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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Socio-Economic Environment

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 19134

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Ligita Šimanskienė

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Department of Management, Klaipėda University, Klaipėda, Lithuania
Interests: organizational culture; corporate social responsibility; teamwork; sustainability; leadership
Prof. Dr. Erika Župerkienė

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Department of Management, Klaipėda University, Klaipėda, Lithuania
Interests: human resource management; coroprate social responsibility; leadership; entrepreneurship

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We all live in an ever-changing world. Some changes create prosperity for the global community, some become a challenge to save lives. The global COVID-19 pandemic has affected all areas of our lives, so we invite researchers to share their research in this issue. We are looking for articles in the field of socio-economic environment. We are waiting for your articles, starting from the analysis of economic support measures implemented by different countries to the attitude of the population towards various restrictions; from changes in consumer behaviour in the time of a pandemic to responsible consumption; organizational management changes in organizing work remotely to employees’ psycho-emotional attitudes to the current situation; the necessary communication at the state level with the population to the communication within the organization; and the goals of implementing the national sustainable development strategy to volunteering initiatives in communities. As you can see, the field of research is indeed wide, but all of them are linked by socio-economic factors and the global COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will be a part of this scientific issue. We will accept your papers till the 10th of August.

Prof. Dr. Ligita Šimanskienė
Prof. Dr. Erika Župerkienė
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • changes
  • socio-economic factors
  • environment
  • sustainability
  • organizations

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Development of a Partial Shipping Fees Pricing Model to Influence Consumers’ Purchase Intention under the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Cheng-An Tsai and Che-Wei Chang
Energies 2022, 15(5), 1846; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15051846 - 02 Mar 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the rapid development of the digital economy. Previous studies have indicated that shipping fees are essential in delivery strategies and significantly impact order generation rates. According to market research, 68% of consumers would increase their orders to reach [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the rapid development of the digital economy. Previous studies have indicated that shipping fees are essential in delivery strategies and significantly impact order generation rates. According to market research, 68% of consumers would increase their orders to reach the minimum threshold for free delivery. However, previous studies have focused on the problem of setting free shipping thresholds, so the existing model of the e-commerce platform only allows consumers to choose whether to pay the total shipping fees or conditional free delivery with a free shipping threshold. A lack of literature concerns the partial pay for shipping fees before reaching the free shipping threshold. Therefore, this study proposes a new pricing model for shipping strategy that allows consumers to pay partial shipping fees. This model can increase the flexibility of consumer choice, thus increasing consumers’ willingness to purchase, which in turn increases the revenue of the e-commerce platform. The model was validated for 9-month on the e-commerce platform of a Smart-Integration company. The results showed that after introducing the new pricing model, the e-commerce platform’s sales grew by about 9%. This proposed model’s theoretical extension and empirical results can remedy the research gap in the extant literature. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of COVID-19 on the Socio-Economic Environment)
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Sustainable Consumption in Consumer Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: Topic Modeling on Twitter Data Using LDA
by Paweł Brzustewicz and Anupam Singh
Energies 2021, 14(18), 5787; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14185787 - 14 Sep 2021
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By using text mining techniques, this study identifies the topics of sustainable consumption that are important during the COVID-19 pandemic. An Application Programming Interface (API) streaming method was used to extract the data from Twitter. A total of 14,591 tweets were collected using [...] Read more.
By using text mining techniques, this study identifies the topics of sustainable consumption that are important during the COVID-19 pandemic. An Application Programming Interface (API) streaming method was used to extract the data from Twitter. A total of 14,591 tweets were collected using Twitter streaming API. However, after data cleaning, 13,635 tweets were considered for analysis. The objectives of the study are to identify (1) the topics users tweet about sustainable consumption and (2) to detect the emotion-based sentiments in the tweets. The study used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm for topic modeling and the Louvain algorithm for semantic network clustering. NRC emotion lexicon was used for sentiment analysis. The LDA model discovers six topics: organic food consumption, food waste, vegan food, sustainable tourism, sustainable transport, and sustainable energy consumption. While the Louvain algorithm detects four clusters—lifestyle and climate change, responsible consumption, energy consumption, and renewable energy, sentiment analysis results show more positive emotions among the users than the negative ones. The study contributes to existing literature by providing a fresh perspective on various interconnected topics of sustainable consumption that bring global consumption to a sustainable level. Full article
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Identification and Analysis of Structural Fund Support Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the EU—A Case Study of Health Unit Funding
by Karina Bedrunka, Łukasz Mach, Anna Kuczuk and Anna Bohdan
Energies 2021, 14(16), 4976; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164976 - 13 Aug 2021
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The research carried out describes the provision of COVID-19 funding in individual EU Member States under the ongoing operational programmes of the EU financial perspective in the period 2014–2020. This was followed by identification of the most important areas of support and the [...] Read more.
The research carried out describes the provision of COVID-19 funding in individual EU Member States under the ongoing operational programmes of the EU financial perspective in the period 2014–2020. This was followed by identification of the most important areas of support and the amounts allocated to them for Poland and its sixteen voivodeships under the available EU funds from the 2014–2020 perspective. Types and forms of support for health services from the funds of the Regional Operational Programme for the Opolskie Voivodeship 2014–2020 (ROP WO) were analysed in detail. The obtained results showed that Italy, Spain, and Poland provided the largest values of support under the available operational programmes from 2014–2020 to combat the effects of COVID-19. In Poland, funding was mainly provided by the European Regional Development Fund, with the dominant support allocated to entrepreneurship and health care. In the Opolskie voivodeship, which is the case study, the additional financing in the health area concerns: personal protective equipment, equipment, construction works, oxygen installations, and waste water management. In this article, a literature analysis of the issue was conducted prior to the research process, which included theories of post-2007 crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on the theoretical background and research showing the impact of crises from the point of view of social, economic, and ecological dimensions, i.e., from the point of view of sustainable development. It also presents planned and implemented public intervention to offset the negative effects of COVID-19 in 2020 from structural funds in EU countries, including Poland and its 16 voivodeships. Full article
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Fear of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Distancing as Factors Determining the Change in Consumer Payment Behavior at Retail and Service Outlets
by Agnieszka Huterska, Anna Iwona Piotrowska and Joanna Szalacha-Jarmużek
Energies 2021, 14(14), 4191; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144191 - 11 Jul 2021
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The aim of this study was to identify the factors inducing customers to choose cashless payments made with payment cards at retail and service outlets during the COVID-19 pandemic. We identified factors that are crucial for consumers’ functioning under pandemic conditions, but which [...] Read more.
The aim of this study was to identify the factors inducing customers to choose cashless payments made with payment cards at retail and service outlets during the COVID-19 pandemic. We identified factors that are crucial for consumers’ functioning under pandemic conditions, but which have so far been neglected in research. The estimated logit model indicates that the variables significantly influencing the more frequent choice of payment cards at retail outlets are related to the fear of infection and perception of the advantages of new technological solutions in connection with social distancing. Our study shows that, in addition to sociodemographic characteristics such as age and level of education, emotionally motivated factors induced by the pandemic have begun to play an important role in the transition to cashless payment. Full article
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