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As the Sharing Economy becomes big business in Europe, its sustainability may be threatened by restrictive legislation and MNCs. In order to assure growth, Caleb Meyer argues that Collaborative Companies must begin to collaborate with each other.
As Finnish officials deem crowdfunding to be against Finnish law and as French officials begin to worry about Airbnb's exponential growth , it is clear that the collaborative wine tours and san francisco consumption movement has many more hurdles ahead. Whether it be banks, hotels, car companies, universities, or casinos, this sector uses technological wine tours and san francisco advances to replace expensive intermediaries. In many cases those middlemen are large MNC's with deep pockets and political influence.
Both economically and environmentally, the pre-sharing economy options were not getting the job done. Rob Atkinson, an economist and president wine tours and san francisco of The Information Technology Innovation Foundation , points out that
While the classic Keynesian economic view suggests wine tours and san francisco healthy consumer consumption spurs economic growth, sharing encourages wine tours and san francisco more-efficient use of existing goods and diverts capital to other types of consumption and investment.
In terms of the environment , "when measuring carbon emissions, home sharing is 66% more effective than hotels where as car sharing participants reduce their individual emissions wine tours and san francisco by 40%." Regardless of its benefits, wine tours and san francisco as growth continues, collaborative consumptions disruptive impact on big businesses will not go unnoticed. The majority of collaborative consumption markets are up for grabs. While companies fight for market share, customers become increasingly comfortable with the services provided and push the movement into the global spotlight and towards sustainability. The low barriers to entry and growing customer response means more collaborative consumption companies wine tours and san francisco emerge everyday primarily as startups; foraging for the next round of venture capital and big idea which will advance their company to critical mass and future profitability.
While competition is lowering costs, increasing creativity and advancing the movement, it has one glaring wine tours and san francisco negative effect: companies must maintain focus on themselves and not on the movement. A user who has a bad experience on P2P vacation rental may then cancel his P2P car rental and return to traditional methods. Another user may be very conscience of the law and decide to stick with traditional methods because renting your home through Airbnb could be illegal . Despite the fact that customers see the link between wine tours and san francisco different collaborative wine tours and san francisco consumption platforms and laws, collaborative consumption companies are so focused on scaling that there is a clear lack of unity amongst a sector whose own name suggests collaboration.
Time constraints: as nice as it sounds to have a unified voice to tackle political and movement based issues, not everyone has scaled like Airbnb. Not everyone can hire that extra staff or find the extra time to discuss these critical issues.
Competition: Wherever you turn, there are tens of companies fighting for the same market. wine tours and san francisco Whether P2P, B2C, B2B, cars, space, apartments, loans, tasks, education, competition within the same market in what could turn out to be a winner take all business hinders collaborative efforts.
Opinion: Since regulations have yet to be written, differences of opinion as to how to address these issues make it difficult to have a common voice.Those collaborative consumption companies who are more "formal" in terms of adapting their businesses to existing laws and tax regulations fear being associated with those "informal" companies who argue that the system does not take into account their business model.
the Collaborative Economy Coalition promotes the continued success of collaborative business wine tours and san francisco models by advocating for policy that defends and advances free enterprise, limited regulation and local entrepreneurism.
Working as paid advocates, the CEC fights against the powers that be for a more collaborative society. They point out many examples of how collaborative consumption is under attack by the disrupted MNC's. While the answer may or may not be paid advocate groups like the CEC, in Europe, wine tours and san francisco nothing similar exists.
But there is a solution. By acting as a neutral facilitator, OuiShare can play a crucial role in Europe's growing sharing economy. OuiShare is the self dubbed "creative community for the collaborative economy." As an independent and non-profit organization, OuiShare's principle goal is to foment the sharing economy. OuiShare wine tours and san francisco has no affiliation with any collaborative consumption company and works through a network of local connectors which unite collaborative consumption companies both mature and startups, as well as interested parties wine tours and san francisco in the community or government. With proper funding, OuiShare could organize collaborative consumption unification events in Europe; wine tours and san francisco taking advantage of its extensive network and neutrality to help foster growth via collaboration.
Committees wine tours and san francisco must be formed with strategic visions for Europe as a whole and for each respective country. These committees can then form subcommittees based on their sector within the collaborative wine tours and san francisco consumption economy. But the first step towards forming these subcommittees whether based on location, business model, company size, etc. must be a meeting of all those involved to determine how to continue, wine tours and san francisco how to form each subcommittee. Above all, the question of how to structure wine tours and san francisco the sharing economy s response against the impending battles against government regulation and MNC lobbies must be discussed. And the sooner the conversation begins, the better.
Caleb Meyer From NGO financial guru to Startups/Tech, #CollCons @OuiShare promoter. Efficiency amante. Numbers nerd. Travel junky. Redistribution of wealth idealist. USA national, Barcelona based since 2007.
Let s use a common term: sharing economy. There are too many terms meaning a same thing: p2p economy, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption, and sharing economy. The sharing economy is more comprehensive term covering collaborative creation/providing, distribution and consumption.
Collaborative/P2P Economy is broader, as it includes Collaborative Production (open hardware, distributed manufacturing, DIY, ) and Collaborative Finance / Crowdfunding, P2P Politics and Commons Theory, currencies, etc
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