Agent-Based Change in Facilitating Sustainability Transitions

Koistinen, Katariina; Teerikangas, Satu; Mikkilä, Mirja; Linnanen, Lassi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71312-0_31

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“…Indeed, numerous new environmental policies aim to foster SET by involving citizens and local communities in the generation of renewable energy (Koistinen et al 2018;Heldeweg 2017). When producing and delivering an excess of energy to the grid, the consumers are being transformed into prosumers (Koirala et al 2016).…”

Section: The Global North's Visions Of Sustainable Energy Transition (Set)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South

Kumar¹,

Höffken²,

Pols³

2021

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Section: The Global North's Visions Of Sustainable Energy Transition (Set)mentioning

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Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South

Kumar¹,

Höffken²,

Pols³

2021

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“…The field encompasses a variety of theoretical frameworks spanning the social sciences, including but not limited to political science, sociology, sustainability science, psychology and management [1,[3][4][5]. Despite these developments, the study of sustainability transitions is critiqued for lacking thorough analyses of agency, particularly in regard to individual levels of analysis [6][7][8][9][10].…”

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“…We view rationality as an epistemic and ontological presupposition that coordinates the agency of multiple actors working together in an emerging ecosystem. While the concept of agency is increasingly used to explore sustainability transitions [6,21] structuration theory [22] has dominated this discussion [9]. We argue that the concept of rationality opens new avenues to theorizing relational forms of sustainability agency.…”

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Agency in Circular City Ecosystems—A Rationalities Perspective

Hirvensalo¹,

Teerikangas

Reynolds

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The concept of agency is increasingly used in the literature on sustainability transitions. In this paper, we add to that discussion by arguing that the concept of rationality opens new avenues to theorizing relational agency in transitions toward a circular economy. To this end, we compare rationality conceptions from management (e.g., collaboration and competition) with critical theory perspectives on rationality (e.g., instrumental and communicative rationality). This leads us to develop a typology matrix for describing plural rationalities underpinning relational agency. We illustrate this typology using excerpts from an in-depth case study of an ongoing city-coordinated ecosystem that develops a smart technology-enabled urban area based on the principles of circularity. The first contribution of this interdisciplinary paper is to offer a rational perspective on theorizing the antecedents of relational agency in circular economy transitions, where communicatively rational action enables agency and change. Secondly, our paper contributes to the literature on circular cities through conceptualizing circular transition as simultaneous collaboration and competition. Thirdly, our paper introduces a dyadic perspective on rationality to the literature on coopetition and provides an operating space from which professionals can navigate, depending on the type of coopetitive situation.

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“…• Based on reviews of the disciplines of management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and sustainability science in the years 1992-2019, we observed the study of sustainability agency to be scattered both within and across disciplines, with little efforts at cross-fertilization and integration across these bodies of knowledge (Teerikangas et al, 2018;Onkila et al, 2019;Koistinen et al, 2020). In the sustainability transitions literature, recent reviews posit that interest in the study of agency is emerging (Fischer & Newig, 2016;Koistinen et al, 2018), yet this body of work remains diffuse amid a plethora of terms (Avelino & Wittmayer, 2016;de Haan & Rotmans, 2018). Similarly, in management literature, the connection between agency and sustainability has recently been acknowledged (Garud & Gehman, 2012;Clayton et al, 2015).…”

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“…regime-shaping) and incumbent actors is recognized. Numerous terms are thus used to denote sustainability actors (Onkila & Sarna, 2017;Koistinen et al, 2018;Teerikangas et al, 2018). While agency is studied, an integrative view of actor types, roles, and their means of influencing sustainability transitions appears to be amiss (Geels & Schot, 2007;Garud & Gehman, 2012;Markard et al, 2012;Pesch, 2015).…”

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