Collective intentions of the social economy
An experiment on the community currency of the French Basque country
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5722165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hayyan Alia-Thorey (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord), Eli Spiegelman (0000-0002-1446-6624, ESC Dijon Bourgogne, École supérieure de commerce de Dijon-Bourgogne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-125 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rationality and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1043-4631 • E-ISSN: 1461-7358 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10434631241284534 |
| OpenAlex | W4402553490 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
Community currencies (CCs) are common social economy instruments for aligning market transactions with social commitments. They change incentives, encouraging trade within the CC network, but may also symbolize and thereby amplify users' commitment to social values of solidarity and cooperation. The behavioral effect of the second channel, moreover, is clouded by endogenous use of the CC: commitment encourages use, but does use also trigger commitment? We disentangle the direction of causality with a lab-in-the-field ultimatum game experiment, which confronts participants with a choice between more or less competitive responses. By exogenously varying the currency in which the game is played (CC or euros), we isolate the causal effect of the CC on behavior. Self-declared regular users of the currency are less competitive when playing in the CC than when playing in euros. This is not due to unobserved differences in the individuals, because when playing in euros, their behavior is the same as non-users'. Nor is it due to non-convertibility of the CC, as non-users' behavior is not affected by the currency. We therefore isolate the CC as a "trigger of cooperativeness" for those who have a base-level of commitment to it
Currency · Economics · Economy · Monetary economics · Political economy · Community Development and Social Impact · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Social Sciences and Governance
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A theory of sequential reciprocity
Collective Intentions And Team Agency
Cultural Differences in Ultimatum Game Experiments
Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?
Group Identity and Social Preferences
Experimental methods
An experimental analysis of ultimatum bargaining
Collective Intentions and Actions
Joint Commitment
When Money Changes Society
Collective and joint intention
Sectoral Issues and Environmental Causes
Nationalism in the French Basque Country
Shared Cooperative Activity
Normative, Gain and Hedonic Goal Frames Guiding Environmental Behavior
Walking Together
Choice behavior in social dilemmas
Social Identity and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation
Social Economy, Third Sector and Solidarity Relations
Intentionality
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