Incumbents’ enabling role in niche-innovation: Power dynamics in a wastewater project

Ampe, Kasper; Paredis, Erik; Asveld, Lotte; Osseweijer, Patrícia; Block, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2021.03.004

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“…The findings of Paper V can help answer calls for the establishment of additional conceptualizations that help characterize the relationship between firms' views of their own resources and proximity to certain innovations, which are underlying their willingness to commit to strategic reorientation (Ampe, Paredis, Asveld, Osseweijer, & Block, 2021).…”

Section: The Ability Of Incumbents To Shape Reconfiguration Processesmentioning

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Ghosts of the Past or Facilitators of the Future? : Firm-System Interactions in the Transition to Electrified Goods Transportation

Werner

2023

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Section: The Ability Of Incumbents To Shape Reconfiguration Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ghosts of the Past or Facilitators of the Future? : Firm-System Interactions in the Transition to Electrified Goods Transportation

Werner

2023

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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“…However, despite the valuable contributions of the socio-technical system transition literature that puts sustainability at the center of attention (Geels, 2011 ), the literature to date provides more information about overall innovation systems dynamics and less about what this means for the management along innovation processes (Loorbach et al, 2009 ; Jacobsson and Bergek, 2011 ; Inigo et al, 2017 ; Ampe et al, 2021 ). Moreover, after an observation of the literature on “innovation processes for sustainability” and management implications, the tendency emerges that the sustainability management literature primarily focuses on optimizing innovation ecosystems to increase competitiveness and capability of innovation processes in a backward looking attempt (Mousavi and Bossink, 2017 ; Karlsson et al, 2018 ; Hansson et al, 2022 ) and less on options to improve the influence on sustainable socio-technical system change in a forward looking attempt.…”

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Addressing responsibility in innovation processes for sustainability: Lessons for responsible management of sustainable innovation form a systematic literature review

Mangelkramer

2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Analyzing the impact of a sustainability agenda in research and innovation on system transition is a critical research topic. This literature stream aims to examine how research and innovation can deal with wicked-problems at a dynamic system level to create more sustainable future systems. However, this study addresses two main issues in the current sustainability transition literature. First, the literature to date offers little insight into concrete implications for the management of innovation processes at the organizational level. Second, sustainability is often addressed as per se desirable. While the concept of Sustainable Innovation (SI) can valuably contribute in addressing the first issue by providing essential features to analyze business management procedures and their broader implications on socio-technical systems, it falls short in addressing the second issue. Essential aspects of sustainability, such as the responsibility for potential future trade-offs through innovation, are not strategically integrated into the current framework. This study argues that without strategic integration of responsibility, there is a risk of contributing to a partially-sustainable—”irresponsible”—socio-technical system change as a result of business innovation activities. Therefore, an extended innovation process model for sustainability to embed responsibility at the core of innovation activities is required. For this purpose, the framework of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is utilized. This paper reports on findings from a systematic literature review of a representative sample of empirical studies from the SI and RRI literature. Thereby, the goal was to extend the understanding of management opportunities within innovation processes for sustainability through the implementation of RRI principles, in order to create sustainable socio-technical systems.

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“…Second, Arts and van Tatenhove (2004) introduced a perspective to analyse multiple layers of power in policy practices, which was subsequently used and adapted (e.g. Ampe et al, 2021;Avelino, 2017;Grin, 2010;Hoffman, 2013;Kok et al, 2021;Liefferink, 2006;Paredis, 2013;Ramírez-Monsalve & van Tatenhove, 2020). This power perspective focusses on change and stability in policy practices by acknowledging the influence of actors and of the structural context in which these actors operate.…”

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Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy

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Environmental problems are usually not tackled with path-departing policies but rather with incrementally adjusted or unchanged policies. One way to address incremental change is the policy feedback approach, which initially focussed on self-reinforcing feedback and path-dependency. Today, self-undermining feedback is also increasingly being studied, centring on agency and change. However, it is unclear precisely how actors use power in policy feedback processes. Therefore, this study applied a power perspective and the policy arrangement approach to a case study of the reorientation towards a circular economy in Dutch wastewater policy between 2008 and 2018, which resulted in incremental instead of fundamental policy change. Here it was observed that self-undermining feedback was generated from 2008 onwards but the balance quickly shifted back to self-reinforcing feedback, indicating that the analysed power struggles led to incremental change. These dynamics resemble a shift from the so-called paths and forks (i.e. fork in the road) towards the boomerang pattern (i.e. returning to its original position) of policy change. The patterns are explained by focussing on powerful actors that resist change through the use of incremental reforms, the ongoing struggles of these actors in facilitating self-reinforcing feedback and the role of interpretation in using feedback as a resource. Overall, this study provides a nuanced understanding of incremental change by directing attention to the power struggles of actors in policy feedback processes. For practitioners, the study emphasises the importance of power struggles in enabling a circular economy.

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Incumbents’ enabling role in niche-innovation: Power dynamics in a wastewater project

Cited by 30 publications

References 70 publications

Ghosts of the Past or Facilitators of the Future? : Firm-System Interactions in the Transition to Electrified Goods Transportation

Ghosts of the Past or Facilitators of the Future? : Firm-System Interactions in the Transition to Electrified Goods Transportation

Addressing responsibility in innovation processes for sustainability: Lessons for responsible management of sustainable innovation form a systematic literature review

Power struggles in policy feedback processes: incremental steps towards a circular economy within Dutch wastewater policy

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