Cities in the lead of sustainable transitions. The structuration of an emergent field of waste prevention policies in Sweden María José Zapata Campos GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School Patrik Zapata School of Public Administration University of Gothenburg Maria Jylkkä School of Public Administration University of Gothenburg
Cities in the lead of sustainable transitions. The structuration of an emergent field of waste prevention policies in Sweden María José Zapata Campos GRI,
Jan 03, 2016
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Cities in the lead of sustainable transitions. The structuration of an emergent field of waste prevention
policies in Sweden
María José Zapata Campos
GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law,
University of Gothenburg
Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School
Patrik Zapata
School of Public Administration
University of Gothenburg
Maria Jylkkä
School of Public Administration
University of Gothenburg
Aim
• To examine the role of cities in sustainability transitions informed by new institutional entrepreneurship theory and based on the case of waste prevention projects in the City of Göteborg
The case: four waste prevention projects
Research questions
• How do municipalities perform the new role of waste prevention?
• What are the implications of this new role for sustainable transitions?
How do cities perform the new role of waste prevention?
• Cities can turn into agents of change and institutional entrepreneurship (Hardy and Macguire, 2008) through:– The recombination of resources (human, financial, material,
spatial)– The construction of rationales for institutional change
(constructing discourse, reframing symbols, challenging taboos)
– The articulation of relations (internal and external collaboration, the creation of new institutional arrangements, roles and expectations)
– The creation of a new agency: the City of Göteborg
What are the implications of this new role for sustainable transitions?
• Challenging Publicness & Privateness (Pesch, 2015): expanding the scope of the public sector (publicness) and challenging taboos of privateness
• Eroding the predominant pro-growth logic through new less-consumption practices
• Emerging environmental policies, e.g. waste prevention, represent the structuration of a new organizational field. Experimental projects (master-ideas) travel via idea-carriers and collaborative arrangements and arenas
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