BRICS Sharing Economy Research Through a Crossdisciplinary Lens: Crossdisciplinary mapping of concepts, methods, and evidence across fields

This paper reads sharing-economy research on the BRICS countries through a crossdisciplinary lens. It asks how economic incentives, platform technology, labour relations, regulation and environmental effects can be studied together instead of in separate literatures. The evidence is a Web of Science corpus of 443 records on sharing-economy research that mentions Brazil, Russia, India, China or South Africa, mapped with VOSviewer. The maps show a field anchored in business and management, with strong links to sustainability, tourism, mobility and information systems. In the country coupling map the five BRICS members fall into five different clusters, and the co-authorship network is sparse, so shared vocabulary and shared references run well ahead of direct collaboration. Bibliometric links describe scholarly attention. They cannot show whether platforms deliver fair or sustainable outcomes. The paper therefore offers a framework that connects platform governance with distributional and environmental outcomes, and it sets out comparative tests for the next stage of research.