Sharing Economy in Lithuania: Steady Development with Focus on Transportation Sector

Česnuitytė, Vida and Dromantienė, Leta and Bernotas, Dainius and Banytė, Jūratė and Vitkauskaitė, Elena and Vaičiukynaitė, Eglė (2021): Sharing Economy in Lithuania: Steady Development with Focus on Transportation Sector. Published in:

Abstract

The sharing economy is a new and underdeveloped phenomenon in Lithuania, starting from the definition of the concept in a state’s legal framework and scarce statistics. The aim of the paper is to describe the trends of the digitally supported sharing economy in Lithuania. Available national and international information and data were analysed. It was shown that the most popular services in Lithuania there is the transport sector, in the second place there is the accommodation sector, in the third—food-related services. The reasons why Lithuanians offer services via collaborative platforms mostly concern additional sources of income and flexible working hours. Over two-thirds of the habitants express their positive attitudes towards sharing economy and collaborative platforms, and over ninety per cent would recommend other services offered via collaborative platforms. Though 97% of the Lithuanians have never offered the services via sharing economy and collaborative platforms, and it is mostly because of no item or interest, and two-fifths do not know at all those collaborative platforms are. The development of the sharing economy in Lithuania as far is gaining speed, and in the future, the principles of these phenomena are going to be used in an even broader scope of the sectors.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Accommodation Sharing; B2C Sharing; Car-Sharing; Collaborative Economy; Lithuania; P2P Sharing Platform; Sharing Economy; Sharing of Things
• Subjects: L - Industrial Organization > L8 - Industry Studies: Services > L86 - Information and Internet Services ; Computer Software; L - Industrial Organization > L9 - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities > L91 - Transportation: General

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