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Collective Action and Market Formation : An Integrative Framework

Jeroen Struben
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Christopher B. Bingham
  • Fonction : Auteur

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Research summary While extant research recognizes the importance of collective action for market formation, it provides little understanding about when and to what extent collective action is important. In this paper, we develop a novel theoretical framework detailing what collective action problems and solutions arise in market formation and under what conditions. Our framework centers on the development of market infrastructure with three key factors that influence the nature and extent of collective action problems: perceived returns to contributions, excludability, and contribution substitutability. We apply our framework to diverse market formation contexts and derive a set of attendant propositions. Finally, we show how collective action problems and solutions evolve during market formation efforts and discuss how our framework contributes to strategic management, entrepreneurship, and organization literatures. Managerial summary This paper lays out the key considerations that players operating in new markets should contemplate when making nontrivial investments in those spaces. As collective action problems can thwart efforts to establish new markets we ask: When and under what conditions should market players collaborate rather than act independently? And if players collaborate, how should they coordinate to establish a new market? To address these research questions, we develop a novel generalizable framework of collective action in market formation. Our framework assesses the presence and type of collective action problems that hinder market formation and identifies potential solutions tied to those collective action problems.
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hal-02312054 , version 1 (27-02-2020)

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Brandon H. Lee, Jeroen Struben, Christopher B. Bingham. Collective Action and Market Formation : An Integrative Framework. Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39 (1), 242-266 p. ⟨hal-02312054⟩

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