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Economic and Organizational Insights and Challenges in Energy Industry

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 10490

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna

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Department of Management, Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300 Dabrowa Górnicza, Poland
Interests: innovation management; sustainable business; corporate culture; leadership; family business; managerial competencies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The energy sector plays an important role in the economic and social development of each country. However, the costs of generating and distributing energy mean that this resource constitutes a significant share of expenses in the budget of both public and private entities and households. Moreover, climate changes and the related legal regulations linked to sustainable development require constant effort to reduce the side effects of energy generation. The current energy policy promotes the adoption of more sustainable and energy-efficient solutions that will not only benefit the natural environment but will also be economically justified. This poses certain challenges to the energy sector and researchers to optimize the economic and environmental dimensions of energy exploitation by the acquisition of new—and the improvement of existing—solutions for energy flow management at both the macro- and microeconomic level. Therefore, currently, issues related to strategic management, innovation management and financial management in terms of the use of energy are of particular importance. International scientific cooperation in terms of offering innovative and up-to-date solutions is also essential for the development and integration of different perspectives in energy resource management. Therefore, among others, the following questions are addressed in this Special Issue: What are the methods for energy cost optimization in enterprises? What are the current challenges and research trends in the pursuit of sustainable economics in the energy sector? What economic models of energy management are applied currently in both the energy sector and other entities, the operations of which are based on the use of energy? 

Potential topics of the Special Issue:

  • Economic, social and governance effects of climate uncertainty;
  • Financial inclusion and energy;
  • Sustainable energy management;
  • Energy finance solutions;
  • Financing innovations for sustainability;
  • Energetic investment opportunities;
  • Renewable energy finance;
  • Concepts and challenges in energy finance in SMEs.

Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • energy
  • sustainable development
  • economic models
  • financial risk
  • corporate finance
  • public finance
  • renewable energy

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Does ESG Reporting Relate to Corporate Financial Performance in the Context of the Energy Sector Transformation? Evidence from Poland
by Michał Baran, Aneta Kuźniarska, Zbigniew J. Makieła, Anna Sławik and Magdalena M. Stuss
Energies 2022, 15(2), 477; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15020477 - 10 Jan 2022
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This paper aims to investigate whether the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) score of companies operating in the energy sector is associated with their corporate financial performance (CFP). The research covered data from eight companies with a dominant position in the Polish [...] Read more.
This paper aims to investigate whether the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) score of companies operating in the energy sector is associated with their corporate financial performance (CFP). The research covered data from eight companies with a dominant position in the Polish energy sector. The research used the comparative analysis between ESG performance and accounting-based measures of profitability: return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA) and return on sales (ROS). Additionally, reference was also made to the DuPont model. The acquired results do not reveal repetitive dependencies that would facilitate the discovery of a pattern of the impact of the factors of ESG on the financial performance of enterprises. Despite indicating the cases of correlations between the ESG scores and CFP at a high level, indeed sometimes at a very high level, the particular case studies significantly differ from each other. This may be caused by the fact that Polish enterprises from the energy sector illustrate far-reaching specifics, among others, with regard to the key significance of the entities with a prevalent state ownership and strict administrative regulations, which are subject to the energy market, state of development and structure of the whole sector in Poland. Thus, this is also why the mechanisms or dependencies, whose existence it is possible to expect in conditions of free competition, may be weakened or even eliminated in Polish conditions. Full article
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Contractual Systems in the Oil and Gas Sector: Current Status and Development
by Fatima Dirani and Tatiana Ponomarenko
Energies 2021, 14(17), 5497; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14175497 - 3 Sep 2021
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Production activities in the oil and gas industry are capital-intensive and associated with high technology, with these assets not always being available to oil-producing countries or national companies. Any form of interaction between the parties involved in natural resource extraction requires clear regulation [...] Read more.
Production activities in the oil and gas industry are capital-intensive and associated with high technology, with these assets not always being available to oil-producing countries or national companies. Any form of interaction between the parties involved in natural resource extraction requires clear regulation regarding contractual relationships. This study attempts to analyze Indonesia’s production sharing contract system in order to assess its applicability to other conditions. The article covers the key aspects of contract theory, provides a classification of contractual systems in the oil and gas sector, and discusses the most common types of contractual agreements. It also considers the key principles of production sharing contracts (PSCs), analyzes the development of PSC practices in Indonesia over the past sixty years, and highlights PSC advantages and disadvantages. Full article
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