ABSTRACT

The sharing economy (SE) literature has grown rapidly in recent years. The literature has focused on the diffusion of SE in metropolitan regions, while rural regions have been almost entirely overlooked. To fill this gap, the article examines the SE in a rural region in Norway to explore how it is framed by key actors in regional development at different spatial scales. The article treats the SE as a mechanism through which new knowledge, practices, and routines are developed. The analytical framework reveals how pro-SE and con-SE narratives co-evolve through both endogenous and exogenous factors within the region. The narratives are heterogenic. The pro-SE narrative articulates a viable source of economic growth in regions, whereas the con-SE narrative highlights a fear of undermining rural tourism and liberalization of labour. The article extends the SE literature by providing insights into how innovation paths relate to discursive processes in a rural context. The authors conclude that the SE can both increase positive development paths and obstruct regional development processes, depending on the strength of influence from contextual factors, namely policy regulations.

摘要

近年来，共享经济 (SE) 文献增长迅速。文献主要关注社会经济在大都市地区的扩散，而农村地区几乎完全被忽视。为了填补这一空白，本文考察了挪威农村地区的社会经济，以探索不同空间尺度上区域发展的关键参与者如何对其进行构架。本文将 SE 视为一种机制，通过它可以开发新知识、实践和惯例。分析框架揭示了支持社会经济和反对社会经济的叙述如何通过该地区的内生和外生因素共同演变。叙述是异质的。支持社会经济的叙述阐明了地区经济增长的可行来源，而反对社会经济的叙述则强调了对破坏乡村旅游和劳动力自由化的担忧。本文通过深入了解创新路径如何与农村背景下的话语过程相关联，扩展了 SE 文献。作者得出的结论是，社会经济既可以增加积极的发展路径，也可以阻碍区域发展进程，这取决于环境因素（即政策法规）的影响强度。