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ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages 78-100Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2017.05.003
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Electricity transition; Industry destabilisation; Multiple external pressures; German electricity industry
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- Helmholtz-Alliance ENERGY-TRANS
- ESRC [ES/K006371/1]
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This article makes two contributions to the emerging research stream on regime and industry destabilisation in the transition literature. First, we replicate the multi-dimensional framework developed by Turnheim and Geels with a more contemporary study that has closer links to sustainability transitions. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we analyse the destabilisation of the German electricity industry, which faced multiple external pressures: renewable energy technologies, nuclear phase-out policy, the financial-economic crisis, and negative public debates. Second, we elaborate the role of multiple pressures in industry destabilisation, focusing in particular on their sequence and alignment. We inductively identify patterns such as the 'masking effect' of highly visible macro-shocks, 'perfect storm' pattern, a 'killer blow' effect, and spillover dynamics between external environments.
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