Strategic Responses to Imposed Innovation Projects: The Case of Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Oil Sands Industry Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Today's ‘activist’ attitudes and strong power of non-market stakeholders (such as government agencies, non-governmental organizations, labor unions) have triggered the phenomenon of imposed innovation projects. These are investment projects carried out by profit-seeking firms primarily in response to the demands of influential non-market stakeholders. Such projects are supposedly instrumental to the emergence of new, socially beneficial ...