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Dear Colleagues,
"Greener Management International" Issue 47 is a special theme issue:
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND REGULATION IN THE CAR INDUSTRY
Guest Edited by Paul Nieuwenhuis and Peter Wells, Cardiff University, UK
Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, USA
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The choices we have made over the past 200 years about modes and
technologies of transportation have brought us unprecedented global
interaction and, in many respects, increased personal freedom. However,
all this mobility has come at a cost to society, to the economy, and to
the environment. The industry has largely ignored these challenges, and
has continued to produce heavier cars and SUVs with more electrical
gadgets and which consume more rather than less fuel. It is often not
appreciated to what extent our modern culture is integrated with the
car and its systems: we have literally built our world around the car
in its current form, and this inevitably shapes the scope for
constructing sustainable mobility. We therefore need to tackle any
change to the current automobility paradigm on a very broad front and
we need to be prepared for the possibly dramatic social and economic
changes we may bring about by changing just some elements.
This special issue of ‘Greener Management International’ attempts to
inform the broad and systemic change required in the wider concept of
automobility by exploring the role of the regulator, in particular in
the context of more recent co-operative and partnership approaches with
private-sector stakeholders, particularly the automotive industry. The
issue puts regulatory developments within the context of technological
change in the automotive sector, specifically the change towards new
powertrain solutions, such as hybrid internal combustion-electric and
fuel-cell systems.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Introduction
Paul Nieuwenhuis and Peter Wells, Cardiff University, UK
Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, USA
*Transition Management for Sustainable Personal Mobility: The Case of
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, USA
* Competing Technologies and the Struggle towards a New Dominant
Design: The Emergence of the Hybrid Vehicle at the Expense of the Fuel
Cell Vehicle?
Marko Hekkert, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Robert van den Hoed, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Institutional Change in the Automotive Industry: Or how fuel cell
technology is being institutionalised
Robert van den Hoed, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, USA
* Government behind the Wheel and Backseat Driving: Co-ordination and
Informational Challenges of Voluntary Partnerships as Programmes for
Stimulating Sustainable Technology
Charles David White, University of California, Berkeley, USA
* Social Learning through Technological Inventions in Low-Impact
Individual Mobility: The Cases of Sparrow and Gizmo
Halina Szejnwald Brown and Catherine Carbone, Clark University, USA
* Business Models for Relocalisation to Deliver Sustainability
Peter Wells and Paul Nieuwenhuis, Cardiff University, UK
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UK and Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, USA
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