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COVID-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action. Open
The impacts of COVID-19 on workers and workplaces across the globe have been dramatic. This broad review of prior research rooted in work and organizational psychology, and related fields, is intended to make sense of the implications for …
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Collaborative environmental governance: Achieving collective action in social-ecological systems Open
Collaborative governance By its nature, environmental governance requires collaboration. However, studies have shown that various types of stakeholders often lack the willingness to deliberate and contribute to jointly negotiated solutions…
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Riders on the Storm: Workplace Solidarity among Gig Economy Couriers in Italy and the UK Open
In light of the individualisation, dispersal and pervasive monitoring that characterise work in the ‘gig economy’, the development of solidarity among gig workers could be expected to be unlikely. However, numerous recent episodes of gig w…
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research: Taking Stock and looking ahead Open
The recognition of entrepreneurship as a solution to, rather than a cause of, environmental degradation and social inequality moved the field to identify a new type of entrepreneurial activity, namely sustainable entrepreneurship. Scholarl…
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Social Connection as a Public Health Issue: The Evidence and a Systemic Framework for Prioritizing the “Social” in Social Determinants of Health Open
There is growing interest in and renewed support for prioritizing social factors in public health both in the USA and globally. While there are multiple widely recognized social determinants of health, indicators of social connectedness (e…
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Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health Open
The rapid global spread and human health impacts of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, show humanity's vulnerability to zoonotic disease pandemics. Although anthropogenic land use change is known to be the major driver of zoonotic…
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Youth Mobilization to Stop Global Climate Change: Narratives and Impact Open
Galvanized by Greta Thunberg’s idea for Friday school strikes, “climate strikes” emerged in 2018 and 2019 as a form of youth social movement demanding far-reaching action on climate change. Youths have taken various actions to combat clima…
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Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups Open
White Americans who participate in the Black Lives Matter movement, men who attended the Women’s March, and people from the Global North who work to reduce poverty in the Global South—advantaged group members (sometimes referred to as alli…
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The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam Open
This study examines how the historical state conditions long‐run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong, centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit.…
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From mediated actions to heterogenous coalitions: four generations of activity-theoretical studies of work and learning Open
The article outlines four generations of theorizing and research on work and learning within the Finnish school of activity theory. The main focus of the paper is on the evolution of the unit of analysis through the four generations, from …
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Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change Open
Climate change policy is generally modeled as a global collective action problem structured by free-riding concerns. Drawing on quantitative data, archival work, and elite interviews, we review empirical support for this model and find tha…
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Egypt in a Time of Revolution Open
This book considers the diverse forms of mass mobilization and contentious politics that emerged during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its aftermath. Drawing on a catalogue of more than 8,000 protest events, as well as interviews, vid…
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Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization Open
Significance People often ignore material costs they incur when following existing social norms. Some individuals and groups are often willing to pay extremely high costs to enact, defend, or promulgate specific values and norms that they …
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Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Sequential Social Dilemmas Open
Matrix games like Prisoner's Dilemma have guided research on social dilemmas for decades. However, they necessarily treat the choice to cooperate or defect as an atomic action. In real-world social dilemmas these choices are temporally ext…
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The Politics of Sustainability and Development Open
This review examines the relationships between politics, sustainability, and development. Following an overview of sustainability thinking across different traditions, the politics of resources and the influence of scarcity narratives on r…
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Street vendors and cities Open
This paper synthesizes recent research and evidence on urban policies and local government practices as they relate to street vending, one of the most visible occupations in the informal economy. It presents the latest available evidence o…
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Toward a comprehensive and potentially cross-cultural model of why people engage in collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of four motivations and structural constraints. Open
Sociopsychological theorizing and research on collective action (e.g., social protests) has mushroomed over the last decade, studying a wide variety of groups, contexts, and cultures. Through a quantitative research synthesis of four motiv…
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Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the <i>Social Identity Model of Collective Action</i> Open
Collective action refers to any action that individuals undertake as group members to pursue group goals such as social change. In this chapter, we further extend the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA) by including not just…
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The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks Open
This paper examines panel data from two waves of the Youth Participatory Politics Survey, a nationally representative sample of young people in the United States. It employs a cross-lagged design to investigate the extent to which common f…
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A Polycentric Approach to Global Climate Governance Open
As international climate negotiations under the UNFCCC have adopted the goal to limit the increase in global mean temperature to well below 2° C, a highly differentiated—but largely uncoordinated—global climate governance system has emerge…
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State and Development: The Need for a Reappraisal of the Current Literature Open
This essay tries to bring out some of the complexities that are overlooked in the usual treatment of the state in the institutional economics literature and supplement the latter with a discussion of some alternative approaches to looking …
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Mitigation and adaptation in polycentric systems: sources of power in the pursuit of collective goals Open
Polycentric governance involves multiple actors at multiple scales beyond the state. The potential of polycentric governance for promoting both climate mitigation and adaptation is well established. Yet, dominant conceptualizations of poly…
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The Greta Thunberg Effect: Familiarity with Greta Thunberg predicts intentions to engage in climate activism in the United States Open
Despite Greta Thunberg's popularity, research has yet to investigate her impact on the public's willingness to take collective action on climate change. Using cross‐sectional data from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults ( N …
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Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation Open
Capitalism works when actors are motivated to engage in joint value creation. Stakeholder theorists have long argued that this is most likely when firms “manage for stakeholders,” but have only recently explicitly recognized that stakehold…
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Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge and sustainability transformations: Three generic mechanisms of impact generation Open
Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge is widely credited with producing knowledge that can contribute to sustainability transformations, but there is little empirical evidence showing to what extent and through what mechanisms it is…
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Governing the Pandemic Open
COVID-19 brought the 'unthinkable' to our doorstep.The pandemic caused a series of global, and interconnected, health, economic, social, institutional and political crises that are unprecedented in living memory.Political leaders struggled…
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People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe Open
Active energy citizens are leading energy transitions, co-producing new cultures, practices and structures of production and consumption. This article aims to understand if prosumerism – the collective participation of prosumers in energy …
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The far right as social movement Open
The literature on the far right is trying to connect with social movement studies. Scholars from different social scientific backgrounds are increasingly acknowledging that extra-parliamentary grassroots activism is part of the alliance an…
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CASM: A Deep-Learning Approach for Identifying Collective Action Events with Text and Image Data from Social Media Open
Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social movements and typically draws on traditional media reports as the data source. We introduce collective action from social media (CASM)—a system tha…
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Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda Open
Climate change is an increasing threat to sustainable development worldwide. However, the dominant incremental policy approaches have not generated action at anywhere near the rate, scale or depth that is needed. This is largely due to the…