Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.17818/SM/2021/1.3
Regulating digitalization: Sharing economy and the case of Uber in Dubrovnik
Monika Cverlin
orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-8190
; University of Dubrovnik
Abstract
People have become the part of the digital society in
which globalization has found channels to be spread.
Because of the frequent use of technology, large number
of innovations involve platforms and applications.
Those new technological changes infl uence people in
many ways and they call for rapid policy development
in order to be eff ective. Governments need to learn to
respond adequately to the new trends digitalization is
bringing. One of those trends is the sharing economy. As
a technological and innovative trend, it is still struggling
with the regulation and meaning of the term. Uber,
as one of the most successful platforms of the sharing
economy has also dealt with regulation issues. The fi rst
part of the article introduced the regulatory challenges
that digitalization brought as well as explained what
the sharing economy meant. It also analyzed regulation
problems that Uber has been facing in numerous
countries, with special emphasis on Croatia. The second
part of the article dealt with how citizens have accepted
Uber. The author has conducted a survey in Dubrovnik
in which was shown that citizens prefer Uber as sharing
economy platform and also pointed out why.
Keywords
globalization, digitalization, the sharing economy, law, Uber, Dubrovnik
Hrčak ID:
271980
URI
Publication date:
25.1.2022.
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