Sharing values or sharing costs? Understanding consumer participation in alternative food networks

Understanding the Reasons for Sharing Syringes or Needles to Inject Drugs: Conventional Content Analysis

Understanding the Motivations of Consumer Knowledge Sharing in Online Community

Today’s advanced web-based technologies create expanded opportunities for collaboration and customer knowledge sharing. However, research on customer knowledge sharing in web-based communication remains new. This study aims at proposing a theoretical framework for understanding customer sharing behaviors, which we define as voluntary acts of contributions by providing information or sharing exp...

Mechanisms for Understanding Participation in Online File Sharing

This study researches behavior associated with online file sharing activities. Specifically, a technology known as ‘Bittorrent’ is studied in an auto-observational technique and supported by information gained through forums and blogs to gain insight. The main research question the authors ask is: what are the factors and processes that facilitate an individual’s participation in online sharing...

Electric-vehicle car-sharing in one-way car-sharing systems considering depreciation costs of vehicles and chargers

In recent years, car-sharing systems have been announced as a way to increase mobility and to decrease the number of single-occupant vehicles, congestion, and air pollution in many parts of the world. This study presents a linear programming model to optimize one-way car-sharing systems for electric cars considering the depreciation costs of chargers and vehicles as well as relocation cost of v...

Food Sharing

Food sharing is a human universal trait that forms the centerpiece of economic and social life in hunter-gatherer societies. Human livelihoods require sharing at all life stages: to support infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and to help reduce risk of daily food shortfalls in adulthood. Attempts to understand the evolved human life history require an examination of the conditions that led to ...