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@ARTICLE{Sick:829131,
author = {Sick, Nathalie and Nienaber, Ann-Marie and Liesenkötter,
Bernd and vom Stein, Nicole and Schewe, Gerhard and Leker,
Jens},
title = {{T}he legend about sailing ship effects – {I}s it true or
false? {T}he example of cleaner propulsion technologies
diffusion in the automotive industry},
journal = {Journal of cleaner production},
volume = {137},
issn = {0959-6526},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-02938},
pages = {405 - 413},
year = {2016},
abstract = {The global automotive industry is faced with major
technological change in the field of propulsion systems. Due
to low carbon emission regulations and a rising societal
demand for sustainability, original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) are forced to innovate either in the conventional
technology or in the technological alternatives such as
electric drives or fuel cells. However, OEMs are only
marginally switching to electromobility so far, but rather
incrementally innovating traditional technologies. This
behaviour can be described as sailing ship effect which
contains the reaction of an old technology to a new
technology by fostering innovation in the old technology.
Firstly, the present study contributes to the discussion in
literature on the sailing ship effect by combining its
underlying ideas and consequences with the rationales of
path dependence to demonstrate that such a behaviour may be
individually economical rational. Based on these
considerations, we respond to the call for further empirical
investigation of the sailing ship effect. We show
patent-based evidence that there has been a temporary
sailing ship effect in the automotive industry concerning
traditional and emerging propulsion systems and discuss
implications for corporate technology strategy and policy.},
cin = {IEK-12},
ddc = {690},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-12-20141217},
pnm = {131 - Electrochemical Storage (POF3-131)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-131},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000391079300038},
doi = {10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.085},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/829131},
}