The Potential of Smart Technologies and Micro-Generation in UK SMEs

Warren, Peter

doi:10.3390/en10071050

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“…Cantele and Zardini [107]; Dubruc et al [108]; Tok et al [109]; Allet [110]; Carrigan [111]; Corazza [112]; Warren [113]; Goddard et al [114]; Graafland [115]; North [116]; Chang [117]; Panwar et al [118]; Vo et al [119]; Doukas et al [120]; Etoundi Eloundou [121]; Jenkins and Karanikola [122]; Ayuso et al [123]; Ciasullo and Troisi [124]; Musa et al [125]; Torugsa et al [126]; Battisti and Perry [127]; Gliedt and Parker [128]; Gallucci et al [129]; Vancheswaran and Gautam [130]; Redmond et al [131]; Shetty et al [132]; Burke and Gaughran [133], among others.…”

Section: Sustainable Development Management and Environmental Awarementioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance in SMEs: Scientific Coverage

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The objective of this research is to analyze the scientific production indexed in the international Scopus database on the subject of "corporate social responsibility and corporate social performance" in small and medium-sized enterprises. In the literature, it is currently possible to observe how large corporations undertake social responsibility actions as a usual practice. However, in the case of small and medium-sized enterprises, the reality is different due to their high heterogeneity.To fulfil the proposed objective, a bibliometric analysis is carried out, identifying 277 articles on the subject. It is observed that scientific production is concentrated in a period of 18 years (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018), the majority being qualitative studies.

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Section: Sustainable Development Management and Environmental Awarementioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance in SMEs: Scientific Coverage

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“…The lean refers to create more value for consumers with fewer resources [46]. Besides this concept, the intelligent energy management concept was also applied to buildings in the last period [49][50][51]. A detailed review of the studies that developed data-driven building energy consumption prediction models based on the intelligent algorithms (machine learning) is presented in [51].…”

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An Advanced Decision Support Platform in Energy Management to Increase Energy Efficiency for Small and Medium Enterprises

Grigoraș

Neagu

2020

Applied Sciences

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The paper presents a new vision on the energy consumption management in the case of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), integrated into an advanced decision support platform, with technical and economic benefits on increasing the energy efficiency, with four modules for database management, profiling, forecasting, and production scheduling. Inside each module, artificial intelligence and data mining techniques were proposed to remove the uncertainties regarding the dynamic of technological flows. Thus, the data management module includes the data mining techniques, that extract the technical details on the energy consumption needed in the development of production scheduling strategies, the profiling module uses an original approach based on clustering techniques to determine the typical energy consumption profiles required in the optimal planning of the activities, the forecasting module contains a new approach based on an expert system to forecast the total energy consumption of the SMEs, and production scheduling module integrates a heuristic optimization method to obtain the optimal solutions in flattening the energy consumption profile. The testing was done for a small enterprise from Romania, belonging to the domain of trade and repair of vehicles. The obtained results highlighted the advantages of the proposed decision support platform on the decrease in the intensity of energy consumption per unit of product, reduction of the purchase costs, and modification of the impact for which energy bills have on the operational costs.

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“…Across the EU, incentives such as grants, loans and the provision of expert advice are available to help businesses overcome financial barriers, and to help demonstrate the case for making efficiency investments (Hampton 2018a). Typically, publicly funded advisors focus on technological investments such as low energy lighting, low-carbon heating systems, more efficient machinery or smart technologies (BEIS 2017a;DECC 2016;Warren 2017).…”

Section: Energy Consumption Efficiency and Environmental Impact In Smesmentioning

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Making sense of energy management practice: reflections on providing low carbon support to three SMEs in the UK

Hampton

2018

Energy Efficiency

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Energy consumption by small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) is collectively significant, and whilst opportunities for substantial, cost-effective efficiency savings exist, take up is low. Whereas research tackling this challenge typically focuses on barriers and drivers to action, this paper offers an alternative perspective, investigating energy management as a practice. Drawing on practice theory and the concept of organisational sensemaking, narrative accounts provide in-depth insights into energy management practice within three SMEs. Auto-ethnographic reflections from 5 years of providing energy and environmental advice are supplemented by findings from carbon footprint assessments and interviews. Findings show that despite energy management being perceived as a peripheral business activity, it is intertwined with organisational identity and knowledge production in each of the three SMEs. Business advisors are instrumental in steering SME energy management practices and have a responsibility to reflect on how they influence processes of knowledge production and meaning-making in organisations. Implications for policy-makers, advisors and the research community are discussed.

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The Potential of Smart Technologies and Micro-Generation in UK SMEs

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance in SMEs: Scientific Coverage

Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance in SMEs: Scientific Coverage

An Advanced Decision Support Platform in Energy Management to Increase Energy Efficiency for Small and Medium Enterprises

Making sense of energy management practice: reflections on providing low carbon support to three SMEs in the UK

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