Motivation for collective action through self Sample Clauses

Motivation for collective action through self determination All too often, reforms fail because they seek to influence behaviour exclusively by incentives that operate "from without" rather than "from within": fiscal and regulatory tools are deployed to create the right set of incentives, but the values actors care about, the social norms they adhere to, or the peer pressure they are subjected to, are ignored. We seek to understand such "intrinsic" motivations and to highlight the role they can play in transition. Besides, we also intend to analyse the trajectories of the selected collective processes over time (emergence, success and failure). This will be carried out with a view to provide a better understanding of the role played respectively by extrinsic and intrinsic motivations and to identify the institutional mechanisms that can facilitate the overcoming of the obstacles actors are faced with when operating in specific contexts. Self‐Determination Theory (Xxxx and Xxxx, 2000; Xxxx and Xxxx, 2000) provides a highly relevant theoretical framework for the research on motivations in the F4S project. Indeed, SDT focuses on the origin and the quality of motivation. It also postulates that individuals have the capacity to make sense and internalise values and external regulations, which is consonant with the hypothesis of the meta framework for the F4S project (see above). As explained by Xxxx and Xxxx (2000) “Humans are active, growth‐oriented organisms who are naturally inclined toward integration of their psychic elements into a unified sense of self and integration of themselves into larger social structures.” Accordingly, individuals move along a continuum of increasing or decreasing forms of self‐determination presented in Figure 3.