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Frank W Geels - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ontologies socio technical transitions to sustainability and the multi level perspective
    Research Policy, 2010
    Co-Authors: Frank W Geels
    Abstract:

    Using recent criticisms and suggestions regarding the multi-level perspective as stepping stones, the article aims to enhance the reflexivity in transition debates regarding social theories. To that end, the article discusses seven social science ontologies (rational choice, evolution theory, structuralism, interpretivism, functionalism, conflict and Power Struggle, relationism), their assumptions on agency and causal mechanisms, and their views on socio-technical transitions and environmental sustainability. The second goal is to position the multi-level perspective on transitions with regard to these ontologies and to identify directions for theoretical extensions. The MLP is characterized not as a grand or unifying theory, but as a middle range theory that makes crossovers to some ontologies and not to others.

  • Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective
    Research Policy, 2010
    Co-Authors: Frank W Geels
    Abstract:

    Using recent criticisms and suggestions regarding the multi-level perspective as stepping stones, the article aims to enhance the reflexivity in transition debates regarding social theories. To that end, the article discusses seven social science ontologies (rational choice, evolution theory, structuralism, interpretivism, functionalism, conflict and Power Struggle, relationism), their assumptions on agency and causal mechanisms, and their views on socio-technical transitions and environmental sustainability. The second goal is to position the multi-level perspective on transitions with regard to these ontologies and to identify directions for theoretical extensions. The MLP is characterized not as a grand or unifying theory, but as a middle range theory that makes crossovers to some ontologies and not to others. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  • foundational ontologies and multi paradigm analysis applied to the socio technical transition from mixed farming to intensive pig husbandry 1930 1980
    Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2009
    Co-Authors: Frank W Geels
    Abstract:

    This article adds a new case study to the expanding literature on socio-technical transitions: the shift from mixed farming to intensive pig husbandry in the Netherlands. With regard to this transition, the article addresses a new direction, namely the role of foundational ontologies in explanation. Five ontologies are distinguished, which are based on different assumptions about causal agents and causal mechanisms: rational choice, functionalism, conflict and Power Struggle, interpretivism, and structuralism. The article demonstrates how these ontologies provide different explanations of same case. It also empirically investigates the strengths and weaknesses of different ontological explanations, and identifies possible complementarities in this case. The article ends with theoretical reflections on the relationships between ontologies and the role of meta-paradigm analysis.

Ploeg, Frederick Van Der - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights: A Puzzle.
    'Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH', 2011
    Co-Authors: Ploeg, Frederick Van Der
    Abstract:

    For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing Power Struggle about the control of resources is solved as a non-cooperative differential game. Prices of resources and depletion increase faster than suggested by the Hotelling rule, especially with many competing factions and less secure property rights. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick rule. The Power Struggle boosts output but depresses aggregate consumption and welfare, especially in highly fractionalized countries with less secure property rights. Genuine saving evaluated with welfare-based accounting prices is zero in this game, but biased upwards if calculated with the lower market prices

  • Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights.
    OxCarre, 2009
    Co-Authors: Ploeg, Frederick Van Der
    Abstract:

    For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing Power Struggle about the control of resources is solved as a non-cooperative differential game. Prices of resources and depletion increase faster than suggested by the Hotelling rule, especially with many competing factions and less secure property rights. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick rule. The Power Struggle boosts output but depresses aggregate consumption and welfare, especially in highly fractionalized countries with less secure property rights. Genuine saving evaluated with welfare-based accounting prices is zero in this game, but biased upwards if calculated with the lower market prices

  • Voracious Transformation of a Common Natural Resource into Productive Capita.
    OxCarre, 2008
    Co-Authors: Ploeg, Frederick Van Der
    Abstract:

    We analyze a Power Struggle about the control of natural resources where competing factions in society have a private stock of financial assets and a common stock of natural resources with inadequately defined private property rights. We solve a dynamic common-pool problem and obtain political economy variants of the Hotelling rule for resource depletion and the Hartwick saving rule necessary to sustain constant consumption in an economy with exhaustible natural resources. The rate of increase in the price of natural resources and resource depletion are faster than demanded by the Hotelling rule. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly so that it saves and invests more than a homogenous society. The Power Struggle boosts output, but depresses aggregate consumption and social welfare. Genuine saving is nevertheless zero in a fractionalized society, since the too rapid depletion of natural resources is exactly in line with the too rapid accumulation of physical capital. World Bank measures of genuine saving are likely to be over-estimated. This exacerbates the puzzle of why many resource-rich countries experience negative genuine saving rates

Frederick Van Der Ploeg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • rapacious resource depletion excessive investment and insecure property rights a puzzle
    Environmental and Resource Economics, 2011
    Co-Authors: Frederick Van Der Ploeg
    Abstract:

    For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing Power Struggle about the control of resources is solved as a non-cooperative differential game. Prices of resources and depletion increase faster than suggested by the Hotelling rule, especially with many competing factions and less secure property rights. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick rule. The theory suggests that Power Struggle boosts output but depresses aggregate consumption and welfare, especially in highly fractionalized countries with less secure property rights. Also, adjusted net saving estimates calculated by the World Bank using market prices over-estimate welfare-based measures of genuine saving. Since our theory suggests that genuine saving is zero while empirically they are negative in resource-rich, fractionalized countries, we suggest ways of resolving this puzzle.

Luomala Harri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The dynamics of (de)stigmatisation : boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming
    'SAGE Publications', 2020
    Co-Authors: Siltaoja Marjo, Granqvist Nina, Lähdesmäki Merja, Kurki Sami, Puska Petteri, Luomala Harri
    Abstract:

    This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatization through discursive reconstruction of the central and distinctive characteristics of the category in question. We examined the emerging market of organic farming in Finland and discovered how resistance to stigmatization was both an internal and an external Power Struggle in the organic farming community. Over time, the label of organic farming was manipulated and the practice of farming was associated with more conventional and familiar contexts, while the stigma was diverted at the same time to biodynamic farming. We develop a process model for removal of stigma from a nascent category through stigma diversion. We find that stigma diversion forces the core community to (re)define themselves in relation to the excluded community and the mainstream. We also discuss how notoriety can be an individuating phenomenon that helps categorical members conduct identity work and contributes to stigma removal

  • The dynamics of (de)stigmatisation : boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming
    'SAGE Publications', 2020
    Co-Authors: Siltaoja, Marjo Elisa, Granqvist Nina, Lähdesmäki Merja, Kurki Sami, Puska Petteri, Luomala Harri
    Abstract:

    This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatization through discursive reconstruction of the central and distinctive characteristics of the category in question. We examined the emerging market of organic farming in Finland and discovered how resistance to stigmatization was both an internal and an external Power Struggle in the organic farming community. Over time, the label of organic farming was manipulated and the practice of farming was associated with more conventional and familiar contexts, while the stigma was diverted at the same time to biodynamic farming. We develop a process model for removal of stigma from a nascent category through stigma diversion. We find that stigma diversion forces the core community to (re)define themselves in relation to the excluded community and the mainstream. We also discuss how notoriety can be an individuating phenomenon that helps categorical members conduct identity work and contributes to stigma removal.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

  • The dynamics of (de)stigmatisation : boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming
    'SAGE Publications', 2020
    Co-Authors: Siltaoja, Marjo Elisa, Lähdesmäki Merja, Kurki Sami, Puska Petteri, Granqvis Nina, Luomala Harri
    Abstract:

    This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatization through discursive reconstruction of the central and distinctive characteristics of the category in question. We examined the emerging market of organic farming in Finland and discovered how resistance to stigmatization was both an internal and an external Power Struggle in the organic farming community. Over time, the label of organic farming was manipulated and the practice of farming was associated with more conventional and familiar contexts, while the stigma was diverted at the same time to biodynamic farming. We develop a process model for removal of stigma from a nascent category through stigma diversion. We find that stigma diversion forces the core community to (re)define themselves in relation to the excluded community and the mainstream. We also discuss how notoriety can be an individuating phenomenon that helps categorical members conduct identity work and contributes to stigma removal.peerReviewe

Rick Van Der Ploeg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • rapacious resource depletion excessive investment and insecure property rights
    2010
    Co-Authors: Rick Van Der Ploeg
    Abstract:

    For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing Power Struggle about the control of resources is solved as a non-cooperative differential game. Prices of resources and depletion increase faster than suggested by the Hotelling rule, especially with many competing factions and less secure property rights. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick rule. The Power Struggle boosts output but depresses aggregate consumption and welfare, especially in highly fractionalized countries with less secure property rights. The theory suggests that adjusted net saving estimates calculated by the World Bank using market prices over-estimate welfare-based measures of genuine saving.