TY  - JOUR
A1  - Falk, Thomas
A1  - Kirk, Michael
A1  - Lohmann, Dirk
A1  - Kruger, Bertus
A1  - Hüttich, Christian
A1  - Kamukuenjandje, Richard
T1  - The profits of excludability and transferability in redistributive land reform in central Namibia
JF  - Development Southern Africa
N2  - Policies which redistribute property rights to land can improve the well-being of rural households and can have overall growth effects. In many cases, however, land reforms are driven mainly by politically justified objectives. Under such circumstances, little emphasis is placed on whether and, if so, how property rights can increase productivity. Following 18 years of land reform implementation in Namibia, we evaluated 65 beneficiaries in Namibia. We assess to which degree land rights affects their farm income. The study focuses on Namibia’s two main commercial land reform instruments, namely the Farm Unit Resettlement Scheme and the Affirmative Action Loan Scheme. We find evidence that the majority of land reform projects are not profitable. Further, our study confirms the importance of the right to restrict land access compared with the right to transfer. The long-term leasehold contract seemingly provides sufficient incentives to make productive use of the land.
KW  - Redistributive land reform
KW  - property rights
KW  - farm productivity
KW  - pastoralism
KW  - Namibia
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1269633
SN  - 0376-835X
SN  - 1470-3637
VL  - 34
SP  - 314
EP  - 329
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reuschl, Andreas
A1  - Tiberius, Victor
A1  - Filser, Matthias
A1  - Qiu, Yixin
T1  - Value configurations in sharing economy business models
JF  - Review of managerial science
N2  - The sharing economy gains momentum and develops a major economic impact on traditional markets and firms. However, only rudimentary theoretical and empirical insights exist on how sharing networks, i.e., focal firms, shared goods providers and customers, create and capture value in their sharing-based business models. We conduct a qualitative study to find key differences in sharing-based business models that are decisive for their value configurations. Our results show that (1) customization versus standardization of shared goods and (2) the centralization versus particularization of property rights over the shared goods are two important dimensions to distinguish value configurations. A second, quantitative study confirms the visibility and relevance of these dimensions to customers. We discuss strategic options for focal firms to design value configurations regarding the two dimensions to optimize value creation and value capture in sharing networks. Firms can use this two-dimensional search grid to explore untapped opportunities in the sharing economy.
KW  - sharing economy
KW  - business model
KW  - customization
KW  - standardization
KW  - property rights
KW  - value creation
KW  - value capture
KW  - value configuration
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-020-00433-w
SN  - 1863-6683
SN  - 1863-6691
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SP  - 89
EP  - 112
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -