IMPACT OF THE COLLABORATIVE ECONOMIC MODEL AND ITS CHALLENGES AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Abstract

The CE collaborative economy encourages the exchange of both products and services for mutual benefit. This article presents a reflection on the impact and challenges that it generates nationally and internationally as an economic model of current consumption. The analysis is carried out through the results of the discussion document “Retos y posibilidades de la economía colaborativa en América Latina y el Caribe” (Buenadicha, Cañigueral and De León, 2017), through a qualitative design for performing interpretative descriptions. The delivered results show that this economic model, although it has regulatory limitations, basically as regards competition between companies; labor relations within the platforms; fiscal obligations, the protection of users and situations which occur in a digital environment, includes relevant aspects that favor progress and better conditions that lead people to live more peacefully; given that it affects factors that facilitate some everyday processes and tends to generate better living conditions. Likewise, it was found that this model transforms habits, lifestyles, consumer relationships.