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China’s Sharing Economy of Mobility Industry: From Perspective of Industrial Ecosystem

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  • Danning Zhang

    (School of Economics, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110136, Liaoning, China)

  • Yanshu Shi

    (School of Economics, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110136, Liaoning, China)

  • Weiwei Li

    (School of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110167, China)

Abstract

The development of China’s sharing economy has slowed down significantly after experiencing the savage growth since the beginning of 2018 and has entered the turning point of structural adjustment. Factors including homogeneous and single profit model, excessive reliance on capital, and the immaturity of win-win industrial ecosystem are major bottlenecks. Therefore, how to overcome the obstacles is a key issue to be solved urgently. In view of the sharing economy’s characteristics of industry integration and cross-boundary symbiosis, the concept of sharing economy industrial ecosystem was put forward. Furthermore, social network analysis (SNA) was used to solve the problem of weak synergy in the development of China’s sharing economy and strive to break through the development bottleneck in order to realize the optimization of China’s sharing industry ecosystem and the sustainable development of industry. Specially, we proposed a fusion framework of industrial ecosystem and SNA including macro, meso, and micro dimensions. Macro analysis is based on the fusion of ecological environment in ecosystem theory and density analysis in SNA. Meso analysis is based on the fusion of ecological communities in ecosystem theory and subgroup analysis in SNA. Micro analysis is based on the fusion of an ecological niche in ecosystem theory and centrality analysis in SNA. It was found that the ecosystem of sharing mobility industry has been basically established, and the ecological diversity is good, including sharing mobility, third-party platform, automobile manufacturing, insurance and venture capital enterprises and universities. In addition, some sharing enterprises, typically represented by Didi, are upgrading their strategies to ecological development through cross-border integration. Mobile payment plays a vital role in developing China’s sharing mobility industry.

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  • Danning Zhang & Yanshu Shi & Weiwei Li, 2019. "China’s Sharing Economy of Mobility Industry: From Perspective of Industrial Ecosystem," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(24), pages 1-21, December.
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