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DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.01.057 |
Dilution of innovation utility, reinforcing the reluctance towards the new: An upstream supplier perspective on a fragmented electricity industry | |
Skold, David; Fornstedt, Helena; Lindahl, Marcus | |
2018-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENERGY POLICY
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ISSN | 0301-4215 |
EISSN | 1873-6777 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 116页码:220-231 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Sweden |
英文摘要 | This paper inquires into how a reorganization of the value chain running from client-utilities to equipment suppliers within the electricity industry has altered the conditions for diffusing/adopting technological innovation. Through an interview-based qualitative case study of the development and diffusion of high-voltage switchgear, it provides a supplier perspective on how the downstream capacity to recognize and assess the potential value of innovations has fared in the face of downsized utility organizations, seeking to cut costs through aggressive outsourcing of engineering, procurement and construction activities. Highlighting how relations between end-clients and upstream suppliers - following a strategic orientation towards activities considered to be core - increasingly have become mediated by consultants and project-based contractors, the narrative analysis first suggests that this has stolen the industry of important inter-organizational learning processes. This in ways that have reduced the 'absorptive capacity' of the utilities sector. Second, the analysis suggests that the contractual form that has come to dominate infrastructure projects further works to de-incentivize the adoption of new technology, by diluting the perceived utility of innovation across the array of actors populating the value chain. Thirdly, the paper calls for renewed policy measures to deal with this reinforced reluctance towards the new. |
英文关键词 | Deregulation Industrial fragmentation Innovation adoption/diffusion Absorptive capacity Turnkey construction contracts Innovation utility |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000430758200023 |
WOS关键词 | RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT ; ABSORPTIVE-CAPACITY ; COMBINATIVE CAPABILITIES ; KNOWLEDGE ; MARKET ; FIRMS ; RECONCEPTUALIZATION ; LIBERALIZATION ; TECHNOLOGIES ; PERFORMANCE |
WOS类目 | Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/18972 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | Uppsala Univ, Div Ind Engn & Management, Box 534, SE-75121 Uppsala, Sweden |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Skold, David,Fornstedt, Helena,Lindahl, Marcus. Dilution of innovation utility, reinforcing the reluctance towards the new: An upstream supplier perspective on a fragmented electricity industry[J]. ENERGY POLICY,2018,116:220-231. |
APA | Skold, David,Fornstedt, Helena,&Lindahl, Marcus.(2018).Dilution of innovation utility, reinforcing the reluctance towards the new: An upstream supplier perspective on a fragmented electricity industry.ENERGY POLICY,116,220-231. |
MLA | Skold, David,et al."Dilution of innovation utility, reinforcing the reluctance towards the new: An upstream supplier perspective on a fragmented electricity industry".ENERGY POLICY 116(2018):220-231. |
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