Many researches have discussed the phenomenon and definition of sharing economy, but an understanding of sharing economy's reconstructions of the world remains elusive. We illustrate the mechanism of sharing economy's reconstructions of the world in detail based on big data including the mechanism of sharing economy's reconstructions of society, time and space, users, industry, and self-reconstruction in the future, which is very important for society to make full use of the reconstruction opportunity to upgrade our world through sharing economy. On the one hand, we established the mechanisms for sharing economy rebuilding society, industry, space-time, and users through qualitative analyses, and on the other hand, we demonstrated the rationality of the mechanisms through quantitative analyses of big data.
The human economy is constantly evolving, but it is constrained by limited natural resources and energy supplies. It is difficult for human needs to meet unrestricted satisfaction. Sharing economy is a panacea for resolving this dilemma. It makes people's needs by increasing resource utilization. The sharing economy not only improves resource utilization, but also improves service quality and user experience. The sharing economy is reconstructing the world.
The reason why the sharing economy started to rise from sharing bikes in China is that bicycles were imported from abroad during the Qing Dynasty, and became popular after the founding of New China. Therefore, Chinese people are very familiar with bicycles and have a feeling of hardship. With the rapid development of China’s economy, private cars have gradually replaced bicycles, but traffic jams and parking difficulties have made bicycles once more important because bicycles help ease traffic pressure. Although bicycles also have the problem of inconvenience of parking, the appearance of shared bicycles makes it possible for shared bicycles can be parked everywhere and bring great convenience to people. However, the parking of shared bicycles has also caused problems affecting the city appearance and occupying lanes and sidewalks. On the one hand, the government is required to reconstruct the urban transport facilities. On the other hand, citizens are required the reconfiguration of their bicycle travel habits. The citizens are required to observe the parking rules when using shared bicycles and consciously park the shared bicycles.
Unexpectedly, the shared bicycles that have become popular in China in recent years have not only evoked the enthusiasm of the Chinese people for cycling, but also evoked the return of enthusiasm for cycling by people of other countries, and even triggered an upsurge of sharing everything.
The sharing economy lacks a common definition [1]. Sharing something with others is a long-standing practice for humankind [2]. Sharing is a phenomenon that is as old as humanity, and collaborative consumption and the “sharing economy” are phenomena born in the age of the Internet [3]. Although individuals traditionally often regard ownership as the ideal way to obtain products, more and more consumers temporarily pay to access shared services of products rather than purchase or own products [4]. The development of the sharing economy at the beginning of the 21st century is based on the revolution of the Internet by connecting consumers and unused resources via the Internet [5]. Participants can share, rent, lend, trade, service, and transport through the Internet [6]. Information and communication technology has led to collaborative consumption [7]. The sharing service platform can achieve point-to-point access to shared products and services based on information technology [8]. The sharing economy is causing dramatic changes in the retail and service structure [9]. Share-economy companies are destroying traditional industries around the world [10]. At the same time, the rise of the sharing economy has created many new industry competitions such as Airbnb, Uber, Lyft and Sidecar [11]. “Sharing economy” platforms such as Airbnb have recently thrived in tourism [12]. The sharing economy is a potential new way of sustainable development [13].
Many studies have discussed the phenomenon and definition of sharing economy. The sharing economy is an economic form of service innovation [14][15][16][17] to achieve the sharing of resources among consumers [18]. The sharing economy has spread to various fields such as bicycles and automobiles [19]. Different scholars have different views on the future form and prospect of the sharing economy [20]. Researchers are struggling to find a model that can describe the sharing economy [21,22].
However, existing studies on sharing economy’s reconstructions of society, time and space, users, industry, and sharing economy’s reconstruction in the future are still blank, but the sharing economy’s reconstruction on the world which we found is very important for society to make full use of the reconstruction opportunity to upgrade our world trough sharing economy.
We studied the model of the sharing economy to rebuild the world through model building and big data analysis. Our data comes from statistics and analysis of big data on the Internet. Internet big data is generated by people all over the world, so it can reflect social dynamics and people’s participation in it.
We first use the modeling method to build mechanisms for the sharing economy to restructure society, enterprises, and users. We then counted relevant data from the Internet and performed analysis to support the rationality of our mechanisms. Our data sources come from official statistics on the one hand, such as population and GDP, on the other hand, statistics from related information on the Internet. Both data are very important for verify
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