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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
business, management and accounting
How can positional concerns prevent the adoption of socially desirable innovations?
Journal of Economic Issues, Volume 46, No. 3, Year 2012
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Description
We study the role of positional concerns in explaining the (non-) diffusion of profitable and environmentally friendly innovations in situations where there is no conventional prisoner dilemma. Based on anecdotal evidence from farming activities, we introduce the concept of negative positional goods, that is, goods that destroy status in a given reference group, and show how interactions between status concerns and profitability can lead to unexpected outcomes. Several policy implications are drawn. © 2012, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics.
Authors & Co-Authors
Salhi, Salima
Algeria, Bouzareah
Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquée Pour le Développement
Grolleau, Gilles
France, Montpellier
Centre D’economie de L’environnement – Montpellier
Mzoughi, Naoufel
France, Avignon
Unité de Recherche Écodéveloppement
Sutan, Angela
France, Dijon
Laboratoire D'expérimentation en Sciences Sociales et Analyse Des Comportements
Statistics
Citations: 13
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.2753/JEI0021-3624460311
ISSN:
00213624
Research Areas
Health System And Policy