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The Transformation Flower Approach for Leveraging Change towards Multiple Value Creation and Institutional Change

Version 1 : Received: 20 July 2023 / Approved: 21 July 2023 / Online: 22 July 2023 (11:08:07 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 24 November 2023 / Approved: 24 November 2023 / Online: 27 November 2023 (11:25:18 CET)

How to cite: Huntjens, P.; Rinscheid, A.; Kemp, R.; Van Helvoirt, B.; Aarts, N.; Visseren-Hamakers, I.; van Veen, A.; Hassink, J. The Transformation Flower Approach for Leveraging Change towards Multiple Value Creation and Institutional Change. Preprints 2023, 2023071539. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1539.v2 Huntjens, P.; Rinscheid, A.; Kemp, R.; Van Helvoirt, B.; Aarts, N.; Visseren-Hamakers, I.; van Veen, A.; Hassink, J. The Transformation Flower Approach for Leveraging Change towards Multiple Value Creation and Institutional Change. Preprints 2023, 2023071539. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1539.v2

Abstract

We introduce the Transformation Flower Approach (TFA), a Theory of Change that attends to multiple value creation and institutional change as a dual design challenge. We highlight how the TFA integrates social scientific theories and models relevant for transformative change (in particular focusing on pathways, leverage points, governance, power, and values) and demonstrate its practical value by an application to the ongoing transformation of the Dutch food system. By providing a holistic, transdisciplinary and practically relevant approach that aims to support new social contract formation, the TFA goes beyond other transformative change approaches. Based on the notion of pathways, it offers a toolbox that aids in working towards desired futures, involving both incumbents and challengers in an effort to harness untapped yet proximal potentials in a forward-looking way. By embracing an innovation approach, it not only promises to circumvent resistance to change, but also serves as a step-by-step approach to identify options for multiple value creation and effective cooperation. We demonstrate the analytical and practical value of the TFA by discussing action perspectives at various levels and scales in the context of the Dutch food system transition, including (1) area-oriented approaches, (2) acceleration agendas for specific transformation pathways, and (3) actor-specific transformation flowers. In developing these, we emphasize the importance of interdependencies between leverage points. Our approach helps to identify opportunities to link transformative options (the what), actors (the who) and levers (the how) in dynamic interaction to embark on transformative pathways.

Keywords

Transformation Flower Approach; Transformative Governance; Co-evolutionary Governance; Power; Values; Multiple Value Creation; Institutional Change; Stakeholder Analysis; Power Mapping; Leverage points; Justice; Equity; Sustainability; IPBES Transformative Change Assessment; Natural Social Contract, Eco-Social Contract; Food System Transitions

Subject

Social Sciences, Political Science

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Comment 1
Received: 27 November 2023
Commenter: Patrick Huntjens
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Comment: Improvements in abstract, introduction, section 4 and conclusion
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