Institutionalizing car sharing in Seoul: Analysis of actors’ strategies to protect a niche from regime environments and to enact institutional change
(2020) In IIIEE Master Thesis IMEM01 20201The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- Abstract
- The sustainability benefits of car sharing have attracted many city governments. The Seoul Metropolitan Government introduced a car sharing (CS) scheme in 2013 and has been hailed as a pioneer metropolitan city in terms of CS diffusion. However, there was limited understanding of how CS advocates engaged in institutionalizing CS in Seoul. Addressing this, the aim of this study is to describe key strategies, and resources that CS advocates employed in Seoul to shield CS from regime environments as well as the mechanisms used in creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutions. Two theoretical frameworks, namely six regime environments and institutional work, were employed for the case analysis. To gather data, literature review and six... (More)
- The sustainability benefits of car sharing have attracted many city governments. The Seoul Metropolitan Government introduced a car sharing (CS) scheme in 2013 and has been hailed as a pioneer metropolitan city in terms of CS diffusion. However, there was limited understanding of how CS advocates engaged in institutionalizing CS in Seoul. Addressing this, the aim of this study is to describe key strategies, and resources that CS advocates employed in Seoul to shield CS from regime environments as well as the mechanisms used in creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutions. Two theoretical frameworks, namely six regime environments and institutional work, were employed for the case analysis. To gather data, literature review and six interviews with a city government official, a municipal district official, and CS corporate managers were conducted. The key results show that government actors play a critical role in changing regulative institutions and establishing infrastructure. On the other hand, there was limited attention given to undermining dominant cultural norms of car ownership among the CS advocates. This study also highlights the importance of policy continuation and policy goal setting. For future research, it is recommended to develop the two theoretical frameworks by exploring how regime dimension becomes a barrier and adopting both deductive and inductive approaches when applying the institutional work framework. (Less)
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- author
- Jung, Ahra LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- IMEM01 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- car sharing, sharing economy, niche protection, regime environments, institutional work
- publication/series
- IIIEE Master Thesis
- report number
- 2020:14
- ISSN
- 1401-9191
- language
- English
- id
- 9025582
- date added to LUP
- 2020-08-05 06:45:32
- date last changed
- 2020-08-06 06:24:43
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