Multiplying Mighty Davids?

Sarah Debor focusses her research on the German energy transition, business models, innovative grassroots pioneers and energy cooperatives. She successfully completed the PhD program in business and economics at the Schumpeter School of the University of Wuppertal, Germany in 2017. For the time of her PhD, she was researcher at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy GmbH, Germany as well as part of the Science Cluster on the Great Transformation of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

Introduction.- Energy Cooperatives: A 'New' Phenomenon in Germany.- Germany's Energiewende .- Organisations in the Context of Socio-Technical Transitions.- Research Design and Methods.- German Energy Cooperatives: A Rising Cosmopolitan Enterprise Community.- Analysis of Dominant Collaborative Interaction Models.- Discussion of Results.- Conclusions and Outlook.