IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-24409-2_14.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Change Happens in Steps

In: Global Energy Transformation

Author

Listed:
  • Mats Larsson

Abstract

Contrary to what many people intuitively tend to believe, change usually happens in steps, which may be more or less distinct. Yet, we sometimes perceive change to be radical and sometimes surprising. It may seem as if a new technology, or product, has been developed, launched and spread in almost no time at all. This, however, is never the case. Technologies always develop in steps, and to experts in an area, a particular development is seldom surprising. A new technology is generally developed and spread at a low level before it becomes widely available to everybody in the open market.

Suggested Citation

  • Mats Larsson, 2009. "Change Happens in Steps," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Global Energy Transformation, chapter 0, pages 157-165, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24409-2_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230244092_14
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24409-2_14. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.