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The interplay of institutions, actors and technologies in socio-technical systems — An analysis of transformations in the Australian urban water sector
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In this article, a comparative analysis between seawater desalination and its main rival wastewater recycling in regard to processes of institutional work provides valuable insight into how technology, actors and institutions mutually shaped each other.About:
This article is published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.The article was published on 2016-02-01. It has received 252 citations till now.read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
Jonathan Köhler,Frank W. Geels,Florian Kern,Jochen Markard,Anna J. Wieczorek,Floortje Alkemade,Flor Avelino,Anna Bergek,Frank Boons,Lea Fünfschilling,David J. Hess,Georg Holtz,Sampsa Hyysalo,Kirsten Jenkins,Paula Kivimaa,Mari Martiskainen,Andrew McMeekin,Marie Susan Mühlemeier,Björn Nykvist,Elsie Onsongo,Bonno Pel,Rob Raven,Harald Rohracher,Björn A. Sandén,Johan Schot,Benjamin K. Sovacool,Bruno Turnheim,Daniel Welch,Peter Erskine Wells +28 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an extensive review and an updated research agenda for the field, classified into nine main themes: understanding transitions; power, agency and politics; governing transitions; civil society, culture and social movements; businesses and industries; transitions in practice and everyday life; geography of transitions; ethical aspects; and methodologies.
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Towards a theory of regional diversification : Combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework of regional diversification by combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies is proposed. But it does not consider the role of agency in processes of institutional entrepreneurship.
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Socio-technical transitions to sustainability: a review of criticisms and elaborations of the Multi-Level Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the socio-technical transition literature, particularly the Multi-Level Perspective, which investigates the fundamental changes in (energy, transport, housing, agro-food) systems that are needed to address persistent sustainability problems.
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Capturing the dynamics of the sharing economy: Institutional research on the plural forms and practices of sharing economy organizations
Johanna Mair,Georg Reischauer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce two perspectives in research on organizational institutionalism that focus on culture and pluralism, and argue that unpacking the pluralism of organizational forms and practices is critical to examine the dynamics of the sharing economy.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an evolutionary theory of the capabilities and behavior of business firms operating in a market environment, including both general discussion and the manipulation of specific simulation models consistent with that theory.
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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
Alan Sica,Anthony Giddens +1 more
TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration
TL;DR: Giddens as discussed by the authors has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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The Social Construction of Reality
TL;DR: Scheleris et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a sociologijos disciplinos raida, which is a discipline for sociologists to discipline themselves in the discipline of social sciences.