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Self-regulating a collaborative engagement platform: case REKO

In: Understanding Collaborative Consumption

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  • Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen
  • Elina Närvänen
  • Hannu Makkonen

Abstract

This chapter discusses how self-regulation appears in the context of collaborative consumption (CC) communities. Utilising the construct of collaborative engagement platform (CEP), we analyse a self-regulated CC platform and explore what kinds of collaborative practices are being created and applied in a CC community. Our empirical illustration is a local food platform REKO whose development we have analysed during 2014-2020. Findings show how REKO members engage in five types of collaborative practices: facilitating, mutual learning, recruiting, bonding, and socialising. We further discuss how these practices are used as soft regulation mechanisms in the platform by characterising and dividing the practices according to 1) the objective of regulation (regulation aiming to maintain the CEP or to expand it) and 2) the focus of regulation (regulation focusing on exchange or community). This chapter offers an empirical analysis and theoretical conclusions of collaborative practices as an alternative for centralised regulation of CC communities.

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  • Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen & Elina Närvänen & Hannu Makkonen, 2024. "Self-regulating a collaborative engagement platform: case REKO," Chapters, in: Pia A. Albinsson & B. Y. Perera & Stephanie J. Lawson (ed.), Understanding Collaborative Consumption, chapter 5, pages 54-66, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:22104_5
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