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Aurimas Pumputis.

Aurimas Pumputis

Doktorand

Aurimas Pumputis.

Complexities of trust building through sociomaterial arrangements of peer-to-peer platforms

Författare

  • Aurimas Pumputis

Summary, in English

Trading on peer-to-peer tourist accommodation platforms requires a sufficient level of trust between individual consumers and service providers. This is often achieved by using mutual consumer–provider evaluations, which are perceived as a trustworthy resource for information about upcoming stays. A variety of mechanisms and metrics are used to facilitate trust building on platforms; however, trust itself is being established by the platform’s users. This study investigates the case of Airbnb to show how arrangements of sociomaterial metrics and mechanisms are embedded in trust building. Findings from a virtual ethnographic study of the platform’s users show how trust building is performed through these arrangements. Based on organizational theories of trust and sociomateriality, the study suggests that establishing both attitudes of trust and distrust on peer-to-peer platforms are equally important. When the sociomaterial arrangement fails, trust may deteriorate outside of the platform organization’s control.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Current Issues in Tourism

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • Airbnb
  • distrust
  • online evaluations
  • sociomateriality
  • Trust

Status

Inpress

Projekt

  • Service Studies Tourism

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1368-3500