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Why people participate in the sharing economy: an empirical investigation of Uber
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of inhibiting, motivating, and technological factors on users’ intention to participate in the sharing economy. Design/methodology/approach A self-reported online survey was conducted among Uber users in Hong Kong. A total of 295 valid responses were collected. The research model was empirically tested using the structural equation modeling technique. Findings The results suggested that perceived risks, perceived benefits, trust in the platform, and perceived platform qualities were significant predictors of users’ intention to participate in Uber. Research limitations/implications This study bridged the research gaps in the sharing economy literature by examining the effects of perceived risks, perceived benefits, and trust in the platform on users’ intention to participate in the sharing economy. Moreover, this study enriched the extended valence framework by incorporating perceived platform qualities into the research model, responding to the calls for the inclusion of technological variables in information systems research. Practical implications The findings provided practitioners with insights into enhancing users’ intention to participate in the sharing economy. Originality/value This study presented one of the first attempts to systematically examine the effects of inhibiting, motivating, and technological factors on users’ intention to participate in the sharing economy.
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“The positive relationship between platform qualities and trust has been well-validated across a variety of e-commerce contexts”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 3.4 Perceived Platform Qualities
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- Not matchedcites Chen et al., 2015a
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- Not matchedcites Lim et al., 2009
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The results section (“We used SPSS and AMOS-IBM version 21”) reports a positive relationship between website information quality and e-trust in Chinese online retailing. But §2.1 notes that a cited study found a positive effect of information design on trust in Canada, not in China or Germany. This paper therefore supports a relationship for one platform quality in its studied context, not the claim that platform qualities have been well-validated across a variety of contexts. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“The results suggested that perceived risks, perceived benefits, trust in the platform, and perceived platform qualities were significant predictors of users' intention to participate in Uber.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > Abstract
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“The results suggested that perceived risks, perceived benefits, trust in the platform, and perceived platform qualities were significant predictors of users' intention to participate in Uber.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > Abstract
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“The results suggested that perceived risks, perceived benefits, trust in the platform, and perceived platform qualities were significant predictors of users' intention to participate in Uber.”
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“The results suggested that perceived risks, perceived benefits, trust in the platform, and perceived platform qualities were significant predictors of users' intention to participate in Uber.”
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“The research model explained 51% of the variance of users' intention to participate in Uber.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 5.3.1 Reliability and Validity of Constructs
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“the demographic variables, i.e., age, gender, education level and income, exhibited no significant effects on users' intention to participate in Uber.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > Research Model Results
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“As illustrated in Table 3, the square roots of all of the AVEs were larger than all of the cross-correlations”
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“The assessments of the cross-loadings table (Appendix B), with indicator loadings larger than crossloadings”
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“the HTMT values range between 0.076 to 0.77, which are well below the threshold of 0.90 (Hair et al., 2017)”
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“Effect size analysis showed that the f 2 values involved in the relationships between perceived benefits, perceived risks, trust in the platform, and users' intention to participate are 0.182, 0.015, and 0.036, respectively.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > Research Model Results
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“As illustrated in Table 2, all of the latent constructs exceed the recommended thresholds, with CR values ranging from 0.89 to 0.95, AVE values ranging from 0.72 to 0.87, and all item loadings exceeding 0.70”
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“We invited an expert panel of IS researchers to assess the face validity of the preliminary measurement items”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 4.1 Research Design
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“perceived risks and perceived benefits are two fundamental aspects of consumer decision-making”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 2.2 Research on the Sharing Economy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Peter and Tarpey, 1975 source
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“The extended valence framework indicates that perceived risks, perceived benefits, and trust have direct effects on consumers' purchase intention.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 2.2 Research on the Sharing Economy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kim et al., 2009 source
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“the extended framework suggests that trust alters consumers' perceptions of risks negatively and benefits positively”
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“we included gender, age, education level and income as control variables in the research model”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 4.1 Research Design
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“Respondents who did not have any experience with Uber were screened out.”
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“which were then pretested for comprehensiveness, clarity, and desirable psychometric properties”
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“Responses from those who took an exceptionally short time to complete the survey were also discarded to ensure the quality of the data.”
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“the items in the dataset loaded significantly onto more than one principal component, indicating no single dominant factor”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 5.1 Preliminary Analysis
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“Other than minor modifications in formatting, no major problems surfaced during the pretest.”
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“We used multiple items to assess each construct to ensure construct validity and reliability.”
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“Previous empirical findings showed that trust served as an important risk-mitigating factor in e-commerce and e-government transactions”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 3.3.1 Trust in the Platform and Perceived Risks
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“well below the threshold of 0.90 (Hair et al., 2017)”
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“Ballus-Armet et al. (2014) conducted a survey regarding public perception of peer-to-peer ridesharing in the US, and found that convenience and availability, monetary saving, and expanded mobility options were essential motivators for participating in peer-to-peer ridesharing services.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 2.2 Research on the Sharing Economy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ballus-Armet et al., 2014 source
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“Convergent validity is assessed using three criteria: (1) the composite reliability (CR) should be at least 0.70 (Chin, 1998), (2) the average variance extracted (AVE) should be at least 0.50 (Fornell and Larcker, 1981), and (3) all of the item loadings should exceed 0.70 (Fornell and Larcker, 1981;Hair et al., 2009).”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 5.3.1 Reliability and Validity of Constructs
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- Not matchedcites Chin, 1998
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“researchers have repeatedly called for the inclusion of technological variables in information systems research (Hong et al., 2014).”
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“Security risk has been found a salient inhibitor to various online services”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 2.2 Research on the Sharing Economy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lin and Lu, 2015 source
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“perceived platform qualities and trust in the platform have been found to be important factors in previous e-commerce literature (Beldad et al., 2012;Cheung and Lee, 2006;Gefen et al., 2003).”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 6.2 Implications for Practice
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“Hamari et al. (2015) found that economic reward and enjoyment were significant antecedents of user participation in the sharing economy.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 2.2 Research on the Sharing Economy
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“is demonstrated when the square root of the AVE for each construct is greater than the correlations between it and all of the other constructs.”
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“negative relationships between privacy risk and online activities have been found in previous studies”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 2.2 Research on the Sharing Economy
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- Not matchedcites Hajli and Lin, 2014
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Pavlou et al., 2007 source
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“All the hypotheses were supported, providing strong statistical evidence that perceived risks, perceived benefits, and trust in the platform are important determinants of users' intention to participate in Uber.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 6 DISCUSSION
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“enjoyment and economic reward are important intrinsic and extrinsic motivators that determine users' intention to participate in the sharing economy”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 3.2 Perceived Benefits
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“considering crowdsourcing, project attributes (e.g., duration and difficulty level) and competition situation (e.g., competition intensity and market price) are important determinants of user participation added above the well-studied intrinsic and extrinsic motivations (Shao et al., 2012).”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 6.3.1 Generalizability
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“platform qualities are the salient drivers that instill the perception of trust in the platform, which is considered the core of technology-enabled services.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 6.2 Implications for Practice
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“there are also numbers of plausible means to instill users' trust in sharing economy platforms, such as adopting actionable rating systems and providing social proof (Iyer, 2016).”
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“In addition, perceived platform qualities instill users' trust in the platform, playing a substantial role in influencing users' intention to participate in the sharing economy.”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 6 DISCUSSION
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The provision of sharing economy services relies heavily on information and internetworking technologies.
“Since the provision of sharing economy services hinges on the information and networking technologies”
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Participating in different sharing economy services often requires users to enter into transactions with strangers.
“participating in different sharing economy services, such as Uber or Airbnb, often requires users to enter into such transactions with strangers”
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The sharing economy services, such as Uber and Airbnb, can be provided at a much lower price compared to their traditional counterparts.
“the sharing economy services, such as Uber and Airbnb, can be provided at a much lower price compared to their traditional counterparts”
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Trust reflects users' willingness to take risks to fulfill their needs.
“Trust reflects users' willingness to take risks to fulfill their needs.”
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Consumers in the e-commerce context always concern that the sellers may not adhere to their transactional obligations.
“Consumers in the ecommerce context always concern that the sellers may not adhere to their transactional obligations.”
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The target audience of Uber users is predominantly Internet-savvy.
“Given the predominantly Internet-savvy target audience of Uber users”
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Past studies on the sharing economy have been qualitative in nature or focused on examining motivating factors of users' participation.
“past studies on the sharing economy have been qualitative in nature or focused on examining motivating factors of users' participation in the sharing economy.”
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The role of inhibiting factors in user participation in the sharing economy has not received commensurate scholarly attention.
“the role of inhibiting factors in user participation in the sharing economy has not received commensurate scholarly attention.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Contemporary sharing economy services are enabled by information technologies.
“contemporary sharing economy services are enabled by information technologies (e.g., the online platforms of Uber and Airbnb)”
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Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
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§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > 5.3.1 Reliability and Validity of Constructs
“TRU3 0.75 12.40 4.58 1.12”
§ Why People Participate in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Investigation of Uber > Additional information
“TRU3 0.29 0.37 0.53 0.52 -0.09 -0.18 0.8 0.45”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lee, Z. W. Y., Chan, T. K. H., Balaji, M. S., & Chong, A. Y.-L.
- Affiliations
- Durham University (GB)
- Northumbria University (GB)
- University of Nottingham Ningbo China (CN)
- Venue
- Internet Research
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2018-06-04
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 829-850
- ISSN
- 1066-2243 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2787919713
- Cited by
- 305
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 53.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Internet Research (publishedVersion)
- Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University) (acceptedVersion)
- Durham Research Online (Durham University) (acceptedVersion)
- Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Keywords
- sharing economy, Uber, risk perception, perceived benefits, platform trust, technological factors, ride-hailing platforms
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