id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-299464-rrxgr909	Yau, Yung	Collectivism and activism in housing management in Hong Kong	2010-12-09		.txt	text/plain	6776	323	45	Building on the wide-ranging applications of the collective interest model (CIM) in explaining political participation and environmental activism, this paper expands its relevance to the arena of housing management. In brief, housing management activism is a function of beliefs about personal and group efficacy, the value of the collective good, and the selective benefits and costs of participation. The phenomenon of homeowner participation in housing management in Hong Kong provides an excellent laboratory for the study of such collective action behaviour. An empirical study is carried out in Hong Kong's private multi-family residential buildings using the CIM, which was developed based on Olson's (1965) logic of collective action. In investigating the dilemma of collective action among homeowners, this article uses the CIM to investigate the benefit-cost expectations associated with participation in the management of apartment buildings in Hong Kong.	./cache/cord-299464-rrxgr909.txt	./txt/cord-299464-rrxgr909.txt