Cracks in the gearbox of car hegemony: struggles over the German Verkehrswende between stability and change

Haas, Tobias

doi:10.1080/17450101.2020.1817686

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“…In 2023, the European Union agreed to ban the sale of new conventional ICEVs from 2035 onwards. 1 In terms of public pressure, the global climate movement led to intensifying discourses about alternatives to car-centric systems (Haas, 2020), and a growing number of lawsuits against car makers (van Elten & Rehder, 2022). With respect to competition, incumbents face new entrants such as EV manufacturers Tesla and BYD.…”

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Why do (some) German car manufacturers go electric? The role of dynamic capabilities and cognitive frames

Loder,

Rinscheid,

Wüstenhagen

2023

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After the internal combustion engine was the dominant technology in the automotive industry for more than a century, a transition to electric cars is now under way. However, not all car manufacturers seem equally determined to move away from fossil fuels. Based on a comparative case study of German automakers, we discuss some underlying factors associated with variation in electrification strategies. Conceptually, we focus on firms' dynamic capabilities—in particular, their ability to sense low‐carbon risks and opportunities in a changing business environment. Building on qualitative interviews, we gauge sensing capabilities through industry executives' cognitive frames. Our analysis reveals striking differences in the way executives perceive the opportunities and risks associated with electric mobility. In particular, firms' dynamic capabilities to shape the low‐carbon transition are tied to their conceptions of consumer preferences and the economics of the transition, their perception of network embeddedness, prior experiences with technological innovation, and leadership.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do (some) German car manufacturers go electric? The role of dynamic capabilities and cognitive frames

Loder,

Rinscheid,

Wüstenhagen

2023

Bus Strat Env

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“…Protests unfold—of course not exclusively—in larger-scale discursive contexts. For example, citizens’ voices have been calling for accessibility and more general “freedom to drive a car” (Haas 2020 ; Sonnberger and Leger 2020 ). Some protests in transformation processes must also be perceived in the light of populist backsliding and post-truth politics (for instance, Fraune and Knodt 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Gerecht übersetzt? Eine sozialökologische Gerechtigeitsperspektive auf EU-Umweltgovernance und urbane Mobilitätstransformationen

Stockmann

Graf

2022

Z Politikwiss

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EU environmental policies such as the Ambient Air Quality Directive 2008/50 are highly relevant in this age of the looming climate crisis and interconnected sustainable transitions. However, implementation efforts such as low-emission zones, road pricing, and driving bans affect citizens in heterogenous situations and in ways that evoke questions of socioecological justice. This has resulted in an increasingly polarized reluctance to respective governance across Europe. The EU policy implementation literature often omits these less clearly operationalized norms that EU policies transport and pays little attention to how stakeholders in cities discursively and practically translate EU directives. Constructivist norm research underlines the importance of ‘localizing’ by highlighting that justice does matter for norm translation. The environmental justice concept has, however, not been systematically introduced and referenced in the norm research literature. This article offers a heuristic to address this research gap by combining a translation perspective from International Relations norm research with an environmental justice lens. Following the journey of the Air Quality Directive 2008/50, we ask how urban implementation configures the Directive’s environmental justice dimension and why this is important for effective and sustainable EU governance. Empirically, we focus on action plans and participation processes regarding Directive 2008/50 in Brussels, Glasgow, and Hamburg. As a result, we show that EU environmental governance unfolds at the local level as a dynamic contestation of different distributive justice claims that then translate into concrete policies. The analysis indicates that those policies must procedurally integrate local knowledge and identity formation to enable comprehensively just sustainable transformations.

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“…A large body of literature on legitimacy has focused on processes of legitimation and de-legitimation, especially considering the sustainable transformation of the energy sector, although several recent articles have also addressed legitimacy in agricultural transitions (de Boon et al 2022). This provides ties to a more politicised view on legitimacy, where incumbent actors seek to preserve the legitimacy of the existing socio-technical regime while new entrants and new industries are seeking to disrupt the regime and build legitimacy for themselves (Geels 2014;Haas 2020;Novalia et al 2021). This is an antagonistic view on legitimacy, where legitimacy is gained at the expense of other actors.…”

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Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry

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This study is focused on unsustainable agri-food systems, especially intensive livestock farming and its resulting environmental harms. Specifically we focus on the development of technologies that seek to mitigate these environmental harms. These technologies are generally developed as incremental innovations in response to government regulation. Critics of these technological solutions allege that these developments legitimate unsustainable food production systems and are incapable of supporting agri-food systems transformation. At the same time, technology developers and other actors seek to present these technologies as the legitimate solution to agri-environmental harms. Our study seeks to explore the perceptions and constructions of legitimacy for technologies that are developed to reduce ammonia emissions in intensive livestock farming in Flanders (Belgium). We use a qualitative case study, employing semi-structured interviews and workshops, with technology developers of ammonia-emission reducing technologies and stakeholders in the intensive livestock farming industry in Flanders. What our study shows is that technologies developed to reduce emissions are dependent on regulative legitimacy. The normative and cognitive legitimacy of these technologies is lacking, both due to ties to the intensive livestock industry and due to uncertainty over the performance of these technologies. With the delegitimation of intensive livestock farming, the legitimacy of these technologies is also under threat. In response, technology developers are looking to (re-)construct this legitimacy through knowledge claims over the performance of their technologies. We show several ways for other actors to deal with this, centred on either re-legitimising technologies to maintain the status quo, or to contest these knowledge claims and use them to disrupt path dependencies.

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Cracks in the gearbox of car hegemony: struggles over the German Verkehrswende between stability and change

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

Why do (some) German car manufacturers go electric? The role of dynamic capabilities and cognitive frames

Why do (some) German car manufacturers go electric? The role of dynamic capabilities and cognitive frames

Gerecht übersetzt? Eine sozialökologische Gerechtigeitsperspektive auf EU-Umweltgovernance und urbane Mobilitätstransformationen

Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry

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