Old Habits Die Hard:Path Dependency and Behavioral Lock-in

By W. Barnes, Myles P Gartland, M. Stack. 2004

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Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications (2016, unknown): “All literature reviewed focuses on the persistence of carbon-intensive behaviors, rather than the behaviors themselves, which are discussed in previous reviews (90). mechanisms: lock-in of carbon-intensive”
An Evolutionary Perspective on the Economics of Energy Consumption: The Crucial Role of Habits (2009, background): “Policies should be aimed at helping consumers “to escape the restrictions imposed on their knowledge by the mental habits they have acquired” (Ramazzotti 2007, 776).”
Shackled to the Status Quo: The Inhibiting Effects of Incumbent System Habit, Switching Costs, and Inertia on New System Acceptance (2012, unknown): “We conceptualize inertia as having behavioral, cognitive, and affective components (see Barnes et al. 2004; Ergün et al. 1999; Oliver 1999; Oreg 2003; Piderit 2000).”
Transition failure: Understanding continuity in the automotive industry (2012, background): “The sources of such path dependency are thus at least partly in the social realm of the market or social behaviours in what might be termed cultural lock-in [42] — factors that equally are influential on the rate of diffusion of innovations [43].”