The Theory of Incentives I: The Principal-Agent Model

User Centered Design

Internet of Things (IoT): Opportunities, issues and challenges towards a smart and sustainable future

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A strategic approach to social sustainability – Part 1: exploring the social system

MULTIMOORA based MCDM model for site selection of car sharing station under picture fuzzy environment

Sharing Economy businesses have become very popular recently but there is little guidance available on how to develop the respective business models. We faced this problem during a consortium research project for developing a service for electric vehicle charging that adopts the paradigm of Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Collaborative Consumption (P2P SCC)—a specific branch of the Sharing Economy. We use Action Design Research (ADR) to develop an adapted version of the Business Model Canvas that is specifically tailored to the needs of P2P SCC business model development. The adapted canvas is then applied to develop a business model for the proposed service. The learnings from the development process are formalized into a set of generally applicable guidelines for the development of P2P SCC business models. The resulting guidelines and the adapted canvas provide guidance for both researchers and practitioners who want to either develop new or analyze existing P2P SCC business models.

Repainting the business model canvas for peer-to-peer sharing and collaborative consumption

IT-enabled peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing and collaborative consumption services (SCCS) allow private persons to provide access for others to their cars, accommodation and other physical assets. Together they constitute the so called Share Economy. These services often operate in a legal gray area. The relation- ship between the law and SCCS is bidirectional. On the one hand, the develop- ment of new SCCS offerings has to comply with a broad body of existing regu- lations. On the other hand, new P2P SCCS businesses often discover legislative loopholes, thereby forcing the law to react. This article conceptualizes the com- plex relationship between the law and IT-enabled P2P SCCS by means of a framework. The applicability of the framework is demonstrated by analyzing a specific SCCS in the electric vehicle charging infrastructure domain. The framework should constitute an effective tool in the design of new and legal P2P SCCS offerings.

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The Law: The Boon and Bane of IT-enabled Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Collaborative Consumption Services

Along the energy value chain where produced energy is delivered for consumption within individual households, physical devices are being replaced by smart and connected products referred to as the Internet of Things. These smart products generate large volumes of data that can enable new data-driven business models. In the energy sector, consumers produce data by consuming energy, which is monitored and controlled by different smart energy products like microgeneration units or home automation devices. Although smart energy business models have been subject to academic research, the business value of data, which is created from smart energy products, remains unclear. Against this background, the paper presents a practitioners’ perspective on the data-driven potential of smart energy technologies for new business models, the constituting elements of these business models, and the challenges associated with their implementation. By doing this, we provide trajectories for the future of the energy industry and draw guiding implications for developing data-driven smart energy business models.

Creating Value From Energy Data: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Data-Driven Smart Energy Business Models

Information System Design (ISD) applies information technology to achieve desired ends in organizations and implies many technology choices to be made. A successful design of information systems addresses the different views of all its stakeholders in these decisions. If we consider that sub-part of an IS that is intended to assist in customer processes, a purposeful assessment of the preferences of this anonymous mass is needed. Methods of Human-Centered ISD are not sufficient in that case for that they require too close integration of the subjects; and state of the art preference measurement techniques are likely to be too time-consuming and cognitively challenging if the number of alternatives is large. Building on the Q-Methodology, originally developed to reveal subjectivity in psychology, we suggest a novel method for user preference measurement. We report on a case in which we failed by applying standard techniques for user measurement, but succeeded with Q-Sort. By means of an experiment we subsequently compare the mentioned methods and identify root causes for failure and success we experienced in the case, which for Q-Sort include short execution time, measuring many design choices at one time, satisfaction of the interviewees, and an effective IT support.

A Method for Measuring User Preferences in Information Systems Design Choices

Citizens’ access to goods and services in the private sector is restricted, in some cases by affordability, in other by limited availability in some areas or at some times. Public services are subject to similar restrictions. Digital technologies can help in overcoming these restrictions and by doing so shift goods and services from the private sector into the public domain. For instance, a free public live screening of an opera performance that is usually restricted to a limited number of wealthy citizens is a new form of public services that is delivered in a new way. This article explains the notion of City 5.0, a symbolic metaphor for a liveable city in which the potential of digital technologies is used to eliminate citizens’ restrictions in consuming public goods and services.

Friedrich Chasin

Papers

Repainting the business model canvas for peer-to-peer sharing and collaborative consumption

The Law: The Boon and Bane of IT-enabled Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Collaborative Consumption Services

Creating Value From Energy Data: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Data-Driven Smart Energy Business Models

A Method for Measuring User Preferences in Information Systems Design Choices

City 5.0