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Sorrell S (2015) Reducing energy demand: a review of issues, challenges and approaches. Renew
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energy consumption. Sustainability 9(12):1–13
Triandis HC (1995) Individualism and collectivism. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA
Triandis HC (1998) Vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism: theory and research
implications for international comparative management. Adv Int Manag 12:7–35
Trompenaars F, Woolliams P (2003) Business across cultures. Capstone, Chichester, UK
Vine E (2005) An international survey of the energy service company (ESCO) industry. Energy
Policy 33(5):691–704
H. E. Otto
Nisbett RE, Peng K, Choi I, Norenzayan A (2001) Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus
analytic cognition. Psychol Rev 108(2):291–310
Nolden C, Sorrell S, Polzin F (2016) Catalyzing the energy service market: the role of intermediaries.
Energy Policy 98:420–430
Nonaka I, Takeuchi H (1995) The knowledge creating company. Oxford University Press, New
York, NY, USA
Nonaka I, Takeuchi H (1996) A theory of organizational knowledge creation. Int J Technol
Management Spec Issue Unlearning Learn Technol Innov 11(7/8):833–845
Norenzayan A, Choi I, Nisbett RE (2002) Cultural similarities and differences in social interference: evidence from behavioral predictions and lay theories of behavior. Pers Soc Psychol Bull
28(1):109–120
Okay N, Akman U (2010) Analysis of ESCO activities using country indicators. Renew Sustain
Energy Rev 14(9):2760–2771
Otto HE (2014) The concept of efficiency in the context of sustainable energy consumption: current
practice and shortcomings. In: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on ecobalance,
Tsukuba, Japan, 27–30 Oct, Paper-No. p 081
Oyserman D, Coon H, Kemmelmeier M (2002) Rethinking individualism and collectivism:
evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta-analysis. Psychol Bull 128(1):3–72
Panev S, Labanca N, Bertoldi P, Serrenho T, Cahill C, Boza-Kiss B (2014) ESCO Market report for
non-European countries 2013. JRC science and policy reports, Report EUR 26886, Publication
Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Patterson MG (1996) What is energy efficiency? concepts, indicators, and methodological issues.
Energy Policy 24(5):377–390
Pham KT, Nguyen MB, Nguyen HD (2011) Energy supply, demand, and policy in Viet Nam, with
future projections. Energy Policy 39(11):6814–6826
Preda A (2002) Structures of financial activities. J Contemp Ethnography 31(2):207–239
Rittel H (1984) Second-generation design methods. In: Cross N (ed) Developments in design
methodology, Wiley, Chichester, UK
Shavitt S, Torelli CJ, Riemer H (2011) Horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism. In:
Gelfand MJ, Chiu C-Y, Hong Y-Y (eds) Advances in culture and psychology, vol 1. Oxford
University Press. New York, NY, USA, pp 309–350
Simon HA (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA
Sorrel S, Schleich J, O’Malley E, Scott S (2004) The economics of energy efficiency: barriers to
cost-effective investment. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK
Sorrell S (2015) Reducing energy demand: a review of issues, challenges and approaches. Renew
Sustain Energy Rev 47:74–82
Star SL (2010) This is not a boundary object: reflections on the concept of origin. Sci Technol Hum
Values 35(5):601–617
Sun X, Zhu L, Taylor B (2011) China’s ESCO industry: saving more energy everyday through the
market. Energy Management Company Association EMCA, Beijing, China
Szulanski G (1996) Exploring internal stickiness: impediments to the transfer of best practice within
the firm. Strateg Manag J 17(S2):27–43
Thumann A, Niehus T, Younger WJ (2013) Handbook of energy audits, 9th edn. The Fairmont
Press, Lilburn, GA, USA
Tian Y, Xiong S, Ma X (2017) Analysis of the potential impacts on china’s industrial structure in
energy consumption. Sustainability 9(12):1–13
Triandis HC (1995) Individualism and collectivism. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA
Triandis HC (1998) Vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism: theory and research
implications for international comparative management. Adv Int Manag 12:7–35
Trompenaars F, Woolliams P (2003) Business across cultures. Capstone, Chichester, UK
Vine E (2005) An international survey of the energy service company (ESCO) industry. Energy
Policy 33(5):691–704