Extant research tends to adopt a community perspective when examining value creation in consumer collectives that limits the understanding of how value is created in loosely organized, dynamic, and heterogeneous networks. This study expands research on value creation by adopting a...

This study examines how object circulation — the recurrent transferring of objects among members of a group — can be used to foster a hybrid value regime in alternative economies. Prior research notes that alternative economies harbor multiple conceptions of what is valuable, suggesting that...