Paulo A. L. D. Nunes and Laura Onofri
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199656202
- eISBN:
- 9780191742149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656202.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter explores econometric analysis for capturing the relationship between a motivational variable, ‘warm glow’ for the provision of an environmental public good, and socio-economic ...
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This chapter explores econometric analysis for capturing the relationship between a motivational variable, ‘warm glow’ for the provision of an environmental public good, and socio-economic characteristics of individual consumers. We use microeconomic data provided by a national survey that was performed in Portugal to value the provision of a coastal, protected area. Estimation results show that ‘warm glow’ is mostly affected by four main effects: (1) charitable habits of respondents; (2) level of social participation to the community of the respondents: (3) degree of importance attributed to social policies by the respondents, and (4) the religious belief of the respondents. The interpretation of our estimates allowed us to categorize and profile two types of ‘warm-glowers’: the ‘ego-driven’ and the ‘socially-oriented’ ones. There is critical discussion on embodying (or not) the latent motivational structures (and underlying determination factors) when performing cost‐benefit analysis of environmental public goodsLess
This chapter explores econometric analysis for capturing the relationship between a motivational variable, ‘warm glow’ for the provision of an environmental public good, and socio-economic characteristics of individual consumers. We use microeconomic data provided by a national survey that was performed in Portugal to value the provision of a coastal, protected area. Estimation results show that ‘warm glow’ is mostly affected by four main effects: (1) charitable habits of respondents; (2) level of social participation to the community of the respondents: (3) degree of importance attributed to social policies by the respondents, and (4) the religious belief of the respondents. The interpretation of our estimates allowed us to categorize and profile two types of ‘warm-glowers’: the ‘ego-driven’ and the ‘socially-oriented’ ones. There is critical discussion on embodying (or not) the latent motivational structures (and underlying determination factors) when performing cost‐benefit analysis of environmental public goods
Charles M. Schweik and Robert C. English
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017251
- eISBN:
- 9780262301206
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017251.001.0001
- Subject:
- Information Science, Information Science
The use of open-source software (OSS)—readable software source code that can be copied, modified, and distributed freely—has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number of OSS projects hosted ...
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The use of open-source software (OSS)—readable software source code that can be copied, modified, and distributed freely—has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number of OSS projects hosted on SourceForge.net (the largest hosting Web site for OSS), for example, grew from just over 100,000 in 2006 to more than 250,000 at the beginning of 2011. But why are some projects successful—that is, able to produce usable software and sustain ongoing development over time—while others are abandoned? This book, the product of a large-scale empirical study to look at social, technical, and institutional aspects of OSS, examines factors that lead to success in OSS projects and work toward a better understanding of Internet-based collaboration. Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, it examines stages of OSS development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment. The authors argue that analyzing the conditions of OSS successes may also inform Internet collaborations in fields beyond software engineering, particularly those which aim to solve complex technical, social, and political problems.Less
The use of open-source software (OSS)—readable software source code that can be copied, modified, and distributed freely—has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number of OSS projects hosted on SourceForge.net (the largest hosting Web site for OSS), for example, grew from just over 100,000 in 2006 to more than 250,000 at the beginning of 2011. But why are some projects successful—that is, able to produce usable software and sustain ongoing development over time—while others are abandoned? This book, the product of a large-scale empirical study to look at social, technical, and institutional aspects of OSS, examines factors that lead to success in OSS projects and work toward a better understanding of Internet-based collaboration. Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, it examines stages of OSS development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment. The authors argue that analyzing the conditions of OSS successes may also inform Internet collaborations in fields beyond software engineering, particularly those which aim to solve complex technical, social, and political problems.
