Perspectives on the Sharing Economy

Achim Oberg is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Organization Studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, and Senior Researcher at the Institute for SME Research and Entrepreneurship at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His research deals with digital social science, and has been published in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Scandinavian Journal of Management, among others. He completed his PhD at the University of Jena, Germany.

Indre Maurer is Professor of Organization Studies and Corporate Development at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her primary research interests are in the areas of social network relationships and social capital focusing on high-tech, project-based, and sharing economy organizations. She has published articles in Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies, among others. She holds a doctoral degree from Augsburg University, Germany.