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Dr. Vincent de Gooyert
Radboud University

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Review
Published: 16 January 2021 in Sustainability
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As we speed through the development and distribution of a vaccine for the COVID-19 pandemic, economies are suffering through the worst decline of the century while, at the same time, being pushed to comply with global agreements regarding climate change. Because of this, the economic downturn is also seen as an opportunity to speed up the sustainability transition or, in simple terms, to achieve a “green recovery”. What can we expect from a green recovery? We address this question by reviewing position documents in the debate between green recovery and its opponent, “quick rebound”, in the Netherlands. We apply systems thinking to model causal arguments regarding key concepts comprising green recovery and identify issues of consensus and dissensus. Our findings indicate that green recovery is promising for curbing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing growing socioeconomic inequalities. However, the position of what green recovery means for economic growth, including the development of gross domestic product and employment, is still largely unclear and at times contradictory. While some see tradeoffs, others suggest that economic growth and sustainability goals can be achieved simultaneously. Thus, we conclude by reflecting on the question: Can we have our cake and eat it?

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Ema Gusheva; Vincent de Gooyert. Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It? A Review of the Debate on Green Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 874 .

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Ema Gusheva, Vincent de Gooyert. Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It? A Review of the Debate on Green Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):874.

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Ema Gusheva; Vincent de Gooyert. 2021. "Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It? A Review of the Debate on Green Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 874.

Research article
Published: 29 December 2020 in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
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Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) can reduce CO2 emissions, but there is disagreement on its role. The disagreement is reflected in stark differences in stakeholders’ narratives on CCS. In the Netherlands, one extreme narrative focusses on CCS as part of a just transition and another on CCS as contributing to carbon lock-in. These narratives reflect different expectations of dynamic feedbacks around CCS deployment in the specific Dutch industrial context. This paper describes an alternative narrative that can advance the debate on what role CCS may play. Qualitative system dynamics based on interviews with experts is applied to identify the systemic feedback mechanisms that drive the dynamics of CCS in the Dutch industrial system transition, according to the two narratives. We find that CCS may reinforce carbon lock-in through the feedback mechanisms of legitimising, crowding out, and integration, and that CCS may play a part in a just climate transition through employment, economic, and environmental mechanisms. We combine these mechanisms into our alternative framing of CCS that could align the interests of different stakeholders: regulating CCS carefully to maximise its social and climate benefits and minimise the build-up of vested interests and carbon lock-in.

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Zahra Janipour; Floris Swennenhuis; Vincent de Gooyert; Heleen de Coninck. Understanding contrasting narratives on carbon dioxide capture and storage for Dutch industry using system dynamics. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 2020, 105, 103235 .

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Zahra Janipour, Floris Swennenhuis, Vincent de Gooyert, Heleen de Coninck. Understanding contrasting narratives on carbon dioxide capture and storage for Dutch industry using system dynamics. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 2020; 105 ():103235.

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Zahra Janipour; Floris Swennenhuis; Vincent de Gooyert; Heleen de Coninck. 2020. "Understanding contrasting narratives on carbon dioxide capture and storage for Dutch industry using system dynamics." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 105, no. : 103235.

Review article
Published: 17 November 2020 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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In the Paris Agreement, many nations set ambitious global goals to stabilize and reduce carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. A large share of these emissions is caused by electricity production. Scientists have been debating the viability of using natural gas as a transition fuel while renewable energies mature technologically and economically. Although natural gas might help the energy transition by reducing emissions compared to coal, there are other long-term implications of investing in natural gas which can work against reaching climate goals. One concern is that investments in natural gas might crowd out investments in renewable alternatives. This research reviews the literature on the role of natural gas in reducing carbon emissions to mitigate climate change and to bridge between coal and renewable technologies. We advance the debate by laying out how various positive and negative effects of natural gas interrelate. Our research warns that natural gas’ negative delayed and global effects can easily outweigh the positive immediate and local effects unless precautions are taken. Existing studies agree that natural gas helps avoid greenhouse gas emissions in the short term, while unintended long term effects might also hinder the transition into renewables. Our review helps to inform the policy-making process by reviewing the systemic effects of using natural gas as a transition fuel and suggests policy actions to avoid the negative long term consequences.

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C. Gürsan; V. de Gooyert. The systemic impact of a transition fuel: Does natural gas help or hinder the energy transition? Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2020, 138, 110552 .

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C. Gürsan, V. de Gooyert. The systemic impact of a transition fuel: Does natural gas help or hinder the energy transition? Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2020; 138 ():110552.

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C. Gürsan; V. de Gooyert. 2020. "The systemic impact of a transition fuel: Does natural gas help or hinder the energy transition?" Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 138, no. : 110552.

Journal article
Published: 21 April 2020 in Sustainable Futures
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Organizations operate in a turbulent environment which implies that the potential of long-term strategies is highly uncertain. Especially critical infrastructure providers face this issue as they typically invest with a time horizon of 50 years or more. Therefore, these organizations want to be responsive: they have the desire to take future developments into account when making strategic decisions, in order to avoid disinvestments. Literature on responsiveness is scattered and there are various related concepts including ambidexterity, organizational resilience, and stakeholder theory. This study builds on these bodies of knowledge to analyze the responsiveness strategies of six Dutch critical infrastructure providers. Confronting the responsiveness strategies as practiced with the literature results in nine dilemmas of responsiveness. Together these dilemmas show where, from the point of view of these organizations, future research may help taking long term trends into account more effectively.

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Vincent De Gooyert. Long term investments in critical infrastructure under environmental turbulence; Dilemmas of infrastructure responsiveness. Sustainable Futures 2020, 2, 100028 .

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Vincent De Gooyert. Long term investments in critical infrastructure under environmental turbulence; Dilemmas of infrastructure responsiveness. Sustainable Futures. 2020; 2 ():100028.

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Vincent De Gooyert. 2020. "Long term investments in critical infrastructure under environmental turbulence; Dilemmas of infrastructure responsiveness." Sustainable Futures 2, no. : 100028.

Book chapter
Published: 14 February 2020 in Urban Systems Design
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This chapter illustrates how to integrate both the building (Chapters 3–4Chapter 3Chapter 4) and mobility (Chapters 5–6Chapter 5Chapter 6) sectors for simulating urban systems design. This chapter also discusses how to establish planning support systems integrated with building and transport simulations to support urban systems design. Firstly, we review current trends of geographical information systems–related platforms and spatial planning or modeling. Then, we discuss system dynamics for arranging urban complex systems. Finally, we introduce two simulation results as integrated spatial modeling examples. The two simulations are related to energy sharing analysis, considering both building (photovoltaic) and mobility (electronic vehicle) energies. The first is a city-scale study using a land-use transport model. The second is a community (block)-scale study using optimized matching and community clustering approaches.

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Takahiro Yoshida; Yoshiki Yamagata; Soowon Chang; Vincent de Gooyert; Hajime Seya; Daisuke Murakami; Peraphan Jittrapirom; Gerasimos Voulgaris. Spatial modeling and design of smart communities. Urban Systems Design 2020, 199 -255.

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Takahiro Yoshida, Yoshiki Yamagata, Soowon Chang, Vincent de Gooyert, Hajime Seya, Daisuke Murakami, Peraphan Jittrapirom, Gerasimos Voulgaris. Spatial modeling and design of smart communities. Urban Systems Design. 2020; ():199-255.

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Takahiro Yoshida; Yoshiki Yamagata; Soowon Chang; Vincent de Gooyert; Hajime Seya; Daisuke Murakami; Peraphan Jittrapirom; Gerasimos Voulgaris. 2020. "Spatial modeling and design of smart communities." Urban Systems Design , no. : 199-255.

Chapter
Published: 25 October 2019 in Behavioral Operational Research
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The relevance of stakeholder behavior is widely acknowledged in operational research. However, the specific line of reasoning behind involving stakeholder behavior often remains implicit. This is problematic as there are very different reasons with important implications for the design and implementation for operation research studies. To support transforming the currently often unconscious capability of addressing stakeholder behavior in operational research into a more conscious one, this chapter expands on four different motives: improving decision quality, building consensus, improving relationships, and the intrinsic value of involving stakeholders. For each of these four motives the implications are discussed for how to involve stakeholders, and which stakeholders to involve.

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Vincent de Gooyert. Stakeholder Behavior in Operational Research: Connecting the Why, Who, and How of Stakeholder Involvement. Behavioral Operational Research 2019, 219 -235.

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Vincent de Gooyert. Stakeholder Behavior in Operational Research: Connecting the Why, Who, and How of Stakeholder Involvement. Behavioral Operational Research. 2019; ():219-235.

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Vincent de Gooyert. 2019. "Stakeholder Behavior in Operational Research: Connecting the Why, Who, and How of Stakeholder Involvement." Behavioral Operational Research , no. : 219-235.

Book chapter
Published: 18 July 2019 in Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy
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Vincent De Gooyert; Etiënne Rouwette; Hans Van Kranenburg. Interorganizational Strategizing. Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy 2019, 106 -120.

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Vincent De Gooyert, Etiënne Rouwette, Hans Van Kranenburg. Interorganizational Strategizing. Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy. 2019; ():106-120.

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Vincent De Gooyert; Etiënne Rouwette; Hans Van Kranenburg. 2019. "Interorganizational Strategizing." Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy , no. : 106-120.

Notes and insights
Published: 01 October 2018 in System Dynamics Review
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Vincent De Gooyert; Andreas Größler. On the differences between theoretical and applied system dynamics modeling. System Dynamics Review 2018, 34, 575 -583.

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Vincent De Gooyert, Andreas Größler. On the differences between theoretical and applied system dynamics modeling. System Dynamics Review. 2018; 34 (4):575-583.

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Vincent De Gooyert; Andreas Größler. 2018. "On the differences between theoretical and applied system dynamics modeling." System Dynamics Review 34, no. 4: 575-583.

Article
Published: 16 June 2018 in Quality & Quantity
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There is an increasing attention for dynamic organizational theories. The system dynamics methodology, although originally developed for practical contributions, is increasingly used to develop dynamic theoretical contributions. However, these studies differ substantially in the research designs they apply. Some of these studies adopt a quantitative approach while others adopt a qualitative approach. Some of these studies focus on testing existing theories, while other studies focus on building theory or combine both theory testing and building. This variety hinders an effective understanding of the methodology. To increase clarity, this paper provides a systematic review of system dynamics based theoretical contributions in organizational theory between 1990 and 2016. By looking at differences and commonalities I show how various methodological decisions combine into three distinctive internally consistent system dynamics based research strategies for theoretical contributions. These results support making methodological decisions in future research designs when applying system dynamics to develop dynamic organizational theories.

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Vincent De Gooyert. Developing dynamic organizational theories; three system dynamics based research strategies. Quality & Quantity 2018, 53, 653 -666.

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Vincent De Gooyert. Developing dynamic organizational theories; three system dynamics based research strategies. Quality & Quantity. 2018; 53 (2):653-666.

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Vincent De Gooyert. 2018. "Developing dynamic organizational theories; three system dynamics based research strategies." Quality & Quantity 53, no. 2: 653-666.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2017 in European Journal of Operational Research
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The role of stakeholders in organizational decision-making is gaining more and more attention. Managers find that in order to create value sustainably and ethically, it is necessary to balance the interests of various stakeholders. This trend is reflected in the management literature, where much advancement has been made in what is known as stakeholder theory. In the founding years of stakeholder theory there was a close connection and interchange of ideas between stakeholder theorists and operational researchers. Yet in recent years, the stream of papers that includes both fields has dwindled to a trickle. This lack of theoretical integration is surprising, as Operational Research is in nature a collaborative discipline. In this paper, we discuss three topics in stakeholder theory that can inform and improve studies involving working with stakeholders in Operational Research: instrumental versus moral stakeholder theory; focusing on trade-offs versus focusing on avoiding trade-offs; and focusing on the decision-making organization versus focusing on stakeholder engagement. We then conduct a systematic review of 144 Operational Research articles on the topic ‘stakeholders’. Content analysis of these articles reveals four distinct traditions of working with stakeholders: optimizing, balancing, structuring and involving. We compare the four traditions on goals, role of the analyst, type of data used, and results. Our analysis provides the basis for recommendations to Operational Research practitioners on how to work with stakeholders

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Vincent de Gooyert; Etiënne Rouwette; Hans van Kranenburg; Edward Freeman. Reviewing the role of stakeholders in Operational Research: A stakeholder theory perspective. European Journal of Operational Research 2017, 262, 402 -410.

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Vincent de Gooyert, Etiënne Rouwette, Hans van Kranenburg, Edward Freeman. Reviewing the role of stakeholders in Operational Research: A stakeholder theory perspective. European Journal of Operational Research. 2017; 262 (2):402-410.

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Vincent de Gooyert; Etiënne Rouwette; Hans van Kranenburg; Edward Freeman. 2017. "Reviewing the role of stakeholders in Operational Research: A stakeholder theory perspective." European Journal of Operational Research 262, no. 2: 402-410.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2016 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Sustainability transitions receive major scholarly attention, often explicitly with the intention to develop policy recommendations aimed towards progressing such transitions. Despite these efforts, many implemented transition policies have not been able to meet expectations. This tendency of systems to defeat the policies that have been designed to improve them is known as ‘policy resistance’. This paper addresses the question how we can explain the persistence of policy resistance in the context of sustainability transitions, and aims to bring us a step further in the direction of identifying policies that support overcoming policy resistance. System dynamics is an approach that explicitly addresses policy resistance and we investigate how this approach complements existing transition approaches. As an illustration, we apply the approach to the case of the Dutch energy transition, with the participation of 96 experts. We conclude that system dynamics complements the dominant multi-level perspective and the transition management approach by providing a middle ground between emphasizing agency or structure. Moreover, the approach helps overcoming policy resistance by mapping out the structure of the system responsible for policy resistance, thereby enabling the identification of high leverage points that support sustainability transitions.

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Vincent de Gooyert; Etiënne Rouwette; Hans van Kranenburg; Edward Freeman; Harry van Breen. Sustainability transition dynamics: Towards overcoming policy resistance. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2016, 111, 135 -145.

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Vincent de Gooyert, Etiënne Rouwette, Hans van Kranenburg, Edward Freeman, Harry van Breen. Sustainability transition dynamics: Towards overcoming policy resistance. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2016; 111 ():135-145.

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Vincent de Gooyert; Etiënne Rouwette; Hans van Kranenburg; Edward Freeman; Harry van Breen. 2016. "Sustainability transition dynamics: Towards overcoming policy resistance." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 111, no. : 135-145.