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{"title":"Innovation drivers for export performance","authors":"Luis Camilo Ortigueira-Sánchez ,&nbsp;Dianne H.B Welsh ,&nbsp;William C Stein","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>According to the research-based view of the firm, innovation is a key capability that can foster a sustainable competitive advantage and explain firm heterogeneity in export performance. However, few studies have focused on the effect of innovation on export performance in the context of low levels of innovation, which developing markets are characterized by. Since exports are considered the first market entry mode, it is critical to understand the effect of innovation on exports. In this paper, we test the effect of innovation on export performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Peru that have received government innovation subsidies, with a theoretical model that incorporates innovation inputs, innovation types, and performance. We test the model using partial least squares structural equation modeling from 237 SMEs. The findings show that government innovation subsidies, human capital, and cooperation have a positive effect on innovation types. Likewise, innovation types positively affect production and export performance. Production performance mediates the relationship between innovation types and export performance. This research article advances the study of innovation and export performance in an emerging market context, which are characterized by a weak innovation system and low investments on innovation. Likewise, it holds policy implications for both science, technology and innovation policy and foreign trade policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277303282200013X/pdfft?md5=ce1d96267248cd21ce44362a8bd2fdd4&pid=1-s2.0-S277303282200013X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91479246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The transition towards the implementation of sustainable mobility. Looking for generalization of sustainable mobility in different territories by the application of QCA","authors":"Cayetano Medina-Molina ,&nbsp;María de la Sierra Rey-Tienda","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mobility emerges as one of the axes on which cities base their response to the challenges of sustainability. It is a complex phenomenon where elements located at different levels interact, meaning that it is increasingly being studied from a multi-level perspective. There are numerous smart mobility initiatives around the world, although there are doubts about their generalisation. The purpose of this article is to stablish the configurations of elements that determine the degree to which a city is making changes to implement sustainable mobility solution, and to study if those are generalisable across continents. Based on the data of 60 cities from different continets provided by the Urban Mobility Readiness Index, the configurations of elements that explain both the transition towards the implementation of sustainable mobility solutions and the denial of this phenomenon are established, three in each case. QCA was applied to a model that use the multilevel perspective.The main contribution is that infrastructures maintain the pivotal role, although the joint presence of other elements is also required, including certain characteristics of the city, such as its innovative character, as well as a high population density. Individual experiences can be extrapolated between cities on different continents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100015"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000153/pdfft?md5=c77b554f4b90f4f4468abbfefa50d62a&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000153-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85460940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis & prognosis of sustainable development goals using big data-based approach during COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Muskaan Chopra ,&nbsp;Dr. Sunil K. Singh ,&nbsp;Anshul Gupta ,&nbsp;Kriti Aggarwal ,&nbsp;Brij B. Gupta ,&nbsp;Francesco Colace","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The world has changed considerably in the previous two decades. Today, people are facing extreme poverty, global warming, and unwanted climate changes. The economic gap between countries is continuously growing. Moreover, with the expanding influence of technology, governance is getting more difficult. To address these issues, the UN announced Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also called Global Goals, in 2015. These goals fill in as an overall source of inspiration to annihilate poverty, protect the environment, and guarantee that all individuals live in harmony and thrive by 2030. The 17 SDGs are interconnected in that they recognize that activities in a single region sway result in others and that improvement should adjust to social, monetary, and natural sustainability. The SDGs intend to kill poverty, hunger, AIDS, and gender discrimination against women and girls. The COVID-19 epidemic, on the other hand, has hampered attempts to accomplish the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As a result, the impact of these SDGs must be thoroughly studied and analyzed. As a result, the purpose of this research is to examine the SDG before and after Covid-19, as well as how they have influenced various national and international markets. The research also assesses the 17 SDGs in each of India's 29 states in depth. Since SDGs have a larger scope, this paper predicts the SDG-9 scores of few countries like UAE, New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, China, Bhutan, and USA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100012"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000128/pdfft?md5=cd68cd71519f59b2a4c069041743e1f3&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000128-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74795459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of adoption of climate smart agricultural technologies among potato farmers in Kenya: Does entrepreneurial orientation play a role?","authors":"Patrick Andati ,&nbsp;Eucabeth Majiwa ,&nbsp;Marther Ngigi ,&nbsp;Robert Mbeche ,&nbsp;Josiah Ateka","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an important strategy for supporting farmers against climate change challenges. However, CSA adoption among smallholder farmers particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low. This article investigates the factors that influence CSA adoption among smallholder potato farmers in Nyandarua County, Kenya. We specifically focus on the role of the farmers’ entrepreneurial orientation (reflected in the farmers’ innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking), a contribution that has received limited research attention. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey of 350 potato farming households and analyzed using descriptive statistics, principal component analysis (PCA) and a multivariate probit regression model. Based on PCA analysis, the study considered six categories of CSA practices; soil nutrient management, crop management, crop protection, seed management, water harvesting, and crop quality improvement. The multivariate probit results show that farmers' entrepreneurial orientation had mixed influence on CSA adoption. While farmers’ innovativeness had a positive influence on crop management and improvement practices uptake, its influence on water harvesting technologies was negative. Similarly, proactive farmers were more likely to adopt seed management practices, whereas risk-takers were more likely to adopt protection and water harvesting technologies. Potato producers' willingness to engage in seed multiplication was linked to use of crop protection, seed management, and water harvesting technologies, indicating a path that could help potato farmers’ access clean seed. Other important factors influencing CSA adoption included access to financing through mobile-based applications, gender, land size, trust in extension officers, household income, and farm characteristics. The study discusses the implications of these findings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100017"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000177/pdfft?md5=67541818ae25bcc7889ee7a409163726&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000177-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82711544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hyperinflation potential in commodity-currency trading systems: Implications for sustainable development","authors":"Yorgos D. Marinakis,&nbsp;Reilly White","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable Development implies slowing the rate of utilization and eventual depletion of non-renewable resources such as oil and metals. Non-renewable resources are now commonly traded, often as derivatives, through electronic trading exchanges and studies the impact of that trading on sustainable development are underrepresented. Commodity-currency research since 2003 to some extent has focused on the relationship between commodity prices – including non-renewable resources – and the exchange rates of the currencies of the nations that are extracting those commodities. To a lesser extent, other research on non-renewable resource development has focused on technology and innovation. Here we address one issue at the core of non-renewable sustainable development: the question of commodity-currency linkages and spillovers and their effects on price stability. Our research tool is an economic interpretation of the Lotka-Volterra equations. Using Lotka-Volterra parameters from the fit to actual CAD XCT data, we find that carrying out the currency-commodity dynamics over several centuries demonstrates the possibility for cyclical unsustainable hyperinflation. Devaluing or inflating the currencies or commodities is not a solution to hyperinflation. The solution to hyperinflation is to increase β (the effect of the commodity on the currency) and/or δ (the price decrease rate of the commodity when the currency is absent) and/or decrease γ (the inflation rate of the commodity in the presence of the currency).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000037/pdfft?md5=a762da62816943150ec89db8ce2622a1&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000037-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81745315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable maintenance of power transformers using computational intelligence","authors":"Nadia Nedjah ,&nbsp;Luiza de Macedo Mourelle ,&nbsp;Ramon Alves dos Santos ,&nbsp;Leonardo Torres Bispo dos Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The technical and financial management of power substations involves the evaluation of the operational condition of power transformers. Evaluation is an essential stage for maintaining electricity supply and resource efficiency by guiding the process of maintaining and/or upgrading a transformers park. This process aims at identifying assets with critical operational condition in a substation that may convey risks to operators, installed equipment and customers. The use of computational intelligence techniques aims at assisting the evaluation process, which is not simple because it requires combining measurements that evaluate different aspects of the power transformers. A deep technical knowledge of chemical, electrical and physical measurements is necessary to infer a correct diagnosis. Thus, computational intelligence techniques can reduce the need for human expertise, since they are able to extract patterns of known information and optimize the identification of critical assets. In this paper, computational intelligence techniques are applied aiming at composing a numerical index, termed Health Index, for asset prioritization. Prioritization helps classify assets based on criticality levels. Information regarding the measurements used to compose the index is based on measurements done on real transformers. In this work, computational intelligence techniques are especially explored for the composition of the Health Index, as there are no publications with the application of these techniques to solve this kind of prioritization problem. We seek the most appropriate set of methods to support decision making in prioritizing assets for maintenance. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is evaluated, seeking strategies that add greater sustainability, flexibility, simplicity and high accuracy rate in asset prioritization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000013/pdfft?md5=1f1a031be566f6aaca1c012e274492bd&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000013-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90861710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An initial assessment of water security in Europe using a DEA approach","authors":"Mónica de Castro-Pardo ,&nbsp;Pascual Fernández Martínez ,&nbsp;Amelia Pérez Zabaleta","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The global freshwater crisis has prompted the development of innovative methods to assess the sustainability of water resources around the world. In the last decade, the concept of water sustainability has evolved, giving rise to a more advanced measure of societies’ capacity to safeguard water resources; namely, water security. In this paper, we calculate a composite index to assess water security through the application of a DEA approach. The proposed model is used to aggregate nine indicators relating to the four dimensions of water security: state of the water environment; human health and wellbeing; sustainability of livelihoods; and the stability, functions and responsibility of societies. The model was applied to 15 European countries. Benchmarking results of the analysed countries show that Denmark, the United Kingdom and Finland hold the best positions in the ranking. The findings thus indicate that these countries show excellent performance in water security relative to the other countries under study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000025/pdfft?md5=20821161894e466ebf370818b38aea6a&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000025-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90529228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the effects of Environment, Social, and Governance conduct on financial performance: Arguments for a process and integrated modelling approach","authors":"Michael T. Lee ,&nbsp;Ikseon Suh","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To date, an overwhelming number of research findings on Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) conduct and financial performance remains inconclusive. Furthermore, research has not identified nor explained the “underlying mechanisms” behind this relationship. To encourage future research, we discuss the mechanisms by identifying the first-order, mediating, and moderating variables. We synthesize recent studies for emerging themes and implications; argue for a process and integrated approach for modelling causality between ESG conduct and financial performance variables; and suggest methods to analyze the models. We also advocate for researchers to explore the idea that balancing corporate conduct among the E, S, and G components may provide revelations about financial performance. We also discuss how incorporating “greenwashing” in a process and integrated model may explain the ESG conduct and financial performance link, or more than likely the lack of it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000049/pdfft?md5=803ff161608aa04868c359b725383e2c&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000049-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82837941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An analysis of the blockchain and COVID-19 research landscape using a bibliometric study","authors":"José Manuel Guaita Martínez ,&nbsp;Patricia Carracedo ,&nbsp;Dolores Gorgues Comas ,&nbsp;Carlos H. Siemens","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The scientific community has become concerned about the impact of blockchain technology as a motivational tool in the COVID-19 era. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of scientific articles published in this field has been increasing, making it highly desirable to carry out a bibliometric study to identify research efforts.</p><p>Therefore, the aim of this work was to conduct a literature review of blockchain and COVID-19 technology in the field of Business Management to identify recent lines of research. To do so, we used a text mining technique on a corpus composed of 37 articles in the Web of Science database.</p><p>The results obtained clearly show 3 distinct clusters. The first represents the blockchain technology framework in organizations and stakeholders in which the research methodology in artificial intelligence is very important. The second shows the need to take into account business sustainability caused by COVID-19. The third indicates the impact of the pandemic on the supply chain industry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000062/pdfft?md5=1de993af7e77b28e8485c709c82526f7&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000062-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85400933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable energy development analysis: Energy Trilemma","authors":"Luisa Marti ,&nbsp;Rosa Puertas","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable development is perceived as a socioeconomic system focused on meeting human needs while making long-term progress, with the end goal of ensuring well-being and improving quality of life. The objective of this article is to analyse the sustainable development policies assessed by the World Energy Trilemma Index (WETI) for 2020, based on its three pillars (<em>Energy security, Energy equity and Environmental sustainability</em>) and the political and economic context of 128 countries. To that end, cluster analysis and contingency tables are used. The first of these methods allows us to determine whether nations' economic profile influences their sustainable energy development, while the latter method is used to establish the possible connection between the political and economic context and the different aspects of sustainable development. The results of the cluster analysis reveal the existence of three homogeneous groups of countries, showing that the economies with the lowest GDP growth and the highest incomes hold the top positions in the WETI ranking. However, this association is not as clear when analysing the three energy trilemma pillars separately, pointing to the need for a more in-depth examination of each one. The contingency tables confirm the association between the <em>Country context</em> and sustainable energy development, showing that countries that are assigned a better grade for political and economic aspects adopt more appropriate energy measures. The research reveals the need for leaders’ active engagement in the implementation of international agreements on climate change, thus facilitating the path towards sustainable development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000074/pdfft?md5=b1dcc6f12f7c46c77a12ef35a493f8c2&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000074-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75080673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}