The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: Responses to seven criticisms

Abbott, 1991, History and sociology: the lost synthesis, Social Science History, 15, 201, 10.2307/1171415 Abbott, 2001 Abell, 2004, Narrative explanation: an alternative to variance-centered explanation?, Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 287, 10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100113 Anderson, 1990, Technological discontinuities and dominant designs: a cyclical model of technological change, Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 604, 10.2307/2393511 Berkhout, 2004, Socio-technological regimes and transition contexts, 48 Berkhout, 2009, Asian development pathways and sustainable socio-technical regimes, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 76, 218, 10.1016/j.techfore.2008.03.017 Callon, 2002, Technology, politics and the market: an interview with Michel Callon, conducted by Andrew Barry and Don Slater, Economy and Society, 31, 285, 10.1080/03085140220123171 Christensen, 1997 Dahle, 2007, When do transformative initiatives really transform? A typology of different paths for transition to a sustainable society, Futures, 39, 487, 10.1016/j.futures.2006.10.007 2004 Elzen, 2011, Normative contestation in transitions ‘in the making’: animal welfare concerns and system innovation in pig husbandry (1970–2008), Research Policy, 40, 263, 10.1016/j.respol.2010.09.018 Freeman, 2001 Freeman, 1988, Structural crisis of adjustment, business cycles and investment behaviour, 38 2001 Geels, 2002, Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study, Research Policy, 31, 1257, 10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00062-8 Geels, 2004, From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory, Research Policy, 33, 897, 10.1016/j.respol.2004.01.015 Geels, 2005, The dynamics of transitions in socio-technical systems: a multi-level analysis of the transition pathway from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles (1860–1930), Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 17, 445, 10.1080/09537320500357319 Geels, 2005, Processes and patterns in transitions and system innovations: refining the co-evolutionary multi-level perspective, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 72, 681, 10.1016/j.techfore.2004.08.014 Geels, 2007, Feelings of discontent and the promise of middle range theory for STS: examples from technology dynamics, Science, Technology & Human Values, 32, 627, 10.1177/0162243907303597 Geels, 2010, Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective, Research Policy, 39, 495, 10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.022 Geels, 2007, Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, Research Policy, 36, 399, 10.1016/j.respol.2007.01.003 Geels, 2010, The dynamics of transitions: a socio-technical perspective, 9 Geels, 2011, Cultural legitimacy and framing struggles in innovation journeys: a cultural-performative perspective and a case study of Dutch nuclear energy (1945–1986), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 78, 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.12.004 2011 Genus, 2008, Rethinking the multi-level perspective of technological transitions, Research Policy, 37, 1436, 10.1016/j.respol.2008.05.006 Giddens, 1984 Goldstone, 2001, Toward a fourth generation of revolutionary theory, Annual Review of Political Science, 4, 139, 10.1146/annurev.polisci.4.1.139 Grin, 2010 Hall, 2003, Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative research, 373 Hekkert, 2007, Functions of innovation systems: a new approach for analysing technological change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 74, 413, 10.1016/j.techfore.2006.03.002 Hendriks, 2008, On inclusion and network governance: the democratic disconnect of Dutch energy transitions, Public Administration, 86, 1009, 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2008.00738.x Hodgson, 2004, Why we need a generalized Darwinism: and why a generalized Darwinism is not enough, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61, 1, 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.01.004 Hoffman, 1999, Institutional evolution and change: environmentalism and the US chemical industry, Academy of Management Journal, 42, 351, 10.2307/257008 Hofman, 2010, Exploring system innovation in the electricity system through sociotechnical scenarios, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 22, 653, 10.1080/09537325.2010.496282 Kemp, 1998, Regime shifts to sustainability through processes of niche formation: the approach of strategic niche management, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 10, 175, 10.1080/09537329808524310 Konrad, 2008, Multi-regime dynamics in the analysis of sectoral transformation potentials: evidence from German ultility sectors, Journal of Cleaner Production, 16, 1190, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2007.08.014 Langley, 2007, Process thinking in strategic organization, Strategic Organization, 5, 271, 10.1177/1476127007079965 Mahoney, 2000, Path dependence in historical sociology, Theory and Society, 29, 507, 10.1023/A:1007113830879 March, 1991, Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning, Organization Science, 2, 71, 10.1287/orsc.2.1.71 Markard, 2008, Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective: Towards an integrated framework, Research Policy, 37, 596, 10.1016/j.respol.2008.01.004 Merton, 1968 Nykvist, 2008, A multi-level analysis of sustainable mobility transitions: niche developments in the UK and Sweden, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 75, 1373, 10.1016/j.techfore.2008.05.006 Pedriana, 2005, Rational choice, structural context and increasing returns: a strategy for analytic narrative in historical sociology, Sociological Methods & Research, 33, 349, 10.1177/0049124104265996 Pentland, 1999, Building process theory with narrative: from description to explanation, Academy of Management Review, 24, 711, 10.5465/amr.1999.2553249 Perez, 2002 Pettigrew, 1997, What is a processual analysis, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 13, 337, 10.1016/S0956-5221(97)00020-1 Porter, 1991, Towards a dynamic theory of strategy, Strategic Management Journal, 12, 95, 10.1002/smj.4250121008 Raven, 2004, Implementation of manure digestion and co-combustion in the Dutch electricity regime: a multi-level analysis of market implementation in the Netherlands, Energy Policy, 32, 29, 10.1016/S0301-4215(02)00248-3 Raven, 2007, Co-evolution of waste and electricity regimes: multi-regime dynamics in the Netherlands (1969–2003), Energy Policy, 35, 2197, 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.07.005 Rip, 1998, Technological change, vol. 2, 327 Røpke, 2009, Theories of practice: new inspiration for ecological economic studies, Ecological Economics, 68, 2490, 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.05.015 Rothaermel, 2001, Complementary assets, strategic alliances, and the incumbent's advantage: an empirical study of industry and firm effects in the biopharmaceutical industry, Research Policy, 30, 1235, 10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00142-6 Rotmans, 2001, More evolution than revolution: transition management in public policy, Foresight, 3, 15, 10.1108/14636680110803003 Schot, 2008, Strategic niche management and sustainable innovation journeys: theory, findings, research agenda and policy, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 20, 537, 10.1080/09537320802292651 Seo, 2002, Institutional contradictions, praxis, and institutional change: a dialectical perspective, Academy of Management Review, 27, 222, 10.5465/amr.2002.6588004 Sewell, 1996, Three temporalities: toward an eventful sociology, 245 Shove, 2003 Shove, 2010, Governing transitions in the sustainability of everyday life, Research Policy, 39, 471, 10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.019 Skocpol, 1979 Smith, 2007, Translating sustainabilities between green niches and socio-technical regimes, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 19, 427, 10.1080/09537320701403334 Smith, 2005, The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions, Research Policy, 34, 1491, 10.1016/j.respol.2005.07.005 Stirling, 2009 Sztompka, 1993 Tushman, 1996, Ambidextrous organizations: managing evolutionary and revolutionary change, Californa Management Review, 38, 8, 10.2307/41165852 Unruh, 2000, Understanding carbon lock-in, Energy Policy, 28, 817, 10.1016/S0301-4215(00)00070-7 Van Bree, 2010, A multi-level perspective on the introduction of hydrogen and battery-electric vehicles, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 77, 529, 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.12.005 2008 Van Driel, 2005, Radical innovation as a multi-level process: introducing floating grain elevators in the port of Rotterdam, Technology and Culture, 46, 51, 10.1353/tech.2005.0011 Verbong, 2007, The ongoing energy transition: lessons from a socio-technical, multi-level analysis of the Dutch electricity system (1960–2004), Energy Policy, 35, 1025, 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.02.010 Verbong, 2010, Exploring sustainability transitions in the electricity sector with socio-technical pathways, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 77, 1214, 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.04.008