Sustainability oriented innovation and technology studies have received increasing attention
over the past 10–15 years. In particular, a new field dealing with “sustainability transitions” …

For entrepreneurs, establishing and maintaining new venture legitimacy is a complex
endeavor. Various factors complicate this process, including issues of optimal …

Literature on socio-technical transitions has primarily emphasized the co-determination of
institutions and technologies. In this paper, we want to focus on how actors play a mediating …

Legitimacy is central for both novel and established technologies to mobilize the resources
necessary for growth and survival. A loss of legitimacy, in turn, can have detrimental effects …

Policies and politics are an integral part of socio-technical transitions but have not received
much attention in the transitions literature so far. Drawing on the advocacy coalition …

Why would an organization pursue membership in an organizational category, yet forego
opportunities to subsequently promote that membership? Drawing on prior research, we …

Using qualitative and quantitative methods, I draw on the categorization and stigmatization
literatures to predict the amount of negative social evaluations—that is, disapproval …

Technology decline is a central element of sustainability transitions. However, transition
scholars have only just begun to analyze decline. This paper uses the technological …

Over the last 15 years, research on carbon lock‐in has investigated why decarbonization
evolves so slowly in Western industrialized countries. In this paper, we argue that the role of …

Journeys to a sustainable future have become important to industry, government and
research. In this paper, we examine evolutionary, relational and durational perspectives on …