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Purpose>Digital platforms enable the sharing economy and have become dominant business models in many industries. Despite their many benefits, negative externalities associated with the growth of for-profit digital platforms, such as Uber and Google, have ignited concerns among market participants, policymakers and society as a whole, without corrective market forces in sight. One way to address this problem is through a combination of government regulation, criminal enforcement actions and private antitrust litigation. This study aims to analyze an alternative approach, called the nonprofit digital platform (NDP), which is an emerging business model capable of unleashing free-market forces and enhancing the sharing economy’s social benefits.Design/methodology/approach>This study documents the negative externalities (actual and potential) of for-profit digital platforms, uses the product attributes model to explain the market position and strategy of NDPs with respect to for-profit digital platforms and provides recommendations for the successful launch and management of NDPs.Findings>An NDP is a market-based alternative to antitrust, regulation and litigation that enhances the social value created by the sharing economy, but its success requires startup-like management that attracts and retains talent, capital, effective advertising and positive network externalities.Social implications>NDPs can force free-market adjustments in the industries they enter, reduce the negative spillovers of for-profit digital platforms and increase social value by incrementally raising the level of competition.Originality/value>This study conceptually explores the value that nonprofits could bring to the sharing economy in fulfilling its promise and provides strategic recommendations for social-digital entrepreneurs and nonprofits.
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The purpose of the study was to reveal a knowledge of the implications assumed by the States in the face of the lack of health policies in Latin America, which become Externalities and Civil Liability, resulting from poor management of COVID-19. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A situational narrative review of qualitative design made it possible to categorize and estimate the references of the open structured and in-depth interviews. For information processing, the Atlas ti9 computer program was used. Analytical Induction and Abduction were used as methods. Analysis: As a technique, the Documentary Analysis was used, as well as the triangulation of interviews applied to experts, which allowed us to know the importance of the regulations that require the State as a guarantor to protect the life and health of people, as an applicator of measures to manage the actions of prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. Results: The triangulation of the documentary analysis made it possible to synthesize all the information found in the review of documents, authors, and case studies. Conclusion: The conclusions of the study rescue the praiseworthy medical work in times of health emergency, the ethical obligations of health centers towards patients, matters of civil medical liability in the legal context, the principles of responsibility, claims for damages that violate the human right to health, as well as government responsibility for the management of COVID-19 in Latin America. © 2021, MUK Publications and Distribution. All rights reserved.