Symbolic interaction and its influence on cooperation between private forest owners

Matthias Sonnhoff and Andy Selter

Forest Policy and Economics, 2021, vol. 130, issue C

Abstract: Organizations, such as forest management cooperatives (FMCs), are established to support private forest owners to deal with structural and natural challenges that they cannot handle on their own. In 2018, Feil et al. found in a nationwide survey that only 30% of German private forest owners are members of FMCs. This low participation rate of private forest owners in FMCs in Germany poses a problem for the further development of organizations that can better consider the needs of private forest owners and also meet the timber market's long-term requirements for larger quantities of timber as well as become an equal negotiation partner of the sawmill industry. This problem can be attributed to social interactions, which are considered influential for cooperation between private forest owners.

Keywords: Social interaction; Symbolic institutionalism; Actor-centred institutionalism; Private forest owners; Quantitative research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102535

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