Innovating for energy efficiency: Digital gamification in the European steel industry

IF 2.6 3区管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

European Journal of Industrial Relations Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1177/0959680120951707

Dean Stroud, C. Evans, Martin Weinel

引用次数: 10

Abstract

The European steel industry, as an energy intensive industry, has significant concerns over energy efficiency and compliance with EU environmental regulations. Hence, across the industry, energy efficiency is a key area of innovation activity. However, responding to climate change measures and finding efficiency gains by technological means is becoming increasingly difficult and so managements are turning attention to modifying, that is, ‘greening’ worker behaviours. Here, we focus on an innovation that combines a digital technology application with a management strategy, that is, gamification for energy efficiency behaviour modification. Drawing on data from a project involving steel plants in Germany, Norway and the UK, we adopt an international comparative approach to examine the implications of differing industrial relations contexts for shaping steel firm engagement with ‘green’ innovations.

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能源效率创新：欧洲钢铁行业的数字游戏化

欧洲钢铁行业作为一个能源密集型行业，对能源效率和遵守欧盟环境法规有着重大关切。因此，在整个行业，能源效率是创新活动的关键领域。然而，通过技术手段应对气候变化措施和提高效率正变得越来越困难，因此管理层正将注意力转向修改，即“绿化”工人行为。在这里，我们专注于将数字技术应用与管理策略相结合的创新，即能源效率行为改变的游戏化。根据一个涉及德国、挪威和英国钢铁厂的项目的数据，我们采用国际比较的方法来研究不同的工业关系背景对塑造钢铁企业参与“绿色”创新的影响。

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European Journal of Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

11.50%

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期刊介绍： It embraces a broad definition of industrial relations and includes articles which relate to any aspect of work and employment. It publishes rigorous and innovative work on and from all European countries, from the Atlantic to the Urals. All social science disciplines are relevant to its remit, and interdisciplinary approaches are particulary encouraged. A major objective is to foster cross-national comparative analysis; and in this context, work which relates European developments to broader global experience is welcome.