Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts

•Lock-in has been widely adopted to explain the challenges of transitioning away from fossil fuels.•Review demonstrates that entrapment is not simply infrastructural and sub-optimal innovations Identify crosscutting reasons for why, how, and when lock-in emerges.•Broadens utility of lock-in to entrenchment in complex socio-environmental systems.