کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
896349 1472393 2016 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Ambition and ambiguity: Expectations and imaginaries developing offshore wind in China
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
جاه طلبی و ابهام: انتظارات و تصورات در حال توسعه انرژی بادی فراساحلی در چین
کلمات کلیدی
جامعه شناسی انتظارات؛ تصورات اجتماعی فنی؛ سیاست گذاری چینی؛ فن آوری انرژی بادی فراساحلی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Future-orientation impacts China's offshore wind industry development.
• The paper makes a novel distinction between expectations and imaginaries.
• The paper identifies a ‘waiting game’ between industry and government actors.
• The government is ambitious about the future, but ambiguous about implementation.
• Government intervention neither stifles nor exclusively drives industry development.

This paper investigates how future-orientation generates action in China's offshore wind industry. We might expect that, with an authoritarian government, China would be able to push through policies with ease. Using the sociology of expectations and sociotechnical imaginaries, this paper shows how the future is an important resource for not only coordinating government and industry actors but also calibrating and negotiating expectations of what can be achieved. On the one hand, sociotechnical imaginaries – as exemplified by government development targets – appear to spur action; on the other hand, local expectations modify the intended development targets. The paper describes a strategic waiting game in which the government is obscure about intentions and in which the industry, wanting a piece of a promising cake, is eager to get a head start. This paper finds that ambitiousness about the future, but ambiguity in implementation, is a strategy successfully employed by the government to ensure change. The paper shows how state intervention is productively managed so that it neither stifles nor exclusively drives offshore wind industry development in China.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Technological Forecasting and Social Change - Volume 107, June 2016, Pages 50–58
نویسندگان
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