The Sharing Economy for a Public-Private Partnership

Abstract

This chapter examines the theoretical framework of the sharing economy and how it may work as a new P3 model while tackling cybercrime. The sharing economy concepts defined in this chapter will be utilised in the following empirical chapters to examine the effectiveness of Europol's different sharing economy platforms. This chapter starts by explaining sharing economy concept. It is followed by identifying the most prominent variables of sharing economy concept, namely low barrier accessibility, transaction cost and building trust.