The Rise of Uber: Economic Effects of Ride Sharing Services on Taxis and the Implications for the Sharing Economy

New companies with business models based on technology-enabled sharing have emerged as the hot topic in technology in recent years. Uber, the sharing-economy’s poster-child, is now the world’s most valuable start-up by far. Lyft, its younger competitor, is seeing year over year growth in the hundred...

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Main Author: Cowley, Olivia
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2017
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1455
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2586&context=cmc_theses