The Evolution of Online Short-Term Rental Enterprises Ecosystem and Legitimacy: A Longitudinal Interpretive Case Study

摘要：

　　As an emerging field, the online short-term rental in China appears with poor national policy and industry general regulations.All enterprises in this industry are constantly groping for sustainable strategy of legitimacy.Previous studies on the online short-term rental mainly focus on the positive influence, the business model, and policy and regulation.However,there is currently little research on how the online short-term rental enterprises develop ecosystem and legitimacy during different phases involved, which provides a good reference for other emerging organization in sharing economy.This study applied business ecosystem and legitimacy to analyze the development of a typical online short-term rental company via a longitudinal interpretive case study.A process model of how an online short-term rental companys sub-ecosystems is inductively derived and elucidates the regulative challenges, normative challenges, and cognitive challenges in each phase.The findings of this case study provide a comprehensive and empirically supported framework and demonstrate a successful process model.

关键词： Sharing Economy Online Short-Term Rental Business Ecosystem Legitimacy

作者: Songbo Chen Yanqiqi Hao Yuqiang Feng Luning Liu

作者单位: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Deloitte Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Harbin Branch, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Eighteenth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business(第18届武汉电子商务国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 325-333

在线出版日期: 2019-05-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）