Strategic Management and Process Management in Energy Sector

Dear Colleagues,

The European Union’s Green Deal envisions making Europe climate neutral by 2050, boosting the economy through green technology, creating sustainable industry and transport, as well as cutting pollution. These ambitious goals force countries, organizations and local governments to change existing solutions and shape paths of future development.

The expected transformation processes will influence the activities of energy supply and distribution companies who need to remodel their existing strategies, business architectures, management processes in order to develop green technologies, comply with required emission levels, while sustaining competitiveness at the same time. The Green Deal regulations also challenge local governments to change the way of city functioning by developing smart cities and introducing new technologies to public transportation.

Hence, we are seeking contributions that will help answer the questions: how to model strategies of energy companies, and what are their optimal development strategies? How to fit processes present in energy companies to these new strategies? What are the reference models of process management in energy companies? Which business models in the energy sector be regarded as optimal from the perspective of the forthcoming changes? How will digital transformation change the logic of company functioning? How to include electromobility in the city strategies? What are the strategies of smart cities development? What other challenges in strategic and process management can be identified?

The goal of the special issue on Strategic Management and Process Management in Energy Sector is seeking novel – both conceptual and empirical – works on strategic management and process management in the energy sector: energy supply and distribution companies, industry and transport, as well as local governments. For this special issue we welcome multidisciplinary papers linking various lens on the forthcoming transformation processes towards the 2050 perspective.

Feel invited to submit your paper!

Prof. Wojciech Dyduch
Prof. Szymon Cyfert
Guest Editors

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