The automobile road to technological change

THE AUTOMOBILE ROAD TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE Diffusion of the Automobile as a Process of Technological Substitution

Advancement of the motor vehicle and its production methods is analyzed as a process of technological change. In a broader context, motor vehicles evolved as an integral component of road transportation through a series of interlaced substitutions of old by new technologies. Building on a large number of studies that described technological substitution processes, first it is shown how new ener...

Heterogeneity and Change in Environmental Strategy: Technological and Political Responses to Climate Change in the Global Automobile Industry

The formulation of strategy is generally treated as a rational process of matching corporate capabilities to market demands. But this does not always account well for the heterogeneity observed in corporate strategies toward complex environmental issues such as climate change. In this chapter, we propose that strategy is often developed in light of expectations and assumptions concerning a firm...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

On-Road Remote Sensing of Automobile

The University of Denver has completed the first five years of a multi-year remote sensing study in the Chicago area, with measurements made in the first four and sixth years. The remote sensor used in this study is capable of measuring the ratios of CO, HC, and NO to CO 2 in motor vehicle exhaust. From these ratios, we calculate the percent concentrations of CO, CO 2 , HC and NO in the exhaust...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...