Abstract (may include machine translation)
The number of sharing economy platforms are rapidly growing worldwide, especially peer-to-peer (P2P) online marketplaces operating in the travel and tourism industry. We focus our attention on a Hungarian ridesharing platform in order to understand the working mechanisms of discriminative selection by service providers against service users of various minorities, as the literature in this area, especially in Hungary, is limited. In our ongoing experimental research, we are collaborating with the most widely-used ridesharing platform in Hungary, carrying out an intervention-type research in 2020 to test whether multiple experimental stimuli have any effect on drivers’ behaviour towards various minorities. In this paper, the basis of a conference presentation, we are going to discuss (i) the research design (ii) the collaboration between the platform and our research team, as well as (iii) the empirical results of our pilot study.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Sustainability in Transforming Societies |
| Editors | Gyula Zilahy |
| Place of Publication | Budapest |
| Publisher | Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem, Gazdaság- és Társadalomtudományi Kar |
| Pages | 771-783 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-963-421-812-8 |
| State | Published - 2020 |