Damien Rousselière

Agrocampus Ouest · Department of Economics, Management and Society

The relation between alcohol consumption and well‐being is a controversial issue. Although the deleterious effects of heavy alcohol consumption on health have been demonstrated, research found that moderate drinking may have positive effect on various dimensions of human capital. Our contribution to this debate is original. We provide new cross‐cou...

The everyday material life of Fourierist communities, real American utopias of the 19th century, are relatively understudied, with the exceptions of the major works of C. Guarneri and S. Kesten. Based on a case study of a rural phalanx, Alphadelphia in Kalamazoo (Michigan) from 1844 to 1848, this article analyzes how this community manages economic...

Although embedded in a regulatory framework, studies suggest the important role of informal (relational) mechanisms in agricultural cooperatives, mostly viewed as complements to formal mechanisms. However, the interaction between these two mechanisms remains unclear. To improve our understanding of this interaction, we investigate governance mechan...

Going beyond the idea that utopia, when it becomes a reality, is necessarily doomed in the long run, this article proposes to analyze the nineteenth century Icarian communities. Based on the current interest within the field of communal studies on the measurement of the success of utopian communities, and following the developmental communalism the...

The interest in evaluation and impact assessment of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) is reaffirmed year upon year. In the recent decades however, demands have grown and changed the way SSE organizations report on their activity. We are moving from a culture of evaluation of processes and results to the development of an expertise in measurin...

Les espaces végétalisés urbains génèrent des externalités positives en matière d’environnement, de santé et d’attractivité des villes. Il importe aux scientifiques comme aux décideurs politiques de disposer de mesures pertinentes pour évaluer l’impact des espaces végétalisés sur différents facteurs environnementaux, sociaux ou économiques. À partir...

This datasheet on Urban Horticulture covers Identity, Overview, Description, Further Information.

Small agricultural cooperatives are increasingly using differentiated payments based on the quality of their members’ products. Such cooperatives make a trade-off between the return on investment in quality and members’ disengagement from the cooperative. Based on data from the five-year survey of small French agricultural cooperatives, we analyse...

This research note empirically investigates the effect of stringent environmental regulations on environmentally friendly technological innovation for 27 OECD countries from 1990 to 2015, using the two-step system-GMM estimation method for a linear dynamic panel data model. We further test the robustness of the empirical results by the method of co...

L’évaluation du succès des communautés utopiques est une question importante mais souvent réduite à celle de la longévité. En nous appuyant sur les travaux de Donald E. Pitzer, et à partir de l’accès à des archives inédites, nous proposons dans cet article de réévaluer la contribution des communautés icariennes de l’Iowa (Corning) qui ont fonctionn...

This research note empirically investigates the effect of stringent environmental regulations on environmentally friendly technological innovation for 27 OECD countries from 1990 to 2015, using the two-step system-GMM estimation method for a linear dynamic panel data model. We further test the robustness of the empirical results by the method of co...

We provide new cross‐country evidence on alcohol price and income elasticities based on microdata on individual behaviour. Our approach is original as previous research mainly estimates determinants of consumption with macroeconomic data. We use the latest available wave of the European Social Survey, 2014, merged with the Annual Database of Nation...

This paper explores the channels through which energy taxes may affect economic growth, using a simultaneous equations model for a balanced panel data of 31 OECD countries over the 1994–2013 period. The empirical results reveal a negative impact of energy taxes on physical investment in the short and long term. This impact is negatively sensitive t...

Les Organismes nationaux à vocation agricole et rurale (Onvar) représentent des structures collectives très originales au service du développement durable intégré des territoires. Une grille issue de l’économie institutionnelle d’appréciation de la valeur ajoutée territoriale est appliquée à un matériau empirique original (rapport d’évaluation d’ac...

Au regard des autres pays, la France se caractérise par la présence forte et continue des Cuma depuis maintenant 75 ans. La plasticité de cette forme organisationnelle explique son développement singulier et son adaptabilité à des pratiques sociales très différentes (du partage de machines à la réflexion sur la transition agroécologique). Dans ce t...

The objective of the present paper is to identify the determinants of the form of collaboration initiated between an upstream innovator and a downstream producer in order to incorporate a new input and commercialize an innovation consisting of a quality enhanced final product, with an empirical application to the genetically modified (GM) plant ind...

Our study is part of a research project called Smart, which focuses on the implementation of a circular economy system based on an environmental innovation : semi-forging plastic films made of recycled plastic. Preliminary work has identified a distrustful attitude from market gardeners towards change and a low consideration of environmental issues...

This paper introduces a refined approach to conceptualising the commons in order to shed new light on cooperative practices. Specifically, it proposes the novel concept of Common-Property Assets (CPAs). CPAs are exclusively human-made resources owned under common-property ownership regimes. Our CPA model combines quantity (the flow of resource unit...

This paper explores the channels through which energy taxes may affect economic growth, using a simultaneous equations model for a balanced panel data of 31 OECD countries over the 1994–2013 period. The empirical results reveal a negative impact of energy taxes on physical investment in the short and long term. This impact is negatively sensitive t...

En France, de nombreux travaux permettent de mesurer le poids de l’économie sociale et solidaire (ESS) à différentes échelles territoriales. Ils sont issus de deux traditions : l’une fondée sur des statistiques descriptives (s’appuyant sur un périmètre de l’ESS et une méthodologie quantitative stabilisée), l’autre basée sur des données qualitatives...

This paper explores the relationship between environmentally related taxes and the economic growth rate. The analysis also investigates whether this relationship differs between countries that have implemented environmental tax reforms (ETRs) and those that have not. Using panel data from 31 OECD countries over the period 1994-2013, the paper finds...

Social capital and especially trust are the foundation of most personal relationships and a key factor of many economicand social outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of social capital on subjective well-being,controlling for individual and national effects. Our original empirical approach addresses the problem of endogeneit...

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Le 15 décembre 2019, AGROCAMPUS OUEST a attribué un doctorat honoris causa àMurray Fulton, professeur à l’université de Saskatchewan (Canada) et fondateur duCanadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. Il s’agit de la première distinctionhonorifique de ce type à être décernée pour mettre en valeur des travaux portant surles coopératives agricole...

The aim of this paper is to understand the economic performance of craftsmen cooperatives during the crisis period. These cooperatives have the distinctive feature of being supply cooperatives. We use an exhaustive dataset for the French craftsmen cooperatives (2004–2014). We estimate Bayesian Translog econometric models in order to underline the i...

This research note addresses for the first time the issue of capital constraint and credit rationing for craftsmen cooperatives, which are small to medium grassroots cooperatives. We estimate an ECM (Error correction model) using various specifications as robustness checks on an exhaustive French cooperative database. We find empirical evidence of...

The specific case of home gardening practices is particularly relevant when discussing lifestyle habits and ecological transition, due to the wide range of positive and negative environmental externalities private gardens may generate. However, existing studies usually focus on restricted areas, mostly at a city scale. We provide an original empiri...

Social capital and especially trust are the foundation of most personal relationships and it is considered a key factor of many economic and social outcomes. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we investigate the links between social capital (trust and voluntary association membership) and life satisfaction. Then, we analyse the impact of...

This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the effect of energy based taxes on economic growth. The analysis is based on a panel dataset of 31 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) member countries from 1994 to 2013, using multiple imputation algorithm to address missingness pattern. Employing the instrumental variable...

This paper proposes a new estimation model to capture the complex effect of age on organization survival. Testing various theoretical propositions on organizational mortality, we study the survival of French agricultural cooperatives in comparison with other firms with which they compete. The relationship between age and mortality in organizations...

Dans un contexte de multiplication des expériences innovatrices, le présent ouvrage veut faire reconnaître les pratiques émergentes comme étant valables et justes, et montrer leur capacité à transformer le monde. Ainsi, les auteurs prônent le passage d’une vision minimaliste de l’innovation sociale, selon laquelle les acteurs sociaux et communautai...

Dans un contexte de multiplication des expériences innovatrices, le présent ouvrage veut faire reconnaître les pratiques émergentes comme étant valables et justes, et montrer leur capacité à transformer le monde. Ainsi, les auteurs prônent le passage d’une vision minimaliste de l’inno-vation sociale, selon laquelle les acteurs sociaux et communauta...

Le numéro 76 d'Innovations Agronomiques est constitué d’articles de synthèse des projets DEPHY EXPE publiés à l’occasion du Colloque National DEPHY EXPE, qui s’est déroulé le 28 mai 2019 à l'Assemblée Permanente des Chambres d'Agriculture (Paris)

Social capital and especially trust are the foundation of most personal relationships and it is considered a key factor of many economic and social outcomes. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we investigate the links between social capital (trust and voluntary association membership) and life satisfaction. Then, we analyse the impact of...

Traduction de l'Ouvrage "The Weight of the Social Economy" publié en 2015 aux Editions Peter Lang.

En France, la coopération de proximité entre agriculteurs permet de mieux accéder et gérer les équipements, le travail, les ressources productives (matière organique, fourrages, semences, etc.) et les connaissances. Pourtant ses potentialités pour appuyer les collaborations territoriales nécessaires à la transition agroécologique restent peu explor...

The transition economies of developing countries to a market economy has a strong impact on the governance of cooperatives, transforming them from state-controlled organizations to member-based organizations. Therefore an important part of the performance of cooperatives lies in strengthening their relationship with their members. We conduct a surv...

Our paper extends previous researches by taking into account the multidimensional dynamic of social economy:volunteering, employment and income. We estimate a Cragg's model with a simultaneous growth equations systemand a hurdle equation on the two waves of the Montreal survey on social economy. Our main empirical results aretwofold: First we highl...

Reduced pesticide use is one of the reasons given by Europeans for accepting new genetic engineering techniques. According to the advocates of these techniques, consumers are likely to embrace the application of cisgenesis to apple trees. In order to verify the acceptability of these techniques, we estimate a Bayesian multilevel structural equation...

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(AGROCAMPUS Ouest et UQAM): http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/cooperatives/news/WCMS_554327/lang--en/index.htm%20 http://www.copac.coop/copac-technical-working-group-meets-to-discuss-path-towards-improved-cooperative-statistics/

Environmentally-motivated taxes on energy products can effectively induce households and firms to take into account the environmental externalities of energy transformation and use. The levy of such taxes is, however, often hampered by public concerns over possible distributional effects. This paper analyses the macroeconomic relationship between t...

This paper examines urban‐rural welfare inequality in Tunisia. Using the recentred influence function and quantile regression based counterfactual decomposition, we analyse the gap between the two areas. Results of the present study suggest that the difference between rural poor households and urban poor households is due essentially to characteris...

Geneva, International Labour Organization, http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/cooperatives/publications/WCMS_578683/lang--en/index.htm.

This report has been produced for the International Labour Organization. It presents a general overview of how cooperatives and key concepts are measured for statistical purposes. It is based on extant work and literature. The first part of the report reviews the most important statistical studies on cooperatives. Conceptual and methodological issu...

Analyzing institutional change process in agriculture requires understanding discursive strategies of actors. This article study the evolution of the concept of Ecologically Intensive Agriculture (EIA), exploiting press corpus regarding all press articles about EIA since its first appearance to February 2014. Textual analysis identifies 6 kinds of...

The study of European attitudes toward biotechnologies underlines a situation that is relatively contrasting in Europe. However, as different effects of time can influence the social attitudes (a life-cycle effect, a generational effect, and an exogenous temporal effect potentially affecting the entire population), an appropriate methodology should...

The objective of this article is to contribute to an understanding of the evolution of a population of social economy enterprises faced with the economic crisis, namely by referring to the case of Montreal. We apply a two-step approach. For one, we use an innovative discrete-time survival model that takes spatial heterogeneity into account. In a se...

What is the weight of the social economy? How should we measure it? Throughout the world, cooperatives, non-profit and mutual benefit organizations, foundations and other social enterprises play an important role in job creation, social cohesion, social innovation, regional development and environmental protection. Observations tend to confirm the...

Le projet PAYTAL (Paysages et Étalement Urbain) est un travail pluridisciplinaire visant à proposer une méthodologie reproductible d’analyse des liens entre paysages et urbanisation. Ces liens sont importants du fait que les populations valorisent particulièrement certains paysages et sont prêtes à payer pour le droit d’habiter proches de ces paysa...

We build a theoretical model to study a market structure with a marketing cooperative and direct selling, in which many farmers are members of an agricultural marketing cooperative. They can sell their production either to the cooperative or on an oligopolistic local market. We show that the decision to sell to the cooperative induces an anti-compe...

What is the weight of the social economy? How should we measure it? Throughout the world, cooperatives, non-profit and mutual benefit organizations, foundations and other social enterprises play an important role in job creation, social cohesion, social innovation, regional development and environmental protection. Observations tend to confirm the...

L’objectif de ce projet est de questionner le rôle joué par les réseaux d’acteurs appartenant aux filières alimentaires ligériennes sur la valorisation du territoire. Les formes d’organisation collective territorialisées (FOCT), vocable utilisé pour identifier notre objet d’étude, sont analysées sous plusieurs angles : leur organisation propre, leu...

L’objectif de ce projet est de questionner le rôle joué par les réseaux d’acteurs appartenant aux filières alimentaires ligériennes sur la valorisation du territoire. Les formes d’organisation collective territorialisées (FOCT), vocable utilisé pour identifier notre objet d’étude, sont analysées sous plusieurs angles : leur organisation propre, leu...

We build a theoretical model to study a market structure of a marketing cooperative with direct selling, in which many farmers are members of an agricultural marketing cooperative. They can sell their production either to the cooperative or on a local market. We show that the decision to sell to the cooperative induces an anti-competitive effect on...

Is there (really) a polarization of attitudes toward GMO? An international inquiry on the 2000-2010 period How can we explain that the use of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in food and horticulture is an issue in France and in Europe, where they are hardly used, and yet seems to be taken for granted in the US, where their use is widespread?...

Un Atlas de paysages est un document destiné « à dresser l'état des lieux des paysages et des dynamiques qui les transforment » (Luginbühl 1994). Il est réalisé à l'échelle du département ou de la région, le plus souvent à l'initiative de la Direction Régionale de l'Environnement, et par une équipe généralement pluridisciplinaire. Afin que les Atla...

De manière similaire aux sciences physiques, la méthode d'expérience de pensée permet d’étudier la validité des théories dans un « contexte limite », où le chercheur manque de données expérimentales. The Wire (sur écoute), série policière ambitieuse des années 2000, peut être vu comme un tel objet d’études riche pour les chercheurs en sciences soci...

Selon la Convention Européenne du Paysage, le paysage est « une partie de territoire telle que perçue par les populations, dont le caractère résulte de l'action de facteurs naturels et/ou humains et de leurs interrelations ». Nous nous intéressons à la conception d'une ontologie axée « perception par les populations » en exploitant les aspects perc...

How can we explain that the use of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in food and horticulture is an issue in France and in Europe, where they are hardly used, and yet seems to be taken for granted in the US, where their use is widespread? Many observers see this as a sign that American consumers have accepted transgenic foods, due to a differen...

We build a theoretical model to study a market structure of a marketing cooperative with direct selling, in which many farmers are members of an agricultural marketing cooperative. They can sell their production either to the cooperative or on an oligopolistic local market. We show that the decision to sell to the cooperative induces an anti-compet...

La réduction de l’utilisation des pesticides est une des raisons évoquées par les européens pour accepter les nouvelles techniques du génie génétique. A ce titre les nouvelles méthodes de biotechnologie via la transgénèse (transfert horizontal de gènes) ou la cisgénèse (transfert vertical de gènes) du pommier, utilisateur traditionnellement importa...

Innovation, adaptation et transformation sociétale : conceptualisation et illustration par les coopératives agricoles.

European attitudes to biotechnologies: the utility-risk debate looked at again from a longitudinal study.

Les circuits de proximité: opportunités, limites, critères de réussite

Les européens sont-ils opposés aux OGM? Quelques enseignements à partir d'une analyse de vingt ans d'eurobaromètres

Cet article s'intéresse au problème de la diversité des formes organisationnelles des entreprises de l'économie sociale. Deux grands groupes de théories (écologie des organisations et approche néoinstitutionnaliste de l'isomorphisme institutionnel) ont mis en évidence les forces contraignantes ou habilitantes de ces formes organisationnelles. A par...

Regarding heterogeneity of social economy organizational forms: isomorphism versus ecology of social economy organizations

The crowding out or crowding effects on the social economy public policies: a Montreal empirical analysis The financing of public goods through public policies, private donations or sales is a debate that currently strongly affects the social economy. Empirical studies are tempered regarding the relation between these different types of resources (...

(article en français) Numerous works in industrial organization and ecology of organizations have raised recently the question of the link between age and mortality of an organization. The paper tests four theoretical propositions about this link. We compare the survival of the French agricultural cooperatives with their competitors. We apply a sem...

Cette recherche se propose d’explorer le processus de developpement de l’entreprise d’economie sociale issue d’un partenariat fondateur. Nous nous interessons plus particulierement a la facon dont l’entreprise d’economie sociale opere, a travers ses choix d’orientation et organisationnels, l’equilibre entre ses besoins propres de developpement et l...

Le paysage coopératif agricole est en forte transformation depuis de nombreuses années, entre disparitions, fusions et consolidations. Différents travaux théoriques ont tenté de proposer une explication des particularités coopératives en termes d’efficacité et de capacité à survivre. Nous en présentons ici les grandes propositions de recherche. Not...

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Cette recherche se propose d’explorer le processus de développement de l’entreprise d’économie sociale issue d’un partenariat fondateur. Nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement à la façon dont l’entreprise d’économie sociale opère, à travers ses choix d’orientation et organisationnels, l’équilibre entre ses besoins propres de développement et l...

The financing of public goods through public policies, private donations or sales is a debate that currently strongly affects the social economy. Empirical studies are tempered regarding the relation between these different types of resources (crowding in or crowding out effect). Using a multivariate model selection (also called "generalized Heckma...

This communication is a proposition of a simple theoretical model of the creation, evolution and persistence of various organizational forms (cooperatives, social economy enterprises, family businesses, fi rms...) in some industries (agro-food industry, creative industries). This organizational ecological model is inspired by recent developments in...