Landlords, tenants and technological innovations

Energy use by apartment tenants when landlords pay for utilities

Energy costs are included in the rent for many US apartments, giving tenants little incentive to conserve. This apparent market failure has two explanations: the tenants value the utility-included rental contracts more than they value the extra energy they consume, or the landlords value the contracts more than the cost of that extra energy. We use the Residential Energy Consumption Survey and ...

Research and Development , Technological Innovations and Diffusion

1. Importance of Permanent Innovation Activity 2. A System Dynamics Perspective of R&D and Innovation Diffusion Models 2.1. Modeling R&D Processes 2.2. Innovation Diffusion Models 3. Integrating the Models of R&D, Innovation and Diffusion 3.1. Basic Behavior of the Holistic Model 3.2. Interactions between the Stages 3.3. Pricing in the Holistic Model 4. Implications for Management Glossary Bibl...

Recent Technological Innovations in Aquaculture

“Pets Negotiable”: How Do the Perspectives of Landlords and Property Managers Compare with Those of Younger Tenants with Dogs?

Previous research has shown that housing insecurity contributes to animal relinquishment and that tenants with dogs face disadvantages in the rental market. Still, little is known about how dog owners navigate rental markets, nor how landlords and property managers perceive dogs and other pets. This case study reports on in-depth interviews with younger tenants with dogs and on open-ended surve...

The Politics Of Technological Innovations: Network Approaches

By now, it is well known that the essential components of technological innovation include not only production and design but also consumption and uses, not only technological-engineering and organizational-economical structures but also social and cultural processes. In fact, “innovation involves more than merely research and development or product launch” (Silverstone & Haddon, 1996, p. 44). ...