Sustainability Transitions and Industrial Transformation: Multi-Sector Dynamics and Policy Perspectives | 2026
Authors: Mäkitie T.; Andersen A.D.; Steen M.
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-4893-4_5
Journal: Sustainability Transitions and Industrial Transformation: Multi-Sector Dynamics and Policy Perspectives
Year: 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature
Document Type: Book chapter
Open Access: All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access
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Existing literature has seldom sought to achieve a holistic perspective of the different inter-industrial dynamics associated with sustainability transitions. This book chapter provides the first empirical application of ‘Multi-sectoral perspective’—a recently proposed framework to conceptualize such dynamics—to a case study: electrification of Norwegian coastal shipping. We ask: how have multi-sectoral interactions affected the electrification of Norwegian maritime sector? Our analysis shows that the framework is useful in providing an overarching and systematized analytical perspective to understand the implications of a diverse set of multi-sectoral interactions for transitions. It enables the basic typology for differentiating between different types of multi-sectoral interactions, namely “horizontal” throughput interactions, “vertical” technology component interactions, and “adjacent” interactions with other value chains. Multi-sectoral perspective thus provides a heuristic that helps analysts and practitioners to analyse and make sense of the multi-sectoral complexities of real-world transition processes. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2026.
Electric utilities; Case-studies; Coastal shipping; Components interaction; Holistic perspectives; Industrial dynamics; Maritime sector; Real-world; Sustainability transition; Transition process; Value chains; Ships