Rethinking the multi-level perspective of technological transitions

By Audley Genus, Anne-Marie Coles. 2008

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research

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Citations in the corpus

Exploring the Transition Potential of Renewable Energy Communities (2015, unknown): “The MLP underplays the effects of social and cultural aspects that co-evolve with technologies during a transition (Genus & Coles, 2008).”
The interplay of institutions, actors and technologies in socio-technical systems — An analysis of transformations in the Australian urban water sector (2016, background): “Endogenous and gradual processes taking place within socio-technical systems therefore deserve more attention (Dolata, 2011; Genus and Coles, 2008; Markard and Truffer, 2008; Shove and Gordon, 2007; Smith et al., 2010).”
Conceptualising multi-regime interactions: The role of the agriculture sector in renewable energy transitions (2015, methodology): “As a result, it can be difficult to distinguish between radical transition and the incremental changes of established regimes, depending on the scale at which the analysis is undertaken (Darnhofer et al., 2015; Genus and Coles, 2008).”
Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector (2015, background): “Regimes are seen as largely physically and socially inert (Bulkeley et al., 2010), leading to path dependency and lock-in (Berkhout, 2002; Unruh, 2002; Genus and Coles, 2008).”
Navigators through the storm: A review of organization theories and the behavior of incumbent firms during transitions (2017, background): “These are altogether incompatible with the foundational assumptions of the MLP, which assumes that “actors are self-interested, act strategically, and try to calculate which actions best achieve their goals.”
Digital Transition by COVID‐19 Pandemic? The German Food Online Retail (2020, background): “It draws on the concept of technological regimes established by Nelson and Winter (1977), who contributed to a comprehensive perspective on complex regimes (cf. Genus & Coles 2008).”
Transition towards Circular Economy in the Food System (2016, background): “The theory of multilevel socio-technical transitions has been successfully applied to many cases but it has also received some criticism regarding delineation, possibilities of cross-fertilization between regimes, and characteristics of niches to serve as a platform for continuous development of the”
Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review (2016, background): “unravelling the role of everyday practices and people’s agency in niches and regimes (Geels 2011; Genus and Coles 2008; Shove and Walker 2007, 2010).”
The Role of Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Sustainability Transitions: A Conceptual Synthesis against the Background of the Multi-Level Perspective (2015, background): “, [3], a common criticism concerning this literature is its neglect of agency and actors [6–9].”