Managing organizational reputations is a central strategic challenge for public and nonprofit managers. Because an industry reputation is a collective good, individual organizations do not always have the incentive to promote their industry’s collective reputation. As in common property settings generally, individuals have greater incentives to boost collective reputations when consumption of t...

We analyze the e ect of inequality in the distribution of endowment of private inputs (e.g., land, wealth) that are complementary in production with collective inputs (e.g., contribution to public goods such as irrigation and extraction from common-property resources) on eÆciency in a simple class of collective action problems. In an environment where transaction costs prevent the eÆcient alloc...

In the early 1990s, some 1400 collective farms were privatized in Hungary and became agribusinesses and other farm enterprises. An important step in privatization was the division of common property (cpd) among the members, and the choice of exiting individually or in groups with one's share, or of continuing in a successor farm enterprise as a shareholder. The study reports on privatization in...

Apprentice programs offer a method to encourage responsible individual behavior by laying the foundation for successful collective property rights. Apprenticeship has three purposes: to restrict the rate of entry, to affect the quality of the participant, and to create the conditions for collective action for sustainability. Apprenticeship could be an important fishery management tool, particul...

Amplification is the main component of many collective phenomena in social and gregarious insects. In a society, individuals face a mixed palette of odours coming from different groups (lines, strains) and individuals present discrimination capabilities. However, often at the collective level, different groups may cooperate and act together. To understand this apparent contradiction, we use a m...

This article takes the political engagement of hackers as a prism for examining the relations between technological determinist thinking and collective action. The concept ‘collective action framing’ is borrowed from social movement theory to describe how hackers have appropriated notions of a post-industrial, information society in their struggles against intellectual property laws and state c...

Parallel iterative solvers are widely used in solving large sparse linear systems of equations on large-scale parallel architectures. These solvers generally contain two different types of communication operations: point-topoint (P2P) and global collective communications. In this work, we present a computational reorganization method to exploit a property that is commonly found in Krylov subspa...

This paper studies collaboration through the cloud in the context of cooperative adaptive control for robot manipulators. We first consider the case of multiple robots manipulating a common object through synchronous centralized update laws to identify unknown inertial parameters. Through this development, we introduce a notion of Collective Sufficient Richness, wherein parameter convergence ca...

The free electromagnetic field, solution of Maxwell's equations and carrier of energy, momentum and spin, is construed as an emergent collective property of an ensemble of photons, and with this, the consistency of an interpretation that considers that the photons, and not the electromagnetic fields, are the primary ontology is established.

In this paper we introduce a new notion of collective tree spanners. We say that a graph G = (V,E) admits a system of μ collective additive tree r-spanners if there is a system T (G) of at most μ spanning trees of G such that for any two vertices x, y of G a spanning tree T ∈ T (G) exists such that dT (x, y) ≤ dG(x, y) + r. Among other results, we show that any chordal graph, chordal bipartite ...