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Sustainability of generalized exchange in the sharing economy: The case of the “freecycling” Facebook groups

By: Lukas Norbutas and  Rense Corten  
Open Access
|Apr 2018

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.789 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Published on: Apr 23, 2018
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