Network Infrastructures

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-83269-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

Infrastructures are complex networks dominated by tight interdependencies between technologies and institutions. These networks supply services crucial to modern societies, services that can be provided only if several critical functions are fulfilled. This book proposes a theoretical framework with a set of concepts to analyse rigorously how these critical functions require coordination within the technological dimension as well as within the institutional dimension. It also shows how fundamental the alignment between these two dimensions is. It argues that this alignment operates along different layers characterized successively by the structure, governance and transactions that connect technologies and institutions. These issues of coordination and alignment, at the core of the book, are substantiated through in-depth case studies of networks from the energy, water and wastewater, and transportation sectors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kunneke, Rolf

Ménard, Claude

Groenewegen, John

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Industrielle Organisation
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Lifting the veil; Part I. Conceptual Framework: 1. Network infrastructures – from coordination to alignment; 2. Institutional embeddedness – a conceptual challenge; 3. Technology in three dimensions – economics meets system engineering; 4. Bringing together two worlds apart; Part II. Empirical Explorations: 5. Structures – unravelling the energy transition; 6. Governance – a tale of a city's water and wastewater network; 7. Transactions – the many challenges self-driving vehicles face; 8. Taking stock, looking ahead.

Über Autor(innen)

Kunneke, Rolf
Rolf Künneke is Professor, Economics of Infrastructures, Delft University of Technology. He has a long research record on the restructuring of the energy sector.

Ménard, Claude
Claude Ménard is Professor of Economics, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, co-founder and past president of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (now SIOE) and a former co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Groenewegen, John
John Groenewegen is Professor Emeritus, Delft University of Technology. He is past president of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) and past general secretary of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).