Abstract
Today’s many crises—the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, social division, the steep economic downturn, and the contentious matters raised by social movements—urgently call for compelling ideas and approaches that benefit us all, but are privately costly to uncover. Yet, decision-makers rarely foresee incentives for citizens, employees, groups of individuals, organizations, or groups of organizations to actually search in partnership for such solutions, giving way to the free-riding problem. In this chapter, four distinct strategies to redress this problem are put forth: raise the stakes; boost information-sharing; promote prosociality; and embrace an uncertainty mind-set. The chapter underlines the essential role that social economy organizations can play to make these strategies work.