Institutional relatedness and the emergence of renewable energy cooperatives in German districts

MB Punt, T Bauwens, K Frenken… - Regional Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… founding rates of RE cooperatives, we look at the supportive effects of ‘institutional relatedness
within the district (Carvalho & Vale, Citation2018). We argue that cooperatives in the RE …

Participatory organizations as infrastructures of sustainability? The case of energy cooperatives and their ways for increasing influence

C Besio, N Arnold, D Ametowobla - Historical Social Research/Historische …, 2022 - JSTOR
… of energy supply centered on renewable energy sources. From the perspective of the sociology
of organizations, we will argue that energy cooperatives … Due to favorable institutional

[HTML][HTML] Contributing to sustainable and just energy systems? The mainstreaming of renewable energy prosumerism within and across institutional logics

JM Wittmayer, F Avelino, B Pel, I Campos - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
… place through an energy company or an energy cooperative and thus providing access to
certain individuals or groups and not to others. These hybrid institutional arrangements are …

[HTML][HTML] Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis

ML Lode, T Coosemans, LR Camargo - Environmental Innovation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
… “Corruption” is measured with the institutions corruption index, the higher the value the
cleaner are institutions from corruption. Therefore, ECoops correlate with perceived lower …

[HTML][HTML] Energy co-operatives in Spain: The role of social enterprises in the energy transition

B Huybrechts, M Pérez-Suárez, M Cobeña… - Futures, 2024 - Elsevier
… are not three clusters of energy cooperatives" and "the only … of energy co-operatives, the
co-operative energy sector in … between energy co-operatives and ethical finance institutions, to …

[HTML][HTML] A cooperative of their own: Gender implications on renewable energy cooperatives in Germany

I Karakislak, P Sadat-Razavi… - Energy Research & Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
… Furthermore, we analyse the institutional structures of co-ops and whether it allows flexible
opportunities for women and considers their needs. Their needs may differ due to gender pay …

Explaining the founding of renewable energy cooperatives: The effect of social capital in Dutch municipalities

S Geskus - 2022 - studenttheses.uu.nl
… research was to explore the institutional factors that affect the … of social capital and to explore
institutional factors influencing the … Furthermore, a variety of institutional factors played an …

Tensions Between Local Embeddedness and Scaling up: Insights from Grassroots Sustainability Initiatives in the Renewable Energy Transition

L Baileche, M Marais… - Organization & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
energy is nowadays a sector in which various organizational forms coexist, such as energy
cooperatives, … Indeed, although they benefited from some institutional financial support in …

The embeddedness of networks: Institutions, structural holes, and innovativeness in the fuel cell industry

G Vasudeva, A Zaheer, E Hernandez - Organization science, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
… literature by arguing that national institutions affect the extent to … corporatism, which fosters
an institutional logic of collaboration that … We argue that differences in institutional logics lead …

The emergence of renewable energy technologies at country level: relatedness, international knowledge spillovers and domestic energy markets

D Li, G Heimeriks, F Alkemade - Industry and Innovation, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
energy technologies by focusing on how countries benefit from local and global knowledge.
We show that both the relatedness … the development of renewable energy technologies. For …