This controversy is one of the reasons that share culture is so fascinating. Where is the balance between the benefit to the consumer and the loss of business to companies such as taxicabs, whose customers are being pulled toward other alternatives like Uber and Lyft? The pros and cons have been hotly debated, and even the legality of the sharing culture is in question. Airbnb home-owners are not subject to the room taxes hotels pay, which are a major source of revenue for cities like Los Angeles. Lyft and Uber were even issued a cease and desist order until their legality and licensing were established.
The most important ingredient to share culture’s success is its power of accessibility. All of the mentioned companies are mainly accessible through mobile apps, which appeal highly to a younger generation, all the while, staying simple and understandable for the less tech-savvy. While taxicabs have attempted to sue Uber and Lyft for illegally stealing their customers, it is obvious that these companies have seen less success in recent years because they simply have not kept up with ...
Society loves to join in on and enjoy all the new trends that arise, even if they may be flawed, expensive, or even silly. People just desire to fit into society and be like everyone else. We’ve grown up hearing “don’t do something just because everyone else is”, but the reality is that we can’t help it, it’s just how humans naturally flow. The latest trend that’s happening is the bike-share program, which allows folks to check out a bike at one service station and return in to another. Bike-share programs are quickly growing around the world and the latest city to adopt this new trend is Los Angeles, California. Justin Clark expresses very strong opinions about this new and environment friendly program and what L.A isn’t doing right. He tells
The team represents three main components the visionary, entrepreneur, and the conception. With all of these parts, the team is well balanced. A strong team can secure the necessary capital, they can reassure investors they will be profitable, and can find a wide range of talent to work for them. The team has a well balanced educational, and experience background for the field.
In the end of 18th century to 19th century, more and more people began moving into developed cities. Especially in New York City, thousands of new immigrants were seeking a better life than the one they had before. Tenements were built as a way to accommodate this growing population, and the majority people who lived in tenements were working-class, cause back to that time most tenements were located near factories, tenements were highly concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods of the city. A typical tenement building had four to five stories, in order to maximize the number of renters and to maximize their profits, builders wasted little space and buildings that had been single-family residence were divided into multiple living spaces to fit in more people, early tenements might dwell in almost 90 percent of their lots. There were no housing laws to protect the rights for people who lived in tenements until they stated The First
In further understanding the differences between the trends in rental v. owner-occupied housing, we can apply economic theory. First and foremost, is supply and demand theory. This is the most basic of economic principles. It explains how prices are set, how and when the market is at equilibrium, and human behavior in the context of a free market economy. (The Law of Supply and Demand, n.d.) The greater the demand for a good, the higher its price. This is what we saw with the build-up of the housing bubble.
Jonathan Kay’s “Fare Share” has many weaknesses that make his argument not effective when writing his article. Kay’s argument talks about how Uber is stealing taxi drivers of their livelihoods and how Uber is taking over the taxi monopoly. Weaknesses found in this article was when Jonathan Kay makes Uber look bad when talking about their flashy app which seems to kind of promote it even more, and with a little more research he can find other taxi apps. To add on he seems to write it very tongue-in-cheek. Furthermore, Kay also lacks evidence to support what he says because some of his arguments are weak and basic. Another weakness would be that he left the reader wondering what he is trying to prove in his argument about Uber, he seems to be all over the place with his argument. Overall, this was a weakly written article.
Most companies’ primary goal is to maximise profit in order to remain competitive in the market. The concern usually arises in the measures and approaches companies take to achieve that goal and how it will benefit in the short-term and long-term process. (Eccles, 2011)
Accommodating customer requirements in most supply chain arrangement requires a forecast to drive the process. (book page 133) When looking into the definition of forecasting which is projecting what is going to be sold (units, seats, rooms etc) it is also important to take into consideration where and when in order to reach the future goals. (book page 133) Since it is argued that effective supply chain and logistical capacity is an important competitive advantage. (Christopher 2005) Where maximizing the revenue is the key element in hospitality sector and for hotel industry there is an increased attention on effective demand management and forecasting for reservation systems. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207002000110)
Sharing economy is ability to share information, data and services around the world. This information sharing should be accessible by all. This information sharing increases companies visibility of their goods and services. This visibility increases the company’s value as well as
My paper analyzes the IS/IT (Information Systems based on Information Technologies) of hotel units integrated in a group, using a literature and a case study which examines how the information technology of the ERP type are applied in the hotel units along with its limitations and its advantages.
There are a lot of positive reports about the benefits working for Uber has compared to working for a taxi company. Cab drivers have to pay exponential rates to lease cabs; Uber drivers have the freedom to drive cars they own. Many former cab drivers have switched to Uber due to the personal financial benefits (“Uber isn’t Just Good For…”). There have been some reports of inappropriate
Uber needs to focus its entry into densely populated areas of Canada lacking a well developed public transit system. These opportunities can easily be taken advantage of if Uber was to further develop its existing strengths.
There was once a time when companies used to spend heavily on publishing, compelling, ads on newspapers and magazines just to put the word out there, but times have changed and so have the medium used to broadcast these ads. Nowadays, companies use the internet to spread the news, to be more specific, companies use the social media as an advertising tool. Over the years, social media has vastly changed the way we communicate and interact with one another, some examples of such social media might be Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube etc. This kind of interacting tools are now been used by businesses to sell or advertise their products, one might say that the social media is the modern day substitute for newspapers and magazines. One company that has been doing this heavily is Android (owned by Google), Android ads can be seen in every corner of the internet whether be famous sites like Facebook or now extinct ones such as Myspace, although one such social media that they haven’t been using is XDA developers. The site predominantly focuses on software development and discussion for Android, Windows, Ubuntu Touch, and Bada phones etc. The following paper will discuss and analyze their audience and argue why XDA developers is the best social media platform to advertise smartphone operating system companies such as Android to the general public and developers.
Hostels can be regarded as the second home for students when they stay away from their homestate
Mcguire, (2007), speaks of the demanding and complicated force of business acquisitions and how some cultures take off and run with the opportunity and other cultures become complacent because they are not proactive in seizing the opportunity. Being that Mr. Mcquire is the CEO of the company this roundabout answer to the business approach is very difficult for a low context culture to follow and understand, which could play a role in why Tweeter became complacent in certain areas. The cultural issue present was identified using the sociology framework of activity orientation, which according to Ahlstrom and Bruton, (2010) “refers to how proactive individuals are in society” (p. 45). This cultural issue presents itself clearest when, Mcquire, (2007), explains chains purchased that bought into the culture and thrived and other cultures never buying into the c...
The sharing economy has gained trust through the years and without a doubt, it has been adopted globally. As for its weaknesses, perhaps, there is still a solution. One thing is clear, though. There is no stopping change and technology will continue to evolve. What the people need to do is to study the advantage and disadvantage of the sharing economy and decide where and when to apply it. In time, things will be better for the people and the economy. As of today though people all over the world are experiencing and benefiting from the sharing economy which most of us have heard and may be even part of