Geographical Study of the Platform Economy: Existing and Possible Approaches
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556622020030
Abstract
The development of the platform economy has attracted the attention of geographers, and in the last decade, publications have appeared that analyze certain aspects of this phenomenon. However, there was no common understanding of the priorities and structure of geographic research. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to generalize the experience of the geographical study of the platform economy and to define the contours of future research. Based on the eight largest bibliographic databases, more than seventy journal articles on the subject were identified using a special semantic search algorithm. Distribution of articles by year and country is given. The analysis of the articles showed that the existing diversity of geographical research can be reduced to three emerging (comparative-geographical, socio-geographical and gravitational) and two emerging (spatial-diffusion and constructive-territorial) approaches. For each approach, the main problems are given, the solution of which determines the vectors of further research. On the basis of existing publications and taking into account the potential of geographical knowledge, it has been established that in the future the emergence of economic-geographical, geosystem, and regional approaches is possible.
About the Author
V. I. Blanutsa
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irkutsk
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Blanutsa V.I. Geographical Study of the Platform Economy: Existing and Possible Approaches. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2022;86(2):155-167. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556622020030
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