| dc.description.abstract | This is an analysis of technology and society, where the latter is an active participant in technological development. This assignment aims to address the special permits called “development licenses” within the mariculture industry, which are managed by: The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, and The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. These permits encourage greater technological development within the industry, through cooperation between the two previously mentioned partners.
There have been larger investigations into these permits processes in the past, but updates are now required. In addition to assessing other and new factors that affect the permits process, thus the technological development itself. This paper aims to ask the question: “What experiences does the mariculture industry have with the application process for the development licenses?”, and I have worked to bring forth an industrial maricultural perspective on the permit process.
I will find the answer to the thesis statement through four key questions that take a closer look at the kind of unseen challenges that are experienced: the company’s stakeholders, internal organizing, how challenges are handled, and the incentives for the permits.
The theories have been of much help to better understand my case that helps to answer my thesis statement. Work system framework and the Ishikawa diagram have found difficulties in the process, the places they appear, as well as insight to the organization. The diagram has also helped to find the root causes of the challenges that are being experienced, which are important for handling them. The Stakeholder theory has localized many stakeholders that are behind the challenges that are being experienced.
The result shows that multiple factors that make the application process more difficult. The most critical ones for the companies that are in my selection are: unpredictability, unfairness, politics such as ground rent, missing location for placing the project, and projects that are halted because of limitations to make design changes. These challenges halt projects since the risk of them not being completed becomes too great, which leads to the lost access to capital for carrying out the project. The solution is to practice more predictable policies and management, together with more information to the industry in order to reduce risk. A comprehensive assessment of this case suggests that the mariculture industry experience of the development licenses process have been demanding and unpredictable.
For the theories, the stakeholder theory hasn't been functioning optimally. This is because of characteristics like “urgency” and “power” working differently between public and private stakeholders. One should pay close attention to the theory’s use, and consider adapting it to improve its abilities at governmental stakeholders.
For the Work system framework and Ishikawa diagram, both have been shown to work well together and are quite alike. Causality might be of interest to implement in the Work system framework, in order to get to the bottom of the challenges found within its framework. | |
