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Environment and Energy Innovation, Societal Transitions and Innovation Business Model

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 7606

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ming-Chung Chang

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Guest Editor
Department of Finance, Chihlee University of Technology, New Taipei City 220305, Taiwan
Interests: carbon trading analysis; carbon asset management; international trade and finance; financial management; investment
Dr. Chin-Yi Fang

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Assistant Guest Editor
Graduate Institute of Sport, Leisure & Hospitality Management, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City 11718, Taiwan
Interests: environmental, social and governance; data envelopment analysis; energy efficiency
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Dr. Chiang-Ping Chen

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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Applied Economics, Fo Guang University, Yilan County, Taiwan
Interests: efficiency and productivity analysis; industrial economics; energy and environmental economics; tourism economics; innovation economics
Dr. Shih-Chin Lee

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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Finance, Chihlee University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Interests: green finance; lottery gambling; decision-making and behavioural finance

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The term business model always refers to a company’s plan not only for making a profit but also for maximizing profit by selling its the products or services. The business plans identify company’s target market, potential costs and expected revenues. Business model is importantly established to realize business plan, and then obtain expected business goal. However, the goal of the business model has switched from conventionally maximizing profit to the current three fields for Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), i.e., environment, society, and economy which also leads the trend of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Based on this line, the special issue focuses on the aspect about SDGs and CSR including environment and energy innovation, societal transitions and innovation business model. The study is excepted to provide an innovative business model and the recommendations on future business model based on the viewpoints of SDGs, CSR, new energy development, and environment and societal transitions. Besides the suggested idea above, one also available way to investigate the new business model is by market or industrial competition by Game Theory. Welcome to apply the theoretical or empirical methodology on new business model creation and research which can be referred and applied on enterprise’s business and management.

The goal of the business model has switched from conventionally maximizing profit to the current three fields for Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), i.e., environment, society, and economy which also leads the trend of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This Special Issue of Sustainability focuses on the aspect about SDGs and CSR including environment and energy innovation, societal transitions and innovation business model. The new business model development for any enterprise is a critical step in facing future market competition. Business model innovation, cooperate social responsibility, sustainability development goals, environment and new energy, societal transitions are all topics that welcome to submit in this special issue.

Dr. Ming-Chung Chang
Guest Editor

Dr. Chin-Yi Fang
Dr. Chiang-Ping Chen
Dr. Shih-Chin Lee
Assistant Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • business model innovation
  • cooperate social responsibility
  • sustainability development goals
  • environment and new energy
  • societal transitions

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Toward Accelerating Sustainability Transitions through Collaborative Sustainable Business Modeling: A Conceptual Approach
by Milou Derks, Frank Berkers and Arnold Tukker
Sustainability 2022, 14(7), 3803; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14073803 - 23 Mar 2022
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Sustainability transitions are purposeful and require deliberate collective action from multiple organizations, leading to the necessity to adopt new business models and redesign value networks. In both business model and sustainability transition research, the explicit activities needed to re-shape value creation and capture [...] Read more.
Sustainability transitions are purposeful and require deliberate collective action from multiple organizations, leading to the necessity to adopt new business models and redesign value networks. In both business model and sustainability transition research, the explicit activities needed to re-shape value creation and capture systems of organizations are largely unaddressed. We aim to fill this gap by proposing collaborative sustainable business modeling (CSBMing) as a participative multi-actor approach aimed at value network innovation to accelerate sustainability transitions. To do this, we first conceptualize a sustainability transition as a business ecosystem change. We then introduce the value network as the interceding level connecting the individual business to the wider ecosystem, which upon scaling, can change the ecosystem, leading to transition. CSBMing aims to redesign value networks and may thus be used as an actionable approach to accelerate transitions. Second, through the multi-level perspective, we explain how CSBMing can scale, influence other value networks, and change the ecosystem. Third, we recognize that scaling value networks might need more than just implementation of a CSBM and show how elements of CSBMing can complement executing transition management activities. We illustrate the potential role of CSBMing in accelerating transitions through two examples from the Dutch energy transition. In all, we show that CSBMing can be a fruitful approach to innovate and scale value networks, create collective action needed for sustainability transitions, and contribute to transition management activities. Full article
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Total Factor Energy Efficiency of China’s Thermal Power Industry
by Ying Feng, Ching-Cheng Lu, I-Fang Lin, An-Chi Yang and Po-Chun Lin
Sustainability 2022, 14(1), 504; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14010504 - 04 Jan 2022
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Coal-based thermal power generation has long been the main source of power generation in the mainland of China. The efficiency of power generation is an important factor that determines the energy conservation and emission reduction as well as the sustainable development of the [...] Read more.
Coal-based thermal power generation has long been the main source of power generation in the mainland of China. The efficiency of power generation is an important factor that determines the energy conservation and emission reduction as well as the sustainable development of the power industry in China. By comparing the regional differences of 30 provinces in the mainland from 2013 to 2017, this study uses the Super-DDF model and the TFEE to comprehensively evaluate the energy efficiency of thermal power generation. Empirical results: Overall efficiency: eastern efficiency (1.181) is the highest, followed by western (0.956), central (0.951) and northeastern (0.926). Total factor energy efficiency: eastern efficiency (0.923) is the highest, followed by western (0.754), central (0.742) and northeastern (0.710). The government and power industry managers should fully consider the regional differences in the field of thermal power generation when formulating policies so as to improve the power efficiency and promote the green development of power industry in China. Based on the analysis results, although the coal-fired power industry is more mature than other alternative energy industries, the expansion of thermal power generation cannot be considered if CO2 emissions are to be reduced. Additionally, the market share and competitiveness of the local power industry can be increased based on the different conditions of the resource endowments of each region. Full article
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Energy Cost Performance of Thermal Power Industry in China Considering Regional Heterogeneity: A Meta-Frontier Cost Malmquist Productivity Decomposition Approach
by Zhigang Zhu, Xuping Zhang, Yujia Wang and Xiang Chen
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6823; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13126823 - 16 Jun 2021
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Since thermal power generation is still one of the main sources of carbon emissions in China, the economic benefits and productivity of the thermal power generation industry have been seriously affected in recent years with the increasingly strict environmental regulations and restrictions on [...] Read more.
Since thermal power generation is still one of the main sources of carbon emissions in China, the economic benefits and productivity of the thermal power generation industry have been seriously affected in recent years with the increasingly strict environmental regulations and restrictions on carbon emissions, as well as by the sharp fluctuations of coal prices. Therefore, it has been an important issue to improve the productivity performance of the thermal power industry. Due to the regional heterogeneity among different regions of China, we introduced a meta-frontier framework into the energy cost productivity model to develop a meta-energy cost productivity model. The energy cost gap between the group-specific and meta-frontiers was also utilized to assess the convergence rate of the group-specific frontier to the meta-frontier. The estimated results present that the energy cost efficiency of the eastern region outperformed that of the other two regions, and the cost Malmquist (CM) productivity of these three regions all showed positive growth, in which the progress of allocative efficiency and price effect were the main driving factors. Additionally, the central and western regions displayed the convergence of group-specific CM productivity towards the meta-frontier. Full article
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