From outsourcing to embeddedness: How consultants become structurally embedded in public energy governance
アウトソーシングから埋め込みへ：コンサルタントが公共エネルギーガバナンスに構造的に組み込まれる仕組み (AI 翻訳)
Georgios Pardalis, Katharina Reindl, Jenny Palm
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
本研究は、スウェーデンのエネルギー移行を事例に、コンサルタントが公共ガバナンスに構造的に組み込まれるメカニズムを、60件のインタビューとシステムダイナミクス分析で解明。短期的な外部委託が長期的な制度的依存に発展する6つのフィードバック機構を特定し、知識の信頼性や行政能力の形成におけるコンサルタントの役割を明らかにした。
English
This study examines how consultants become structurally embedded in public energy governance, using Sweden's energy transition as a case. Based on 60 interviews and a system-dynamics approach, it identifies six feedback mechanisms that can turn short-term outsourcing into lasting institutional dependence, shaping which knowledge counts as credible and how public capacity is built or eroded. Findings offer practical levers for managing consultancy in governance.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本では、エネルギー政策や自治体の脱炭素計画策定においてコンサルタント依存が進んでおり、本研究成果は行政の専門性確保や調達制度設計に示唆を与える。SSBJ対応や地域脱炭素の文脈でも、外部専門家の活用と内部能力構築のバランスが重要となる。
In the global GX context
This study contributes to global governance scholarship by reframing consultants as constitutive parts of public energy governance, with mechanisms likely to apply across EU procurement systems. It offers practical levers for managing external expertise, relevant to any jurisdiction relying on consultants for climate and energy policy design.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a novel framework for understanding consultant influence in energy governance, with testable mechanisms for other contexts.
🏢実務担当者:Offers procurement and knowledge-transfer strategies to manage consultant dependence and build internal capacity.
🏛政策担当者:Highlights risks of institutional dependence on consultants and suggests transparency and capacity-building measures.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Public authorities increasingly rely on consultants to navigate sustainability transitions, yet research typically treats consultants' influence as episodic and external to governance itself. This study asks how consultants instead become durable, structural participants in public-sector governance, shaping how energy-transition policies are designed, coordinated, and legitimized. Using Sweden's energy transition as an empirical case, we draw on 60 semi-structured interviews with consultants, public officials, and boundary-spanning coordination bodies, analyzed through a qualitative system-dynamics approach. The analysis identifies six recurring feedback mechanisms, some reinforcing consultants' role over time and others constraining it, showing how short-term outsourcing can evolve into lasting institutional dependence. These mechanisms show how consultants help shape which knowledge counts as credible, how governance routines are reproduced, and how public agencies' own capacity is built up or eroded in the process. Because Sweden shares its procurement architecture with much of the European Union, these mechanisms are likely to travel to other EU governance systems with similar framework-based contracting, extending the findings' relevance beyond a single national case. The findings reframe consultancy as a constitutive part of public energy governance rather than a peripheral service and translate into practical levers for managing it: procurement rules requiring knowledge transfer, transparency about who authors key analyses, and mechanisms that convert recurring outsourcing spend into permanent public expertise. More broadly, the study offers a way of understanding how public capacity, accountability, and strategic direction in energy governance are shaped by the recurring involvement of external experts.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104852first seen 2026-08-03 04:44:16
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