Common property: Uncommon forms of prosocial organizing

Ana Maria Peredo, Helen M. Haugh and Murdith McLean

Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, vol. 33, issue 5, 591-602

Abstract: •An overlooked factor in prosocial organizing is its property regime.•Common property is a feature of several notable prosocial organizations.•Common property helps decommodify the “fictitious commodities” of money, labor and land.•Decommodifying restores factors to the use value they have before being marketized.•Recovering use value devotes factors to their prosocial purpose.

Keywords: Common property; Prosocial organizing; Decommodification; Community land trust; Social cooperative; Community interest company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.11.003

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