BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Damion Bunders and \;Tine De Moor of the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in the Netherlands will present at the Sep tember Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) virtual research s eminar.Abstract: \;Worker cooperatives emerged as collective good prod ucers in the gig economy\, by providing their membership with more secure working conditions that may especially be in demand during crises. Even un der normal conditions\, cooperatives with a heterogeneous membership would be vulnerable to opportunistic member behaviour depleting collective reso urces. This raises the question of how such cooperatives design rules to a ddress opportunism and whether rules evolve in the face of external shocks . We study the case of gig workers’ cooperative Smart Belgium between 2017 and 2022\, thereby covering the COVID-19 pandemic as an external shock. B uilding on the institutional grammar methodology\, we analyse 412 rules of Smart. The findings indicate that external shocks with sudden resource sc arcity (COVID-19) do not necessarily motivate rule changes while external shocks without an effect on collective resources (new national legislation ) can motivate rule changes. The study also provides support for the notio n that cooperatives with a heterogeneous membership design rules to mitiga te opportunism. DTEND:20230905T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260513T033757Z DTSTART:20230905T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Using the Institutional Grammar to Understand Resource Management i n a Cooperative of Gig Workers UID:RFCALITEM639142258774320690 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Damion Bunders and \;Tine De Moor of th e Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in the Netherlands wil l present at the September Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI ) virtual research seminar.

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Worker cooperativ es emerged as collective good producers in the gig economy\, by providing their membership with more secure working conditions that may especially b e in demand during crises. Even under normal conditions\, cooperatives wit h a heterogeneous membership would be vulnerable to opportunistic member b ehaviour depleting collective resources. This raises the question of how s uch cooperatives design rules to address opportunism and whether rules evo lve in the face of external shocks. We study the case of gig workers’ coop erative Smart Belgium between 2017 and 2022\, thereby covering the COVID-1 9 pandemic as an external shock. Building on the institutional grammar met hodology\, we analyse 412 rules of Smart. The findings indicate that exter nal shocks with sudden resource scarcity (COVID-19) do not necessarily mot ivate rule changes while external shocks without an effect on collective r esources (new national legislation) can motivate rule changes. The study a lso provides support for the notion that cooperatives with a heterogeneous membership design rules to mitigate opportunism.

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