Elements of the institutionalization process of the forest and pasture commons in Romania as particular forms of social economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12613313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irina‐Sînziana Opincaru (0000-0001-5662-6422, University of Bucharest Romania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-118 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1370-4788 • E-ISSN: 1467-8292 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apce.12294 |
| OpenAlex | W3097899945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
In Romania, the study of jointly owned property ( devălmășie ) has been of great interest for social scientists during the different political regimes of the country. After the fall of the communist regime and after over 50 years of state ownership, the forests and pasture commons ( obști and composeorate) returned to be private property of newly established associative forms. This paper aims to identify and define the contemporary Romanian commons by reference to the general characteristics of social economy organizations. In order to achieve this and obtain a clearer view of the place of the commons in Romania's organizational environment, presentation of some elements of the commons’ institutionalization process after the fall of the communist regime is included. The data used for answering these two objectives comes from the analysis of a database comprising 328 questionnaires applied to board members of commons in Romania and various legal documents. The main argument of the paper is that the restitution process that led to the re‐establishment of the Romanian commons from public property to common private property—marked by hardships, conflicts, misunderstandings or faults—deepened the scarce knowledge of the political actors, general public and other stakeholders in regard to these organizations and perpetuated their unclear position in the organizational field
Civil society · Commons · Communism · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Institutionalisation · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private property · Property rights · Public property · Romanian · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Forest Management and Policy · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
Institutions and organizations
Governing the Commons
Revisiting the Commons
Making the commons work
Surviving the crisis
Formalizing commons, registering rights
Pastoral commons use in Romania and the role of the Common Agricultural Policy
International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies
Bottom-up social enterprises in Romania. Case study – Retirees’ Mutual Aid Association
The Iron Cage Revisited
Great Transformation
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |