Sustainable mobility: from technological innovation to societal learning

Vergragt, Philip J.; Brown, Halina Szejnwald

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.05.020

Cited by 127 publications

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“…These real-world changes are often 313 radically different from the existing structures (Vergragt and Brown, 2007) and can include 314 sustainable buildings (Trencher et al, 2014a;, green 315 infrastructure , innovative energy systems , and new 316 vehicles . However, real-world changes in physical structures may also 317 correspond to changed understandings, priorities, practices, and behavior (see below).…”

Section: Changes In Physical Structures 311mentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

Luederitz

Schäpke

Wiek

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases. We critically discuss the scheme's key features of being generic, comprehensive, operational, and formative. Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme -making evaluation and experiments objects of learning.

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Section: Changes In Physical Structures 311mentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

Luederitz

Schäpke

Wiek

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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263

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“…Time is a very important aspect of innovation diffusion [74] as well as social learning and cognitive change [75,76]. Lamberton and Rose [3] argue that prosumers' sharing knowledge takes experience and time to acquire.…”

Section: Hypothesis 6 (H6) Value Co-creation Enabling Factors Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling Value Co-Creation in the Sharing Economy: The Case of Mobike

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Abstract:The disruptive rise of the sharing economy has inspired multiple social innovations embodying significant potential towards achieving urban sustainability in crucial areas like low-carbon mobility. Increasingly, consumers in such sharing systems participate in activities of value co-creation together with firms and peers, such as through enforcing rules that help maintain trust and reciprocity. Why do people choose to invest their time and energy in co-creating values that may benefit wider social and environmental sustainability in the sharing economy? This study addresses this question through an analysis of an emerging shared mobility community, the innovative socio-economic relationships it has spawned, and the cultural and cognitive forces that underpin these new forms of economic organization and value creation in relation to sustainability. Through a mixed method case study of a newly emerged free-floating bike sharing system in China, called Mobike, the paper explores the main enabling factors which is transforming people from passive product/service receivers to active value co-creators in the sharing economy, such as self-efficacy, cognition of duty, anticipated awards and learning processes. The paper argues that business, social and government organizations may leverage these enabling factors to achieve a more sustainable sharing business and society. Finally, based on quantitative and qualitative data analysis, the article proposes a value co-creation framework between users and firms that involves a clear social learning process on the one hand, and has strong links with social innovations towards sustainability, on the other.

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“…Research has shown that collaborative and interdisciplinary actions within the field of sustainable development are crucial for the development and implementation of proactive, holistic and innovative green solutions (Quist, et al, 2011;Bossink, 2007;Vergragt & Brown, 2007;Brown, et al, 2003). The same logic applies to the field of sustainable building (Hartenberger, et al, 2013;Glad, 2012;Cole, 2011;Heiskanen & Lovio, 2010;Brown & Vergragt, 2008).…”

Section: Increased Stakeholder Pressure and Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%