Abstract
Contemporary C2C platforms, such as Airbnb, have exhibited considerable growth in recent years and are projected to continue doing so in the future. These novel consumer-to-consumer marketplaces have started to obliterate the boundaries between private and economic spheres. Marketing personal resources online is inherently associated with the disclosure of personal and sometimes intimate information. This raises unprecedented questions of privacy. Yet, there is so far little research on the role of privacy considerations in the sharing economy literature. Leveraging the theoretical perspective of privacy calculus, we address this gap by investigating how privacy concerns and economic prospects shape a potential provider’s intentions to share via different communication channels. We relate privacy concerns back to the provider’s perceptions of the audience. We evaluate our research model by means of a scenario-based online survey, providing broad support for our reasoning.
Recommended Citation
Teubner, Timm and Flath, Christoph M.
(2019)
"Privacy in the Sharing Economy,"
Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(3), .
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00534
Available at:
https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol20/iss3/2
DOI
10.17705/1jais.00534
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