What explains collective action: The impact of social capital, incentive structures and economic benefits

Artikel

This study focuses in testing the power of reciprocity and leadership as collective action incentive structures and cooperation economic benefits in explaining collective action initiation in the context of a post-communist transition economy. The paper is based on a structured survey targeting Albanian export-oriented farmers. Different from most previous studies, this paper uses both regression analysis and machine learning procedure which is better suited for analysing non-linear relationships. The empirical findings are at odds with common sense that non-cooperation is the dominant strategy, because the presence of tolerant reciprocators and leadership resources provide promising incentive structures for collective action development.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Journal of International Development ; ISSN: 1099-1328 ; Volume: 36 ; Year: 2023 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1622-1646 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: Albania ; collective action ; collective action benefits ; incentive structures ; leadership ; power ; reciprocity

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Skreli, Engjell ; Xhoxhi, Orjon ; Imami, Drini ; Rama, Klodjan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wiley
• (where): Hoboken, NJ
• (when): 2023

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1002/jid.3873
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET