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Engels, Jens Ivo; Lukitsch, Kristof; Muller, Marcel; Stahlhut, Chris; Eifert, Stephanie; Knauf, Alice; Thiessen, Nadja; Elsner, Ivonne; Huck, Andreas; Marathe, Manas; Crespo, Arturo Furones; Dombois, Marcus; Henning, Jan

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“…In other words, resilience also covers the dimension of preparedness, describing flexible reactions to anticipated disruptions and the ability to “bounce forward” (Engels et al. 2018 , p. 52). Overall, resilience is thus often considered a process-like ability (Folke 2006 ).…”

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A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed? Analysis of the Willingness to Share Self-Produced Electricity During a Long-lasting Power Outage

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Schmalenbach J Bus Res

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Will private households owning a photovoltaic system share their electricity during a long-lasting power outage? Prior research has shown that our energy systems need to become more resilient by using dispersed energy sources—a role that could well be performed by these private photovoltaic systems, but only if their owners decide to share the produced electricity, and not consume it themselves. Considering the potential of this approach, it is indispensable to better understand incentives and motives that facilitate such cooperative behaviour. Drawing on theories of social dilemmas as well as prosocial behaviour, we hypothesize that both, structural solutions such as increased rewards as well as individual motives such as empathy-elicited altruism and norms predict cooperation. We test these hypotheses against a dataset of 80 households in Germany which were asked about their sharing behaviour towards four different recipient groups. We show that the effectiveness of motives differs significantly across recipient groups: Individual (intrinsic) motivations such as empathy-elicited altruism and altruistic norms serve as a strong predictor for cooperative behaviour towards related recipients as well as critical infrastructure, whereas higher rewards partially even reduce cooperation depending on the donor’s social value orientation. For the recipient groups neighbours and public infrastructure, no significant effect for any of the tested incentives is found. Contributing to literature on social dilemmas and energy resilience, these results demonstrate the relevance of individual rather than structural incentives for electricity sharing during a power outage to render our energy provision more resilient. Practical implications for policymakers are given.

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confidence: 99%