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1 Citations
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Does Ownership Determine Business Model?

  • Li Zhang,
  • Yingqi Liu and
  • Ari Kokko

4 June 2019

The development of a new energy vehicle industry is considered a sustainable approach to solving the global energy crisis and the problem of environmental pollution. The sales of new energy vehicles in China are the highest in the world, and China&rs...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,057 Views
21 Pages

26 October 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing gives rise to edge intelligence (EI), which offers effective solutions to the limitations of traditional cloud-based AI; however, deploying models across distributed edge platforms ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Machine Learning and Federated Edge Computing for IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,043 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2021

The concept of building information modeling (BIM) requires multidisciplinary collaboration and generates the problem of intellectual property protection for the creator of the model element. Therefore, this research aimed to determine the model owne...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,961 Views
14 Pages

Although the impacts of built environment on car ownership and use have been extensively studied, limited evidence has been offered for the role of spatial effects in influencing the interaction between built environment and travel behavior. Ignoring...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Mobility, Spatiotemporal Context, and Environmental Health: Recent Advances in Approaches and Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,898 Views
28 Pages

24 June 2020

Without experiences of electric buses, public transport authorities and bus operators have faced questions about how to implement them in a cost-effective way. Simple cost modelling cannot show how costs for different types of electric buses differ b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electric Systems for Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,380 Views
17 Pages

12 October 2018

With the rapid increase of motorization in China, transitions have taken place in regards to traditional private transportation modes. This paper aims to understand four types of vehicle ownership within a household, including automobile, motorcycle,...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,789 Views
36 Pages

18 September 2018

The well-established Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept has been applied to several durable goods industries, including machinery. However, none of the existing TCO models explicitly focus on such highly energy-intensive equipment as metal melting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,153 Views
21 Pages

16 June 2021

Life course events can change household travel demand dramatically. Recent studies of car ownership have examined the impacts of life course events on the purchasing, replacing, and disposing of cars. However, with the increasing diversification of m...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,494 Views
19 Pages

25 June 2021

Since 2019, the world has been affected by COVID-19. The tourism industry, in particular, has suffered greatly. For instance, widespread travel restrictions have directly led to unemployment among tourism practitioners, especially tour leaders engage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,762 Views
25 Pages

Ownership Protection on Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Using Transform-Based Watermarking

  • Fahmi Amhar,
  • Endang Purnama Giri,
  • Florence Elfriede Sinthauli Silalahi,
  • Shelvie Nidya Neyman and ,
  • Anggrahito,
  • Dadan Ramdani,
  • Danang Jaya,
  • Dewayany Sutrisno,
  • Sandi Adhitya Kolopaking and
  • Murdaningsih
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

This research aims to protect Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data from piracy or counterfeiting. An invisible watermark inserted into the data, which will not considerably change the data value, is necessary. The proposed method involves the use of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,935 Views
20 Pages

26 August 2021

Embodiment of an avatar is important in many seated VR applications. We investigate a Bayesian Causal Inference model of body ownership. According to the model, when available sensory signals (e.g., tactile and visual signals) are attributed to a sin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Seated Virtual Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,828 Views
24 Pages

4 November 2021

With Indonesia’s marine resources abundance, it is appropriate for Indonesia’s economic growth to gear towards the fisheries sector. Fishery management in Indonesia is still not operating optimally due to a lack of fisheries management infrastructure...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,093 Views
26 Pages

17 January 2026

Digital technology is profoundly transforming the experiential landscape of tourism. However, its application does not necessarily produce cultural experiences, creating a critical bottleneck that constrains the sustainable development of the cultura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,303 Views
14 Pages

16 June 2023

To explore the nonlinear influence of a multi-scale built environment on residents’ car ownership behavior, combined with the data set of residents’ individual information and travel-related data from the China Labor Force Dynamic Survey...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,731 Views
14 Pages

6 February 2023

Aiming to address the problems of traditional BP neural networks, which include their slow convergence speed and low accuracy, a vehicle ownership prediction model based on a BP neural network with particle swarm optimization is proposed. The weights...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Road Transport System Planning and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,084 Views
24 Pages

25 December 2019

The 2018 recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) defines “renewable energy communities” (RECs), introducing a new governance model and the possibility of energy sharing for them. It has to be transposed into national law by all...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Pathways for Community Energy and Storage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,546 Views
29 Pages

30 September 2025

High-performance deep learning models require extensive computational resources and datasets, making their ownership protection a pressing concern. To address this challenge, we focus on advancing model security through robust watermarking mechanisms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,075 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2025

With the widespread application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in image generation and content creation, their model architectures and training outcomes have become valuable intellectual property assets. However, in practical deployment, i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Deep Learning Networks and Its Applications in the Real World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,072 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2022

China’s listed companies have different ownership characteristics and market environments from those of other countries and thus exhibit vastly different changes. From the existing corporate life cycle perspective, companies differ in their dif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Governance, Performance and Sustainable Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,724 Views
15 Pages

2 July 2018

Shifting away from ownership towards access-based consumption, innovative new business models known as product-service systems (PSS) are advocated as part of a more circular, resource efficient economy. With product ownership (and responsibility for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Product Design and Consumer Behavior in A Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,067 Views
19 Pages

24 August 2023

In the realm of China’s bustling economy, a fascinating dynamic exists between family businesses and state-owned enterprises, characterized by a symbiotic relationship and collaboration. Many family firms today originate from state-owned enterp...

(This article belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,969 Views
14 Pages

Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Ownership Model (Public vs. Private) on the Efficiency of Urban Rail Firms

  • Álvaro Costa,
  • Carlos Oliveira Cruz,
  • Joaquim Miranda Sarmento and
  • Vitor Faria Sousa

2 December 2021

The discussion over public vs. private management in the operation of public transport has been on the research agenda for the past decade. Several studies have analyzed the benefits of private management; however, no study has analyzed the effects o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,251 Views
13 Pages

Medium- and Long-Term Electric Vehicle Ownership Forecasting for Urban Residents

  • Zhao-Xia Xiao,
  • Jiang-Wei Jia,
  • Xiang-Yu Liu,
  • Hong-Kun Bai and ,
  • Qiu-Yan Li and
  • Yuan-Peng Hua
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the rapid development of electric vehicles (EVs) in Chinese cities, accurately forecasting the number of EVs used by urban residents in the next five years and more long term is beneficial for the government to adjust industrial policies of EVs,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,610 Views
20 Pages

Hybrid work has changed the behavioural foundations of organizational change. Employees are no longer continuously embedded in a common physical workplace where informal communication, shared routines, visible leadership and spontaneous peer sensemak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,799 Views
15 Pages

Application of Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Small and Medium Size City in China: The Case of Changchun

  • Xiaoquan Wang,
  • Chunfu Shao,
  • Chaoying Yin,
  • Chengxiang Zhuge and
  • Wenjun Li

11 February 2018

Concerns about transportation energy consumption and emissions force urban planners and policy makers to pay more attention to the effects of car ownership and use on the environment in China. However, few studies have investigated the relationship b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,560 Views
21 Pages

Spatially Disaggregated Car Ownership Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks

  • James Dixon,
  • Sofia Koukoura,
  • Christian Brand,
  • Malcolm Morgan and
  • Keith Bell

Predicting car ownership patterns at high spatial resolution is key to understanding pathways for decarbonisation—via electrification and demand reduction—of the private vehicle fleet. As the factors widely understood to influence car ownership are h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,697 Views
18 Pages

14 May 2018

With the rapid rural urbanization and new rural construction in China, tremendous changes are occurring in rural built environments and rural household vehicle ownership. However, few studies have examined the relationship between rural built environ...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,444 Views
22 Pages

7 January 2021

This paper employs the data of corporate social responsibility rating score of A-share listed companies in China from 2009 to 2018 as a sample to verify the impacts of foreign ownership on corporate social responsibility. Furthermore, this paper expl...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
17,830 Views
35 Pages

Corporate Governance Quality, Ownership Structure, Agency Costs and Firm Performance. Evidence from an Emerging Economy

  • Haroon ur Rashid Khan,
  • Waqas Bin Khidmat,
  • Osama Al Hares,
  • Naeem Muhammad and
  • Kashif Saleem

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of corporate governance quality and ownership structure on the relationship between the agency cost and firm performance. Both the fixed-effects model and a more robust dynamic panel generalized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,900 Views
13 Pages

5 October 2020

The growing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for firms’ sustainability has been spurring scholarly attempts at identifying the antecedents of CSR activities. This study examines how CEO ownership differentially affects firms&...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,319 Views
27 Pages

30 October 2023

This study aims to contribute to the existing literature by examining the relationship between corporate governance (CG) attributes and real-based earnings management (REM) in the context of an emerging market economy. The study employs a sample of 7...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,796 Views
13 Pages

The study aimed to investigate the role of non-financial measures in predicting corporate financial distress in the Indian industrial sector. The proportion of independent directors on the board and the proportion of the promoters’ share in the owner...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Financial Econometrics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,768 Views
26 Pages

China’s Provincial Vehicle Ownership Forecast and Analysis of the Causes Influencing the Trend

  • Lin Ma,
  • Manhua Wu,
  • Xiujuan Tian,
  • Guanheng Zheng and ,
  • Qinchuan Du and
  • Tian Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 July 2019

The growth of vehicle ownership not only brings opportunity for the economy, but also brings environment and transport problems, which is not good for sustainable transportation. It is of great significance to build supporting infrastructure and othe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable High Volume Road and Rail Transport in Developed and Developing Countries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,002 Views
24 Pages

2 August 2018

To improve the sustainability and efficiency of transport systems, communities and government agencies throughout the United States (US) are looking for ways to reduce vehicle ownership and single-occupant trips by encouraging people to shift from dr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Travel Behaviour and Sustainable Transport of the Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,514 Views
18 Pages

16 January 2017

China has a unique land use system in which there are two types of land ownership, namely, state-owned urban land and farmer collective-owned rural land. Despite strict restrictions on the use rights of farmer collective-owned land, rural land is, in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Sustainability and Planning Support Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,923 Views
15 Pages

2 July 2018

Along with urbanization and economic development, the number of private cars has increased rapidly in recent years in China, which contributes to concerns about traffic congestion, hard parking, energy consumption, and emissions. This study aims to i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Transportation and the Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,257 Views
15 Pages

How Does Procedural Justice Affect Job Crafting? The Role of Organizational Psychological Ownership and High-Performance Work Systems

  • Zhun Gong,
  • Mengxuan Ren,
  • Yingjie Sun,
  • Ziyi Zhang and ,
  • Wen Zhou and
  • Xiaowei Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 December 2024

In today’s highly competitive and complex market environment, enhancing adaptability has become essential for the sustainable development of enterprises. Job crafting, an important strategy for strengthening a company’s core competitivene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,774 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating the Impact of Fossil Fuel Vehicle Exit on the Oil Demand in China

  • Ziru Feng,
  • Tian Cai,
  • Kangli Xiang,
  • Chenxi Xiang and
  • Lei Hou

19 July 2019

Vehicle ownership is one of the most important factors affecting fuel demand. Based on the forecast of China’s vehicle ownership, this paper estimates China’s fuel demand in 2035 and explores the impact of new energy vehicles replacing fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 8th Annual Conference of Energy Economics and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,030 Views
18 Pages

Firm Performance during COVID-19 Pandemic: Does Ownership Identity Matter? Evidence from Indonesia

  • Dian Perwitasari,
  • Doddy Setiawan,
  • An Nurrahmawati and
  • Isna Putri Rahmawati

This study aimed to examine the importance of shareholder identity in improving company performance during shock events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak poses threats and opportunities for businesses in various countries including Indonesi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic and Financial Implications of COVID-19)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,690 Views
26 Pages

Exploring Factors Affecting Car Sharing Use Intention in the Southeast-Asia Region: A Case Study in Java, Indonesia

  • Yoon-Young Chun,
  • Mitsutaka Matsumoto,
  • Kiyotaka Tahara,
  • Kenichiro Chinen and
  • Hideki Endo

18 September 2019

This paper provides some insight into factors influencing the car sharing adoption and usage in Southeast-Asian developing countries like Indonesia, where car sharing is just emerging and so far, not effectively existent. This study uses an internet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumer Preferences for Alternative Fuels, Automation, and Shared Mobility in Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,255 Views
29 Pages

This study investigates how Chinese ownership in European ports affects trade flows between China and Eurozone countries, set against the backdrop of recent global economic disruptions that have emphasized the crucial role of maritime trade and port...

(This article belongs to the Section International, Regional, and Transportation Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,430 Views
17 Pages

5 July 2023

Time-sharing cars, as a sustainable model for transport, have seen rapid developments in recent years. Prior studies on car sharing paid little attention to the continuance intention among users. But understanding ways to cultivate user habits is imp...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,086 Views
32 Pages

25 February 2025

Community Energy Storage (CES) is a rapidly evolving field with the potential to transform the modern energy landscape and enhance sustainability initiatives. This comprehensive review paper explores the multifaceted nature of CES, encompassing its d...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
516 Views
19 Pages

22 May 2026

The digital transformation of agriculture is a critical pathway for promoting sustainable rural livelihoods in transition economies. This study examines the determinants of mobile agricultural application adoption among 327 smallholder farmers in Taj...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adoption of New Technologies and Practices for Sustainable and Smart Agriculture: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,056 Views
30 Pages

12 November 2025

This study examines the mechanisms through which ecological public art influences pro-environmental behavior, addressing the urgent challenges of the global ecological crisis and sustainable urban development. Using the 5th Shanghai Urban Space Art S...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,739 Views
16 Pages

29 September 2018

Local ownership models have proven to be an important way to avoid local resistance to onshore wind turbines. As wind power expands into onshore and nearshore wind farms, such ownership models become of increasing importance, while also undergoing fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,112 Views
18 Pages

Are Battery-Electric Trucks for 24-Hour Delivery the Future of City Logistics?—A German Case Study

  • Cornelius Moll,
  • Patrick Plötz,
  • Karsten Hadwich and
  • Martin Wietschel

Especially in urban areas, a large proportion of air pollution can be attributed to road traffic. Thus, in many countries, bans are being discussed on diesel vehicles in inner cities. These diesel bans pose a severe threat to logistics service provid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A World of E MOTION—Selected Papers from the 32nd International Electric Vehicles Symposium and Exhibition (Lyon, France))
  • Article
  • Open Access
791 Views
21 Pages

22 October 2025

Cultivated land (CL) is essential for human survival, as its coordinated utilization plays a crucial role in both food production and ecological protection. In this study, we focus on Aksu, a typical oasis in arid areas of Xinjiang, to explore how to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Environment Monitoring for Sustainable Agricultural Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,229 Views
19 Pages

23 February 2022

As the global energy market undergoes a wholesale transformation accelerated by the need to decarbonise, a rapid transition to renewable energy and the mass deployment of distributed energy resources, autonomous energy networks or microgrids are emer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,624 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2021

In order to play the important role of electric vehicles to promote the realization of the 3060 double carbon target, electric vehicles have seen explosive growth. However, due to the tight symmetry between the number and distribution of electric veh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Power Battery Management Systems)

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