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Master 2021/2022

Sharing Economy and Innovation Management in Creative Industries

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type: Elective course (Master in International Business)
Area of studies: Management
When: 2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Ivan D. Kotliarov
Master’s programme: International Business
Language: English
ECTS credits: 5
Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Sharing economy or collaborative economy is based on common use of assets and cooperation instead of strict ownership and competition. Sharing economy is rapidly growing and changing business landscape and models of consumption. Examples of companies based on sharing are Uber, BlaBlaCar, Airbnb, Kickstarter and many others. Sharing creates many benefits but, by disrupting traditional business models, it also creates new threats and challenges.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Understanding of all sides of sharing economy in order to use it for personal, corporate and social benefit.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Ability to adapt traditional companies to sharing economy.
  • Ability to implement sharing in different businesses.
  • Knowledge of main advantages and disadvantages of sharing economy for all stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of sharing business models.
  • Understanding of the nature of sharing economy and factors that support it.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Nature of Sharing Economy
  • New forms of business organizations
  • New forms of labor
  • New forms of finance
  • New forms of consumption
  • Prospects for Sharing Economy in Different Fields
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Homework
    Presentation the research’s results by home task
  • non-blocking Exam
    Final presentation of student teams’ project
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 2nd module
    0.5 * Homework + 0.5 * Exam
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Acquier, A., Daudigeos, T., & Pinkse, J. (2017). Promises and paradoxes of the sharing economy: An organizing framework. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, (C), 1. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.eee.tefoso.v125y2017icp1.10

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Cusumano, M. A. (2015). How Traditional Firms Must Compete in the Sharing Economy. Communications of the ACM, 58(1), 32–34. https://doi.org/10.1145/2688487
  • Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio, & John W. Byers. (2014). The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry†. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.8EFB59E9
  • Juho Hamari, Mimmi Sjöklint, & Antti Ukkonen. (2016). The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 9, 2047. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23552
  • SCHOR, J. (2016). Debating the Sharing Economy. Journal of Self-Governance & Management Economics, 4(3), 7–22. https://doi.org/10.22381/jsme4320161
  • Sundararajan, A. (2016). The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.mtp.titles.0262034573