Dieser Beitrag schafft einen Überblick über den Stand der Forschung zur Rolle etablierter Unternehmen (Incumbents) emissionsintensiver Wirtschaftsbereiche (Energieversorgung, Transport, Lebensmittelversorgung und verarbeitende Industrie) in nachhaltigen Transformationsprozessen. Anhand eines...

Outside the major Western nations, the word "development" is often used as a substitute or synonym for progress. Both project into the future and celebrate science and technology as an outpost of civilization, both are confident of a destiny of ever-increasing improvements for humankind. As...

The modern capitalist revolution in Chile - the moment when the economic liberalism project was established as a stage prior to the Reagan and Thatcher governments, generating a radical break with the previous model (Gárate 2012) - immediately provoked a strong discussion on the implicit idea...

Market concentration, alongside financialization and the climate crisis, is increasingly perceived as a major problem in contemporary capitalism. The fact that significant economic sectors are in the hands of a small number of powerful corporations - a phenomenon that is epitomized by Big Tech...

In the late 1990s, José emigrated from Bolivia to Buenos Aires, Argentina. There, he found a formal job, which he lost in 2000. The following year, in 2001, José obtained 50 dollars and, using his mother's sewing machine, began informally manufacturing children's caps and selling them in La...

During the period 2019-2023, Argentina was governed by a coalition of different factions of Peronism, a party that traditionally made state-led industrialization part of its narrative. In this context, there was a prioritization of the productive development and industrial policy agenda, which...

At least since the 1980s, development policies and narratives promoted by institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been shaped by the idea that development could be better achieved if economic practice and social organization more generally were articulated...

This discussion paper is a plea for an urgently needed shift in perspective: from the concentration of social science research on the ubiquitous platforms of the consumption- and communication-based internet to the investigation of the platform-oriented reorganization of industrial distribution,...