Success factors of sharing economy are (Hamari,
Sjöklint, & Ukkonen, 2015):
(1) Develop a culture of trust. Since sharing
economy is based on trust among and between
the participants, it is crucial to install
mechanisms in the platform, like commenting
and rating, but also offer support in case of
abuse.
(2) Smooth transaction process. For example, one
can order motorcycle or car through GO-JEK on
tablets or mobiles now, reducing the transaction
(time) cost.
(3) Constant engagement of users. To maintain a
certain scale of demand and supply, it is
necessary to offer promotions: e.g., GO-JEK
offers promotional codes to users in order to
build customer loyalty.
2.3 GO-JEK
GO-JEK is an Indonesian technology company
engaged in motorcycle taxi services. GO-JEK
became an application company popular in
Indonesia when they launched a mobile application
in 2015. Through massive advertisements and
promotions to attract consumers and GO-JEK
partners joined, GO-JEK needed 1.5 years to get the
US funding $ 550 million and become a Unicorn
with a valuation of US $ 1.3 billion. Until now, the
number of GO-JEK partners is approximately 1
million people spread throughout Indonesia
(Pratama, 2016).
GO-JEK is a new start-up with disruptive
innovations for the ecosystem of various lines of
business in Indonesia. Initially, GO-JEK entered
Indonesia with a digital platform in the form of an
application to bring together users and providers of
motorcycle transportation services. Now GO-JEK
has expanded its business lines, starting from GO-
RIDE, GO-FOOD, GO-PILLS, GO-TIX, GO-CAR,
GO-SEND, GO-DEALS, GO-SHOP, GO- MART,
GO-BOX, GO-MASSAGE, GO-DAILY, GO-
CLEAN, GO-FIX, GO-LAUNDRY, GO-GLAM,
GO-AUTO, GO-MED, and GO-PAY. The
expansion of this business line has brought together
various business industries and business actors in a
similar medium, namely GO-JEK. Even now GO-
JEK is expanding its market to Vietnam under the
name GO-Viet (Paskalis, 2018).
Seeing the various business lines that GO-
JEK has entered, it seems that there are so many
old industrial players who have to adapt to
running their business. Connections between
restaurants, beauty service providers,
pharmacies, tickets to shows, expeditions,
logistics, etc. change the competition map of
business leaders who have abundant assets into
populist services, where anyone can become a
courier or business service provider from, to,
and by the community (peer-to-peer sharing)
(Amartha, 2016).
2.4 Consumer Behavior
Consumer behavior is defined as a process or
activity when someone searches, selects, purchases,
uses, and evaluates a product, whether it is goods or
services to meet their needs or desires
(Maxmanroe.com, 2019). Consumer behavior itself
is influenced by 5 main factors, namely (1)
purchasing power, (2) group influence, (3) personal
preferences, (4) economic conditions, and (5)
marketing campaigns (iResearch Services, 2018).
The presence of GO-JEK has helped change
modern consumer behavior from the search process
to product evaluation due to the ease and practicality
gained (Donghyun & Ammeter, 2018). The changes
in consumer behavior occur because (1) people can
easily obtain information in real time with
information on their smartphones. The public can
compare prices, and the quality obtained from
various service providers in Indonesia; (2) reviews
provided by consumers directly through various
platforms contribute to building reputation and the
way consumers value the quality of services offered
by the company; (3) algorithms from technology
companies indirectly store history from user profiles,
so users feel faster, more convenient, and accurate in
order without manual processes that must be done
repeatedly every time they place an order (Jongen,
2018).
The community that originally had to do
everything independently, from driving a private
vehicle, queuing to buy cinema tickets, going to a
credit kiosk to top up, going to restaurants to order
food, etc. are now facilitated by a platform that
provides all the needs that modern society is needed.
Indirectly, the facilities provided change consumer
behavior slowly from conventional to digital (Pratt,
2016).
Through the massive promotion carried out by
GO-JEK, consumers are being educated to be more
trained in using the application. Through GO-PAY
PAYDAY promotion, GO-JEK is accustoming the
public to use the digital economy in the form of an
electronic wallet to make transactions in various
favorite outlets. The presence of various lines of