Open AccessExploring the Quantity Change Pattern of Environment-Friendly Products in the Sharing Economy
Author(s) -
Tianjian Yang,
Tianjian Yang,
Yu Zhang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
discrete dynamics in nature and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.264
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1607-887X
pISSN - 1026-0226
DOI - 10.1155/2021/5675507
Subject(s) - subsidy , sharing economy , government (linguistics) , environmentally friendly , business , process (computing) , industrial organization , beijing , game theory , the internet , environmental economics , microeconomics , computer science , economics , market economy , ecology , law , political science , china , biology , operating system , linguistics , philosophy , world wide web
In the practice of various Internet-based sharing economies, environmental issues of shared products become more prominent and urgent. By analysing the relationship among government, enterprises, and consumers, this paper develops a system dynamics model based on the evolutionary game theory to explore the quantity change pattern of environment-friendly products in a sharing industry. A discrete dynamic system simulation of the quantity change process takes shared bikes in Beijing as a case study. The simulation results are consistent with the analysis of evolutionary game theory. The results show that government subsidies to both enterprises and consumers can lead to higher quantities of environment-friendly shared products, while consumer subsidy is better than enterprise subsidy. In addition, governments and enterprises need to ensure moderate investments to improve consumer experience and environmental awareness.