John Groenewegen, Rolf Kunneke, Claude Ménard

Network Infrastructures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A must-read for scholars and researchers studying network infrastructures from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Provides the necessary theoretical concepts to analyse the interdependencies between technologies and institutions along three layers and delivers in-depth case studies through which these theoretical insights come to life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832694
• ISBN-10: 1108832695
• Artikelnr.: 60691023

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.