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Policy in socio-technical transition : the case of consumer privacy protection for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in retail
Wanningen, V.R.J.R. (2009) Policy in socio-technical transition : the case of consumer privacy protection for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in retail.
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| Abstract: | This study aims to understand emerging regulation in the regulatory dimension of sociotechnical transition. Thereto, the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) on socio-technical transition is applied in an experimental fashion to a ‘moving target’, i.e. a contemporary case study. In addition, the MLP is employed in a ‘prospective fashion’ by matching the empirical patterns with one of its five socio-technical transition pathways. In doing so, the MLP is symbiotically combined with the Governance Perspective (GP) into the hybrid MLP-GP analytical framework. The GP conceptualizes emerging regulation in terms of the governance dynamics of an emerging governance regime, i.e. multi-actor and multi-tier policy processes yielding policy outcomes. The hybrid MLP-GP analytical framework is applied to the empirical research field by conducting a governance case study of the emerging regulation for consumer privacy protection of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Currently, in the European retail sector experiments with the application of RFID on consumer products in the businessto-consumer (B2C) domain are conducted in RFID pilot projects in the technological niche. The RFID governance case study enables to get insights into the emerging regulation for consumer privacy protection of RFID in this new application domain. The observed empirical patterns were matched with the ‘transformation pathway’ as one of the five socio-technical transition pathways of the MLP. Finally, the policy niche as an analytical concept is introduced to conceptualize the emerging regulatory capability to accommodate an emerging technology in the ‘technological niche – socio-technical regime interaction’ of the ‘transformation pathway’. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 08 philosophy |
| Programme: | Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society MSc (60024) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/59325 |
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