Laura Albareda — Commons Organizing: Embedding Common Good and Institutions for Collective Action. Insights from Ethics and Economics

33 published claims from this book.

• A firm’s common good includes workers developing skills and moral virtues
• Collective action theory aims beyond markets and the State, unlike reform-minded common-good-of-the-firm theory.
• Common goods nest within larger communities across nested scales
• Common-pool resources are governed as bundles of separable property rights.
• Common-pool resources differ from public goods in being rivalrous yet costly to exclude.
• Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character.
• Commons initiatives emerge as entrepreneurial community movements responding to member marginalization.
• Commons organizing differs from social enterprises by prioritizing communal flourishing over financial sustainability.
• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing.
• Commons organizing generates tensions with markets, regulations, and economic sustainability.
• Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods.
• Commons scholarship can bridge ethics and economics through metaphorical bricolage across theories.
• Communities can act collectively as a single entrepreneur and enterprise.
• Communities organize around common resources motivated by virtues and cooperation.
• Community energy cooperatives across Europe form a decentralized renewable-energy commons challenging utility markets.
• Community-scale commons experiments can scale outward into large networks.
• Contemporary common goods extend beyond natural resources into digitally and urbanly produced domains.
• Converging virtue and commons theories yields both complementarities and organizing tensions.
• Creative Commons spread globally through licensed affiliate organizations rather than legal code changes
• Digital tools enable new decentralized forms of commons peer production.
• Digital voluntary communities can produce collective goods unmet by states and markets.
• Distributed commons communities need both democratic breadth and expert depth, which tension destabilizes governance.
• Finance commons challenge private capital accumulation through community banks and local currencies.
• Human dignity names a value intrinsic to humanity that commons organizing aims to respect.
• Hybrid organizations embed social purpose and financial sustainability in a dual logic.
• Institutions for collective action emerge from community incentives, reciprocity, and trust that curb free-riding.
• New commons govern shared resources without pre-existing rules or formal institutional arrangements.
• Peer production decouples governance from property and contract, blurring paid and voluntary work.
• Polycentric commons movements coordinate without central authority through shared goals
• Polycentric governance enables collective action on shared resources without any central authority.
• Prosocial organizing spans CSR, social enterprises, hybrids, and community ventures.
• Societal tasks should be handled by the smallest capable group
• Subsidiarity holds that issues should be managed at the level closest to them