Towards a Measurement of Free Riding within Private Collective Action Organizations

Frayne Olson and Michael L. Cook

No 6025, 2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The objective of this study is to determine if there is a dominant free riding activity which can be identified and used as the basis for measuring free riding, or if multiple free riding actions and/or behaviors coexist within large collective action organizations. The study uses a confirmatory factor analysis model to evaluate member level survey data from a large agricultural marketing cooperative.

Keywords: Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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