Lea Fuenfschilling
Biographic Data
| ID | 4082252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lea Fuenfschilling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lea |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuenfschilling |
| SIGNATURE | FUENFSCHILLING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6723-6374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How the structural composition of sectors shapes socio-technical transitions
Recent studies provide compelling evidence that transition dynamics differ between sectors. This paper develops a theoretical framework for analysing the structural composition of a sector and how it shapes transition dynamics. We elaborate a conceptual approach, which emphasizes socio-technical configurations and their degrees of institutionalization and mutual alignment as the key building blocks for analysing sector-specific opportunities, bar…
The geo-economization of sustainability transitions: Spatial dynamics and trade-offs between sovereignty and sustainability
Sovereignty restructures socio-technical systems and their spatial dynamics. • Sovereignty models can (spatially) conflict with sustainability priorities. • The paper exemplifies these dynamics based on the example of the fertilizer industry. • We outline research avenues for understanding socio-technical stability and change in the geo-economy. This perspective article explores how sustainability transitions experience a geo-economization based …
A speculative conversation on climate change and sociology
This article provides a diverse range of insights into the question of how sociology can and should contribute to research on climate change. It takes an unconventional and unique approach to doing so, through a stylized conversation between the authors, which is based on an open-ended focus group discussion. The conversation illuminates different perspectives on if and how to research climate change and the climate crisis from a sociological per…
Norm-critical innovation as a way forward for responsible innovation? Evidence from a Swedish innovation policy program
In 2014, the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova set up the program ‘Gender and Diversity for Innovation’, which has its roots in norm-critical innovation. In line with rationales for responsible innovation, a central aim of the program is to identify and challenge discriminatory norms to develop more inclusive and equal innovation processes. This article presents the findings of an in-depth analysis of 34 projects funded under the program. It expl…
How socio-technical regimes affect low-carbon innovation: Global pressures inhibiting industrial heat pumps in the Netherlands
This paper shows that the socio-technical barriers that sustainable innovations face, may stem from global regimes. Existing transitions approaches like the Technological Innovation System (TIS), overlook the impact of global regimes on radical innovation. Building on institutional theory, we therefore develop a theoretical framework that captures TIS-regime interaction, allowing us to analyze the impact of globalized industries on the developmen…
Discursive dynamics and lock-ins in socio-technical systems: An overview and a way forward
Understanding the dynamics of stability and change is key to accelerate sustainability transitions. This paper aims to advance and inspire sustainability transition research on this matter by collecting insights from interpretative environmental discourse literature. We develop a heuristic that identifies and describes core discursive elements and dynamics in a socio-technical system. In doing so, we show how the interplay of meta-, institutional…
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging
Lock-in mechanisms are major hurdles to sustainability transitions. Scholars identified various types of lock-ins; however, their dynamics and interactions remain underexplored. Using the case of food packaging, this study enhances the conceptual understanding and empirical analysis of lock-ins and their interactions from a socio-technical perspective. We analyze the material, institutional, behavioral, and discursive configuration and the shallo…
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal
This article develops a more comprehensive understanding of innovation-based renewal of industries from a structural perspective. Arguably, established perspectives offer rather simplistic views, portraying structures as either enabling or constraining for certain forms of regional industrial change. Inspired by work in organizational institutionalism on ‘institutional infrastructures’, this article focuses on the degree of elaboration and cohere…
Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change—and how “sustainability transition policy” can help
Carbon pricing is often presented as the primary policy approach to address climate change. We challenge this position and offer “sustainability transition policy” (STP) as an alternative. Carbon pricing has weaknesses with regard to five central dimensions: 1) problem framing and solution orientation, 2) policy priorities, 3) innovation approach, 4) contextual considerations, and 5) politics. In order to address the urgency of climate change and…
Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: Mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation
Urban Living Labs (ULL) are considered spaces to facilitate experimentation about sustainability solutions. ULL represent sites that allow different urban actors to design, test and learn from socio-technical innovations. However, despite their recent proliferation in the European policy sphere, the underlying processes through which ULL might be able to generate and diffuse new socio-technical configurations beyond their immediate boundaries hav…
Urban experimentation & sustainability transitions
Global socio-technical regimes
The interplay of institutions, actors and technologies in socio-technical systems — An analysis of transformations in the Australian urban water sector
The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual foundations from institutional theory
Discursive dynamics and lock-ins in socio-technical systems: An overview and a way forward
Understanding the dynamics of stability and change is key to accelerate sustainability transitions. This paper aims to advance and inspire sustainability transition research on this matter by collecting insights from interpretative environmental discourse literature. We develop a heuristic that identifies and describes core discursive elements and dynamics in a socio-technical system. In doing so, we show how the interplay of meta-, institutional…
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal
This article develops a more comprehensive understanding of innovation-based renewal of industries from a structural perspective. Arguably, established perspectives offer rather simplistic views, portraying structures as either enabling or constraining for certain forms of regional industrial change. Inspired by work in organizational institutionalism on ‘institutional infrastructures’, this article focuses on the degree of elaboration and cohere…
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging
Lock-in mechanisms are major hurdles to sustainability transitions. Scholars identified various types of lock-ins; however, their dynamics and interactions remain underexplored. Using the case of food packaging, this study enhances the conceptual understanding and empirical analysis of lock-ins and their interactions from a socio-technical perspective. We analyze the material, institutional, behavioral, and discursive configuration and the shallo…
How socio-technical regimes affect low-carbon innovation: Global pressures inhibiting industrial heat pumps in the Netherlands
This paper shows that the socio-technical barriers that sustainable innovations face, may stem from global regimes. Existing transitions approaches like the Technological Innovation System (TIS), overlook the impact of global regimes on radical innovation. Building on institutional theory, we therefore develop a theoretical framework that captures TIS-regime interaction, allowing us to analyze the impact of globalized industries on the developmen…
The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual foundations from institutional theory
The interplay of institutions, actors and technologies in socio-technical systems — An analysis of transformations in the Australian urban water sector
Global socio-technical regimes
Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: Mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation
Urban Living Labs (ULL) are considered spaces to facilitate experimentation about sustainability solutions. ULL represent sites that allow different urban actors to design, test and learn from socio-technical innovations. However, despite their recent proliferation in the European policy sphere, the underlying processes through which ULL might be able to generate and diffuse new socio-technical configurations beyond their immediate boundaries hav…
Urban experimentation & sustainability transitions
Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change—and how “sustainability transition policy” can help
Carbon pricing is often presented as the primary policy approach to address climate change. We challenge this position and offer “sustainability transition policy” (STP) as an alternative. Carbon pricing has weaknesses with regard to five central dimensions: 1) problem framing and solution orientation, 2) policy priorities, 3) innovation approach, 4) contextual considerations, and 5) politics. In order to address the urgency of climate change and…
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal
This article develops a more comprehensive understanding of innovation-based renewal of industries from a structural perspective. Arguably, established perspectives offer rather simplistic views, portraying structures as either enabling or constraining for certain forms of regional industrial change. Inspired by work in organizational institutionalism on ‘institutional infrastructures’, this article focuses on the degree of elaboration and cohere…
Norm-critical innovation as a way forward for responsible innovation? Evidence from a Swedish innovation policy program
In 2014, the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova set up the program ‘Gender and Diversity for Innovation’, which has its roots in norm-critical innovation. In line with rationales for responsible innovation, a central aim of the program is to identify and challenge discriminatory norms to develop more inclusive and equal innovation processes. This article presents the findings of an in-depth analysis of 34 projects funded under the program. It expl…
How socio-technical regimes affect low-carbon innovation: Global pressures inhibiting industrial heat pumps in the Netherlands
This paper shows that the socio-technical barriers that sustainable innovations face, may stem from global regimes. Existing transitions approaches like the Technological Innovation System (TIS), overlook the impact of global regimes on radical innovation. Building on institutional theory, we therefore develop a theoretical framework that captures TIS-regime interaction, allowing us to analyze the impact of globalized industries on the developmen…
Discursive dynamics and lock-ins in socio-technical systems: An overview and a way forward
Understanding the dynamics of stability and change is key to accelerate sustainability transitions. This paper aims to advance and inspire sustainability transition research on this matter by collecting insights from interpretative environmental discourse literature. We develop a heuristic that identifies and describes core discursive elements and dynamics in a socio-technical system. In doing so, we show how the interplay of meta-, institutional…
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging
Lock-in mechanisms are major hurdles to sustainability transitions. Scholars identified various types of lock-ins; however, their dynamics and interactions remain underexplored. Using the case of food packaging, this study enhances the conceptual understanding and empirical analysis of lock-ins and their interactions from a socio-technical perspective. We analyze the material, institutional, behavioral, and discursive configuration and the shallo…
A speculative conversation on climate change and sociology
This article provides a diverse range of insights into the question of how sociology can and should contribute to research on climate change. It takes an unconventional and unique approach to doing so, through a stylized conversation between the authors, which is based on an open-ended focus group discussion. The conversation illuminates different perspectives on if and how to research climate change and the climate crisis from a sociological per…
How the structural composition of sectors shapes socio-technical transitions
Recent studies provide compelling evidence that transition dynamics differ between sectors. This paper develops a theoretical framework for analysing the structural composition of a sector and how it shapes transition dynamics. We elaborate a conceptual approach, which emphasizes socio-technical configurations and their degrees of institutionalization and mutual alignment as the key building blocks for analysing sector-specific opportunities, bar…
The geo-economization of sustainability transitions: Spatial dynamics and trade-offs between sovereignty and sustainability
Sovereignty restructures socio-technical systems and their spatial dynamics. • Sovereignty models can (spatially) conflict with sustainability priorities. • The paper exemplifies these dynamics based on the example of the fertilizer industry. • We outline research avenues for understanding socio-technical stability and change in the geo-economy. This perspective article explores how sustainability transitions experience a geo-economization based …
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sustainability (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic system (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)