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Performance assessment of Russian homeowners associations : The importance of being social

Polishchuk, Leonid and Borisova, Ekaterina (2010): Performance assessment of Russian homeowners associations : The importance of being social. Published in:

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Abstract

Performance of Russian homeowners associations – non-profits established to manage common property in residential housing – is assessed using the stochastic frontier technique, which is a powerful tool of productivity analysis. Performance variations are explained by physical and social factors, prominent among them is the availability of social capital among tenants, required to resolve collective action problems and ensure accountability of managing bodies and outside contractors. Lack of civic capacity could be an obstacle to implementing community-governance solutions in residential housing, making homeowners associations dysfunctional or prone to capture by vested interests.

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