Tilting at Windmills? The Environmental Movement and the Emergence of the U.S. Wind Energy Sector

Sine, Wesley; Lee, Brandon

doi:10.2189/asqu.2009.54.1.123

Cited by 526 publications

(437 citation statements)

References 83 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

417

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Applied to entrepreneurship, this fits with the argument that the creation of a supportive institutional environment is required for ventures that pursue novel business models (Aldrich & Fiol, 1994;Navis & Glynn, 2010). It also mirrors a consistent finding among microfinance (Ledgerwood, 2011), recycling , greenbuilding (York & Lennox, 2014), and wind energy (Sine & Lee, 2009) studies where early entrepreneurs engaged in efforts to not only develop, but also garner social support for, novel business models. We argue that the roots of such efforts may be found within the tensions experienced by balanced entrepreneurs, who have salient role identities that carry conflicting behavioral demands.…”

Section: Page 29 Of 55supporting

confidence: 65%

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

Wry

York

2017

AMR

386

361

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social enterprise has gained widespread acclaim as a tool for addressing social and environmental problems. Yet because social enterprises integrate social welfare and commercial logics, they face the challenge of pursuing frequently conflicting goals. Studies have begun to address how established social enterprises can manage these tensions, but we know little about how, why, and with what consequences social entrepreneurs mix competing logics as they create new organizations. To address this gap, we develop a theoretical model based in identity theory that helps to explain (1) how commercial and social welfare logics become relevant to entrepreneurship, (2) how different types of entrepreneurs perceive the tension between these logics, and (3) what implications this has for how entrepreneurs recognize and develop social enterprise opportunities. Our approach responds to calls from organizational and entrepreneurship scholars to extend existing frameworks of opportunity recognition and development to better account for social enterprise creation.

show abstract

Section: Page 29 Of 55supporting

confidence: 65%

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

Wry

York

2017

AMR

386

361

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For example Russo showed that industry associations and the number of existing renewable projects helped the development of new projects. Sine and Lee (2009) found that environmental groups had a larger impact on entrepreneurial activity in the wind energy sector than the avail ability of natural resources. Similarly, Vachon and Menz (2006) and Lyon and Yin (2010) found that political and social interests were positively and significantly related to the developments of renewable energy projects.…”

Section: The Context Of Renewable Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, scholars have argued that natural capital must be com plemented by social and political capital to drive the adoption of renewable policies and the development of new technologies and investments in renewable resources (Lyon and Yin, 2010;Russo, 2003;Sine and Lee, 2009;Vachon and Menz, 2006). For example Russo showed that industry associations and the number of existing renewable projects helped the development of new projects.…”

Section: The Context Of Renewable Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

U.S. state policies for renewable energy: Context and effectiveness

Delmas¹,

2011

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

a b s t r a c tOver the past decade, state policies on renewable energy have been on the rise in the U.S., providing states with various options for encouraging the generation of renewable electricity. Two promising policies, the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and the Mandatory Green Power Option (MGPO), have been implemented in many states but the evidence about their effectiveness is mixed. In this paper, we argue that recognizing the natural, social, and policy context under which MGPO and RPS are adopted is necessary in order to measure their true effectiveness. This is because the context rather than the policy might lead to positive outcomes and there is the possibility for sample bias. When controlling for the context in which the policies are implemented, we find that RPS has a negative impact on investments in renewable capacity. However, we find that investor owned utilities seem to respond more positively to RPS mandates than publicly owned utilities. By contrast, MGPO appears to have a significant effect on installed renewable capacity for all utilities regardless of the context in which it is implemented. IntroductionAddressing climate change has become an important priority for the U.S. administration. In the U.S., greenhouse gas emissions come primarily from the combustion of fossil fuels in energy use. Energy related carbon dioxide emissions, resulting from the combustion of petroleum, coal, and natural gas, represented 82% of total U.S. anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2006. 1 While the U.S. generates 3% of its electricity from renewable resources, 2 other developed countries such as Denmark, Germany, Spain, and New Zealand generate 25%, 20%, 16%, and 8% of their electricity from renewables, respectively. 3 In addition, all of the European Union member states have aggressive renewable energy percentages they plan to reach by 2020, while the U.S. has no federally defined targets for renewable generation. 4 While there are current debates about the implementation of a federal renewable policy, U.S. states have taken a leading role in establishing renewable energy policies since the late 1990s. These include Renewable Portfolio Standards, the requirement to sell green products, disclosure policies, and subsidies. Analyzing the effectiveness of state renewable policies can be helpful to inform the current policy debate at the federal level.Recent research has started to look at the effectiveness of state policies on the generation of renewable electricity but has found mixed results. While some studies have found positive results (Bird et al., 2005;Menz and Vachon, 2006;Zarnikau, 2003;Yin and Powers, 2010), others have found no significant results (Carley, 2009).Furthermore, most of these studies provide little information on the natural and institutional conditions under which state renewable policies are adopted, which could have an impact on their effectiveness. For example, the relationship between installed renewable capacity and a state's resource endowment (e.g., sun, biomass...

show abstract

“…Indeed, even the simple fact that species conservation banks are concentrated in California-a state home to a storied and influential environmental movement (Gottlieb 2005;Sine and Lee 2009) and with environmental regulations that may look more European than American (Vogel 2012)-suggests that the rise of these institutions is coupled to far more than just profit-seeking or even green-minded entrepreneurialism. Stringent environmental rules, environmental groups, and California's general environmental exceptionalism are instead signaled by the data, and at the very least must intersect with the environmental-economic explanations highlighted by existing social scientific accounts.…”

Section: [Figure 4 About Here]mentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorizing command-and-commodify regulation: the case of species conservation banking in the United States

Rea

2017

Theor Soc

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

State-directed but market-oriented forms of regulation, especially environmental examples like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting, have proliferated in the past two decades, but sociologists have been slow to theorize these broad institutional shifts. This article offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization. First, I argue that institutions of this sort are examples of what I call command-and-commodify regulation, a mode of regulation that distinctively hybridizes economic and authoritative dimensions of power. Second, I explain how and why one example of command-and-commodify regulation, species conservation banking, emerged and remained concentrated in California, but did not so easily develop in other American states. Finally, abstracting from the case, I argue that the concept of market reconstruction is useful for developing a more general theory of the ways that social conflicts and mobilization reconfigure regulatory power, and thus give rise to new modes of regulation. Together, a theory of command-and-commodify regulation and market reconstruction may be useful for explaining the development of a wide variety of environmentally focused and other regulatory institutions.

show abstract

Tilting at Windmills? The Environmental Movement and the Emergence of the U.S. Wind Energy Sector

Cited by 526 publications

References 83 publications

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

An Identity-Based Approach to Social Enterprise

U.S. state policies for renewable energy: Context and effectiveness

Theorizing command-and-commodify regulation: the case of species conservation banking in the United States

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About