Kristina Bogner

• Dr. oec.
• Assistant Professor at Utrecht University

The burdens and benefits of, as well as the recognition and participation in sustainability transformations remain unequally distributed across rural/urban, global South/North communities, leading to spatial injustices and peripheralization. The Summer School 2025 addresses this spatial unevenness from a diversity of justice perspectives, widening...

Transformative research pushes the boundaries of science with a strong focus on engaging with societal problems. Transdisciplinary research provides us with the knowledge and tools to work together with a set of diverse societal actors in addressing these societal problems. But, how just are these practices? We came together in a summer school orga...

Facing the world's ecological, economic, and social challenges requires us to connect the concepts of justice, sustainability, and transitions. Bridging and discussing heterogeneous fields, we argue that these concepts need to complement each other, and we present just sustainability transitions (JUSTRAs) to do so. To define JUSTRAs, we review the...

Transformative research is a broad and loosely connected family of research disciplines and approaches, with the explicit normative ambition to fundamentally question the status quo, change the dominant structures, and support just sustainability transitions by working collaboratively with society. When engaging in such science-practice collaborati...

With this perspective paper, we aim to raise awareness of and offer starting points for studying the role of emotions and associated behavioural responses to losses in relation to phase-outs. We start from a psychological perspective and explain how losses due to phasing out dominant practices, structures, and cultures may threaten core psychologic...

Companies can actively contribute to large-scale systemic changes towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption by engaging with their own corporate sustainability transitions. This, however, requires new forms of organisational leadership. In this chapter, we make a three-fold contribution to the question of how this might be realis...

Aiming at fostering the transition towards a sustainable climate-neutral economy, the German Federal Government (GFG) intends to promote the transition towards a sustainable knowledge-based bioeconomy (SKBBE). Bioeconomy policies are adjusted regularly, increasingly focusing on addressing the grand challenges of our time. To analyze whether the Ger...

While the Earth system is in overshoot mode with an imminent threat to our social, ecological, and economic systems, cultural evolutionary theory may hold the key to more successfully addressing many of our sustainability challenges. With the aim of illuminating the potential of studying the evolution of a sustainable bioeconomy through a cultural...

Successful transitions to a sustainable bioeconomy require novel technologies, processes, and practices as well as a general agreement about the overarching normative direction of innovation. Both requirements necessarily involve collective action by those individuals who purchase, use, and co-produce novelties: the consumers. Based on theoretical...

As a microcosm for future challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits increasingly transboundary dynamics, causing interconnected problems across multiple societal systems. To examine the role of innovations as a social mechanism to reconcile these arising challenges, we view the unfolding of the pandemic through the lens of a content analysis of 70...

While organizational and business researchers have fruitfully applied evolutionary theory at various levels of analysis, few utilize organizational memetics to capture the complexity of organizational culture. This article contributes to bridging the gap between theorizing and empirical research on organizational memetics by raising and addressing...

Eine Strategie zur Umsetzung einer nachhaltigen Bioökonomie muss neben disziplinären und technischen Zielvorstellungen auch den gesellschaftlichen Wandel einplanen und vorbereiten. Eine zukunftsfähige politische Strategie muss also neben dem techno-ökonomischen Wissen ebenso solches Wissen fördern, welches es Produzenten und Konsumenten ermöglicht,...

In recent years, many scholars praised the seemingly endless possibilities of using machine learning (ML) techniques in and for agent-based simulation models (ABM). To get a more comprehensive understanding of these possibilities, we conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) and classify the literature on the application of ML in and for ABM acc...

Keywords Agent-based Modelling · Multi-Agent System · Machine Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Output Analysis · Systematic Literature Review · Research Methods In recent years, many scholars praised the seemingly endless possibilities of using machine learning (ML) techniques in and for agent-based simulation models (ABM). To get a more compreh...

While organizational and business researchers have fruitfully applied evolutionary theory at various levels of analysis, few utilize organizational memetics to capture the complexity of organizational culture. This article contributes to bridging the gap between theorizing and empirical research on organizational memetics by raising and addressing...

Presenting our preliminary findings on how machine learning can and has been used in ABMs so far along with a critical reflection on the claimed benefits of doing so.

Western economies nowadays are confronted with a predicted productivity slowdown resulting in diminishing rates of economic growth. While some scholars see these developments as an indication of the approaching end of growth due to fully exploited technological opportunities, this article contends that the possibilities for radical, paradigm changi...

Knowledge is a key resource, allowing firms to innovate and keep pace with national and international competitors. Therefore, the management of this resource within firms and innovation networks is of utmost importance. As the collection and generation of (new) knowledge gives such competitive advantage, there is a strong interest of firms and poli...

Die Tatsache, dass Wertschöpfung mehr und mehr in komplexen, interorganisationalen Netzwerken stattfindet, hat seit den 1950er Jahren die Forschung zum Einfluss sozialer (Netzwerk-)Strukturen vorangetrieben. Die Aussage, dass die sozialen Verbindungen zwischen Firmen die Leistungsfähigkeit dieser sowie die des gesamten Netzwerkes beeinflussen, führ...

Aiming at fostering the transition towards a sustainable knowledge-based Bioeconomy (SKBBE), the German Federal Government funds joint and single research projects in predefined socially desirable fields as, for instance, in the Bioeconomy. To analyse whether this policy intervention actually fosters cooperation and knowledge transfer as intended,...

The transformation towards a knowledge-based bioeconomy has the potential to serve as a contribution to a more sustainable future. Yet, until now, bioeconomy policies have been only insufficiently linked to concepts of sustainability transformations. This article aims to create such link by combining insights from innovation systems (IS) research a...

Social networks provide a natural infrastructure for knowledge creation and exchange. In this paper, we study the effects of a skewed degree distribution within formal networks on knowledge exchange and diffusion processes. To investigate how the structure of networks affects diffusion performance, we use an agent-based simulation model of four the...

We apply an agent-based simulation approach to explore how and why typical network characteristics affect overall knowledge diffusion properties. To accomplish this task, we employ an agent-based simulation approach (ABM) which is based on a “barter trade” knowledge diffusion process. Our findings indicate that the overall degree distribution signi...

Consumer habits are changing towards healthier diets also including a decline in consumption of alcoholic beverages in Northern America and Europe. The consumption of premium beverages is increasing, which includes beverages with or without alcohol such as functional drinks, organic or/and regional fermented products and craft beers. Here we review...

There is a rich body of literature which clearly indicates that firm positioning in innovation networks (Powell et al. 1996), the network dynamics (Powell et al 2005) and the structural configuration of the entire system (Schilling and Phelps 2007) affect firm innovation. One of the crucial questions for policy makers and managers is: how is the kn...

In our work we adopt a structural perspective and apply an agent-based simulation approach to analyse knowledge diffusion processes in four structurally distinct networks. The aim of this paper is to gain an in-depth understanding of how network characteristics, such as path length, cliquishness and the distribution and asymmetry of degree centrali...