Publications

Publications by Jannika Mattes

Articles in Journals

2026: Mattes, Jannika, Schnell, Tamara: Legitimation of renewable energy projects - Legitimacy gaps in socio-technical transitions and actor responses. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Vol. 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2025.101097

2025: Mattes, Jannika, Alsheimer, Sven, Dütschke, Elisabeth: Regional technology legitimation: The case of green hydrogen-based steelmaking. Geoforum Vol. 169, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104499

2025: Mattes, Jannika, Heidenreich, Martin: Regional Innovation Systems and Innovation Clusters. Handbook of Innovation, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25143-6_44-1, pp 1-18

2025: Schmidt-Scheele, Ricarda, Mattes, Jannika: Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2025.100994

2025: Paustian, Sabrina, Köhlke, Julia, Mattes, Jannika, Lehnhoff, Sebastian: Ready, Set, … Rollout? – The Role of Heterogeneous Actors and Proximities in the Delayed Smart Meter Rollout in Germany. Cleaner Engineering and Technology Vol. 26, May 2025, 100930, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2025.100930

2024: Chlebna, Camilla, Mattes, Jannika: Regional Transition Fields - Exploring institutional dynamics of contestation and entrenchment in an energy transition case in Germany. Energy Research & Social Science. Vol. 116, October 2024, 103684, doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103684

2024: Paustian, Sabrina, Mattes, Jannika: ICT Standards in Smart Grid Projects – Between a Standard’s Intended and Factual Role in Complex Technological Development.  Journal of Organizational Sociology Vol. 2, Issue 1, doi.org/10.1515/joso-2023-0008

2023: Jackwerth-Rice, Deborah, Koehrsen, Jens, Mattes, Jannika: The Resources of Institutional Entrepreneurs in Different Structural Settings. Organization Theory, 4(2), doi.org/10.1177/26317877231180630

2023: Rohe, Sebastian, Schmidt-Scheele, Ricarda, Mattes, Jannika : The embeddedness of companies in regional energy transitions, European Planning Studies. Vol. 31, Issue 12, doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2023.2179389, pp. 2590-2613

2023: Roth, Philipp, Mattes, Jannika: Distance creates proximity: Unraveling the influence of geograpical distance on social proximity in interorganizational collaborations. Environment and Planning A, Economy and Space Vol. 55, Issue 6, doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221143115

2022: Paustian, Sabrina, Köhlke, Julia, Mattes, Jannika, Lehnhoff, Sebastian: The (still unexplored) Social Side of Smart Grid Development. Towards a Social Layer for the Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM). E-Energy '22: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, doi.org/10.1145/3538637.3539585, pp. 521 - 531

2022: Chlebna, Camilla, Martin, Hanna, Mattes, Jannika: Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221137346, pp. 222–234

2022: Heidenreich, Martin, Mattes, Jannika: Knowledge generation and diffusion in the German wind energy industry. Industrial and Corporate Change Vol 31, doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtac022, pp. 1285-1306

2022: Löhr, Meike, Chlebna, Camilla, Mattes, Jannika: From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Vol. 42, doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.12.005, pp. 251-267

2022: Rohe, Sebastian, Mattes, Jannika: What about the regional level? Regional configurations of Technological Innovation Systems. Geoforum Vol. 129, doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.007, pp. 60-73

2022: Löhr, Meike, Mattes, Jannika: Facing transition phase two: Analysing actor strategies in a stagnating acceleration phase. Technological Forecasting and Social Change Vol. 174, doi,org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121221.

2021: Köhlke, Julia, Paustian, Sabrina, Mattes, Jannika, Lehnhoff, Sebastian, Uslar, Mathias: Perspectives on the Social Embeddedness of the Smart Grid Architecture Model in Innovation Projects. CIRED 2021 - The 26th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1616, pp. 2725 – 2729

2020: Chlebna, Camilla, Mattes, Jannika: The fragility of regional energy transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Vol. 37, doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.07.009, pp. 66–78

2018: Hansen, Teis, Mattes, Jannika: Proximity and power in collaborative innovation projects. Regional Studies Vol. 52, doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1263387, S. pp. 35-46

2015: Nilsson, Magnus, Mattes, Jannika: The spatiality of trust: Factors influencing the creation of trust and the role of face-to-face contacts. European Management Journal, Vol. 33, doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2015.01.002, pp. 230-244

2015: Mattes, Jannika, Huber, Andreas, Köhrsen, Jens: Energy transitions in small‐scale regions – What we can learn from a regional innovation systems perspective. Energy Policy Vol. 78, doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.12.011, pp. 255–264

2014: Mattes, Jannika: Formalisation and flexibilisation in organisations – Dynamic and selective approaches in corporate innovation processes. European Management Journal Vol. 32, doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2013.09.002, S. 475-486

2013: Mattes, Jannika, Späth, Sinje: Upgrading foreign subsidiaries from exploiting to augmenting: Bargaining processes at strategic and operative levels. Competition & Change, Vol. 17, doi.org/10.1179/1024529413Z.00000000, pp. 129-155

2012: Mattes, Jannika: Dimensions of proximity and knowledge bases. Innovation between spatial and non-spatial factors. Regional Studies Vol. 46, doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2011.552493, pp. 1085-1099

2012: Mattes, Jannika: The regional embeddedness of multinational companies. A critical perspective. European Planning Studies Vol. 21, doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2012.722919, S. 433-451

Books and Book Chapters

2025: Heidenreich, Martin, Mattes, Jannika: Regional Innovation Systems and Innovation Clusters. Handbook of Innovation. Ed. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Arnold Windeler, Birgit Blättel-Mink, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25143-6_44-1, pp. 1-18

2021: Heidenreich, Martin, Mattes, Jannika: Regionale Innovationssysteme und Innovationscluster. Handbook of Innovation. Ed. B. Blättel-Mink, I. Schulz-Schaeffer, A. Windeler, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17668-6, pp. 183-199

2019: Koehrsen, Jens, Mattes, Jannika, Huber, Andreas: Les transitions énergétiques allemandes à l’échelon local : une perspective évolutive des transitions de Bottrop et d’Emden. Ed. Douzou, Sylvie, Guyon, Marc, Luck, Simon. Les territoires de la transition énergétique, Paris, Lavoisier, collection EDF Socio-économie de l’énergie, https://doi.org/10.3917/lav.douzo.2019.01.0037, pp. 37-54

2017: Heidenreich, Martin, Kädtler, Jürgen, Mattes, Jannika (ed.): Kollaborative Innovationen. Die innerbetriebliche Nutzung externer Wissensbestände in vernetzten Entwicklungsprozessen. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, doi: 10.17875/gup2018-1080

2016: Mattes, Jannika: The geography of innovation in multinational companies: internal distribution and external embeddedness. Handbook on the geography of innovation. Ed. Shearmur, Richard, Carrincazeaux, Christophe, Doloreux, David. Edward Elgar, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784710774.00042, pp. 399-414

2015: Mattes, Jannika: Looking into the innovation process: How international is innovation in multinational companies? Transnational corporations and transnational governance: The cost of crossing borders in the global economy. Ed. Houndmills, Sarianna Lundan. Palgrave Macmillan, https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137467690_6, pp. 145-176

2014: Heidenreich, Martin & Mattes, Jannika: Die soziale Einbettung multinationaler Unternehmen. Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Reader des Soziologietages 2012 an der Universität Bochum, Ed. Martina Löw, Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 659-673

2012: Heidenreich, Martin, Mattes, Jannika: The embeddedness of multinational companies and their limits. Institutional embeddedness of multinational companies, Ed. Heidenreich, Martin. Edward Elgar, 10.1080/09654313.2012.722919, pp. 29-58

2012: Mattes, Jannika, Heidenreich, Martin: Conclusion: Corporate Embeddedness as a Strategic and Dynamic Process of Skilled Actors. Institutional embeddedness of multinational companies, Ed. Heidenreich, Martin. Edward Elgar, https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857934338.00026, pp. 329-343

2012: Heidenreich, Martin, Barmeyer, Christoph, Koschatzky, Knut, Mattes, Jannika, Baier, Elisabeth, Krüth, Katharina: Multinational Enterprises and Innovation: Regional Learning in Networks. London/New York: Routledge, ISBN: 9781138959989

2010: Mattes, Jannika: Innovation in multinational companies. Organisational, international and regional dilemmas. Verlag: Peter Lang, 
doi: 10.3726/978-3-653-00418-2

2008: Heidenreich, Martin, Kirch, Brigitte, Mattes, Jannika: Die organisatorische Einbettung von Informationstechnologien in einem globalen Entwicklungsprojekt. Ed. Schulz-Schäffer, Ingo;  Funken, Christiane. Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91098-7_8, pp. 193-219

Practice-oriented contributions and further publications (selection)

2025: Niesse, Astrid, Mattes, Jannika, Lehnhoff, Sebastian: Digitalisierung und Vertrauen - Energiesystem der Zukunft. Bulletin.ch, 12/2025, https://www.bulletin.ch/de/news-detail/digitalisierung-und-vertrauen.html

2024: Mattes, Jannika, Chlebna, Camilla, Löhr, Meike, Rohe, Sebastian: Regionale Treiber und Hemmnisse der Windenergieentwicklung in Deutschland. Geographische Rundschau Ausgabe 4-2024, https://uol.de/f/1/user_upload/Bild_Chlebna_et_al_2024_Seite_1.jpg?v=1712743986, pp. 22-26

2012: Wittke, Volker; Heidenreich, Martin; Mattes, Jannika; Hanekop, Heidemarie; Feuerstein, Patrick; Jackwerth, Thomas: Kollaborative Innovationen. Die innerbetriebliche Nutzung externer Wissensbestände in vernetzten Entwicklungsprozessen. Oldenburger Studien zur Europäisierung und zur transnationalen Regulierung Nr. 22/2012, https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30713 

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