Chi. L. Rev. Dialogue, 82, 116.
4. Eckhardt, G. M., Houston, M. B., Jiang, B., Lamberton, C., Rindfleisch, A., & Zervas, G. (2019). Marketing in the sharing economy. Journal of Marketing, 83(5), 5-27.
5. Guttentag, D. (2015). Airbnb: disruptive innovation and the rise of an informal tourism accommodation sector. Current issues in Tourism, 18(12), 1192-1217.
6. Lamberton, C. P., & Rose, R. L. (2012). When is ours better than mine? A framework for understanding and altering participation in commercial sharing systems. Journal of Marketing, 76(4), 109-125.
7. Petrini, M., FREITAS, C. S. D., & SILVEIRA, L. M. D. (2017). A proposal for a typology of sharing economy. RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie, 18(5), 39-62.
8. Smith, A. (2016). Shared, collaborative and on demand: The new digital economy. Pew Research Center, 19.
9. Sundararajan, A. (2014). What Airbnb gets about culture that Uber doesn’t. Harvard Business Review, 11.
10. Uzunca, B., Rigtering, J. C., & Ozcan, P. (2018). Sharing and shaping: A cross- country comparison of how sharing economy firms shape their institutional environment to gain legitimacy. Academy of management discoveries, 4(3), 248- 272.
11. Angelidou, M. (2014). Smart city policies: A spatial approach. Cities, 41, S3-S11.
12. Lee, J. H., Phaal, R., & Lee, S. H. (2013). An integrated service-device-technology roadmap for smart city development.
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13. Lombardi, P., Giordano, S., Farouh, H., & Yousef, W. (2012). Modelling the smart city performance. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 25(2), 137-149.
14. Law, K. H., & Lynch, J. P. (2019). Smart city: Technologies and challenges. IT Professional, 21(6), 46-51.
15. Angelidou, M., Psaltoglou, A., Komninos, N., Kakderi, C., Tsarchopoulos, P., & Panori, A. (2018). Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications. Journal of science and technology policy management, 9(2), 146-169.
16. Monzon, A. (2015, May). Smart cities concept and challenges: Bases for the assessment of smart city projects. In 2015 international conference on smart cities and green ICT systems (SMARTGREENS) (pp. 1-11). IEEE.
17. Hashem, I. A. T., Chang, V., Anuar, N. B., Adewole, K., Yaqoob, I., Gani, A., ... & Chiroma, H. (2016). The role of big data in smart city. International Journal of information management, 36(5), 748-758.
18. Jin, J., Gubbi, J., Marusic, S., & Palaniswami, M. (2014). An information framework for creating a smart city through internet of things. IEEE Internet of Things journal, 1(2), 112-121.
19. Letaifa, S. B. (2015). How to strategize smart cities: Revealing the SMART model. Journal of business research, 68(7), 1414-1419.
20. Nam, T., & Pardo, T. A. (2011, June). Conceptualizing smart city with dimensions of technology, people, and institutions. In Proceedings of the 12th annual international digital government research conference: digital
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21. Su, K., Li, J., & Fu, H. (2011, September). Smart city and the applications. In 2011 international conference on electronics, communications and control (ICECC) (pp. 1028-1031). IEEE.
22. Su, Kehua; LI, Jie; FU, Hongbo. Smart city and the applications. In: 2011 international conference on electronics, communications and control (ICECC). IEEE, 2011. p. 1028-1031.
23. Ahvenniemi, H., Huovila, A., Pinto-Seppä, I., & Airaksinen, M. (2017). What are the differences between sustainable and smart cities?. Cities, 60, 234-245.
24. Bakıcı, T., Almirall, E., & Wareham, J. (2013). A smart city initiative: the case of Barcelona. Journal of the knowledge economy, 4, 135-148.
25. Hall, R. E., Bowerman, B., Braverman, J., Taylor, J., Todosow, H., & Von Wimmersperg, U. (2000). The vision of a smart city (No. BNL-67902; 04042). Brookhaven National Lab.(BNL), Upton, NY (United States).
26. Vanolo, A. (2014). Smartmentality: The smart city as disciplinary strategy. Urban studies, 51(5), 883-898.