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Moving forward or slowing-down? Exploring what impedes the Hellenic energy transition to a sustainable future
- 09 Novembre
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Publication year: 2012
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Evanthie Michalena, Niki Frantzeskaki
Renewable energy (RE) can be considered as one viable option to help address concerns of energy autonomy and carbon reduction. This is especially true for Greece, where the electricity demand increases, the economic situation is likely to remain challenging and European Directives call for a mandatory supply of RE into the national energy mix. However, although steps have been made to make investment conditions seem favourable, the Hellenic electricity system has not achieved the expected embedding of RE in the grid, resulting in a lagging energy transition to a more sustainable energy system. We explain facets of the present day energy policy context and the historical evolution of the energy sector through a PEST analysis. The analysis reveals no lack of opportunity and effort, but institutional, social and technological misalignments in terms of developments and change. A comprehensive analysis is used to unpack the interfaces between institutions, society and technology and from this a number of options are identified which could potentially remove the sector disintegration and strengthen the functionality of these interfaces. Whilst no panacea for effective penetration of RE in Greece is apparent, the conclusions suggest that there is a pressing need for future energy governance to be more integrative and holistic to encompass the array of stakeholders in RE penetration in order to facilitate meeting EU RE targets by 2020.
► Disintegration can block sustainability transitions in the energy sector. ► Greece's energy sector's potential is blocked due to disintegration. ► Small-scale investments can boost sustainable energy transitions. ► Good energy governance requires integrating technology–society–institutions in Greece. ► Energy sector can be the motor to revive the Greek economy.
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Evanthie Michalena, Niki Frantzeskaki
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The Delimitation of Corporate Social Responsibility: Upstream, Downstream, and Historic CSR
- 04 Novembre
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The dissertation abstract and the reflection commentary present the work of Judith Schrempf. The dissertation examines the latest trends in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and advances a social connection approach to CSR to understand and explain those recent trends. The dissertation abstract provides an overview of the research questions and conclusions of the three-article dissertation. The reflection commentary discusses the author’s views of research process as a junior scholar (see Appendix).
Human Values and Corporate Actions Propensity: Examining the Behavioural Roots of Societal Sustainability
- 04 Novembre
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This dissertation abstract and reflection essay presents the work of Dr. Joel Marcus. The research examines the behavioural underpinnings of corporate actions that either benefit or harm society, defined as strength and concern actions respectively. Specifically, the author explores how different personal values relate to the propensity to engage in strength or concern actions across the economic, social, and environmental domains. This extended abstract explains the research question, setting, and methods. The reflection essay in the appendix discusses the author’s journey in the research process as a junior scholar.
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