A Quanlitative Study on Timebank: Understanding the impact of drivers/barriers and personal values on commitment
2019 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Background: Understanding how coherently commitment and basic human values shaping and affecting timebank, one of the popular peer-to-peer exchange system. With time banking, a person with own skill set can trade hours of work for equal hours for another member using hours for paying or being paid for services.
Thesis aim: Understanding the impact of drivers/barriers and personal values and how these are connected to the commitment
Methodology A quantitative study with forty-seven timebanks across three different country – USA, New Zealand and India. Survey were conducted to collect data and later SPSS has been used for analyzation
Findings: Values play significant role to shape commitment to timebank and commitment and personal values has relationship with drivers and barriers of participation in timebank.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 111
Keywords [en]
Sharing economy, P2P exchange, Timebank, Timebanking, Drivers, Barriers, Commitment, Values
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-160552ISRN: LIU-IEI-FIL-A--19/03217--SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-160552DiVA, id: diva2:1355125
Subject / course
Business Administration – Strategy and Management in International Organisation
Supervisors
2019-10-022019-09-272020-02-07Bibliographically approved