2013
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1808
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Keeping sustainable innovation on a leash? Exploring incumbents’ institutional strategies

Abstract: This research aims to identify the institutional strategies of incumbent firms with regard to sustainable energy innovations that threaten their interests. This exploratory study contributes to the multi-level perspective by providing new insights into niche-regime interaction. The focus on actor behavior in transitions is informed by literature from institutional theory and strategic management. Based on semi-structured interviews with actors and on documents related to LED lighting and biofuels in the Nether… Show more

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“…Central governments arguably have the means to break the 'lock-in' problems which favour fossil-fuel-based energy technologies [53]. Mistakes, however, are terribly costly and can create new lock-ins for which politicians do not want to be held accountable.…”
Section: Policies To Stimulate Investments Into Clean Energymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Central governments arguably have the means to break the 'lock-in' problems which favour fossil-fuel-based energy technologies [53]. Mistakes, however, are terribly costly and can create new lock-ins for which politicians do not want to be held accountable.…”
Section: Policies To Stimulate Investments Into Clean Energymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This involves attention extending away from narrower policy aspects alone, to also encompass wider political dimensions of regime dynamics and the actions of incumbents and new entrants (Baker, Newell, &Phillips, 2014;Geels, 2014;Hess, 2014;Meadowcroft, 2009;Smink, Hekkert, & Negro, 2013;Stirling, 2014a).…”
Section: The Present 'Abductive' Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These include 'autonomy' (Winner, 1999) , 'lock in' (Cowan, 1990), 'path dependency' (Arthur, 1994), 'entrapment' (Walker, 2000), and 'obduracy' in 'socio-technical imaginaries' (Jasanoff & Kim, 2009). More recently, notions of 'incumbent strategies' have been developed, adopting political-economic perspectives to analyse the 'resistance' of incumbents to the diffusion of alternative technologies (Geels, 2014;Smink et al, 2013). Similarly recent attention has turned towards understanding how such path dependent configurations can be 'destabilised' (Turnheim & Geels, 2012), as well more recent attention to the active discontinuation of well-established socio-technical systems (Stegmaier & Kuhlmann, 2013).…”
Section: Factors Bearing On Nuclear Discontinuity In Germany and Contmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…LED lighting has been analysed at industry level (Sanderson and Simons, 2014;Smink et al, 2013) and household level, focusing specifically on adoption (Mills and Schleich, 2014), while the distinct context of public application has been 7 neglected, although this provides opportunities to combine climate change mitigation with alleviation of budget constraints The specific potential of energy service contracts to accelerate the commercialisation and diffusion of novel EUEDs has been neglected in the literature (Hypko et al, 2010a;Steinberger et al, 2009). …”
Section: Research Gaps Identified In the Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a result, application of this technology is proving to be challenging for both manufacturers and customers (Bergek and Onufrey, 2013;Sanderson and Simons, 2014;Smink et al, 2013), despite forecasts of LED market shares increasing from less than 10% to 70% by 2020 (McKinsey, 2012). Public procurement is considered a significant driver in the innovation and diffusion process (Edler and Georghiou, 2007;Edquist and Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, 2012) and in this paper we analyse the role of different governance arrangements available to German municipalities for LED street lighting.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%