Transaction network analysis for studying Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS): Research potentials and limitations

Fraňková, Eva; Fousek, J.; Kala, Lukáš; Labohý, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.09.009

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“…To understand why all this should be the case, in this research, we have set the general goal of modelling and analysing human behaviour associated with the use of LDCs. There are currently very few empirical analyses examining this, and the few that do exist have incomplete approaches with wildly varying methodologies, making their comparison and integration difficult [7,[18][19][20][21][22]. To provide a response to this generic goal, three different specific goals have been defined: develop a conceptual model for the LDC adoption process; analyse this model, evaluating causal and measurement-related relationships between the existing variables; and analyse the moderating effect of subjects' prior experience in LDCs.…”

Section: Transactions Are Conducted By Means Of a Balance That Recordmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Analysis of the Process of Adopting Local Digital Currencies in Support of Sustainable Development

Giménez

Tamajón

2019

Sustainability

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Local digital currencies (LDCs) can be defined as technological platforms in which transactions occur between users without the use of any form of official tender. Although there is empirical evidence with regard to the sustainable development-related benefits of this type of currency, its use is still highly marginal and incipient, with relatively short lifecycles. To understand why LDCs have not gained a firmer footing or implementation in society and subsequently gain the ability to define a series of actions making this possible, an integrated model has been developed. Based on a review of the available literature, this model permits an analysis of the perceptions, beliefs, and attitudinal factors impacting upon the process of adopting this kind of currency. Based on a sample of 1559 subjects, the results obtained from the structural equation modelling performed provide important conclusions in terms of both the theory and the management of LDC-based communities, whether this is for the creation of new communities or the attraction of new users, or to consolidate existing communities or the participation of users once they have registered with them. Perceptions (attitude, subjective regulation, and perceived control), beliefs (compatibility, perceived utility, interpersonal influences, self-efficacy, and enabling conditions) and previous experience have a significant influence on the intention to be part of a community based on a local digital currency, with all that this implies for the defining of strategies to promote the use of LDCs.

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Section: Transactions Are Conducted By Means Of a Balance That Recordmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Analysis of the Process of Adopting Local Digital Currencies in Support of Sustainable Development

Giménez

Tamajón

2019

Sustainability

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“…All of this results in the amplification of economic disparities and the decline of local economies (Robertson, 1999;Strange & Bayley, 2008) and even frequently the depletion of natural resource (Jackson, 2009). In response, a few 'new economic' approaches argue that we need to revise priorities away from the principal objective of economic growth and more oriented towards the well being of society and community-level sustainable development (Seyfang and Smith, 2007;Ekins, 1993;Frankova et al, 2014). They argue that all three pillars of sustainability need to be addressed and given some importance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Community currencies and sustainable development: A systematic review

Michel

Hudon

2015

Ecological Economics

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Community or complementary currency systems have spread all around the world. Most often, they have been promoted as tools to foster sustainable development albeit they differ in terms of specific objectives. While many case studies have tried to assess the actual impact of these systems, there has been no global analysis summarizing their global impact. This paper aims to fill the gap by exploring whether complementary currencies contribute to the three pillars of sustainable development. We use the systematic review methodology on an original dataset gathering most academic publications published on the topic in English, French and Spanish. Our main findings suggest that community currencies mostly contribute to social sustainability, and that their economic benefits are somewhat limited due to their small scale and the lack of awareness on their scope. Moreover, very few studies explicitly identified environmental outcomes. Finally, this review reveals some limits regarding current methods for impact assessment in this field. Therefore it encourages more standardisation to provide greater accuracy and strengthen the legitimacy of community currencies' in order to foster their continued development. CEB A slightly revised version of the paper is forthcoming in Ecological Economics AbstractCommunity or complementary currency systems have spread all around the world. Most often, they have been promoted as tools to foster sustainable development albeit they differ in terms of specific objectives. While many case studies have tried to assess the actual impact of these systems, there has been no global analysis summarizing their global impact. This paper aims to fill the gap by exploring whether complementary currencies contribute to the three pillars of sustainable development. We use the systematic review methodology on an original dataset gathering most academic publications published on the topic in English, French and Spanish. Our main findings suggest that community currencies mostly contribute to social sustainability, and that their economic benefits are somewhat limited due to their small scale and the lack of awareness on their scope. Moreover, very few studies explicitly identified environmental outcomes. Finally, this review reveals some limits regarding current methods for impact assessment in this field. Therefore it encourages more standardisation to provide greater accuracy and strengthen the legitimacy of community currencies' in order to foster their continued development.

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“…Accountability of this time-credit is usually kept in a 'bank', by means of recording transactions in a spreadsheet, for example. As credits and debits are tallied regularly, time banks can provide balance statements to record the flow of goods/services inside a chain of mutual helpers (Boyle, 2003;Collom, 2011;Fraňková et al, 2014).…”

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The Heart Is a Hand Grenade: Plastic Figurations of Bodies at War

Just

Kirkegaard

2019

Materiality in Institutions

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WELCOMEWe are delighted to welcome you to the sixth OAP workshop! After Paris in , London in 2013, Roma in 2014 and Sydney in 2015 it is a pleasure to now meet in Lisbon, for a new series of exciting presentations and debates on organizations, artefacts and practices.This year's theme is again a challenging one. Institutions, institutionalizations, legitimation processes have undergone radical changes over the last decades. With the increasing use of digital technologies, the ongoing transformation of work and workplaces (including an entrepreneurial trend) and the shifting of work boundaries (private-professional spheres, producers-consumers spheres…), the modalities of emergence and transformation of institutions (their temporalization and spatialization) are changing.OAP 2016 will be focused on the theoretical perspectives and ontologies that inform the (meaning of these) new modalities of institutions and institutional dynamics, and that affect how these changes matter. OAP 2016 engages with numerous neo-institutional, post-discursive, sociomaterial, post-Marxist, processual or phenomenological views, all of which emphasize the visual, material, temporal and spatial dimensions of institutionalization, legitimation or the dynamics of institutional logics.We are very pleased with the quality of the submissions we received, and with the diversity of disciplines, intellectual traditions and research methods represented in the workshop.

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Transaction network analysis for studying Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS): Research potentials and limitations

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

An Analysis of the Process of Adopting Local Digital Currencies in Support of Sustainable Development

An Analysis of the Process of Adopting Local Digital Currencies in Support of Sustainable Development

Community currencies and sustainable development: A systematic review

The Heart Is a Hand Grenade: Plastic Figurations of Bodies at War

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