Blue-Green Sustainability and Tomorrow Shocks

Dear Colleagues,

The new trends in “Blue-Green Sustainability and Future Shocks” encompass the eleven sustainable development goals and the 7PS model, (invented by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hamid Doost Mohammadian, 2019) which is focused on the seven pillars of sustainability:

1. Economy
2. Social
3. Environmental
4. Political
5. Cultural
6. Educational
7. Technical

7PS Model (Prof. Dr. Hamid Doost Mohammadian, 2019)

The following approaches are of relevance for this topic: facing future shocks, emerging with the goal to reduce, reuse, and recycle different kinds of waste and change waste to energy, hybrid companies, CSR, IoT, SMEs management, HR, digital transformation, IoE, energy management, I4.0, Society 5.0 and the “5th wave theory” (invented by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hamid Doost Mohammadian, 2017–19).

The 5th wave theory and evaluation of ages (Invented by Prof. Dr. Hamid Doost Mohammadian, 2017–19)

Having passed two different waves, businesses developed the ability to influence and improve technologies, economy, IT, IoT, etc. However, in the seventies, IT and IoT had already begun to influence, change, and improve education, training, business, as well as our lives. This was the beginning of the 3rd wave. By 2006, IoT became a major tool for virtual learning systems and, subsequently, introduced a new wave of technological educational sustainability named the 4th wave. This theory is about the future of I4.0 and Society 5.0 (I5.0 and Society 6.0) and the edge of tomorrow.

In this Special Issue, the role of energy management and education in I4.0 and their impacts on HR competency are investigated. It is important to make these IoT-based technologies simple and user-friendly for HR and the public sector to face the shocks of tomorrow in the energy sector by promoting these technologies and demonstrating their benefits; with this in mind, a new theory named the ”The 5th Wave” is introduced.

The challenges of sustainability in a blue-green economy can be defined according to the so-called triple-bottom-line, or triple-P, paradigm (people, planet, and profit).

SMEs need to reconcile their economic goals with environmental and social targets. This Special Issue welcomes both conceptual and empirical contributions that may help to evaluate the relationships, the complementarities, and the trade-offs along these seven pillars and three dimensions.

Authors from different disciplines such as business, management, economics, politics, social, technique/engineering, education, energy, culture, and other related disciplines are invited to submit their papers.

Multidisciplinary research that embraces the diversity of blue-green sustainability perspectives and future study is particularly appreciated.

Submissions can relate, but are not limited, to the following topics:

• Blue-green sustainability and tomorrow shocks
• Blue-green sustainability and legal aspects
• Blue-green sustainability and Internet of Energy (IoE)
• Measuring environmental and cost efficiency in blue-green sustainable services
• Innovative practices in blue-green sustainable management
• Digital practices in blue-green sustainable management
• Working with consumers to improve blue-green sustainable management
• Impact of pricing schemes on household, hospital, mobility, water, energy and industrial waste production
• Best practices in solid waste collection and recycling
• Blue-green sustainable mobility management
• Blue-green practices, firm reputation and financial performances
• Blue-green sustainability makes waste as an energy resource
• Impact of illegal blue-green sustainable management practices
• Role of blue-green sustainability and its effect on HR competencies
• Blue-green sustainability and I4.0 – readiness check for HR competencies

Histomap of 5th Theory (Hamid Doost Mohammadian, 2010- Revised 2017)

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Prof. Dr. Hamid Doost Mohammadian
Guest Editor

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