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

By Wesley David Sine, Brandon H. Lee. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Converging Winds: Logic Hybridization in the Colorado Wind Energy Field (2016, neutral): “…have found that controlling for these macro-level conditions, the actors—in our case, environmental and clean energy SMOs (Pacheco et al., 2014; Sine & Lee, 2009; Vasi, 2009) and electric utilities (Pacheco & Dean, 2014)—have played critical roles in driving the direction of the wind energy…”
US State Policies for Renewable Energy: Context and Effectiveness (2011, background): “energy sector than the availability of natural resources (Sine and Lee, 2009).”
Market mediators and the tradeoffs of legitimacy-seeking behaviors in a nascent category (2014, positive): “…niches such as green building (York and Lenox, forthcoming), fair-trade coffee (Reinecke 2010), recycling (Lounsbury et al. 2003), grass-fed beef (Weber et al. 2008), soft drinks (Hiatt et al. 2009), and renewable energy (Sine and Lee 2009) all have their roots in movement- or value-driven actors.”
Entrepreneurship in Regulated Markets: Framing Contests and Collective Action to Introduce Pay TV in the U.S. (2014, background): “Collective action can also take the form of social movements (Haveman and Rao, 1997; Lounsbury et al, 2003; Rao, 2009; Schneiberg et al., 2008; Sine and Lee, 2009; Swaminathan and Wade, 2001), which can be defined as an action system of mobilized networks of groups and organizations that try to…”
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure (2012, positive): “For example, environmental concerns are more salient in some locations than in others (McConnell and Schwab, 1990; Sine and Lee, 2009).”
The Coevolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories (2010, background): “For example, Sine and Lee (2009) studied the relationship between social movements and entrepreneurship to provide evidence that social movements have influence beyond their direct targets.”
Industrial Dynamics and Clusters: A Survey (2015, background): “…action, e.g. setting up training institutes (BOSCHMA, 1997), in developing technical standards (VICENTE and SUIRE, 2007; VICENTE et al., 2011), mobilizing political and public support (SINE and LEE, 2009), and overcoming increased scarcity of land, labour and infrastructure (STAM and MARTIN, 2012).”
Strategic Entrepreneurship: Creating Value for Individuals, Organizations, and Society (2011, positive): “For example, entrepreneurial efforts to harness wind power could have major long-term benefits to society by providing a clean energy source (Sine & Lee, 2009).”
Exploring country-level institutional arrangements on the rate and type of entrepreneurial activity (2013, positive): “Additionally, the changes caused by external factors, like emerging social movements and organizations, which may generate novel entrepreneurial opportunities (Sine and Lee, 2009), were not covered in this study.”
Of solar collectors, wind power, and car sharing: Comparing and understanding successful cases of grassroots innovations (2013, background): “As Sine and Lee (2009) point out in a study on the role of social movements for the development of the U.S. wind energy industry, how social movements and civil society organisations such as Friends of the Earth also shape institutional contexts and social expectations which make it more attractive…”
Studying Choice and Change: The Intersection of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship Research (2011, background): “…industries, entrepreneurship becomes normalized, even taken for granted as an accepted activity and an admired career path (Sorenson and Audia 2000, Romanelli and Khessina 2005, Khessina and Carroll 2008), whereas in other places—even ones with relevant resources—it does not (Sine and Lee 2009).”
Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms (2015, background): “A significant finding is that founding rates of new firms are higher when there is greater normative acceptance of new enterprises (Sine and Lee, 2009).”
The Contentiousness of Markets: Politics, Social Movements, and Institutional Change in Markets (2010, background): “Along the same lines, Sine and Lee (2009) demonstrate that social movement organizations (SMOs), like the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society, shaped the market opportunities for the emergence of the wind power industry.”