The impact of privatization on sustainability transitions: A comparative analysis of dynamic capabilities in three water utilities

Local governments in the driving seat? A comparative analysis of public and private responsibilities for adaptation to climate change in European and North-American cities

“…This research thus confirms the findings of recent studies showing that governments continue to play an important role in different fields of policy-making and at different levels of government (Capano et al, 2015), hinting that governance is rather a normative, idealized view rather than empirical reality. For instance, the lack of a profound shift towards governance has also been found in empirical research in older environmental policy fields such as transport policy (Hysing, 2009), forest conservation policy (Arts, 2014;Hysing, 2009), water supply policy (Lieberherr & Truffer, 2015), climate innovation policy (Jordan & Huitema, 2014), urban environmental policy and noise policy (Weber, 2013).…”

Rainwater Harvesting and Social Networks: Visualising Interactions for Niche Governance, Resilience and Sustainability

“…This is perhaps evident in the case of water efficiency where the majority of water-saving practices (e.g., showering instead of taking a bath) are becoming social norms (in the UK at least), even if approaches to behaviour change are contested [21]. Recent research has focused on the niche level, including advancing the understanding of firm/company-level contributions to sustainability transitions and suggesting approaches to strategic, conceptual and social niche management [22][23][24][25]. Additionally, recent research on niche interactions using agent-based models showed that infrastructure-organisation interactions were critical for niche formation, technology adoption and transitions relating to infrastructure [26].…”

Who is in the driver seat? : Evolution of actors in the renewable electricity industry

“…So far, scholars contributed in this research line such by proposing a framework marrying TIS and multilevel perspective of sustainability transitions (Hillman et al, 2011;Markard and Truffer, 2008), or incorporating spatial and regional studies (Coenen and Truffer, 2012;Smith et al, 2010). However, incorporation of dynamic capabilities theories into this field has seldom been taken (see also, Lieberherr and Truffer, 2015 Driving forces of the renewable energy industry development, contributing to a more sustainable electricity industry, vary from country to country, across renewable energy subsectors, for different actors and through the years. Therefore the first objective (OBJ1) of this thesis is to investigate the systemic driving forces behind the renewable energy industry development and present a typology for them.…”

“…A firm needs to reconfigure its activities and assets if it is to retain its potential to adapt to future changes. This reconfiguration process is costly, because a firm has alreadyestablished routines by which to calibrate technological opportunities, and so any changes made to those routines will incur costs (Lieberherr and Truffer, 2015). Accordingly, a firm needs to choose the right time at which to make a change, and reconstruct its routines using its dynamic capabilities (King and Tucci, 2002;Zollo and Winter, 2002).…”

“…These activities can relate to the implementation of a new/altered product, process, service, or approach (Lieberherr and Truffer, 2015;Teece, 2007). To select appropriate activities, a firm should decide the strategic path it wants to take; the number of path choices diminishes as a market matures (Teece, 1986).…”