Special Issue "Environment and Energy Innovation, Societal Transitions and Innovation Business Model"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

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: environmental and energy economics; analysis of efficiency and productivity; innovation business model
Dr. Chin-Yi Fang
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Assistant Guest Editor
Graduate Institute of Sport, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Taipei City, Taiwan
Interests: DEA; performance management for the hospitality industry; business model canvas
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

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Keywords

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

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Energy Cost Performance of Thermal Power Industry in China Considering Regional Heterogeneity: A Meta-Frontier Cost Malmquist Productivity Decomposition Approach
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6823; https://doi.org/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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