The instrumental cases were often still looking for shared values, such as in the case of Re:Source: “people are going to have to be exposed to the benefits of sharing, the idea that there is more to be gained by sharing then there is to lose.”
When participants of the instrumental cases identified problems related to the intensity with which members participated or noted that participation of certain members was not sustained, this seemed to be at least partly related to a lack of shared identity, where values of the OEP were not (yet) in line with the concerns of other constituting members. Sometimes the innovative drive of the core group and intrinsic motivation found in many other participants was not or could not be shared by all network members.