1. Regulatory Aspects of Servitisation : Study Materials for Global Law CourseJanja Hojnik, 2024 Opis: This course material was prepared as a support for a lectures series under Global Law Programme organised by the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium), Faculty of Law and Criminology. The course dealt with EU regulatory challenges arising from the servitisation of manufacturing and the related sustainability and digitalisation process in the EU economy. Servitisation is a complex interdisciplinary concept that essentially stands for bringing together products and services. Servitization as an economic megatrend reflects consumers’ oriented business models, offering not just products to the buyers, but solutions to their problems. This solution offering is enhanced by digitalisation of the economy that makes the relationship between product-service providers and their customers easier to maintain due to various mechanisms of distant communication and monitoring. Moreover, servitisation is at the centre of the endeavours to establish a more sustainable circular economy. Adding services to products can prolong their consumption time, decrease the amount of materials needed for certain effect and improve waste management. Increasingly, however, it is clear that servitisation is not just related to environmental sustainability, but social as well. These services often require people to be performed and digital applications tend to decrease their rights as workers to the benefit of the owners of these applications.
Ključne besede: servitisation, digitalisation, circular economy, sharing economy, platforms, extended producer's responsibility, ecodesign, consumer protection, EU
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2. Motivations for hosting on Airbnb : the case of SloveniaKatja Kokot, Maja Turnšek, 2022, samostojni znanstveni sestavek ali poglavje v monografski publikaciji Opis: The ‘platform economy’ has evolved over the years into a global phenomenon. The focus of this paper is the motivations of Slovene hosts to use the Airbnb platform. While Airbnb was originally optimistically discussed as an element of ‘the sharing economy’, it has become known as one of the key players of the ‘platform economy’, belonging to the area of the so-called capital platforms, which allow participation-based primarily based on ownership of capital. Our research amongst a sample of 103 officially registered accommodation providers in Slovenia has shown that Airbnb is the second-most used platform, on average bringing a third of income for the surveyed participants, while Booking.com brings about half of their income. Furthermore, the results show that monetary motives prevail among Slovene hosts. However, social and moral motives are also strongly expressed. These findings indicate that the perceived primary purpose of Airbnb is generating additional earnings due to a surplus of real estate capital. A higher share of income from hosting in comparison to other types of income is correlated with the expressed importance of monetary motives. In contrast, the prevalence of social motives is influenced by fear of loneliness, cultural openness, and hosts’ global prosociality.
Ključne besede: Airbnb, motivation for accommodation provision, sharing economy, platform economy, hospitality, Slovenia
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3. Barriers to applying last-mile logistics in the Egyptian market : an extension of the technology acceptance modelMohamed Amr Sultan, Tomaž Kramberger, Mahmoud Barakat, Ahmed Hussein Ali, 2023, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this research aims to investigate
the impact of social, environmental, and technological barriers on adopting the last-mile logistics
application. This research used a self-administrative questionnaire to collect 1060 respondents from
the Egyptian market and analysed it using partial least square structural equation modeling. The
findings revealed that some elements could obstruct the implementation of last-mile delivery technologies, namely complexity, collaboration efforts between users and application developers and the
impact of technical knowledge and expertise on the potentially involved users. The sharing economy
helps organisations reduce contaminants, emissions and carbon footprints, and last-mile logistics is
one of the tools of the sharing economy that can enhance the productivity and competitiveness of
logistics and boost consumer fulfillment. This research will help enhance organisations’ performance
in Egypt as a developing country and push towards applying environmental sustainability practices,
as it introduces a tool to enhance customer satisfaction and reduce emissions by illustrating how
last-mile logistics can be implemented. This is particularly important as last-mile logistics face some
implementation barriers, especially in developing countries. In addition, it will help in extending
the theory through conceptualising its abstract ideas with the research variables and applying it in a
different context.
Ključne besede: technology acceptance model, technology implementation barrier, last-mile delivery, sustainability, sharing economy, structural equation modelling
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