Relationships among actors within the sharing economy: Meta-analytics review

The sharing economy has emerged as an influential research area in which a platform mediates customers’ temporary access to service provider resources. To provide generalizable picture of the platform’s customer and relationship formation process, we integrate effect sizes from 192 studies, including 214 independent samples (N = 88,154). findings indicate there are motivators inhibitors for individuals join or that these influence attitudinal behavioral responses toward through two-level quality pathway. Moderator analysis reveals impact on response providers platforms depends country-level moderators cultural context. These results insight into among actors economy. study also makes recommendations managers, especially hospitality tourism, more effectively manage their relationships with users.