First book to examine sharing economy from an operations management perspective Editor and contributors are leaders in the fieldConsiders the realities of particular companies, including Uber and AirB&B

First book to examine sharing economy from an operations management perspective Editor and contributors are leaders in the field Considers the realities of particular companies, including Uber and AirB&B

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Ming Hu is a Professor of Operations Management at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and one of the 2018 Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors. His research has been featured in media such as Financial Times. Most recently, he focuses on operations management in the context of sharing economy, social buying, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and two-sided markets, with the goal to exploit operational decisions to the benefit of the society. He is the recipient of Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments Award by POM Society (2016) and Best Operations Management Paper in Management Science Award by INFORMS (2017). He currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Naval Research Logistics, co-editor of a special issue of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management on sharing economy and innovative marketplaces, and associate editor of Operations Research and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and senior editor of Production and Operations Management. He received a master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University in 2009.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Part I Impact of Sharing Economy .- Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing.- The Strategic and Economic Implications of Consumer-to-Consumer Product Sharing.- Operational Factors in the Sharing Economy: A Framework.- Ride Sharing.- Part II Intermediary Role of a Sharing Platform .- The Role of Surge Pricing on a Service Platform with Self-Scheduling Capacity.- Time-Based Payout Ratio for Coordinating Supply and Demand on an On-demand Service Platform.- Pricing and Matching in the Sharing Economy.- Large-Scale Service Marketplaces: The Role of the Moderating Firm.- Inducing Exploration in Service Platforms.- Design of an Aggregated Marketplace Under Congestion Effects: Asymptotic Analysis and Equilibrium Characterization.- Operations in the On-Demand Economy: Staffing Services with Self-Scheduling Capacity.- On Queues with a Random Capacity: Some Theory, and an Application.- Part III Crowdsourcing Management. - Online Group Buying and Crowdfunding: Two Cases of All-or-Nothing Mechanisms.- Threshold Discounting: Operational Benefits, Potential Drawbacks, and Optimal Design.- Innovation and Crowdsourcing Contests.- Part IV Context-Based Operational Problems in Sharing Economy .- Models for Effective Deployment and Redistribution of Shared Bicycles with Location Choices.- Bike Sharing.- Operations Management of Vehicle Sharing Systems.- Agent Pricing in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Airbnb.- Intermediation in Online Advertising.