What constitutes agency? Determinants of actors’ influence on formal institutions in Swiss waste management

Duygan, Mert; Stauffacher, Michael; Grégoire, Marilaure

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120413

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“…The integrative participation, co-operation, interaction, and interdependence of all the actors in the value chain with respect to clearly articulated obligations and expectations (Le et al, 2018;Milios et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2020;Duygan et al, 2020) Public-private relationship, collaboration of stakeholders, supply chain management, actors' participation, system stakeholders, industry segment communications, value chain linkage 54 Included Awareness Extent of understanding and knowledge of waste management methods and the relationship between human behaviour, waste, health, and environment (Troschinetz & Mihelcic, 2009) Information dissemination, acquisition of information, understanding, education, conscious, or recognition 42 Included Demand Consumption or intake of sorted plastic waste fraction, produced granulate, or recycled plastic product throughout the value chain (Oliveira-Castro et al, 2006) Purchase, consumption, need, sale, use 31 Included…”

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Plastic value chain and performance metric framework for optimal recycling

Olatayo

Mativenga

2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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Despite the promotion of plastic recycling to sustainably manage plastic waste and advance the circular economy, existing plastic recycling systems globally are largely experiencing low performance and growth. To transition to world‐class plastic material recycling and circularity, defining the metrics that impact the performance of a plastic recycling system is crucial. Bringing together existing literature, this study developed a conceptual framework, comprised of eight key performance metrics, for benchmarking recycling success or assessing the degree to which the performance of any plastic recycling system is optimal. Through a value chain approach, the specific performance metrics relevant to each stage of the plastic recycling system, their objectives, and the actors characterizing the system were analyzed in detail. Also, specific maturity models were developed to measure the performance of any plastic recycling system. This framework provides essential knowledge for related stakeholders to inform further development of plastic recycling and a circular economy.

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Section: Value Chain Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plastic value chain and performance metric framework for optimal recycling

Olatayo

Mativenga

2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…It provides an alternative or supplementary method for linear regression analysis, which is particularly suitable for the various complex phenomena and causality that we usually see in TFP. In fsQCA, the earliest researchers usually conclude that a model is informative when consistency is higher than 0.75 [33], [44], [45]. Ragin (2008) recommends low, moderate, and high solution consistency thresholds of 0.75, 0.80, and 0.85, respectively.…”

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The Total Factor Productivity of China’s Software Industry and its Promotion Path

Zhao

Wang

2021

IEEE Access

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To reasonably guide and promote the high-quality development of China's software industry through policies, and to improve the total factor productivity (TFP) of China's software industry are the inevitable requirements of the conjunctive development. Previous research mainly used econometric methods to explore the impact of specific variables or factors in different regions on the TFP of the software industry. Here we provide a solution for the path selection to improve the TFP of the software industry. The DEA-Malmquist index analysis method to measure the TFP of the software industry and the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method (fsQCA) are adopted to explore the different promotion paths of provinces based on the relevant data of 29 provinces in China. The results show that 5 path configurations achieve high TFP. Specifically, regions with high TFP in the software industry tend to be those with high enterprise scale, high R&D investment, and high R&D personnel investment. When the scale of enterprises is high, the region should fully consider the degree of R&D investment and the degree of higher education.When the investment of R&D personnel is high, the high education level of human factors and the investment intensity of fixed assets of capital factors should be brought into full play.When the investment in fixed assets and R&D investment are high, the region should fully consider the investment of R&D personnel and the scale of the enterprise.

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“…Generally, agency can be defined as the capacity of individuals and collective actors to change the course of events or the outcome of processes (Pattberg & Stripple 2008 ; Otto et al 2020 ). Some of the key elements that may enable agency include: access to resources, discourses and networks of actors (Duygan et al 2019 , 2021 ); power (Morrison et al 2019 ); and, system roles, power and influence, alignment to the problem, and transformational potential (Lyon et al 2020 ). Agency is therefore an important characteristic of the ability of stakeholders to be active participants in knowledge co-production and resulting governance processes.…”

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Stratification of stakeholders for participation in the governance of coastal social-ecological systems

Celliers

Rölfer

Rivers

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Ambio

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Knowledge co-production has become part of an evolution of participatory and transdisciplinary research approaches that are increasingly important for achieving sustainability. To effectively involve the most appropriate stakeholders there is a need for engagement and increasing prominence of stakeholders in environmental management and governance processes. The paper aims at developing and testing a methodology for stratifying stakeholders by (i) classifying organisations involved in coastal and ocean governance by their agency, and (ii) grouping them into organisational archetypes for representation and selection in research processes. Agency was measured by the three dimensions of scale, resources, and power. Each dimension was further elaborated as a set of indicators. The methodology is applied in the context of a research project set in Algoa Bay, South Africa. The stratification of organisations enabled the research team to gain a better understanding of the stakeholder landscape of organisational agency, and thus identify the most relevant stakeholder with which to engage. The use of a hierarchical cluster analysis identified five organisational archetypes in relation to ocean and coastal governance in Algoa Bay. The methodology used in this study proposes an informed and intentional approach to create the conditions under which the co-production of and participation in research processes can take place.

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What constitutes agency? Determinants of actors’ influence on formal institutions in Swiss waste management

Cited by 21 publications

References 42 publications

Plastic value chain and performance metric framework for optimal recycling

Plastic value chain and performance metric framework for optimal recycling

The Total Factor Productivity of China’s Software Industry and its Promotion Path

Stratification of stakeholders for participation in the governance of coastal social-ecological systems

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