Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0

Abstract

This paper explores the processes behind legitimacy building and its role in new path creation and the path transformation or the ‘de-locking’ of an established industry. We use a mixed-methods approach and focus on the emergence of ‘New Space’ or Space 2.0 in the UK, a new-to-the-world industry, with radically different products and/or conventions. Legitimation of new product categories is essential to enable future adoption by regulators and consumers. Our findings suggest that this is not a linear process but involves interlayering, or complex feedback loops, between three distinct types of legitimacy building: regulatory, normative, and cognitive. Failure in some of these feedback loops, for example, problems with altering regulatory legitimacy, would prevent the formation of new industrial pathways with significant implications for the development of new-to-the-world and new-to-region industries.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2024.2305865
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
Funding Information: We are grateful to Bram Timmermans for handling the editorial review of this article and for his guidance on the four rounds of revisions. The constructive comments from the reviewers challenged us to refine and develop our argument. The research was unde
Additional Information: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Industrial path development,Space 2.0,Space sector,de-locking; new-to-region industries,legitimacy building,General Business,Management and Accounting,Management of Technology and Innovation
Publication ISSN: 1469-8390
Last Modified: 18 Nov 2024 08:48
Date Deposited: 23 Jan 2024 13:32
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2024-01-22
Published Online Date: 2024-01-22
Accepted Date: 2024-01-01
Authors: Billing, Chloe A.
Bryson, John R.
Kitsos, Anastasios (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-5338-2714)

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