Resources
Learning tools, courses and relevant initiatives related to market formation dynamics, sustainability, and system dynamics and systems science.
Courses:
From research question to dynamic computational model
A PhD level course, taught at emlyon by Prof. Jeroen Struben, as part of the new Interdisciplinary Joint European Doctoral Network in System Dynamics. The course focuses on developing purposeful, effective, and behavioural robust computational models for dynamically complex problems. (Next course is dec 9-14 2019, registration via course webpage between oct 1-nov 15.)
For background information on the AFV simulator see this Conference paper and this Simulation & Gaming (S&G) paper
Learning tools:
Teaching cases
Better Place: Shifting Paradigms in the Automotive Industry. A teaching case describing the early build up towards the BetterPlace launch aimed to disrupt the automotive industry through electric vehicles. The case also describes the automotive and energy industry context in which this took place.
Management flight simulators
Learning in turbulent situations is difficult because we never confront many of the consequences of our most important decisions. Management Flight Simulators are interactive learning tools, through which people can use simulation models to discover, for themselves, how complex systems behave is required to improve people’s mental models. Here we present a few that are relevant to sustainability market transitions or diffusion dynamics more generally.
Related publications:
Publications by other authors providing a good overview or background information of some of the market transitions subjects.
Nutritious Food Transformation:
Swinburn, B.A., Kraak, V.I., Allender, S., Atkins, V.J., Baker, P.I., Bogard, J.R., Brinsden, H., Calvillo, A., De Schutter, O., Devarajan, R. and Ezzati, M., 2019. The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change: The Lancet Commission report.The Lancet, 393(10173), pp.791-846.
Systems Science:
Sterman, John D. , 2012. Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragmented Academy and Polarized World M.P. Weinstein and R.E. Turner (eds.), Sustainability Science: The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment. Link to book.
Sterman, John D. , 2015. Stumbling towards sustainability. Why Organizational Learning and Radical Innovation are Necessary to Build a More Sustainable World—But Not Sufficient
R. Henderson, M. Tushman and R. Gulati (eds.) Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective. Oxford University Press. Link to book.