Do green practices really attract customers? The sharing economy from the sustainable supply chain management perspective

Jiayao Hu; Yu-Lun  Liu; Tsun Wai Wesley Yuen; Ming Lim; Jialun Hu

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.05.042

Do green practices really attract customers? The sharing economy from the sustainable supply chain management perspective

Jiayao Hu, Yu-Lun Liu, Tsun Wai Wesley Yuen, Ming Lim, Jialun Hu

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Abstract

The notion of the sharing economy has been introduced in many sectors and provided significant benefits to consumers and asset owners. Despite the remarkable improvement of the sharing economy in recent years, its relationship with sustainability remains insufficiently researched. This study adopts a sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) perspective. A large-scale survey with 420 participants showed that investment recovery (IR) practices and corporate social responsibility (CSR) conducted by sharing economy platforms significantly and positively affect customers’ intention to use sharing economy-based services/products, whereas internal green management (IGM), supplier green management (SGM), eco-design (ECD) and customer green management (CGM) practices do not. A follow-up qualitative study with ten participants provided further explanations and supported the findings of the survey. This study links the sharing economy and sustainability by testing the effectiveness of sharing economy platforms’ sustainable practices and proposes the best practices for sharing economy platforms to maintain a long-term sustainable marketplace.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	177-187
Number of pages	11
Journal	Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Volume	149
Early online date	6 Jun 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.05.042
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Resources, Conservation and Recycling. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 149, (2017)
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.05.042

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Keywords

Customer intention
Mixed methods research
Sharing economy
Sustainable supply chain management

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Waste Management and Disposal
Economics and Econometrics

UN SDGs

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