REPUTATION AND TRUST IN SHARING ECONOMY PLATFORMS: THE CASE OF TRAITY

Authors

  • Josep M MARTINEZ-POLO Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación UCAM Personas | Google Scholar | ORCID Grupo Investigación Publicidad y RR.PP.  @jmmartinezpolo Universidad Católica de Murcia UCAM Campus de los Jerónimos, 135 30107 Guadalupe (Murcia) Spain
  • Jesús MARTÍNEZ-SÁNCHEZ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26458/1827

Keywords:

Reputation, Collaborative Consumption, Sharing Economy, Online Reputation, Trust, Traity

Abstract

The concept of reputation is assiduously used in various fields such as communication, public relations, advertising, marketing and management. The convergence between the rise of new technologies linked to corporate communication has favoured the birth of what has been called online reputation. Thus, unprecedented behaviours have been generated that are establishing new social forms and even some authors speak of a new economy of reputation where society would be highly connected through networks and organizations that would operate in an ecosystem of permanent influence from the interest groups. With this premise, Traity arises the project that we analyzed in our research and that raises a reputational score that takes advantage of the fingerprint information to reproduce online trust as we understand it in the physical world, but without trying to reduce its people into a percentage, a number or some stars. 

Author Biographies

Josep M MARTINEZ-POLO, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación UCAM Personas | Google Scholar | ORCID Grupo Investigación Publicidad y RR.PP.  @jmmartinezpolo Universidad Católica de Murcia UCAM Campus de los Jerónimos, 135 30107 Guadalupe (Murcia) Spain

Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la ComunicaciónUCAM Personas | Google Scholar | ORCIDGrupo Investigación Publicidad y RR.PP. @jmmartinezpolo Universidad Católica de Murcia UCAMCampus de los Jerónimos, 13530107 Guadalupe (Murcia)Spain

Jesús MARTÍNEZ-SÁNCHEZ

Department of communication Sciences, UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio, Murcia, Spain 

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2018-06-29

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MARTINEZ-POLO, J. M., & MARTÍNEZ-SÁNCHEZ, J. (2018). REPUTATION AND TRUST IN SHARING ECONOMY PLATFORMS: THE CASE OF TRAITY. Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series, 18(2), 143–158. https://doi.org/10.26458/1827

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