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.
Highlights
With the rapid development of the internet, the sharing economy, represented by companies like Uber and Airbnb, have quickly spread around the world, characterized by providing services and revenue at a marginal cost below that of professional organizers in order to share the idle resources through social platforms [1,2,3,4]
The other is from the data collection on web by Baidu Searching, up to December 31st, 2018 Through the information provided by the research reports and Baidu searching, we can determine whether there is cooperation between two sharing economy enterprises or organizations
After the rapid growth of China’s sharing economy industry, bottlenecks including the simplicity of the profit model, the lack of supervision system and great dependence of venture capitals have been exposed [9,10]
Summary
With the rapid development of the internet, the sharing economy, represented by companies like Uber and Airbnb, have quickly spread around the world, characterized by providing services and revenue at a marginal cost below that of professional organizers in order to share the idle resources through social platforms [1,2,3,4]. The root of hindering the sustainable development of China’s sharing economy lies in the lack of a clear profit model and win-win idea, which leads to product homogeneity and the prevalence of suicide marketing [9] Problems such as excessive reliance on capital, immaturity of social credit system and the lack of synergy industrial network are the key bottlenecks that restrict the industrial synergy effect of the sharing economy [10]. China’s sharing economy has exposed many problems, we cannot deny that it is playing an important role in stabilizing and expanding employment, promoting the equalization of public services and accelerating the integration with the real economy in China, and it still has a huge market potential and good development prospects [9,11] It is an urgent and significant issue to break through the bottlenecks and promote China’s sharing economy’s sustainable development. For the sharing economy, sustainable development is to break the current development bottleneck, maintain sustainable profits and coordinated rapid development of industry in order to provide better services for consumers
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