Papers by Guido Anselmi
In the last years, the sharing economy has emerged as an alternative to traditional exchanges, in... more In the last years, the sharing economy has emerged as an alternative to traditional exchanges, introducing the idea that users can grant other users temporary access to their goods and services for economic compensation. This shift was made largely possible by technological evolutions: Sharing platforms, which match users who share (providers) with users willing to pay for access (consumers), are based online and many services are available exclusively through a smartphone.
The nature of the sharing economy, aimed at least initially at co-consumption, and its technological dependency have led both media and academic outlets to link it strongly to the so called ‘Millennial generation’ (Anderson & Rainie, 2010; Belk, 2014; Godelink, 2017). Born between 1982 and 1996 and having lived through an economic crisis as either teenagers or young adults, Millennials have so far shown somewhat divergent consumption patterns when compared to older generations. Previous research has shown that Millennials in the US, for instance, are less likely to be homeowners (Xu, Johnson, Bartholomae, O'Neill, & Gutter, 2015) and are more likely to choose public or shared transportation over owning their own car (Klein & Smart, 2017). It is therefore not surprising that Millennials have been identified as ‘driving’ the growth of the sharing economy (Maycotte, 2015).
Aiming to directly approach the experience of consumers in the sharing economy, this report presents the results from an in-depth analysis of qualitative data which emerged from 18 focus groups conducted concurrently across six European countries (Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and The United Kingdom). Our findings, based on a sample of Millennial consumers of the sharing economy, paint a picture of the meanings, expectations, and obstacles which emerge from interacting with peers and platforms.
This report is part of a European Union Horizon 2020 Research Project on the sharing economy: Ps2Share ‘Participation, Privacy, and Power in the Sharing Economy’ (www.ps2share.eu). The initial stage of this Research Project involved a set of three literature reviews of the state of research on three core topics in relation to the sharing economy: participation (Andreotti, Anselmi, Eichhorn, Hoffmann, & Micheli, 2017), privacy (Ranzini, Etter, Lutz, & Vermeulen, 2017), and power (Newlands, Lutz, & Fieseler, 2017a). The second step consisted of a series of focus groups conducted across six European countries, the results of which are presented in this report. The third step consisted of a large-scale survey of citizens of twelve European countries, the results of which are to be found in three separate reports, covering privacy in the sharing economy (Ranzini, Etter, & Vermeulen, 2017), participation in the sharing economy (Andreotti, Anselmi, Eichhorn, Hoffmann, Jürss, & Micheli, 2017), and power in the sharing economy (Newlands, Lutz, & Fieseler, 2017b).
This report, focusing solely on the focus group analysis, is structured around the three themes covered by the EU Horizon 2020 Ps2Share Research Project: Participation, Privacy, and Power. The report commences with an executive summary and a brief overview of our methodology and objectives. Following on, chapter 4 focuses on participation and covers consumers’ motives and obstacles for operating in the sharing economy. Chapter 5 covers our analysis of privacy topics and includes consumers’ perceived risks and defensive behaviors. Chapter 6 focuses on power and reports on what consumers perceive as the challenges and power-dynamics of the sharing economy. The report closes with a discussion of key conclusions, drawn from across the differentiated topics. More details about the methodology, as well as a description of participants and the focus group guidelines, can be found in the Appendices.
Urban research, especially in the UK, has emphasized the differences between European and US-Base... more Urban research, especially in the UK, has emphasized the differences between European and US-Based built environment politics. However recent advent of austerity as well as the onoing financialization of real estate have the potential to overturn these considerations. By presenting evidence from Salford Quays/ Mediacity UK, a 30 years old development project in the Salford(UK) area, I will argue that the recent inflow of financial capital and global scale super-developers have significantly overturned previous governance arrangements. While the previous governance system was organized as a Grant Machine driven by public actors, I will argue that, in the present system, private actors have become central decision makers, creating something more akin to a traditional Growth Machine.
Fin dagli anni '90 la letteratura di matrice europea ed italiana sulla governance urbana ha sotto... more Fin dagli anni '90 la letteratura di matrice europea ed italiana sulla governance urbana ha sottolineato, quale caratteristica distintiva del sistema europeo e, nello specifico di quello italiano, la assoluta rilevanza del governo locale, dei corpi intermedi e dei partiti politici, i quali erano in grado di mediare con investitori e developers ed assicurare cosi un'egemonia pubblica sui progetti di riqualificazione immobiliare. Nella letteratura più recente (Aalbers 2009, 2012, Memo 2006 ci sono, tuttavia, molti indizi che fanno pensare ad un capovolgimento di questa situazione: dati i contemporanei processi di ristrutturazione della divisione scalare del lavoro all'interno dello Stato, oltre che di finanziarizzazione e liquefazione (Fox Gotham 2009) del capitale immobiliare, è possibile che gli assets controllati dagli attori privati abbiano acquisito molto piu valore che in passato e che, quindi, i detentori di queste risorse chiave possano sovradeterminare i processi di riqualificazione immobiliare. In questo paper abbiamo l'intenzione di verificare questa ipotesi appoggiandoci all'ultima generazione di letteratura di urban political economy statunitense: alla "bargain context theory" di Kantor e Savitch (2002 , 2005 Kantor Savitch Vicari 1997, opportunamente integrata con le ultime riflessioni di Clarence Stone (2005) circa il potere negoziale degli attori. Per aumentare la generalizzabilità delle osservazioni abbiamo selezionato il caso di Milano in quanto, da una parte presenta caratteristiche strutturali che facilitano il compito delle elites pubbliche mentre, dall'altra parte, nella letteratura precedente (Kantor Savitch 2002, Vicari 1986, Vicari Molotch 1988 si è, a più riprese, evidenziata l'egemonia dei partiti politici locali nelle coalizioni di governance. per queste ragioni Milano rappresenta un caso "least likely" (Gerring 2006) e, quindi, un ottima piattaforma di partenza per indagare un trend che si immagina nazionale.
The analysis of territorial phenomena usually bypasses the role of local political entities as cr... more The analysis of territorial phenomena usually bypasses the role of local political entities as crucial decision-makers and market regulators, focusing instead on the role of developers and housing preferences of home-buyers. In contrast, this article suggests that local administrative units are crucial agents in defining and shaping the processes of urban development. In this article, it is argued that, when a given local government is allowed to subsist mainly on local taxation, local fiscal crisis is a determinant factor for urban growth. Each administration tries to fuel up urban expansion, in the hopes of boosting the local tax base. We selected the Groane Regional Park, located in the Northern area of Milan (Italy), as our unit of analysis, which has been identified as a least likely case to experience urban dispersion, by employing both quantitative and qualitative data. The aim of the article is to re-focus on the role of local administrations as powerful agents that shape metropolitan scale urban development, in order to harvest fiscal benefits from sprawling urban development.
While the recent political economy literature on the financialization of built environment has nu... more While the recent political economy literature on the financialization of built environment has nurtured a veritable paradigm shift in urban studies, something is still missing, namely we have almost no empirical account on how financialization interplays with local governance arrangements. In this paper I claim that a shift towards local taxation may affect the anchoring process of real estate capital, by furthering a bargain context which is unfavorable towards public elites and favourable towards rentiers and developers. To achieve this goal I engage in an, urban political economy driven, empirical observation of Garibaldi Porta Nuova, a renewal megaproject in Milan. I claim that the fiscal reform enacted by Italian governments in the '90s has had two consequences: on one hand has caused a fiscal crisis in the municipality of Milan, on the other hand the reform has favored the birth of progrowth coalition that has successfully seized power both at the regional and at the municipal level.
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The nature of the sharing economy, aimed at least initially at co-consumption, and its technological dependency have led both media and academic outlets to link it strongly to the so called ‘Millennial generation’ (Anderson & Rainie, 2010; Belk, 2014; Godelink, 2017). Born between 1982 and 1996 and having lived through an economic crisis as either teenagers or young adults, Millennials have so far shown somewhat divergent consumption patterns when compared to older generations. Previous research has shown that Millennials in the US, for instance, are less likely to be homeowners (Xu, Johnson, Bartholomae, O'Neill, & Gutter, 2015) and are more likely to choose public or shared transportation over owning their own car (Klein & Smart, 2017). It is therefore not surprising that Millennials have been identified as ‘driving’ the growth of the sharing economy (Maycotte, 2015).
Aiming to directly approach the experience of consumers in the sharing economy, this report presents the results from an in-depth analysis of qualitative data which emerged from 18 focus groups conducted concurrently across six European countries (Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and The United Kingdom). Our findings, based on a sample of Millennial consumers of the sharing economy, paint a picture of the meanings, expectations, and obstacles which emerge from interacting with peers and platforms.
This report is part of a European Union Horizon 2020 Research Project on the sharing economy: Ps2Share ‘Participation, Privacy, and Power in the Sharing Economy’ (www.ps2share.eu). The initial stage of this Research Project involved a set of three literature reviews of the state of research on three core topics in relation to the sharing economy: participation (Andreotti, Anselmi, Eichhorn, Hoffmann, & Micheli, 2017), privacy (Ranzini, Etter, Lutz, & Vermeulen, 2017), and power (Newlands, Lutz, & Fieseler, 2017a). The second step consisted of a series of focus groups conducted across six European countries, the results of which are presented in this report. The third step consisted of a large-scale survey of citizens of twelve European countries, the results of which are to be found in three separate reports, covering privacy in the sharing economy (Ranzini, Etter, & Vermeulen, 2017), participation in the sharing economy (Andreotti, Anselmi, Eichhorn, Hoffmann, Jürss, & Micheli, 2017), and power in the sharing economy (Newlands, Lutz, & Fieseler, 2017b).
This report, focusing solely on the focus group analysis, is structured around the three themes covered by the EU Horizon 2020 Ps2Share Research Project: Participation, Privacy, and Power. The report commences with an executive summary and a brief overview of our methodology and objectives. Following on, chapter 4 focuses on participation and covers consumers’ motives and obstacles for operating in the sharing economy. Chapter 5 covers our analysis of privacy topics and includes consumers’ perceived risks and defensive behaviors. Chapter 6 focuses on power and reports on what consumers perceive as the challenges and power-dynamics of the sharing economy. The report closes with a discussion of key conclusions, drawn from across the differentiated topics. More details about the methodology, as well as a description of participants and the focus group guidelines, can be found in the Appendices.
Drafts by Guido Anselmi
Conference Presentations by Guido Anselmi
The nature of the sharing economy, aimed at least initially at co-consumption, and its technological dependency have led both media and academic outlets to link it strongly to the so called ‘Millennial generation’ (Anderson & Rainie, 2010; Belk, 2014; Godelink, 2017). Born between 1982 and 1996 and having lived through an economic crisis as either teenagers or young adults, Millennials have so far shown somewhat divergent consumption patterns when compared to older generations. Previous research has shown that Millennials in the US, for instance, are less likely to be homeowners (Xu, Johnson, Bartholomae, O'Neill, & Gutter, 2015) and are more likely to choose public or shared transportation over owning their own car (Klein & Smart, 2017). It is therefore not surprising that Millennials have been identified as ‘driving’ the growth of the sharing economy (Maycotte, 2015).
Aiming to directly approach the experience of consumers in the sharing economy, this report presents the results from an in-depth analysis of qualitative data which emerged from 18 focus groups conducted concurrently across six European countries (Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and The United Kingdom). Our findings, based on a sample of Millennial consumers of the sharing economy, paint a picture of the meanings, expectations, and obstacles which emerge from interacting with peers and platforms.
This report is part of a European Union Horizon 2020 Research Project on the sharing economy: Ps2Share ‘Participation, Privacy, and Power in the Sharing Economy’ (www.ps2share.eu). The initial stage of this Research Project involved a set of three literature reviews of the state of research on three core topics in relation to the sharing economy: participation (Andreotti, Anselmi, Eichhorn, Hoffmann, & Micheli, 2017), privacy (Ranzini, Etter, Lutz, & Vermeulen, 2017), and power (Newlands, Lutz, & Fieseler, 2017a). The second step consisted of a series of focus groups conducted across six European countries, the results of which are presented in this report. The third step consisted of a large-scale survey of citizens of twelve European countries, the results of which are to be found in three separate reports, covering privacy in the sharing economy (Ranzini, Etter, & Vermeulen, 2017), participation in the sharing economy (Andreotti, Anselmi, Eichhorn, Hoffmann, Jürss, & Micheli, 2017), and power in the sharing economy (Newlands, Lutz, & Fieseler, 2017b).
This report, focusing solely on the focus group analysis, is structured around the three themes covered by the EU Horizon 2020 Ps2Share Research Project: Participation, Privacy, and Power. The report commences with an executive summary and a brief overview of our methodology and objectives. Following on, chapter 4 focuses on participation and covers consumers’ motives and obstacles for operating in the sharing economy. Chapter 5 covers our analysis of privacy topics and includes consumers’ perceived risks and defensive behaviors. Chapter 6 focuses on power and reports on what consumers perceive as the challenges and power-dynamics of the sharing economy. The report closes with a discussion of key conclusions, drawn from across the differentiated topics. More details about the methodology, as well as a description of participants and the focus group guidelines, can be found in the Appendices.