Social learning through technological inventions in low-impact individual mobility: The cases of Sparrow and Gizmo

Greener Management International

Volumn , Issue 47, 2004, Pages 77-88

  Brown, Halina Szejnwald ^a   Carbone, Catherine ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative vehicles; Bounded socio technical experiments; Gizmo; Mobility services; Personal mobility; Sparrow; Technological regimes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; STAKEHOLDER; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORT VEHICLE;

EID: 33646563449     PISSN: 09669671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9774/GLEAF.3062.2004.au.00008     Document Type: Article

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