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What drives self-regulation in the nascent P2P “ride-sharing” industry?

By 18 March 2014 33

The American company Uber has been all over the news in Belgium over the last three weeks. Uber connects passengers with drivers of vehicles for ride-sharing services; it appears therefore as a typical two-sided platform. As Evans (2011) explains it, a business opportunity emerges for a two-sided (or multi-sided) platform when three conditions are met: There are distinct […]