Institutional dynamics and technology legitimacy – A framework and a case study on biogas technology

Markard, Jochen; Wirth, Steffen; Truffer, Bernhard

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2015.10.009

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“…Instead, they may also differ in terms of rigidity and institutional coherence, which may have consequences, among others, for technology legitimacy (Markard et al, 2014). Moreover, institutional contexts may also unfold dynamics of their own, which might again affect the focal technology (cf.…”

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The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms

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a b s t r a c tThe technological innovation systems framework (TIS) is widely used to study the emergence and growth of new technological fields and industries. At the same time, it has been criticized for a number of issues and innovation scholars have made suggestions of how to improve the framework. In this viewpoint, we respond to six areas of criticism: (1) TIS context, (2) system delineation, (3) spatial aspects, (4) transitions, (5) politics, and (6) policy recommendations. We point to promising conceptual developments of how to address shortcomings and highlight needs for further research. We also discuss the prospects of the TIS approach for the analysis of socio-technical transitions. The TIS framework, in our view, has the potential to outgrow its original scope -explaining the dynamics and performance of a technological field -and to address many of the issues relevant when studying transitions.

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The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms

Markard¹,

Hekkert

Jacobsson

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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“…Organizational ecology scholars argue that legitimacy is a key element for organizational survival [52,53]. A legitimate status is sine qua non for resources to be mobilized, and for demand to form and to acquire regulatory support.…”

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“…In terms of organizational studies, it helps us to do justice to agency, in line with Baum and Shipilov's [51] pledge, to avoid structural determinism while recognizing the importance of context as a supplier of resources (organizational ecology literature, cf. [52,53] and as hampering change (structural inertia theory, cf. [54,55].…”

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Abstract:Transitions to deal with the grand challenges of contemporary societies require novel kinds of leadership, which can both stimulate novel organizational practices and changes in practices and structures in the organization's context. This article seeks to understand how (changes in) the external structural context may influence organizational-internal transformative leadership and vice versa, and what kind of work is implied in leadership to transform current business models. It uses notions from literature on relational leadership and transformative leadership as sensitizing concepts. It then explores the leadership work in two case studies, on fishing in Portugal and care farming in the Netherlands. We find a dialectic interplay of the interactions between leaders and others on the one hand, and contextual changes on the other. Using a system-building perspective from innovation system literature, that interaction is driven by the quest to establish legitimacy and market formation and acceptance, knowledge and other resources for innovations.

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“…For example, the study by Markard, Wirth and Truffer (2016) showed how the agriculture sector in Germany positively influenced the development of biogas technology at its genesis. The authors explain this positive relationship by a positioning of the biogas technology as beneficial to the agricultural sector, which gave legitimacy to the new technology.…”

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“…Armed conflicts, corruption, other sectors, and climate change are considered modifying FC because they influence the focal system by repositioning or modifying existing institutions. As a result, the institutional set-up can become better or worse aligned with the needs of the focal system, which was the case of Germany (Markard, Wirth, and Truffer 2016), where another sector (agriculture) helped modify the institutional set-up for biogas technology. Another example of the dynamics between FC and institutions is corruption.…”

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Institutional dynamics and technology legitimacy – A framework and a case study on biogas technology

Cited by 234 publications

References 54 publications

The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms

The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms

Transformative Leadership and Contextual Change

Winds of change: expanding renewable energies in developing countries

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