Can industries be parties in collective action? Community energy in an Iranian industrial zone

Eslamizadeh, Sina; Ghorbani, Amineh; Künneke, Rolf W.; Weijnen, Margot

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101763

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“…Relying on the UNESCO Green Citizens Project, Iran has embarked on some green initiatives and training programs for businesses to boost participation and involvement in promoting innovative green practices and eco‐friendly products (Afshar Jahanshahi et al, 2020). For instance, the government has recently allocated approximately €500 million from the National Development Fund to develop green energy (Eslamizadeh et al, 2020).…”

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“…In light of the support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Green Citizens Project, the Iranian government has launched several green initiatives along with providing training programs for the companies to encourage engagement in the development of eco‐friendly products and green innovations (Afshar Jahanshahi et al, 2020). For example, the government has recently allocated about €500 million from the National Development Fund for green energy development (Eslamizadeh et al, 2020).…”

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Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance

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This study relies on a unique synthesis of ambidexterity theory and the natural resource orchestration approach to investigate how green intellectual capital elements, namely green human, structural, and relational capital, along with ambidextrous green innovation, trigger a synergy in favor of environmental performance. In particular, this paper primarily aims to test the mediating role of ambidextrous green innovation in the relationship between green intellectual capital and environmental performance. Based on a survey of 105 Iranian public listed companies, the results indicate that green intellectual capital elements are not directly associated with environmental performance. Instead, they influence environmental performance only through the channel of ambidextrous green innovation as a mediating variable. This is the first study to simultaneously embed the resource orchestration theory in the green intellectual capital and ambidexterity literature. The findings of the current study offer new insights into the issue of how organizations gain maximum benefit from the orchestration of their various green assets and capabilities, including green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation.

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Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance

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“…In light of the support from the UNESCO Green Citizens Project, the Iranian government has launched several green initiatives along with providing training programs for the companies to encourage engagement in the development of eco‐friendly products and green innovations (Afshar Jahanshahi et al, 2020). For example, the government has recently allocated about €500 million from the National Development Fund for green energy development (Eslamizadeh et al, 2020).…”

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How does green intellectual capital boost performance? The mediating role of environmental performance measurement systems

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This paper draws on the newly developed notion of "natural resource orchestration" to propose and test a framework that shows how the use of environmental performance measurement systems mobilizes green intellectual capital to influence organizational performance. More precisely, this study examines to what extent companies place emphasis on the use of environmental performance measurement to translate green intellectual capital into enhanced organizational performance in terms of both economic and environmental performance. Based on a survey of 105 Iranian public listed companies, the results show that two elements of green intellectual capital, namely, green human capital and green structural capital are positively associated with both environmental performance measurement use and environmental performance. In contrast, green relational capital affects environmental performance only in the presence of environmental performance measurement as a mediating variable.By embedding the resource orchestration theory in the management accounting and intellectual capital settings, this study contributes to the existing literature and sheds light on the issue of how companies need to synchronize their green resources with proper organizational control systems to reap the maximum benefits of those green strategic resources.

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“…In addition to the above-mentioned requirements for an InCES, Eslamizadeh et al (Eslamizadeh et al, 2020), highlighted the importance of collective institutional arrangements for governing such industrial initiatives and the need for incentive mechanisms to help industrial companies overcome the financial barriers of initiating such plans.…”

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“…Exiting an InCES is another crucial metric that should be carefully analysed since leaving an InCES is not straightforward given the high industrial electricity demands (Eslamizadeh et al, 2020). Also, the exit of a member from the community can be a heavy economic burden on the shoulder of an InCES (Eslamizadeh et al,FIGURE 6 Determination of decision rule for one country as an example.…”

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Industrial community energy systems: Simulating the role of financial incentives and societal attributes

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Considering that the industrial sector consumes almost one-third of the energy demand globally, it is an urgent call to reduce the carbon footprints in this sector. Among different approaches to meet this goal, such as the employment of carbon capture technologies and increasing energy efficiency within industries, transitioning to renewable electricity (RE) would be another outlook to reduce the carbon footprints and increase the energy security of the industries. Collective power generation within communities has shown to be feasible and promising in the industrial sector, where groups of industries collaborate to generate energy and meet their energy demand. In this research, we investigated how the initiation and continuation of industrial community energy systems (InCES) among companies can take place and which financial incentives the government can introduce to support these initiatives. We built an agent-based model that incorporates cost-benefit analysis and cultural factors in the decision making process of industries, to assess the feasibility of initiating/joining an InCES by industries. This study shows that the FIT mechanism had the worst performance in incentivizing the establishment of an InCES among industries. In contrast, the TAX incentive showed the best performance in mobilizing the investments towards InCES. Similarly, the TAX incentive showed relatively superior performance in electricity generation, the number of established InCESs, and the number of companies joining each InCES. Despite the better performance of the TAX incentive, it was also the most expensive option for the governments as a significant share of the establishment costs of an InCES was put on the shoulders of the governments.

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Can industries be parties in collective action? Community energy in an Iranian industrial zone

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Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance

Green intellectual capital and ambidextrous green innovation: The impact on environmental performance

How does green intellectual capital boost performance? The mediating role of environmental performance measurement systems

Industrial community energy systems: Simulating the role of financial incentives and societal attributes

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