Analysing institutional change in environmental governance: Exploring the concept of 'institutional work'

R Beunen, JJ Patterson - Journal of Environmental Planning and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Institutional work focuses on the role of actors in creating, maintaining, or disrupting
institutional structures. The concept has its origin in organisational studies. In this paper, we …

Governing for resilience: the role of institutional work

R Beunen, J Patterson, K Van Assche - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Governing for resilience requires governance systems to be both stable and
flexible.•Institutions are central in achieving a productive balance between stability and …

Conceptualising joint knowledge production in regional climate change adaptation projects: success conditions and levers for action

D Hegger, M Lamers, A Van Zeijl-Rozema… - Environmental science & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Matching supply and demand for knowledge in the fields of global change and sustainability
is a daunting task. Science and public policy differ in their timeframes, epistemologies …

Strategy for collectives and common goods: Coordinating strategy, long-term perspectives and policy domains in governance

K Van Assche, G Verschraegen, M Gruezmacher - Futures, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigate the nature and potential of strategy in governance and emphasize the
importance of understanding strategy in its (potential) relations to long-term perspectives or …

Rising to Ostrom's challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service

S Douglas, T Schillemans, P 't Hart… - Policy Design and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this programmatic essay, we argue that public governance scholarship would benefit from
develo** a self-conscious and cohesive strand of “positive” scholarship, akin to social …

Rethinking strategy in environmental governance

K Van Assche, R Beunen, M Gruezmacher… - … Policy & Planning, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a novel framework for analyzing the formation and effects of strategies
in environmental governance. It combines elements of management studies, strategy as …

[HTML][HTML] How do coworking spaces coagglomerate with service industries? The tale of three European cities

C Méndez-Ortega, G Micek, K Malochleb - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent times, the emergence of coworking spaces (CSs) has changed not only the way
workers cooperate, but also how they carry out their activities. This phenomenon, limited …

Formal/informal dialectics and the self-transformation of spatial planning systems: An exploration

K Van Assche, R Beunen… - Administration & …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we present a perspective on the interaction between formal and informal
institutions in spatial planning in which they transform each other continuously, in processes …

Performing failure in conservation policy: The implementation of European Union directives in the Netherlands

R Beunen, K Van Assche, M Duineveld - Land use policy, 2013 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of performances of failure in nature conservation by means of a
detailed reconstruction of the implementation of European Union conservation directives in …

Power and contingency in planning

K Van Assche, M Duineveld… - … and Planning A, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we analyse the role and reception of poststructuralist perspectives on power in
planning since the 1990s, and then ask whether a renewed encounter with the works of …