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Keeping sustainable innovation on a leash? Exploring incumbents’ institutional strategies
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This research aims to identify the institutional strategies of incumbent firms with regard to sustainable energy innovations that threaten their interests. This exploratory study contributes to the multi‐level perspective by providing new insights into niche–regime interaction. The focus on actor behavior in transitions is informed by literature from institutional theory and strategic management. Based on semi‐structured interviews with actors and on documents related to LED lighting and biofuels in the Netherlands, this study identified a preliminary set of empirical strategies: providing information and arguments to policy makers and the general public, as well as strategically setting technical standards. Incumbents are in a position to significantly influence the innovation's development by employing these strategies; thus temporarily keeping sustainable innovation on a leash. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
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- Authors
- Smink, M. M., Hekkert, M. P., & Negro, S. O.
- Venue
- Business Strategy and the Environment
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-07
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 86-101
- ISSN
- 0964-4733 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-0836
- OpenAlex
- W2109208310
- Cited by
- 335
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 12.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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