Papers using STCA

2022

Title Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study from the water sector
Journal Research Policy
Authors Jonas Heiberg; Bernhard Truffer; Christian Binz
Use Case Mapping shifts in socio-technical configurations over time and space in the water sector (proof of concept of the method).
Document stock Newspaper articles
Notes Discursive coding approach. Global analysis using English-language newspaper articles.
Title Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems
Journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Authors Jonas Heiberg; Bernhard Truffer
Use Case Used to identify value-based proximities and portfolios of institutional logics in the Technological Innovation System of Swiss modular water technologies.
Document stock Expert interviews
Notes Substantive coding approach. Experts were asked to elaborate on other organizations and to assess their strategies, motivations and technology preferences.
Title How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego’s water sector
Journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Authors Johan Miörner; Jonas Heiberg; Christian Binz
Use Case Used to map the socio-technical storylines mobilized by actor coalitions in favour of, or against, a new desalination project in a region.
Document stock Local newspaper articles
Notes Discursive coding approach. Combination with interviews.
Title A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research
Journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Authors Bernhard Truffer; Harald Rohracher; Paula Kivimaa; Rob Raven; Floor Alkemade; Luis Carvalho; Giuseppe Feola
Use Case Retracing the toplical and conceptual transformations of the field of transition studies as exemplified by publications in the leading journal EIST.
Document stock Abstracts Scopus
Notes 500 abstracts from the journal EIST between 2011 and 2019. Research questions and conceptual frameworks as concept codes. Papers as actor equivalent.

2023

Title The Role of Global Actors in Sustainability Transitions – Tracing the Emergence of a Novel Infrastructure Paradigm in the Sanitation Sector
Journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Authors Djamila Lesch; Johan Miörner; Christian Binz
Use Case Used to assess shifts in the guiding rationality of water and sanitation projects funded by the World Bank.
Document stock World Bank project documents
Notes Substantive coding approach. Combination with interviews.
Title The emerging global socio-technical regime for tackling space debris: A discourse network analysis
Journal Acta Astronautica
Authors Xiao-Shan Yap; Jonas Heiberg; Bernhard Truffer
Use Case Positions of different actors on how to tackle the problem of space debris. Actors classified by institutional logics. Time period 2007 -2019.
Document stock Newspaper articles
Notes 124 new articles from Lexis Uni.

2024

Title Changing from within: the interplay between imaginary, culture and innovation system in regional transformation
Journal GEIST Working Paper series
Authors Huiwen Gong; Bernhard Truffer
Use Case Changes in the statements and activities of different actors in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg confronted with the electric vehicle option as a leading manufacturing region in the internal combustion engine technology.
Document stock Local newspapers
Notes Mixed discursive and substantive coding. German newspaper articles between 2010 and 2023