Governing crowd-based innovations: an interdisciplinary research agenda

The crowd increasingly plays a key role in facilitating innovations in a variety of sectors, spurred on by IT-developments and the concomitant increase in connectivity. Initiatives in this direction, captured under the umbrella-term ‘crowd-based innovations’ (CBI), offer novel opportunities in all domains of society by increasing the access,...

How do network companies seek legitimacy for public value trade offs?: The case of injecting biogas

Network companies fulfill a critical role in the energy transition. The is article provides an empirical study of this role of a Dutch national gas network company connecting a biogas producer. This project requires choices about many intertwined technical and institutional variables. Choices involve multiple, potentially competing public values...

Governance for Public Values in European Railways

Governments expect public values to be secured through the efficient and effective delivery of rail services, but the effects of railway governance are in many ways unclear. This research aims at getting a better understanding of the influence of organisational aspects on the performance of European railways, keeping in mind the relevant public...