Making more of middles : advancing the middle-out perspective in energy system transformation

Janda, Kathryn B.; Reindl, Katharina; Blumer, Yann; Parag, Yael; Wade, Faye

Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (abstract)
Title:	Making more of middles : advancing the middle-out perspective in energy system transformation
Authors:	Janda, Kathryn B. Reindl, Katharina Blumer, Yann Parag, Yael Wade, Faye
et. al:	No
Proceedings:	eceee 2019 Summer Study on energy efficiency : is efficient sufficient?
Page(s):	199
Pages to:	204
Conference details:	European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee) 2019 Summer Study, Presqu'île de Giens, France, 3-8 June 2019
Issue Date:	2019
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
ISBN:	978-91-983878-4-1 978-91-983878-5-8
ISSN:	1653-7025 2001-7960
Language:	English
Subjects:	Building design; Building refurbishment; City; Middle-out approach; Middle-out perspective
Subject (DDC):	333.79: Energy 338: Production
Abstract:	Social and technological innovations are commonly seen as either being induced from the ‘top-down’ – e.g., by policymakers – or evolving from the ‘bottom-up’ – e.g., by consumers. Instead, a ‘middle-out’ perspective (MOP) focuses on agents of change that are located in the middle, between the top and the bottom. Janda and Parag (2013) and Parag & Janda (2014) describe how middle actors include (but are not limited to) such groups as building professionals, religious congregations, and commercial property owners . In recent years, these and other authors have further developed the MOP to address providers of housing refurbishment (Janda, Killip & Fawcett 2014), heating engineers (Wade, Hitchings & Shipworth 2016), community-based organizations (Hamilton et al. 2014), facilities managers (Goulden & Spence 2015), social housing providers (Cauvain & Karvonen 2018), and actors involved in energy storage (Devine-Wright et al. 2017). This paper focuses on recent advances in the ‘middleout perspective’. It considers several new middle actor groups, including an energy committee for orthodox Jews in Israel (Parag 2018), code officials in India (Janda & Khosla 2018), formal social groups in Swiss cities (Blumer et al. 2018; Frick et al. 2017), professionals working with housing providers in Sweden (Reindl 2017), local authorities and delivery agents in Scotland (Bush, Wade & Webb 2018), and housing developers in the USA (Agee et al. 2018). These cases demonstrate new applications of the MOP, bring additional theoretical perspectives to bear (such as practice theory) and further develop the use of perspectives already recognized within the MOP (e.g., system of professions). By looking across these, this paper develops the MOP with respect to other work on intermediaries, professionals, and communities of practice. To increase practical use of the MOP, the paper encourages future authors to clarify both the direction and scale of middle-actor impacts.
URI:	https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/ https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/20328
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

Files in This Item:

There are no files associated with this item.

Show full item record

Janda, K. B., Reindl, K., Blumer, Y., Parag, Y., & Wade, F. (2019). Making more of middles : advancing the middle-out perspective in energy system transformation [Conference paper]. Eceee 2019 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency : Is Efficient Sufficient?, 199–204. https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/

Janda, K.B. et al. (2019) ‘Making more of middles : advancing the middle-out perspective in energy system transformation’, in eceee 2019 Summer Study on energy efficiency : is efficient sufficient? European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, pp. 199–204. Available at: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/.

K. B. Janda, K. Reindl, Y. Blumer, Y. Parag, and F. Wade, “Making more of middles : advancing the middle-out perspective in energy system transformation,” in eceee 2019 Summer Study on energy efficiency : is efficient sufficient?, 2019, pp. 199–204. [Online]. Available: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/

JANDA, Kathryn B., Katharina REINDL, Yann BLUMER, Yael PARAG und Faye WADE, 2019. Making more of middles : advancing the middle-out perspective in energy system transformation. In: eceee 2019 Summer Study on energy efficiency : is efficient sufficient? [online]. Conference paper. European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. 2019. S. 199–204. ISBN 978-91-983878-4-1. Verfügbar unter: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/

Janda, Kathryn B., Katharina Reindl, Yann Blumer, Yael Parag, and Faye Wade. 2019. “Making More of Middles : Advancing the Middle-out Perspective in Energy System Transformation.” Conference paper. In Eceee 2019 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency : Is Efficient Sufficient?, 199–204. European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/.

Janda, Kathryn B., et al. “Making More of Middles : Advancing the Middle-out Perspective in Energy System Transformation.” Eceee 2019 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency : Is Efficient Sufficient?, European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, 2019, pp. 199–204, https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/.