Sharing Economy platforms have expanded their operations all around the globe at an unexpected rate. Due to its “asset-lite” nature, traditional internationalisation theories may not be able to fully explain or predict their expansion patterns. This lack of theoretical background puts at risk the phenomenon’s future and stops traditional companies from coming up with a solid plan to compete against platforms. To ease the creation of a Sharing Economy internationalisation paradigm, this paper intends to review the existing research regarding the internationalisation of sharing platforms as well as the applicability of existing theories. Through a systematic literature review, the existing research was reviewed, and afterwards, internationalisation theories and their distinct factors extracted were noted to address the applicability of these within the singularities of the sharing phenomenon. This classification of factors was done according to the exiting literature in the field. After this research, we can confirm the lack of explanatory power of traditional theories regarding sharing platforms and confirm the insufficient research regarding these operations. We propose a list of factors that should be considered for future research as a guideline for the further development of the Sharing Economy internationalisation theory. Additionally, the factors classification is tested upon the case of the internationalisation of Blablacar, the most extensive carpooling network operating, to check if the theoretical and the practical approaches converge.

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老派新傀儡：传统国际化理论在共享经济中的适用性

共享经济平台以意想不到的速度在全球范围内扩展其业务。由于其“轻资产”性质，传统的国际化理论可能无法完全解释或预测其扩张模式。缺乏理论背景使这一现象的未来面临风险，并阻止传统公司提出与平台竞争的可靠计划。为了简化共享经济国际化范式的创建，本文拟对现有的共享平台国际化研究以及现有理论的适用性进行回顾。通过系统的文献回顾，回顾了现有的研究，然后，国际化理论及其提取的独特因素被指出，以解决这些在共享现象的奇异性内的适用性。这种因素的分类是根据该领域的现有文献进行的。通过本次研究，我们可以确认传统理论对共享平台的解释力不足，也可以确认对这些操作的研究不足。我们提出了一份未来研究应考虑的因素清单，作为进一步发展共享经济国际化理论的指导方针。此外，在最广泛的拼车网络运营的 Blablacar 国际化的情况下对因素分类进行了测试，以检查理论和实践方法是否收敛。