Chapter 10 Mine, yours and ‘shared’ The ethical discourse of collaborative consumption

DOI: 10.23912/9781915097064-5113	ISBN: 9781915097064
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• Jeroen Oskam, Research Centre of Hotelschool The Hague (Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9020-4036

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• Babak Taheri, Nottingham Business School (Editor) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-9949
• Roya Rahimi, University of Wolverhampton (Editor) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7520-3273
• Dimitrios Buhalis, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Editor) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9148-6090

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Oskam, J. (2022) "Chapter 10 Mine, yours and ‘shared’ The ethical discourse of collaborative consumption" In: Taheri, B., Rahimi, R. & Buhalis, D. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781915097064-5113

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