Abstract
With the aim of achieving a sustainable future, a new research area dealing with “sustainability transitions” has emerged. The focus on socio-technical niches and the related management activities are paramount to understand their aptitude to replace the dominant socio-technical regime. Strategic niche management (SNM) has become a renowned analytical framework for understanding the introduction and diffusion of very new sustainable innovations through societal experiments. With an emphasis on SNM, a systematic literature review (SLR) mainly looking at the environmental dimension of sustainability was carried out adopting the PRISMA statement. The increase in publications over the years, the enlargement of the geographical borders interested, the presence of points of reference in the literature, as well as the adaptability of the theoretical framework to both a generic and specific issue related to sustainability, demonstrate the centrality of SNM for studying the transition towards sustainability in socio-technical systems.
Highlights
Classifying the titles for origins, the results show the involvement of 24 different countries/states, which combined with the number of publications, returned the following outcomes (Table 1)
The sub-categories identified are: sustainability transition, networks, renewable energy, and other
Being a focus on socio-technical niches and the related management activities necessary to understand the replacement of the dominant socio-technical regime, the Strategic niche management (SNM) has become a fundamental analytical framework to comprehend the introduction and diffusion of new sustainable innovations by means of social experiments
Summary
The goal of this review is the understanding of the perspectives from which literature has been developed so far by means of a SLR
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