The road towards autonomous driving – A differentiated view of institutional agency in path transformation

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Table 1. Types of institutional agency

Agency	Types of change	Temporal orientation	Outcomes
Legitimation	Developing legitimacy through the layering of new institutions such as norms and visions, and by deinstitutionalizing existing ones	Future – institutionalizing change directions	Development of direction of change and legitimacy for transformation activities
Anchoring	Identifying and understanding existing institutions and exploiting their incentives through novel application	Past – relating to historically developed institutions	Knowledge about existing institutions’ incentives, alignment of transformation activities to such incentives, ‘mobilizing the past’
Enabling	Overcoming the constraining effect of existing institutions through adaptation	Present – dealing with institutions that constrain activities in the present	Changed institutions; dismantled institutional barriers, ‘overcoming the past’