Peter Well
Biographic Data
| ID | 747073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Well |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Well |
| SIGNATURE | WELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4376-7178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 813 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Campus development as civic interface: Bridging rhetoric, practice, buildings and civic capital
Through two case studies of UK civic universities, this article examines the gap between universities’ civic engagement rhetoric and the realities of campus development practice. Revealing approaches that were either tokenistic or non-participatory, it argues that such practices can erode trust and undermine civic responsibility, particularly when development sites are not actively treated as visible civic interfaces. The study introduces the Civ…
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions: Revealing the industry playbook of US, German, and Japanese automakers in the unfolding electric vehicle transition (1990…
Building on research into the types of resistance strategies employed by incumbent firms (including framing, lobbying, organised pressure, and litigation), this article investigates the temporal development of these strategies during low-carbon transitions. Rather than understanding resistance as a temporary phenomenon in early transition stages, we conceptualise it as a dimension recurring over multiple phases. We develop an ideal-type framework…
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies
While transitions research has pursued a successful research agenda around how to improve established socio-technical systems in terms of sustainability, it has missed out, among other things, on innovations that make, or keep, societies less sustainable. In our paper, we explore two innovations in different stages of development: Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and space tourism. SUVs entrench an existing socio-technical system and reproduce prob…
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions
Disrupting transitions: Qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision
More friends than foes? The impact of automobility-as-a-service on the incumbent automotive industry
This paper examines the scope for network platform business models offering ‘automobility-as-a-service’ to disrupt the existing automotive market and industry. The paper uses three examples (Getaround, BlaBlaCar and Uber) to illustrate distinct versions of the network platform business model concept. Despite expectations that automobility-as-a-service, enabled by digital platforms, may erode the market for new cars and the existing model of indiv…
An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
Economies of Scale Versus Small Is Beautiful: A Business Model Approach Based on Architecture, Principles and Components in the Beer Industry
This article defines business models for sustainability as contested and contextual, and provides a novel framework in terms of the architecture of the business, its principles and components for the analysis of such models. With this framework, a preliminary comparison using the engaged scholarship methodology is made between microbreweries and large multinational brewers. It is concluded that defining and determining comparative sustainability …
From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility
Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage
Transition failure: Understanding continuity in the automotive industry
Renewable Eco‐industrial Development: A New Frontier for Industrial Ecology
This article reviews the scope of the discipline of industrial ecology and, in the context of an urgent requirement for substantial and rapid change in the face of global sustainability challenges, argues that the discipline could embrace a more proactive, interventionist stance in the form of renewable eco‐industrial development. Existing eco‐industrialism is presented as flawed, with many cases premised on the use of nonrenewable resources. Ren…
Corruption, Automobility Cultures, and Road Traffic Deaths: The Perfect Storm in Rapidly Motorizing Countries
This paper explores the hitherto neglected combined contribution of automobility cultures and corruption to prevailing death and injury rates from road traffic, with an emphasis on developing countries. Automobility cultures are argued to be crucial to real-world death and injury rates. The paper then argues that indices of public corruption may be taken as a more general proxy for the extent of traffic rule observance and risky behaviours by all…
The Tata Nano, the global 'value' segment and the implications for the traditional automotive industry regions
This paper provides a case study of the Tata Nano, a low-price car designed primarily in and for the Indian market, and its implications for the developed industrial markets. While the Nano is a classic 'disruptive' innovation in an Indian context, this paper argues that the car and its emulators have the potential to undermine the viability of the European automotive industry whose business is premised on technological sophistication, premium br…
Community strategies: Are they delivering joined up governance
Joined up governance has emerged as one of the key policy discourses of the modernisation of local government under New Labour. Community strategies are one of the principal policy tools that are intended to deliver more joined up governance at the local level. This paper draws upon early findings from the national formative evaluation of community strategies to consider the extent to which community strategies are delivering more joined up gover…
Redesigning the Industrial Ecology of the Automobile
This article explores the potential of industrial ecology to inform the redesign of an existing industry: that which is concerned with the production, sale, and support of automobiles. In so doing, it brings together the concepts embedded in industrial ecology with issues of economic scale, product design or technology, process technology, and the way in which new combinations of these features can result in an alternative structure for the autom…
Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century III
The New European Automobile Industry
The New European Automobile Industry
Introduction - Globalisation - Restructuring in the European Automotive Industry - The European Components Industry: An Overview - The Steel Supply Sector - The Presswork Sector - Friction Materials - Clutches and Brakes - Foreign Direct Investment, Investment Agencies and the Restructuring of the European Automotive Components Industry - Conclusions
The Geography of International Strategic Alliances in the Telecommunications Industry: The Cases of Cable and Wireless, Ericsson, and Fujitsu
It is argued that the emerging spatial organisation of three telecommunications and computer firms can only be fully understood by reference to changing market and competitive contexts, and not by analysis of the forces of production alone. Strategic alliances are seen as an attempt by capital to cope with turbulent market conditions brought about by technical and regulatory change-and are part of a wider corporate and industrial restructuring pr…
Anthropology in Trouble at Nimh
An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions
Community strategies: Are they delivering joined up governance
Joined up governance has emerged as one of the key policy discourses of the modernisation of local government under New Labour. Community strategies are one of the principal policy tools that are intended to deliver more joined up governance at the local level. This paper draws upon early findings from the national formative evaluation of community strategies to consider the extent to which community strategies are delivering more joined up gover…
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies
While transitions research has pursued a successful research agenda around how to improve established socio-technical systems in terms of sustainability, it has missed out, among other things, on innovations that make, or keep, societies less sustainable. In our paper, we explore two innovations in different stages of development: Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and space tourism. SUVs entrench an existing socio-technical system and reproduce prob…
Disrupting transitions: Qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision
The Tata Nano, the global 'value' segment and the implications for the traditional automotive industry regions
This paper provides a case study of the Tata Nano, a low-price car designed primarily in and for the Indian market, and its implications for the developed industrial markets. While the Nano is a classic 'disruptive' innovation in an Indian context, this paper argues that the car and its emulators have the potential to undermine the viability of the European automotive industry whose business is premised on technological sophistication, premium br…
The Geography of International Strategic Alliances in the Telecommunications Industry: The Cases of Cable and Wireless, Ericsson, and Fujitsu
It is argued that the emerging spatial organisation of three telecommunications and computer firms can only be fully understood by reference to changing market and competitive contexts, and not by analysis of the forces of production alone. Strategic alliances are seen as an attempt by capital to cope with turbulent market conditions brought about by technical and regulatory change-and are part of a wider corporate and industrial restructuring pr…
Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century III
Anthropology in Trouble at Nimh
The Geography of International Strategic Alliances in the Telecommunications Industry: The Cases of Cable and Wireless, Ericsson, and Fujitsu
It is argued that the emerging spatial organisation of three telecommunications and computer firms can only be fully understood by reference to changing market and competitive contexts, and not by analysis of the forces of production alone. Strategic alliances are seen as an attempt by capital to cope with turbulent market conditions brought about by technical and regulatory change-and are part of a wider corporate and industrial restructuring pr…
The New European Automobile Industry
The New European Automobile Industry
Introduction - Globalisation - Restructuring in the European Automotive Industry - The European Components Industry: An Overview - The Steel Supply Sector - The Presswork Sector - Friction Materials - Clutches and Brakes - Foreign Direct Investment, Investment Agencies and the Restructuring of the European Automotive Components Industry - Conclusions
Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century III
Redesigning the Industrial Ecology of the Automobile
This article explores the potential of industrial ecology to inform the redesign of an existing industry: that which is concerned with the production, sale, and support of automobiles. In so doing, it brings together the concepts embedded in industrial ecology with issues of economic scale, product design or technology, process technology, and the way in which new combinations of these features can result in an alternative structure for the autom…
Community strategies: Are they delivering joined up governance
Joined up governance has emerged as one of the key policy discourses of the modernisation of local government under New Labour. Community strategies are one of the principal policy tools that are intended to deliver more joined up governance at the local level. This paper draws upon early findings from the national formative evaluation of community strategies to consider the extent to which community strategies are delivering more joined up gover…
The Tata Nano, the global 'value' segment and the implications for the traditional automotive industry regions
This paper provides a case study of the Tata Nano, a low-price car designed primarily in and for the Indian market, and its implications for the developed industrial markets. While the Nano is a classic 'disruptive' innovation in an Indian context, this paper argues that the car and its emulators have the potential to undermine the viability of the European automotive industry whose business is premised on technological sophistication, premium br…
Corruption, Automobility Cultures, and Road Traffic Deaths: The Perfect Storm in Rapidly Motorizing Countries
This paper explores the hitherto neglected combined contribution of automobility cultures and corruption to prevailing death and injury rates from road traffic, with an emphasis on developing countries. Automobility cultures are argued to be crucial to real-world death and injury rates. The paper then argues that indices of public corruption may be taken as a more general proxy for the extent of traffic rule observance and risky behaviours by all…
Transition failure: Understanding continuity in the automotive industry
Renewable Eco‐industrial Development: A New Frontier for Industrial Ecology
This article reviews the scope of the discipline of industrial ecology and, in the context of an urgent requirement for substantial and rapid change in the face of global sustainability challenges, argues that the discipline could embrace a more proactive, interventionist stance in the form of renewable eco‐industrial development. Existing eco‐industrialism is presented as flawed, with many cases premised on the use of nonrenewable resources. Ren…
Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage
From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility
Economies of Scale Versus Small Is Beautiful: A Business Model Approach Based on Architecture, Principles and Components in the Beer Industry
This article defines business models for sustainability as contested and contextual, and provides a novel framework in terms of the architecture of the business, its principles and components for the analysis of such models. With this framework, a preliminary comparison using the engaged scholarship methodology is made between microbreweries and large multinational brewers. It is concluded that defining and determining comparative sustainability …
An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
More friends than foes? The impact of automobility-as-a-service on the incumbent automotive industry
This paper examines the scope for network platform business models offering ‘automobility-as-a-service’ to disrupt the existing automotive market and industry. The paper uses three examples (Getaround, BlaBlaCar and Uber) to illustrate distinct versions of the network platform business model concept. Despite expectations that automobility-as-a-service, enabled by digital platforms, may erode the market for new cars and the existing model of indiv…
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions
Disrupting transitions: Qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies
While transitions research has pursued a successful research agenda around how to improve established socio-technical systems in terms of sustainability, it has missed out, among other things, on innovations that make, or keep, societies less sustainable. In our paper, we explore two innovations in different stages of development: Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and space tourism. SUVs entrench an existing socio-technical system and reproduce prob…
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions: Revealing the industry playbook of US, German, and Japanese automakers in the unfolding electric vehicle transition (1990…
Building on research into the types of resistance strategies employed by incumbent firms (including framing, lobbying, organised pressure, and litigation), this article investigates the temporal development of these strategies during low-carbon transitions. Rather than understanding resistance as a temporary phenomenon in early transition stages, we conceptualise it as a dimension recurring over multiple phases. We develop an ideal-type framework…
Campus development as civic interface: Bridging rhetoric, practice, buildings and civic capital
Through two case studies of UK civic universities, this article examines the gap between universities’ civic engagement rhetoric and the realities of campus development practice. Revealing approaches that were either tokenistic or non-participatory, it argues that such practices can erode trust and undermine civic responsibility, particularly when development sites are not actively treated as visible civic interfaces. The study introduces the Civ…
Business (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Automotive industry (6 works) · Industrial organization (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Sustainability (5 works) · Sustainable Industrial Ecology (5 works)