Collaborative economy: myths and realities of a transformative concept
Oikonomics, the UOC journal on economics, business and society, has published two special issues, 14th and 15th, dedicated to the collaborative economy. The two issues analyze from different points of view the analysis of a concept that is receiving increasing attention as a new economic agent that, through digital platforms, has shown its capacity for transformation. In the two issues of Oikonomics, this phenomenon is analyzed from a theoretical perspective, but also a practical one based on the empirical analysis of the trends that are taking place in this field. In this webinar video, the two coordinators of these two issues, the lecturers of the Economics and Business Studies Department, Joan Torrent and Lluís Garay, talk about the evolution of the collaborative economy concept and the different visions and realities related around it, as well as its capacity to transform society. The moderator of the webinar is the Dean of the Economics and Business Department of the UOC, M.ª Jesús Martínez.
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Joan Torrent-SellensFull Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Director of the interdisciplinary research group on ICT, i2TIC (https://i2tic.research.uoc.edu/en/). Specialist in the economic analysis of digital transformation and knowledge economy, a subject on which he has published 65 books and book chapters, and 115 articles in indexed research and dissemination journals.
Lluís Alfons Garay TamajónLluís Alfons Garay Tamajón is an associate professor in Economic and Business Studies at the UOC. His main areas of research interest are focused on the various forces that transform tourist activity, particularly collaborative, cocreative, sustainable and responsible processes relating to said activity and which impact on touristic and non-touristic environments and organizations, both urban and rural. He is also the head researcher of the research group NOUTUR (UOC), which aims to analyse nature and the impacts of tourism and leisure activities on the current environment, characterized by the growing relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to transition to sustainable and/or responsible touristic models.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4209-3319
RESEARCHGATE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lluis_Garay
SCHOLAR: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=dIK83WEAAAAJ&hl=en
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lluis-garay-53007b9?originalSubdomain=es
María Jesús Martínez ArgüellesAssociate Professor of Economics and Business Studies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Dean of the Economics and Business Department. Researcher at the Management & e-Learning (MeL) group. Her research interests focus on quality management in e-learning, the development of competencies that improve the employability of graduates, as well as the use of remote work as a tool for reconciliation.
