Open AccessStudy on Environmental Benefits through Life Cycle Value Co-creation in B2C Sharing Economy
Author(s) -
Yi Wu,
Dandan Zhang,
Nie Jing
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/555/1/012088
Subject(s) - sharing economy , business , consumption (sociology) , value (mathematics) , information sharing , service (business) , product life cycle management , product (mathematics) , environmental economics , china , industrial organization , marketing , computer science , economics , world wide web , social science , geometry , mathematics , machine learning , sociology , political science , law
In B2C sharing economy, businesses and individual customers temporally trade product-based services through sharing platform. Life cycle management provides a good insight to assess the environmental benefits in such sharing environment. This paper discusses how information is generated during consumption and how information sharing facilitates life cycle value co-creation to enrich environmental benefits eventually. An in-depth case study is conducted to examine Mobike’s practices as a bike sharing case in China. It is concluded that customers join with businesses in value co-creation for service sharing in B2C sharing economy. Through well-established platforms, various types of information are co-created during consumption can be shared and serve as valuable input for life cycle management to co-create more values. Ultimately, environmental benefits can be expanded and enriched.