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Reciprocity in the sharing economy: the case for time banking platforms

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The chapter is focused on the issue of Time banking and its transition towards digital time deals within the sharing economy paradigm. Time banks usually include an important social and emotional component and are oriented towards the (re)construction of a community in a specific territory, but in the new era of sharing 2.0, the time banks go online and are reinventing this practice. The chapter undertakes a comparative analysis of the results of several pieces of research on time banking online and offline, trying to assess differences between and quality of the new digital time banks. The conclusion discusses the opportunities as well as the limitations and risks in this digital transition.

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Arcidiacono, D. (2018). Reciprocity in the sharing economy: the case for time banking platforms. In: Cruz, I., Ganga, R., Wahlen, S. (eds) Contemporary Collaborative Consumption. Kritische Verbraucherforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21346-6_2

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