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1 août 2020
- handle: 10670/1.3qef66
- hal: hal-02922732
- doi: 10.1007/s10551-020-04579-1
- WOS: 000557085100001
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Governance of the commons Farm machinery sharing cooperative arrangements Ethical aspects G - Financial Economics/G.G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M0 - General/M.M0.M00 - General O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors • Shadow Economy • Institutional Arrangements P - Economic Systems/P.P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions/P.P3.P32 - Collectives • Communes • Agriculture Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q1 - Agriculture/Q.Q1.Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing • Cooperatives • AgribusinessSujets proches
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Simon Cornée et al., « Governing Common-Property Assets: Theory and Evidence from Agriculture », HAL-SHS : droit et gestion, ID : 10.1007/s10551-020-04579-1
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This paper introduces a refined approach to conceptualising the commons in order to shed new light on cooperative practices. Specifically, it proposes the novel concept of Common-Property Assets (CPAs). CPAs are exclusively human-made resources owned under common-property ownership regimes. Our CPA model combines quantity (the flow of resource units available to members) and quality (the impact produced on the community by the members' appropriation of the resource flow). While these two dimensions are largely pre-existing in the conventional case of natural common-pool resources, they directly depend on members' collective action in CPAs. We apply this theoretical framework to farm machinery sharing agreements-a widespread grassroots cooperative phenomenon in agriculture-using a systematic literature review to generalise the findings from a sample of 54 studies published from 1950 to 2018. Our findings show that in successful CPAs, members endorse and do not deviate from a quantity-quality equilibrium that is collectively agreed upon. Despite the existence of thresholds for both quantity and quality due to (axiological) membership heterogeneity, qualitative changes in respect of the common good are possible in CPAs that promote democratic practices. Our study has potentially strong implications for developing ethics in cooperatives and the sustainable development of communities worldwide.