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- Chimenti, Gianluca
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Conceptual controversies at the boundaries between markets: the case of ridesharing
- 2020
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Ingår i: Consumption Markets and Culture. - : Taylor & Francis (Routledge). - 1477-223X .- 1025-3866. ; 23:2, s. 130-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The drawing of boundaries has been deemed crucial for the shaping of markets. One type of such boundary is the boundary between markets to distinguish alternative market versions in all their heterogeneity. The so-called sharing economy–largely enabled by the current wave of digitalisation–represents a domain comprising many overlapping and contested market boundaries. This article explores how different conceptualisations of the sharing economy prompt strategic efforts to establish alternative market boundaries for the purpose of legitimising specific practices and to advance political and ideological ambitions. It also shows how this “boundary work” reinforces controversies when different processes of drawing boundaries interfere with and potentially threaten each other. Drawing on constructivist market studies, particularly the notions of framing and performation struggles, this article compares three dominating ridesharing platforms in Sweden: Uber, Skjutsgruppen and Heetch.
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- Chimenti, Gianluca
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Multiple versions of markets? : Exploring market reconfigurations in shared mobility
- 2024
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Ingår i: Consumption Markets & Culture. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1477-223X .- 1025-3866.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By combining research on ambiguity and constructivist market studies with a case study of shared mobility in Sweden, I develop the argument that ambiguous concepts contribute significantly to constitute multiple versions of markets, in this case car sharing, ride hailing and scooter sharing. Specifically, the practices employed during market formations affect who becomes involved and direct our attention to the practical challenges associated with building parallel market infrastructures. The resulting multiplicity of conceptions, market definitions and instantiations of rules and regulations produces diverging efforts at legitimizing respective market versions. While actors borrow traits from adjacent markets to shape specific versions, the multiplicity of conceptions, boundary-definitions, instantiations, and uses of market devices are employed in ways to avoid performation struggles.
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- Chimenti, Gianluca, et al.
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Mutable mobiles? Making space for an access-based car sharing market
- 2022
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning A. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1472-3409 .- 0308-518X. ; 54:6, s. 1277-1296
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How is space made to matter in contemporary access-based markets? Drawing on the geographies of marketization and constructivist market studies, we examine how space is framed as a relevant quality to take into account in market exchange and how that qualification process itself is spatially situated. We trace a failed attempt to create an access-based car market in Stockholm, involving parallel but poorly synchronized site-specific effects of marketization across public and private realms. Our findings show how DriveNow sought to render its envisioned market spatially homogenous and the spatial interdependencies between this envisioned market and other (market and nonmarket) uses of space. We highlight the performation struggles between such alternative but overlapping spatial demarcations in specific microgeographies and show how seemingly similar spatial imaginaries can be materialized in different ways in one spatial realm.
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- Chimenti, Gianluca
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Performing Ambiguity?: Following Multiplicity in Shared Mobility Markets
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How do markets change and develop over time? The present PhD project focuses on the dynamic effects of market change in the context of the sharing economy. This phenomenon is of particular interest since it concerns how alternative market forms – such as gifting, collaborating, accessing – are challenging established market conceptions. Empirically, the project addresses emerging shared mobility platforms (ride sharing, car sharing, etc.) and follows their attempts to reconfigure extant market orders within the Swedish transportation sector. By turning the infamous conceptual confusion that surrounds the sharing economy into a topic in its own right, the individual studies address a number of issues related to the formation and change of markets in ambiguous environments. This includes, but is not limited to, the examination of conceptual controversies concerning what “the sharing economy” is, the changing roles of public actors, and issue of overlapping spaces during processes of marketisation. Using an Actor Network Theory approach across a number of empirical sites in Sweden and Ireland, this dissertation highlights the productive role of ambiguity in processes of market formation and change. The four articles comprising this thesis explore how ambiguity can be seized by a multitude of actors all wishing to shape markets in their own interests, potentially creating multiple economic consequences and material realities as a result. In addition, it illustrates how individual shared mobility markets exhibit clear systemic properties within and beyond the larger mobility realm; they depend significantly on enacted interrelations to other markets (e.g., for digital locks, batteries, telecommunication) and rely on broader, popular socio-economic trends, such as Sharing Cities and Smart Cities. Lastly, despite that the digitalisation is often associated with the removal of spatial barriers and borderless worlds, this dissertation combines insights from marketing and economic geography to illustrate that the many contingencies of local geographies still remain an important facet of contemporary economic organising.
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- Fenton, Paul, et al.
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The role of local government in governance and diffusion of Mobility-as-a-Service : exploring the views of MaaS stakeholders in Stockholm
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. - : Routledge. - 0964-0568 .- 1360-0559. ; 63:14, s. 2554-2576
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities around the world constitute an emerging market for Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). For local governments, MaaS may offer opportunities to reduce ownership and use of private cars for passenger transport, thereby easing pressures on urban space, the local environment and global climate. By drawing on literature related to socio-technical transitions and the diffusion of environmental innovations, this article analyses survey results of MaaS stakeholders in the City of Stockholm, where several initiatives to facilitate development of MaaS are underway. The results illustrate what stakeholders do and consider important, which kinds of barriers, opportunities and challenges are perceived, and what type of expectations stakeholders share about the role of the City administration in the development of MaaS in Stockholm. In sum, results indicate an important, yet delicate role for local governments in facilitating MaaS, whilst suggesting the need for regional or national regulatory solutions in the longer-term, to ensure legitimacy and transparency.
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- Fitzpatrick Burke, Mary Kathleen, et al.
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Exploiting Bad Behaviors: Stigma and the Space for Innovation
- 2022
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - New York : Academy of Management. - 2151-6561 .- 0065-0668.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Building on importance that peripheral niches play in the process of innovation, and incorporating the proposition that audiences perceive stigma as an aversive social condition, this paper suggests that understanding, maintaining, and developing stigma can help innovators effectively develop space for radical innovation. Three interdependent mechanisms explain this emergent process. First, innovators benefit from the dissociation inherent to stigma, allowing safe distance from homogenizing audiences, norms, and institutions that might undermine their radical ideas. Second, actors use diversity in stigma impressions to signal to supportive stakeholders who see past naïve interpretations of “bad” behaviors and recognize the value underlying second-order interpretations. Finally, underpinning the push and pull of relevant audiences is a process of engaging with moral emotions, using their ability to motivate behavioral change in support of radical innovation. An in-depth case study examining the rise of Punk music in the 1970s helps illustrate a process model where marginalized actors come to understand and profit from stigma’s divergent influence over both detractors and supporters. Together this research outlines the social functional benefits of stigma in oppressive contexts, suggesting disadvantaged actors can usurp control over pernicious evaluations to fashion a supportive niche for radical innovation.
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- Geiger, S, et al.
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Organizing the Sharing Economy Through Experiments: Framing and taming as onto-epistemological work
- 2023
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 44:3, s. 377-400
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Prior work on performativity has illustrated how theories intervene in economic organizing. We expand this body of research by studying how concepts, and particularly those that are loosely defined and/or not widely understood, provoke their own realities through experiments. We examine how different experimental set-ups allow these concepts to be seized by a multitude of actors all wishing to instantiate worlds in their own interests, and how they potentially open up multiple competing realities as a result. We follow the concept of mobility-as-a-service as it mobilizes various experiments across public and private realms in Stockholm and Dublin, and we analyse how specific types of experiment co-produce epistemic and ontological work. Our results illustrate how different experimental designs can be conducive in taming and/or framing ambiguous concepts through interconnected processes of such onto-epistemological work. This highlights the distributed and relational and also the ‘provocative’ facets of performing ambiguous concepts through experiments. We discuss the consequences of these insights for how we think about scaling from experiments to broader socio-economic realities. © The Author(s) 2022.
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