La economía colaborativa está generando una fuerte influencia en la sociedad a través de la creación de nuevos modelos de negocios con fuerte tendencia a monopolizar los mercados. Influye en el patrón de consumo de las personas, hay quienes prefieren pagar por el acceso a bienes y servicios antes que decidir por la posesión del mismo, contradiciendo el sistema económico actual. Algunas investigaciones desarrolladas, consideran importante la contribución de la economía colaborativa en la transformación de la sociedad mientras que otras, sostienen lo contrario. En el presente trabajo, se han revisado investigaciones relacionados a economía colaborativa, realizados durante los últimos 5 años. Se contrastaron las posturas a favor y en contra sobre su influencia en los patrones de consumo de las personas. Se revisaron investigaciones que analizaron nuevos modelos de negocios creados que están basados en la economía colaborativa. Se identificaron los factores que aún son controversiales en la actualidad, los cuales son planteados como nuevas líneas de investigación cuyos resultados contribuyan a comprender y actuar frente a estas nuevas corrientes innovadoras que están surgiendo en el mundo. / The collaborative economy is generating a strong influence in society through the creation of new business models with a strong tendency to monopolize the markets. It influences the pattern of consumption of people, some people prefer to pay for access to goods and services before deciding to own it, contradicting the current economic system. Some researches developed consider the contribution of the collaborative economy in the transformation of society important, while others argue the contrary. In the present work, we have reviewed research related to collaborative economy, conducted during the last 5 years. The positions in favor and against were contrasted on their influence on the consumption patterns of the people. We reviewed research that analyzed new business models created that are based on the collaborative economy. We identified the factors that are still controversial at present, which are proposed as new lines of research whose results contribute to understanding and acting against these new innovative trends that are emerging in the world. / Trabajo de Suficiencia Profesional

Cities drive some of the most urgent sustainability challenges that societies face today, including inequality, resource consumption and climate change. Meanwhile, economic growth is increasingly being viewed as a challenge for sustainable development, generating a call for post-growth transformation. In recent years, the notion of a sharing economy has spread to cities across the globe and has been adopted as a solution for addressing multiple urban sustainability challenges. The sharing economy is often associated with multinational corporations such as Airbnb and Uber, however, there is a parallel movement of emerging social practices. This study investigates the case of the multi-actor sharing economy in Gothenburg, Sweden, in order to assess the capacity of an emerging grassroots movement to contribute to economic transformation towards a post-growth model. The findings demonstrate how the grassroots movement show potential for radical change as they adopt and replicate goals and visions aligning with post-growth transformations. Further, the results show how the movement is reconfiguring urban governance relations through i) transformative leaders and ii) intermediary organizations enabling cross-sectorial actor relations to emerge. However, the findings also point to emerging risks of disempowerment and limited capacity of grassroots which induce three policy suggestions to strengthen the transformative capacity of the movement. These are to i) organize multi-actor exercises that foster collective visions, ii) support the development of co-operative business models for grassroots, and iii) establish a Community Support Centre. The study concludes that Gothenburg is an example of a type of sharing economy with potential for post-growth transformation.

The present project provides a survey of contemporary work relations in the context of the so-called gig economy (also known as the sharing, collaborative, platform, and on-demand economy). Against the background of recent concerns over automation replacing work at a large scale, the project argues instead that the displacement of work warrants more critical attention. The project examines how the gig economy presents their services as automating technologies while downplaying the ways that workers' employment, not to mention lives, are made increasingly precarious by these alleged improvements. Specifically, the project surveys three gig-economies, the ride-hailing service Uber, the home-sharing service Airbnb, and the online labor marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). Methodologically, the project employs an interdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from political economy, critical theory, discourse analysis, and ethnographic research. A qualitative assessment of the respective work environments shifts a relatively apolitical discourse on the future of work not only toward a more pronounced critique of the gig economy, but also toward a renewed discussion on the kinds of jobs that earn the labels of freelance and entrepreneurship. Professionals and scholars concerned with the future of work stand to benefit from the findings of the research, particularly as it challenges some commonplace assumptions in the discourse of what has been termed postcapitalism. / Ph. D. / The present project provides a survey of contemporary work relations in the context of the so-called gig economy (also known as the sharing, collaborative, platform, and ondemand economy). Against the background of recent concerns over automation replacing work at a large scale, the project argues instead that the displacement of work warrants more critical attention. The project examines how the gig economy presents their services as automating technologies while downplaying the ways that workers’ employment, not to mention lives, are made increasingly precarious by these alleged improvements. Specifically, the project surveys three gig economies, the ride-hailing service Uber, the home-sharing service Airbnb, and the online labor marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). Methodologically, the project employs an interdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from political economy, critical theory, discourse analysis, and ethnographic research. A qualitative assessment of the respective work environments shifts a relatively apolitical discourse on the future of work not only toward a more pronounced critique of the gig economy, but also toward a renewed discussion on the kinds of jobs that earn the labels of freelance and entrepreneurship. Professionals and scholars concerned with the future of work stand to benefit from the findings of the research, particularly as it challenges some commonplace assumptions in the discourse of what has been termed postcapitalism.

Ce travail de recherche, en sciences de l'information et de la communication, s'intéresse à un secteur peu étudié par les SIC : l’économie sociale et solidaire. Il vise, d'une part, à identifier les problèmes de communication des acteurs de l'ESS et, d'autre part, à explorer les solutions déployées pour répondre à ces problèmes. Pour mener cette analyse, nous avons d'abord, construit un cadre théorique spécifique articulant les travaux d’ E.Morin, J.Habermas, E.Ostrom et J-L. Laville. Puis nous avons successivement déployé trois méthodes : une observation participante dans un atelier international consacré à la communication de l'ESS, une série d'entretiens semi-directifs auprès de différents acteurs (initiatives solidaires, journalistes, responsables administratifs, etc.), puis une étude de cas élargie conduite auprès du Parlement Européen. Ce cadre théorique et ces différentes méthodes nous ont permis de mettre en évidence les problèmes communicationnels récurrents de l'ESS (terminologie difficile d’accès, hétérogénéité peu lisible, transversalité peu développée, etc.) et de voir comment différentes pratiques économiques innovantes (PTCE, entreprises récupérées, SCIC, etc.) permettaient de remédier, en partie, à ces problèmes. Au final, il ressort de notre travail que les pratiques de l’économie collaborative, qui s’enracinent historiquement dans l’ESS, semblent apporter une solution communicationnelle efficace aux problèmes identifiés et que l’ESS est en capacité d’assurer la durabilité, selon la grille de lecture d’Ostrom sur la gouvernance des biens communs, des formes d’organisations de cette nouvelle économie. / The following research work on Information and Communication Sciences, focuses on a fieldunderstudied by this scientific discipline, the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). It aims to identifyon one hand the communication issues among the SSE stakeholders, and to explore their relatedsolutions on the other hand. This analysis has been first based on a theoretical framework articulatingthe work of Morin, Habermas, Ostrom, and Laville. Then, three methods have then been successivelyemployed: a participative observation during an international workshop treating of all aspects of SSEcommunication; a series of semi-directive interviews with various key actors (from the solidarityinitiatives, some journalists, administrative heads, etc.), and finally an enlarged case study conductedwithin the European Parliament. This methodology allowed us to determine the recurrentcommunication issues encountered within the SSE (difficult access to its terminology, unclearheterogeneity, low-developed transversality, etc.) as well as to assess how different innovativeeconomical practices (such as PTCE, recovered enterprises, SCIC, etc.) could potentially overcomethese challenges. In conclusion, it appears from this work that the practices linked to the collaborativeeconomy, which are historically rooted within SSE, can bring an effective solution on thecommunicative level. Furthermore, and according to the new Ostrom reading greed related to thecommon goods governance, the SSE seems to be able to ensure the sustainable development of this newform of economy

La globalizzazione e i cambiamenti tecnologici hanno portato a importanti trasformazioni nel mercato del lavoro. Questi cambiamenti enfatizzano le dimensioni democratiche e collaborative del lavoro e si basano su processi di lavoro simultanei, multidirezionali e reciproci, in contrapposizione alle forme di lavoro e organizzazione che si realizzano attraverso una consolidata divisione del lavoro, comunità e sistemi formali e informali di regole altamente definiti. Il coworking sta emergendo in questo attuale scenario sociale e organizzativo come componente chiave delle trasformazioni. Compare come fenomeno emergente nei primi anni del 2000, sottolineando il suo potenziale collaborativo nella promozione dei cambiamenti sociali nel mercato del lavoro e promuovendo valori quali l'accessibilità, l'apertura, la sostenibilità, la creazione di comunità e la collaborazione. Questa tesi è incentrata sull'analisi qualitativa di spazi di coworking in Italia. Lo scopo del presente lavoro è quello di mettere in discussione e di discutere criticamente potenzialità e vantaggi del coworking. Attraverso l'utilizzo di un approccio critico, la tesi offre una comprensione articolata del coworking e discute le sfide e i rischi del fenomeno e della sua potenziale evoluzione. Nella tesi si fa riferimento all'approccio teorico dell'Activity Theory e viene si presentano i due studi qualitativi per l'analisi del coworking, attraverso cui si giunge alla presentazione di una tipologia di coworking e all'individuazione di tensioni storiche e contraddizioni locali che caratterizzano il fenomeno nella sua evoluzione. / In recent decades, globalization and technological changes have brought about important transformations in the labor market. These changes emphasize the democratic and collaborative dimensions of labor, and they are based on simultaneous, multi-directional, and reciprocal work as opposed to forms that take place in organizations with an established division of labor, demarcated communities, and formal and informal sets of rules. Coworking has been emerging in this current social and organizational scenario as a key component of the unfolding transformations. It started in the early years of the 2000s, emphasizing its collaborative potential in promoting social changes in the labor market and promoting values related to accessibility, openness, sustainability, community, and collaboration (Kwiatkowsky, 2011). This thesis is focused on the analysis of the kinds of spaces that are defined as coworking spaces and that, generally speaking, are said to be focused on the promotion of a collaborative approach to work. The aim of this work was to question and critically discuss various potentials and benefits of coworking. by evaluating coworking from a critical perspective, the dissertation offers an articulated understanding of coworking and discusses the challenges and risks of coworking and its potential evolution. In order to provide a foundation for fruitful discussion of the logic of the thesis that can be supported by the theoretical framework, the idea of moving from the history of coworking to its classification and to its dynamic contradictions is implemented. Given these premises, in the thesis, I problematize coworking using the Activity Theory approach in an effort to counter the optimistic views, which are emphasized in the existing literature. In the dissertation, a sequential, qualitative and mixed-methods research design is proposed that is aimed at improving the available information concerning coworking and enhancing the understanding of its implications, contradictions, potentials, and risks that coworking presents as a way of work and organization inside the current complex and quickly developing social and labour market.

In a context of increasingly ambitious climate objectives after the Paris Agreement in 2015, this thesis investigates a scenario for sustainable development in Sweden in 2050 in terms of greenhouse gases emissions. The scenario is built around the idea of a development of collaborative economy in a context of low growth or degrowth. The concept of “collaborative economy” encompasses the sharing of services and underused and unwanted goods between individuals, a focus on the access to services rather than the ownership of products, and new ways of sharing space and time (cohousing, time banks, etc). The present study focuses on the implications of the Collaborative Economy scenario for transports and the built environment at a municipal scale, and aims at modeling the corresponding greenhouse gases emissions. A literature review was carried out to identify the main aspects of the scenario and exemplify the changes it entails. Two spreadsheet models were then developed for transports and the built environment, estimating greenhouse gases emission levels based on a range of assumptions elaborated from the literature review. The municipality of Malmö was used as a case study. Overall, the results of the models and the sensitivity analysis indicate a rather weak influence of collaborative economy strategies on greenhouse gases emissions. Strategies related to changes in the energy mix for heating, materials used in construction, fuels, etc seem to be much more impactful. However, such strategies only impact greenhouse gases emissions, whereas collaborative economy strategies can have other benefits. In particular, cohousing can increase social capital and foster sharing, which in turn could decrease energy and material use for the production of goods. Ridesharing, remote working among others, can decrease congestion and the daily distance traveled. Most of these strategies also provide energy savings, improving the resilience of the system and freeing the energy supply for other purposes. / Bortom BNP-tillväxt

Un escenario en donde se tiene un nivel alto de dependencia por el limitado tiempo disponible de quien entrega el servicio; resulta ser, actualmente un escenario que comparten los padres de familia de Lima Metropolitana y Callao que contratan clases de reforzamiento escolar primario para sus hijos. Los padres presentan una alta dependencia por la disponibilidad de tiempo de la limitada oferta de profesores que contratan. Por otro lado, se tiene a profesores capacitados de nivel primaria que cuentan con horas disponibles que pueden ser aprovechadas para ofrecer algún servicio educativo de reforzamiento escolar. La problemática que ellos enfrentan es el de contar con poca visibilidad por quienes demandan este servicio. Lamentablemente, el sistema de referencias de padre a padre llega a tener un alcance limitado que hace visible a una reducida participación de profesores. Esta problemática resultó ser atractiva para iniciar una investigación multinivel que luego de un análisis respectivo de variables hizo posible el detalle de una propuesta de plan de negocio que sea rentable y agregue valor para quienes demandan y ofertan el servicio de clases de reforzamiento escolar primario dentro de un espacio virtual controlado que garantice el correcto diligenciamiento de la misma. / A scenario in which there is a high level of dependence due to the short time available of whom provides a service; turns out to be, currently, a scenario shared by the parents of Lima Metropolitana and Callao who hire primary school reinforcement classes for their children. Parents are highly dependent to the limited short time available of the reduced number of teachers they hire. On the other hand, there are trained elementary-level teachers who have available hours that can be used to offer some educational service to reinforce school. The issue they face is having little visibility by those who demand this service. Unfortunately, the parent-to-parent referral system becomes limited in scope, revealing reduced teacher participation. This scenario turned out to be attractive to start a multilevel investigation that after a respective analysis of variables made it possible to detail a proposal for a business plan that is profitable and adds value for those who demand and offer the service of elementary school reinforcement classes within of a controlled virtual place that guarantees its correct delivery. / Trabajo de investigación

El objetivo de esta investigación científica fue contrastar investigaciones que sostienen que consumo y economía colaborativa son lo mismo con aquéllas que sostienen que el consumo colaborativo es causa de la economía colaborativa. Se hizo una revisión de la literatura existente sobre ambos modelos de negocio aplicando un enfoque de revisión minucioso. Se compararon las distintas posturas en cuanto a la terminología, alcances y exclusiones. Se analizaron distintos grupos de interés de diversos sectores para determinar los factores que impulsan, inhiben y sustentan el éxito de su participación en la economía colaborativa y en el consumo colaborativo. Los resultados mostraron que se hace un mayor hincapié en los factores motivadores ya que impulsan el desarrollo y apogeo en estrecha relación y concordancia con la sostenibilidad y el aspecto social. Se determinó que ambos modelos cumplen un rol indispensable al generar valor a la sociedad mediante el ahorro de recursos y la extensión de la vida útil de los mismos. Se mostró el aspecto social y su relación con ambos modelos, determinando que el ser humano es social por naturaleza y que, al sentirse motivado, está dispuesto a recomendar el uso de un bien o servicio. Todos estos temas se plantean considerando que ambos modelos económicos se iniciaron en el siglo XX con la aparición de internet y las redes sociales y que, al ser nuevos, se plantean a su vez nuevas líneas de exploración con el propósito de comprender mejor otros nuevos modelos económicos que están surgiendo en el mundo. / The objective of this scientific investigation was to contrast investigations that argue that collaborative consumption and shared economy are the same with those that maintain that collaborative consumption is the cause of the shared economy. A review of the existing literature on both business models was done using a thorough review approach. Different positions were compared regarding terminology, scope and exclusions. Different interest groups from various sectors were analyzed to determine the factors that drive, inhibit and sustain the success of their participation in the sharing economy and collaborative consumption. The results showed that a greater emphasis is placed on motivating factors since they drive development and growth in close relationship and in accordance with sustainability and the social aspect. It was determined that both models play a mandatory role in generating value to society, by saving resources and extending their useful life. The social aspect and its relationship with both models were shown, determining that the human being is social by nature and that, feeling motivated, is willing to recommend the use of a good or service. All these issues are raised considering that both economic models began in the twentieth century with the emergence of the internet and social networks and that, being new, new lines of exploration are in turn proposed in order to better understand other new economic models that are emerging in the world. / Trabajo de Suficiencia Profesional

En la actualidad, la pandemia del Covid-19 ha sido un acelerador para la transformación digital en el Perú. Más aún desde la perspectiva empresarial, debido a que todo tipo de organización, desde una corporación hasta una pequeña empresa, se ha visto en la necesidad de enfocar sus estrategias al plano digital, entre ellas incorporar tecnología informática y comunicación a sus productos y/o servicios. No solo con la finalidad de reducir costos sino también, con el objetivo de mantener a sus clientes y atraer a nuevos, ya que el perfil del consumidor final está cambiando. A raíz del crecimiento de la tecnología, ha dado pie a nuevos términos como la economía colaborativa, la cual tiene como principal objetivo el intercambio de bienes o servicios a cambio de una compensación. Según (Diez Canseco. R, 2020) “debido a la pandemia la economía colaborativa ha dado un salto cuantitativo y cualitativo al punto que la industria tecnológica se encuentra en pleno crecimiento y desarrollo a nivel global como nunca antes”. En base a los conceptos señalados líneas previas, el presente trabajo de investigación, tiene como principal objetivo mitigar uno de los principales problemas que tienen los conductores en Lima Metropolitana y Callao, que es contar con una cochera disponible para guardar su vehículo, a fin de evitar la inseguridad en las calles y ahorrar tiempo. Asimismo, ayudar a los propietarios de cocheras a publicar y alquilar su garaje y todo ello, mediante un aplicativo móvil. / Currently, the Covid-19 pandemic has been an accelerator for digital transformation in Peru. Even more from the business perspective, because all types of organizations, from a corporation to a small company, have seen the need to focus their strategies on the digital plane, including incorporating information technology and communication into their products and / or services. Not only in order to reduce costs but also in order to keep its customers and attract new ones, since the profile of the end consumer is changing. As a result of the growth of technology, it has given rise to new terms such as the collaborative economy, which has as its main objective the exchange of goods or services in exchange for compensation. According to (Diez Canseco. R, 2020) “due to the pandemic, the collaborative economy has taken a quantitative and qualitative leap to the point that the technology industry is in full growth and development at a global level like never before”. Based on the concepts indicated in the previous lines, the main objective of this research work is to mitigate one of the main problems that drivers have in Metropolitan Lima and Callao, which is to have a garage available to store their vehicle, in order to avoid insecurity on the streets and save time. Also, help garage owners to publish and rent their garage and all this, through a mobile application. / Trabajo de investigación

Genom att kritiskt granska de två Malmöstadsdelarna Augustenborg och Sege Park, som har utgett sig för och planeras att bli förebilder för hållbar stadsutveckling, studeras inslag av en nerväxt-inspirerad utveckling bort från ekonomisk tillväxt. Detta görs genom en fallstudie där områdenas strategiska hållbarhetsarbete studeras genom att observera inslag av två utvalda begrepp, kollaborativekonomi (KE) och lokal självförsörjning (LSF). Dessa begrepp kommer från framtidsscenarier i rapporten Framtider bortom BNP-tillväxt av Hagbert et al.( 2018) i forskningsprogrammet Bortom BNP-tillväxt: Scenarier för hållbart samhällsbyggande som är formulerade att uppnå ett hållbart tillstånd inom Donut-ekonomin (Raworth 2012) i Sverige 2050. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av fem semistrukturerade kvalitativa informantintervjuer, offentligt tillgängliga dokument från Malmö Stad som hållbarhetsstrategi och planprogram för Sege Park samt en antologi över Augustenborgs utveckling. Den analytiska metoden består av en systematiserande kvalitativ textanalys som utformats med utgångspunkt i uppsatsens teoretiska diskussion och ramverk. Tidigare forskning tar upp olika förhållningssätt till operationaliseringen av nerväxtlogiker på stadsdelsnivå. Den teoretiska diskussionen går igenom olika perspektiv kring nerväxtlogiker, relationen mellan tillväxt och stadsutveckling samt det rådande stadsplaneringsparadigmets relation till hållbar stadsutveckling. Det teoretiska ramverket presenterar de två begreppen kollaborativ ekonomi och lokal självförsörjning som används för att utröna inslag av en utveckling bort från ekonomisk tillväxt. Studiens empiriska framställning visar att många inslag av kollaborativ ekonomi och lokal självförsörjning är närvarande, men överlappar med rådande tillväxtbaserade stadsplaneringsparadigm och det är tveksamt i vilken utsträckning dessa inslag faktiskt bidrar till minskade resursflöden och en utveckling bort från ekonomisk tillväxt. Studiens diskussion tar upp svårigheterna med att tillämpa en stadsplanering inspirerad av nerväxtlogiker inom rådande lagstiftning, som hindrar en utveckling bort från tillväxt. Ansatsen att använda framtidsscenarier för studier av en samtida verklighet kan ifrågasättas och har genererat en viss svårighet bland annat i relation till skillnaden som uppstår mellan framtidsscenariernas radikalitet och dagens socio-ekonomiska komplexa situation. / Through a critical examination of two neighbourhoods of Malmö, Augustenborg and Sege Park degrowth-inspired elements of a development away from economic growth are being studied. These specific neighbourhoods are selected since they have served and are being planned to serve as models of sustainable urban neighbourhoods. The neighbourhoods are being studied through a case study of strategic sustainable measures through the observation of two selected concepts, Collaborative Economy (KE) and Local Self-sufficiency (LSF). These concepts originate from the future scenarios in the report Futures Beyond GDP Growth (Hagbert et al., 2018) in the research program Beyond GDP Growth: Scenarios for sustainable building and planning formulated to reach a sustainable condition within the Doughnut-economy (Raworth, 2012) in Sweden 2050. The empirical material are five semi-structured qualitative informant interviews, publicly accessible documents from Malmö municipality as sustainability strategy, district planning program as well as an anthology of the neighbourhood Augustengorg’s development history. The analytical method is a systemising qualitative text analysis designed from the study’s theoretical discussion and framework. Earlier research addresses different approaches to operationalisation of degrowth on a neighbourhood level.The theoretical discussion examines different perspectives concerning degrowth, the relation between economic growth and urban development as well as the relation of the prevailing growth based urban planning paradigm to sustainable urban development. The theoretical framework discusses the two concepts Collaborative Economy and Local Self-sufficiency which are being used to examine the presence of a development away from economic growth. The empirical representation shows that several elements of Collaborative Economy and Local Self-sufficiency are present, but coexists with the contemporary prevailing growth based urban planning paradigm, and it is uncertain to which extent these elements actually contribute to diminish the flows of resources and contribute to a development away from economic growth. The discussion examines the difficulties applying urban planning inspired by the logic of degrowth within prevailing legislation preventing a development away from economic growth. The attempt to use scenarios of an alternative future for studies of a contemporary reality can be questioned. It has generated a certain amount of difficulty in relation to the apparent difference between the radicality in the scenarios and the complexity of the socio-economical situation of today.