[Logprofs] CFP IJPDLM "Logistics challenges of sharing eocnomies" deadline Dec 31 - 2019

Fri Nov 15 03:38:15 EST 2019

*Logistical Challenges for Sharing Economies*

Special issue Call for Papers for *International Journal of Physical
Distribution & Logistics Management*

Logistical Challenges for Sharing Economies
Submission Deadline: *December 31, 2019 *

Guest Editors:

*Valentina Carbone*, Professor of Supply Chain Management and
Sustainability, ESCP Europe, Paris Campus, vcarbone at escpeurope.eu

*Aurélien Rouquet*, Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management,
NEOMA Business School, aurelien.rouquet at neoma-bs.fr

*Christine Roussat*, Assistant Professor in Business Sciences, Université
Clermont-Auvergne & CRET-LOG, christine.roussat at uca.fr

By organizing peer-to-peer exchanges and promoting access over ownership,
the sharing economy, hereafter SE, is transforming a great variety of
sectors. Enjoying fast growth, SE is an umbrella term encompassing
heterogeneous initiatives, that create different types of economic,
environmental and/or social value (Acquier et *al*. 2017). According to
PwC, the SE was estimated at $15 billion in revenue worldwide in 2015, with
the potential to reach $335 billion by 2025 (PWC, 2015), and to disrupt
several established industries (Belk 2014). Bank of America Merril Lynch,
using a wide definition of the SE including all technological platforms,
predicts SE to jump from $250 billion to $1930 billion, globally; with a
growth of $785 billion in the US, $645 billion in Europe and $500 billion
in China. In 2015, the Chinese SE was reported as being worth $229 billion
and is predicted to grow by 40% annually to reach 10% of domestic GDP by
2020.

Ten years after it was born, the SE field remains difficult to delimitate
but its central idea is the optimization of under-used assets (physical
assets such as cars, apartments, money or intangible assets such as skills
and knowledge) by sharing them through digital platforms (Benkler, 2004).
>From this initial idea, the SE emerged as a popular term for referring to
different initiatives that either connect individuals through platforms to
carry out sales, rentals, swaps, or donations (Frenken and Schor 2017), or
set up more centralized “product-service systems” to provide access instead
of use, thus intensifying the use of idle assets (Botsman & Rogers, 2010).
Sharing practices have existed for ages, at the individual or community
level and in the domestic sphere. Over the last decade, these formerly
domestic and local practices outside the market logic have been
“dramatically scaled by the capitalist engine of technology-powered
markets” to give rise to ‘stranger-sharing’ in global markets
(Sundararajan, 2016, p. 6).

The nascent literature on SEs has developed along three main research
streams: 1) Theoretical and definitional issues aiming at establishing
borders to the SE field, with stricter vs broader definitions, excluding or
including for example BtoC or For-Profit forms of exchanges (see Acquier et
al. 2017); 2) Estimations of the economic potential of the SE and its
disruptive effect on established industries (Sundararajan 2016); 3)
Analysis of the societal and environmental impacts of the SE (Frenken and
Schor 2017), resulting in very conflicting positions, that vary from
praising the societal innovation enabled to blaming its predatory nature
and negative effects for workers (Acquier and Carbone 2018).

Literature combining logistics/SCM perspectives with SE challenges is
relatively scarce. The intermediary role of logistics for SE platforms is
mainly explored from the point of view of optimization and algorithm
modelling. Some preliminary work has been done on logistics initiatives in
the SE in particular regarding the development of crowd logistics. A few
conceptual papers aim at defining the different types (Mladenow et al.,
2016; Carbone et al., 2018), the business-models (Frehe et al., 2017) and
the value creation logics (Carbone et al., 2017) of crowd-logistics. More
insights are needed on the one hand to understand the role of SCM,
transport and logistics within the SE, notably to assess the actual
environmental impacts of SE. On the other hand, typologies and models of
crowd logistics still need to be refined, contrasted and completed. Further
on, there is also a need to comprehend the interweaving of logistics/SCM
and SE: how does the SE affect the logistics industry? How does it
challenge it? How do traditional and crowd logistics influence each other?
Do consumers play an autonomous logistics role? Finally, the financial and
operational viability of such new logistics models and firms could be
examined.

Scholars are invited to submit thought provoking research at the interface
of logistics/SCM and the sharing economy. Submissions can be conceptual,
empirical, and can utilize a wide variety of approaches and methods, such
as literature reviews, conceptual theory development, large-scale empirical
studies, experimental designs, case studies, grounded theory research and
action research.  However, in line with *IJPDLM* guidelines, quantitatively
oriented mathematical modelling and simulation studies are unlikely to meet
the requirements of this Special Issue. Regardless of the method employed,
preference will be given to theoretically sound research papers that
appropriately address the theme of this special issue.

The following list provides a set of topics for the special issue, but is
far from being exhaustive. Questions about the suitability of any different
topic at the interface of sharing economy and logistics may be addressed to
the special issue guest editors.

*The contributions may question the role of logistics in the SE:*

-        Logistics contribution to the intermediation roles of SE platforms,

-        Physical and information flow perspective on the SE: logistics
organisations, infrastructures, information systems,

-        Logistics challenges for a positive impact of the SE on society
and the environment;

*the development of logistics start-ups within the SE field:*

-        The rise of crowd logistics initiatives, peer-to-peer logistics
processes, and their impact on manufacturing, retail and logistics service
providers,

-        Big scale vs small scale: revisiting logistics paradigms through
crowd logistics,

*and the wide array of challenges that need to be addressed when
associating the SE with logistics/SCM: *

-        Consumer, user, logistician? The individual perspective in the
rise of the SE.

-        The development of consumer to consumer SE supply chains,

-        The dark side of the logistics and SE duo: exploitation of
individuals, over exploitation of resources, ‘unfair’ competition, etc.

*References*

Acquier, A., Carbone V. “Sharing economy and social innovation”, in “*The
Cambridge Handbook of the Sharing Economy and Law*”, ed. Davidson, Finck &
Infranca, 2018.

Acquier, A., Daudigeos, T., & Pinkse, J. (2017). Promises and paradoxes of
the sharing economy: An organizing framework. *Technological Forecasting
and Social Change* vol. 125, p. 1-10.

Benkler, Y. (2004). *Sharing nicely: On shareable goods and the emergence
of sharing as a modality of economic production*. Yale LJ, 114, 273.

Botsman, R., & Rogers, R. (2010). W*hat’s mine is yours How collaborative
consumption is changing the way we live*. London: Collins.

Carbone, V., Rouquet, A., & Roussat, C. (2018). A typology of logistics at
work in collaborative consumption. *International Journal of Physical
Distribution & Logistics Management*, 48(6), 570-585.

Carbone, V., Rouquet, A., & Roussat, C. (2017). The Rise of Crowd
Logistics: A New Way to Co‐Create Logistics Value. *Journal of Business
Logistics*, 38(4), 238-252.

Frehe, V., Mehmann, J., Teuteberg, F. (2017). Understanding and assessing
crowd logistics business models – using everyday people for last mile
delivery", *Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing*, 32(1), 75-97.

Frenken, K., & Schor, J. (2017). Putting the sharing economy into
perspective. *Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions*, 23, 3-10.

Mladenow, A., Bauer, C. & Strauss, C. (2016). Crowd Logistics: The
Contribution of Social Crowds in Logistics Activities. *International
Journal of Web Information Systems*. 12. 379-396.

Sundararajan, A. (2016). The sharing economy: The end of employment and the
rise of crowd-based capitalism. Mit Press.
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*Valentina Carbone*
Professeur  - HDR
ESCP Europe - Paris Campus
Co-directeur scientifique Chaire
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