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Collective action problem characteristics and partner uncertainty as drivers of social tie formation in collaborative networks

Nohrsted, D., Bodin, Ö.

2019 - Journal / article

The effectiveness of collaboration is often explained by the alignment of social networks with collective‐action problem characteristics, yet previous research on social tie formation has focused almost exclusively on actor and relational attributes. We theorize that collective‐action problem characteristics together with actor and relational attributes explain social tie formation and that the relative effect of these factors...

Emergence of collaborative environmental governance: what are the causal mechanisms?

Baird, J., Schultz, L., Plummer, R., Armitage, D., Bodin, Ö.

2019 - Journal / article

Conflict in environmental governance is common, and bringing together stakeholders with diverse perspectives in situations of conflict is extremely difficult. However, case studies of how diverse stakeholders form self-organized coalitions under these circumstances exist and provide invaluable opportunities to understand the causal mechanisms that operate in the process. We focus on the case of the Georgian Bay Biosphere Rese...

Balancing costs and benefits of collaboration in an ecology of games

Hileman, J., Bodin, Ö.

2019 - Journal / article

The growth of collaborative approaches to governance has resulted in increasingly complex policy and management landscapes, where actors are presented with ever‐increasing numbers of decision‐making venues they can participate in and actors they can collaborate with. Given that actors face constraints on their capacity to manage actor and venue relationships in such polycentric governance systems, we assume the marginal benefi...

Small-scale fish buyers' trade networks reveal diverse actor types and differential adaptive capacities

González-Mon, B., Bodin, Ö., Crona, B., Nenadovic, M., Basurto, X.

2019 - Journal / article

The importance of understanding how social-ecological interdependencies deriving from global trade influence sustainability has been argued for decades. Even if substantial progress has been made, a research gap remains regarding how the adaptability of small-scale fish buyers, whose daily operations have implications for the livelihood of more than 100 million people, are affected by networks of trade relationships. Adaptabil...