What are the main barriers to smart energy information systems diffusion?

Electronic Markets

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-45

  Schwister, Fabian ^a   Fiedler, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adoption costs; Barriers to smart energy information systems; Collective action dilemma; Grounded theory method; Switching costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939893136     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-014-0162-x     Document Type: Article

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