scholarly journals Can ‘Civil Enterprises’ survive in the market? Some game theoretical considerations on the one-shot game

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 603-614
Author(s):  
Christian Müller ◽  
María Guadalupe Martino
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Cooperative Strategies ◽  
Moral Rules ◽  
Firm Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Abstract Civil enterprises (CEs) are firms whose main goal is to produce benefits for the community, working according to a logic of reciprocity. In this paper we discuss, from a game theoretical perspective, as to what extent it is possible for such enterprises to survive in competition with profit-maximizing firms in the marketplace, since market competition might take the form of a prisoner’s dilemma game, where the public good at stake is the commitment to moral rules. In those games cooperative strategies are strictly dominated by the defective behavior of the players, i.e. CEs would not survive while retaining their values. We argue that market competition is more appropriately modelled as an n-firm model and show that, given a sufficient number of CEs in the market, they can survive despite having to interact with for-profit firms, even when the game is played only once.

scholarly journals Transforming the World in Which We Live: Laureate's Transnational Civic Learning Project

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
William M. Plater
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The World

<p>Higher education serves as an agent of social change that plays a significant role in the development of socially conscious and engaged students. The duty higher education has toward society, the role for-profit educational institutions play in enhancing the public good, and the prospect of making social change an element of these providers’ missions are discussed. Laureate’s Global Citizenship Project is introduced, highlighting the development of the project’s civic engagement rubric and the challenges of assessing civic engagement.</p>

scholarly journals Matching in the Kolm triangle: interiority and participation constraints of matching equilibria

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1039-1050
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Buchholz ◽  
Richard Cornes ◽  
Dirk Rübbelke
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Income Distributions ◽  
Good Economy ◽  
Triangle Method ◽  
Matching Mechanism ◽  
Good Provision ◽  
The One

PurposeIn this paper we show how the Kolm triangle method, which is a standard tool for visualizing allocations in a public good economy, can also be used to provide a diagrammatical exposition of matching mechanisms and their effects on public good supply and welfare. In particular, we describe, on the one hand, for which income distributions interior matching equilibria result, and on the other hand, for which income distributions the agents voluntarily participate in a matching mechanism. As a novel result, we especially show that the “participation zone” is larger than the “interiority zone”Design/methodology/approachWe employ the Kolm triangle approach, which has – compared to most other graphical methods for representing allocations in a public good economy – the advantage that it allows for showing the aggregate budget constraint, the levels of considered agents' private consumption, and the level of public good supply directly in the same diagram.FindingsThe Kolm triangle method can be used to visualize important effects of matching in an elegant way, so basically the increase of public good supply through matching. The interiority of matching depends on the income distribution and especially, on how the “interiority zone” is shrinking when the matching rate increases. Moreover, we were able to delimit the “participation zone” in the Kolm triangle. An important and novel insight is that the participation zone is larger than the interiority zone, which means that also corner matching equilibria in which only one agent makes a positive flat contribution to the public good may make both considered agents better off.Research limitations/implicationsCorner matching equilibria in which only one agent makes a positive flat contribution to the public good may improve all considered agents' welfare. How this welfare effect can be generalized to the case of different utility functions and matching rates will be an issue of future research.Practical implicationsThe examined matching mechanism finds application in many policy fields where public good undersupply is pending. International climate policy is one of these fields of application, for example.Originality/valueThe Kolm triangle method has been particularly helpful to describe the Nash equilibrium in the case of non-cooperative public good provision and to compare this outcome with Pareto efficient public good allocations. Furthermore, the Kolm triangle approach facilitates the analysis of mechanisms for attaining an efficient public good allocation like the Lindahl equilibrium as well as the study of preconditions and limitations faced by such mechanisms. An important and novel insight of our study is that the participation zone is larger than the interiority zone.

Neue Gemeinwohlherausforderungen - Konsequenzen für Wettbewerbsrecht und Regulierung

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Fourth Symposium ◽  
Regulatory Law ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

On 11 and 12 September 2018, the fourth symposium of the “Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht” [“Scientific Association for the Entirety of Regulatory Law”] took place at the University of Regensburg. The topic was: “New challenges for the public good – consequences for competition law and regulation”. The basic idea of the conference concept was, on the one hand, to consider which new challenges for the public good exist in the classical network economies of the telecommunications, energy and railway regulations, and on the other hand, to focus on adjacent sectors – such as the media and communications industries – and finally go beyond the sectors considered so far. The conference was divided into the following thematic blocks: “basic papers”, “classic sectors in transition”, “new sectors in the internet age” and “new challenges beyond the sectors”. The fourth volume of the series contains the lectures given at the symposium. With contributions by Markus Ludwigs, Heike Schweitzer, Thomas Fetzer, Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, Karten Otte, Karl-Eberhard Hain, Ralf Müller-Terpitz, Rupprecht Podszun, Thosten Kingreen, Julia Barth, Anna Kellner, Fabian Toros and Florian Sackmann

A Social Media Manifesto

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Pitts
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Healthcare Marketing ◽  
The One ◽  
Hard Place

The role of marketing communications is to advance the bottom line and the public good – and not necessarily in that order. Giving back is an integral part of the New Normal. And there has never been a better tool to accomplish this mission than social media.But healthcare marketing –and particularly of the regulated variety --is between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, marketers understand the importance and opportunity in social media. It’s where the people are. It’s where the action is. But then there are all those pesky regulatory concerns.As Walter O’Malley –the man who moved the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles once commented, “The future is just one damn thing after another.”

scholarly journals When Head Office Was Upstairs: How Corporate Concentration Changed a Television Newsroom

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. McLean
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Head Office ◽  
Technological Structure ◽  
Corporate Concentration ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: This paper undertakes a case study into the impact of corporate concentration on the newsroom at CKCK (CTV) Television in Regina, Saskatchewan. By comparing the newsgathering operation from the late 1980s with the one in operation today, changes to the organizational and technological structure of CKCK Television are pinpointed with respect to the effects on the work lives of journalists. This is accomplished through interviews with past and present employees and by observing the newsroom environment as it exists today. Through an assessment of daily work structures and the controls that are institutionally imposed, the manner in which journalists serve the public good is considered and questioned. Résumé : Cet article entreprend une étude de cas sur l’impact qu’a eu une convergence d’entreprises sur la salle des nouvelles de la station de télévision CKCK (CTV) à Régina au Saskatchewan. En comparant la collecte de l’information dans les années 1980 à celle de nos jours, l’article souligne comment les changements apportés à la structure organisationnelle et technologique de CKCK ont modifié le travail des journalistes. L’article atteint ce but au moyen d’entretiens avec des employés, tant anciens qu’actuels, et de l’observation de la salle des nouvelles telle qu’elle est aujourd’hui. En évaluant les structures établies pour le travail quotidien et les contrôles imposés par la station, l’article met en question combien les journalistes aujourd’hui sont réellement libres de servir le bien commun.

scholarly journals Unauthorized Military Interventions for the Public Good: A response to Harold Koh

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 292-296
Author(s):  
Kimberley N. Trapp
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
International Law ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
Domestic Law

In his contribution to this Symposium, Harold Koh exhorts international lawyers to “seriously engage the debate” regarding the lawfulness (or at least the legal defensibility) of humanitarian intervention (“HI”). The aim of this essay is to take him up on that plea and sketch an alternative approach to the one that he advances. In so doing, I will focus on international law rather than U.S. domestic law.

scholarly journals Orxata Sound System. Música glocal, libre, colectiva y cooperativa / Orxata Sound System. Glocal, free, collective and cooperative music

2017 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Carla González Collantes ◽  
Maria Lacueva i Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sound System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cooperative Strategies ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
The One

Resumen: Orxata Sound System es un colectivo musical de la comarca de l’Horta (País Valenciano) que se fundó el año 2003 y que se disolvió indefinidamente el año 2014. Su existencia ha dejado huella en la escena musical del ámbito catalanófono, no solamente por su estilo, sino también porque fueron pioneros en el uso de las nuevas tecnologías tanto para crear, producir y difundir su música como para (auto)gestionarse y comunicarse con el público de manera eminentemente horizontal. Este artículo observará la trayectoria musical de Orxata Sound System haciendo especial hincapié, por un lado, en la explotación artística que desarrollaron a partir de la hibridación de dos elementos aparentemente contradictorios: por otro lado, nos centraremos en las estrategias cooperativas en la creación musical.Palabras clave: cultura colectiva, activismo, música catalana, Estudios Culturales, València. Abstract: Orxata Sound System is a musical collective from l’Horta (Valencian Country) that was founded in 2003 and was dissolved indefinitely in 2014. Its existence has marked a before and after in the Catalan musical scene, not only because of its style, but also because it was a pioneer in the use of new technologies to create, produce and distribute its music as well as (auto) manage and communicate with the public in an eminently horizontal way. This article will observe the musical trajectory of Orxata Sound System with special emphasis, on the one hand, on the artistic exploitation that developed from the hybridization of two apparently contradictory elements; on the other hand, we will focus on the cooperative strategies in musical creativity. Keywords: collective culture, activism, catalan music, Cultural Studies, Valencia

Finding the Harm in Hate Speech: An Argument against Censorship

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 679-697
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Harm Principle ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Personal Dignity ◽  
The One

AbstractThe liberal justification for censorship equates the harm in hate speech with the sort of tangible injury that would justify state intervention under J.S. Mill's harm principle. Recently, Jeremy Waldron has suggested that the real harm perpetuated by hate speech is less tangible, taking it to be a variety of moral pollution which undermines both the public good of inclusiveness and the minority's assurance of personal dignity. This paper scrutinizes Waldron's conception of the harm in hate speech, arguing that it lacks the specificity and gravity Mill's principle requires in order to justify censorship. The paper also questions the categorical distinction between hate speech and speech that is “merely offensive,” arguing that Waldron's reasons for censoring the one also apply to the other. The result is a censorship regime that liberals ought not to accept.

scholarly journals Interrogating Course-Related Public Interest Internships in Communications

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Smeltzer
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

This article examines the benefits and drawbacks of for-credit, unpaid internships geared towards the public good. Attention is focused specifically on communication internships with non- governmental, non-profit, and community-based organizations. Drawing on a series of semi-structured interviews with students, staff, faculty, and host organizations, the author advances a critical model of service learning that more fully recognizes the labour of community partners and encourages students to consider what role they can and should play in advancing the public good. The article also highlights two key issues vis-à-vis public interest internships that are of particular relevance to the field of communications. The first is a disconnect between, on the one hand, communications as a theoretical field of study and, on the other hand, the skills communication students are typically expected to bring with them into their placements. The second is a growing tension between what different members of the university community expect out of public interest internships: politically safe forms of community engagement palatable to university administrations versus more activist-oriented placements with organizations and movements that contest structures of control both on and off campus. The author contends that communication programs must critically reflect upon how politically benign and/or contentious internships support their pedagogical goals and what resources need to be in place to meet the- se objectives.  

scholarly journals Cost Stickiness in the local governments of Santa Catarina

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. e3148
Author(s):  
Mariana Campagnoni ◽  
Valkyrie Vieira Fabre ◽  
Altair Borgert ◽  
Suliani Rover
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Cost Behavior ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Cost Stickiness

Asymmetric cost behavior took a new approach, starting in 2003, with the emergence of the Cost Stickiness Theory (CST) and, since it is something recent, there are still doubts regarding its application in the public sector. In this sense, this study aims to analyze the behavior of costs in local governments in Santa Catarina, from the cost stickiness perspective. This is an empirical, quantitative, and documentary study that uses the population of 295 municipalities in Santa Catarina during the 20-year period, whose transposition of the analysis model was adapted for the public sector. We grouped the costs in blocks, with the proposition of nine regression models with panel data, of which, eight corroborate the cost stickiness phenomenon. Still, the results indicate similarity with the flypaper phenomenon, typical of the public sector, which uses part of the recipe to calculate the asymmetry, in which of the three types of analyzes performed, the use of the recipe is linked to the one that resulted in the highest sticky. Finally, it offers subsidies for the application of CST to the public sector, even in the case of a typical phenomenon of for-profit entities, and concludes that, with the use of fractional revenue (as well as in the phenomenal flypaper) for local governments of Santa Catarina, the behavior of costs appears to be stickier.

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