Understanding carbon lock-in
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...Concerns have been expressed that measures that improve the local environmental performance of coal in electricity generation might result in a lock-in of coal technologies that will make it more difficult to mitigate CO2 emissions (McDonald, 1999; Unruh, 2000)....
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...Sociotechnical regimes stabilise existing trajectories in many ways: cognitive routines that blind engineers to developments outside their focus (Nelson and Winter, 1982), regulations and standards (Unruh, 2000), adaptation of lifestyles to technical systems, sunk investments in machines, infrastructures and competencies (Tushman and Anderson, 1986; Christensen, 1997)....
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...…in many ways: cognitive routines that blind engineers to developments outside their focus (Nelson and Winter, 1982), regulations and standards (Unruh, 2000), adaptation of lifestyles to technical systems, sunk investments in machines, infrastructures and competencies (Tushman and Anderson,…...
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...Following the seminal articles byDavid (1985) and Arthur (1988) other authors have used the notions of path-dependence and lock-in to analyse the stability at the level of existing systems (Unruh, 2000; Jacobsson and Johnson, 2000; Walker, 2000; Araujo and Harrison, 2002)....
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...professional or industry associations, branch organisations (Unruh, 2000)....
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...Industries may even create special organisations, which are political forces to lobby on their behalf, e.g. professional or industry associations, branch organisations (Unruh, 2000)....
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...Also institutional commitments, shared beliefs and discourses, power relations, and political lobbying by incumbents stabilize existing systems (Unruh, 2000)....
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"Understanding carbon lock-in" refers background in this paper
...This design-speci"c know-how ultimately becomes a "rm's core competencies and forms the basis of a company's competitive advantage (Prahalad and Hamel, 1990)....
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