Energy Performance Contract models for the diffusion of green-manufacturing technologies in China: A stakeholder analysis from SMEs’ perspective

Liu, Peng; Zhou, Yuan; Zhou, Dillon K.; Xue, Lan

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.040

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“…Firms can acquire government support by complying or aligning their strategies with the expectations of the government [65]. As the largest manufacturer and energy consumer in the world [1,2], the Chinese government has directed many efforts towards balancing economic and social/environmental development [3][4][5]. Accordingly, CSR engagement has become an important way to gain government support [34].…”

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“…After decades of rapid economic development, sustainable economic growth has become an essential topic in China in consideration of population growth and environmental degradation. As the most populous country, the largest manufacturer, and the largest non-renewable resources consumer in the world [1,2], China has adopted a series of practices to transform its national development strategy in recent years, from an economic-growth-oriented strategy to a more long-term and balanced economic-social development strategy [3][4][5]. Such transformation in the national strategy has encouraged firms to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and thereby grow in sustainable ways [6].…”

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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firms’ Innovation in China: The Role of Institutional Support

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literature in developed countries indicates that there are two types of CSR (i.e., proactive CSR and reactive CSR), and only the proactive one can boost innovation. However, recent studies from emerging economies such as China show that both types of CSR can enhance innovation. Such inconsistent results may be created by, on the one hand, the heterogeneity of innovation types, and on the other hand, the heterogeneity of mechanisms though which CSR impacts innovation in different countries. Accordingly, this paper theoretically explores the impacts of two types of CSR (i.e., proactive CSR and reactive CSR) on two of innovation types (exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation). This paper further reveals the mechanisms through which CSR impacts innovation in China by investigating the moderating role of institutional support (i.e., government support and social support) on the relationship between CSR and innovation. Using a panel dataset (2008–2016) of 286 Chinese public listed firms from research and development (R&D)-intensive industries (e.g., information technology, pharmaceutical and biological products; and chemicals, etc.), our findings show that: (1) proactive CSR promotes exploratory innovation; (2) reactive CSR promotes exploitative innovation; (3) government support strengthen the relationship between proactive CSR and exploratory innovation as well as the relationship between reactive CSR and exploitative innovation; (4) social support weaken the relationship between proactive CSR and exploratory innovation. This paper enriches our understanding on the relationship between CSR and innovation, and provides implications for practitioners and policymakers.

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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firms’ Innovation in China: The Role of Institutional Support

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“…In theoretical terms, acknowledging that technological innovation develops in a certain trajectory, Dosi (1982) put forward the concept of a technological trajectory [38]. Scholars usually adopt the technological trajectory theory to account for both continuous changes and discontinuities in technological innovation [39][40][41][42][43][44]. Based on this theory, this paper attempts to develop an analytical framework using patent data to analyze the technological trajectories of the SWH and PV industries.…”

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Comparing the Technology Trajectories of Solar PV and Solar Water Heaters in China: Using a Patent Lens

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China invests more in renewable energy than any other countries, such as in solar energy. The traditional literature maintains that these government-supported industries are more innovative than grassroots industries such as solar or thermal, which leads to debate. This study uses mixed methods, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to compare the technology trajectories of leading solar water heater (SWH) and solar photovoltaic (PV) firms in China. It concentrates on the following three aspects: trajectories of key technologies, patent citation network, and type of collaboration. Our analyses show that technology trajectories differ significantly between leading SWH firms and PV firms in China. We find that the Chinese SWH firms are core to international knowledge networks, and are following a market-driven innovation mode. In contrast, Chinese PV firms are close to the center of the network and government-driven. Research suggests that grassroots innovation, by doing, using, and interaction (DUI), can create short-term market development models relying on China's traditional industry model, but cannot create a long-term international leading innovation model; only integrated science, technology, innovation modes (STI), and DUI innovation modes tend to result in international leadership in innovation.Solar PV and SWH are both low-carbon technologies that contribute to China's sustainable development. Yet, they have different technological, economic, and social characteristics and dynamics [7]. China is awakening to the need to fundamentally rethink the innovation pathways by which the two industries are developed and managed, for more effectively solving development bottlenecks, such as a lack of breakthrough innovations in the SWH industry and a lagging domestic market for the PV industry.This study uses mixed methods, combining qualitative and quantitative research approaches to compare the technology trajectories of leading solar water heater (SWH) and solar photovoltaic (PV) firms in China.This paper builds on previous research by Urban et al. [7] and uses patent analysis to examine the innovations of Chinese SWH and solar PV enterprises. Our main goal is to determine to what extent and how the PV and SWH patent knowledge bases differ in China.There is some literature on patent analysis for solar PV development in China [8], but less on SWH, and a knowledge gap exists regarding firm-level [9-11] technology pathways and innovation from a comparative-analysis perspective. According to Hu and Wang [12], 95% of SWH in China has the evacuated tube design. China Greentech Initiative (CGTI) estimates that Chinese firms hold 95% of the patents for core technologies of SWH worldwide [13]. However, academic research underpinning these figures is scarce. To observe the impact of technological innovation on enterprise expansion and market shares, and to provide empirical evidence for policy recommendations, this paper also explores the relationship between sales income and patent degree centrality through em...

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“…However, most of researches are focused on designated factories and there is no report concerning energy efficiency of non-designated factories in Thailand. Nevertheless many researches for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) focusing on energy efficiency have been reported in Taiwan [6], Sweden [7,8], Italy [9], Eastern Europe [10], Germany [11,12], India [13,14] and China [15]. Regarding to energy policy, it was found that energy policy of each country has a strong impact on energy consumption and must be implemented in a first priority [16][17][18][19].…”

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Energy Saving Potential for Non-Designated Factories: A Case Study of Thailand

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Wongwuttanasatian²

2018

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Abstract. Energy saving potential for non-designated factories which are medium and small size factories was investigated. In Thailand, factories are classified into two major groups called designated and non-designated factories. Designated factories are controlled their energy consumptions by law but non-designated have no seriously enforcement in energy conservation by the government due to low level energy consumption per factory. However, the number of non-designated factories are 123,064 factories accounting for 95.58% of all 128,761 factories. Thus total energy consumption of non-designated factories is significant and should be considered for energy efficiency measures. 32 samples of non-designated factories in 4 industries: ice cube, rice mill, concrete and drinking water, that located in upper part of north-eastern Thailand were surveyed. Energy consumption data, production volume in 12 months, main energy consumed equipment and their energy conservation measures were investigated and analyzed. Linear regression method was used to determine the specific energy consumption (SEC) of each factory and compared with SEC of the same industry, then the potential of energy saving was evaluated by 2 methods i.e. comparing the SEC of each surveyed factory with the best SEC in same industry, comparing the SEC of each surveyed factory with the SEC of designated factory in same industry. Results showed that the potential of energy saving for ice cube, rice mill, concrete and drinking water industries were 608.31 toe/year, 234.87toe/year, 29.92 toe/year and 6.04 toe/year respectively. These potentials are in total of 879.14 toe/year, accounting for 40.71% of their 2,159.65 toe/year total energy consumption. The results of 32 samples suggested that non-designated factories have a great energy saving potential thus there should be a policy to cover this numerous factories for energy consumption and saving.

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Energy Performance Contract models for the diffusion of green-manufacturing technologies in China: A stakeholder analysis from SMEs’ perspective

Cited by 76 publications

References 32 publications

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firms’ Innovation in China: The Role of Institutional Support

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firms’ Innovation in China: The Role of Institutional Support

Comparing the Technology Trajectories of Solar PV and Solar Water Heaters in China: Using a Patent Lens

Energy Saving Potential for Non-Designated Factories: A Case Study of Thailand

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