FACTORS AFFECTING THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL ADOPTION OF ENERGY INFORMATICS PRACTICES

World energy consumption is expected to increase by 56% from 2010 to 2040. Energy efficiency improvements are needed to obtain environmental benefits, as well as economic benefits. As companies are the major consumers of energy, organizational level solutions for energy efficiency would have significant benefits both for environment and economy. Energy Informatics (EI) offers a practical solution for energy concerns and leads to both environmental and economic benefits for the companies. However, we still know little about the antecedents of the adoption of EI. Drawing on the motivation-ability framework, the research on organizational IT adoption, and specific characteristics of EI systems, this study develops a theoretical framework to examine factors that affect the adoption of EI practices by companies. In doing so, it will be the first organizational-level EI adoption study, which also provides insights for the IS adoption literature

Institutional change and resource governance in hydrocarbon and mining industries in Indonesia

This research attempted to answer two questions related to the resource governance in Indonesia. The first question is why and how the governance in hydrocarbon and mining industries change the way they do. The second one is why both governances change to different trajectory. Institutional change, developed by North (1990, 2005, and 2009); Lowndes and Robert (2013); and Campbell (2004), is the main theoretical framework use to answer those questions. The theorist proposed that a study of institutional change should consider; institutional elements, the agent of change, the sources of change, and the process as well as mechanism of institutional change. In addition, theories (1977) about bargaining relationship between state and business developed initially by Vernon () and developed further by Luo () by the name of political bargaining relations are used to explore the way in which interaction among actors could change initial institutional arrangements. Meanwhile, governing interdependence and actors’ capacity in economic activities developed by Weiss (1991) are used to analyse how actors act in their respective role in the structure as well as react to problems and challenges from their environment. Qualitative comparative research method became a guideline to make a research design and process tracing is the method of analysis. The development of the resource governance in Indonesia extractive industry is an important case study for research about institutional change that also provides an alternative framework for further studies on resource-rich countries other than using dominant perspectives like resource curse and rentier state. The study shows that a government could generate two different types of resource governances for its extractive industry. Indonesia has different institutional arrangement for both hydrocarbon and mining sectors. Both were also changing to a different mode of governance and influencing by different factors although locating in the same political, economic, and social environment. Dominant actors, institutional elements that change, as well as process and mechanism of institutional change are all different. Hence, it is possible that extractive industry could have different institutional arrangement despite historically, having similar point of departure. Those basic findings provided an alternative point of view than previous studies about resource-rich countries that is usually starting from a continuous struggling political and economic condition producing weak institution, rent-seeking behaviour of dominant elites, as well as social conflict emerge in the region against either the corrupt government or the company, or both. In this regard, institutionalism developing by North (1991, 2005, and 2009) gives an interesting point of departure. He pointed learning process as an important capacity and process for expanding actors’ ability to act and interact. Furthermore, he highlighted openness as an important factor and mechanism in an institutional change and understanding historical path of the case as crucial process to uncover the source of different outcome and trajectory of change. The result of my study is that institutional change in both mining and hydrocarbon industries happens in both element of rule and procedure. The process is influenced by similar factors; the political and economic environment and it happens both evolutionary and revolutionary. Incremental development happens as part of actors’ transition and adaptation to the bigger change. Both types of change are following a historical path, that means gradual shift is usually followed by the big change, usually happen in rule element, and so does the big change is followed further ii by smaller one, usually in procedure element. The source is from both internal and external factors. The mechanism of change is following North, Wallis, and Weingast (2005) mechanism of transition from limited to open access order. The transition involved the continuous interaction with other actors, shifting from personal to impersonal exchange among actors, and the emergence of perpetual-life organization (in Indonesia case, such organization is both national companies and bureaucratic agencies). In conclusion, analyzing about institutional change in resource governance of a resource-rich country gave a valuable insight that was usually obscured by prejudice about the weak institution embedded in the governmental system and rent-seeking behavior done by elites. Such insight is important to produce an alternative analysis highlighting how actors, both the dominant and the usual ones, always move by themselves, expanding their capacity to act and interact with each other. In this regard, starting from the prejudice stated could not give a better and deeper analysis as the institutional arrangement and structure is not owned and directed only by the movement of dominan

Sustainable Qatar

This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics and sustainability innovators and catalysts. The human section considers economics, sustainability education, the knowledge economy, and waste management. In doing so, the book demarcates the ways in which the country encounters and grapples with significant challenges and delves into the range of options for future pathways to sustainability in Qatar. Relevant to policymakers and scholars in energy and environment, urban and developmental studies, as well as the arenas of politics, climate change and policy, this book is a landmark collection on environmental policy in the Gulf and beyond. ; This volume provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar weaves together pillars of social-political, human, and environmental development, and so this book tackles each aspect accordingly. In the environmental section, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, air quality and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics, and sustainability innovators and catalysts. The human section considers demographic trends and models, economics – including the circular economy and green finance – transport, the built environment, and waste management. In doing so, the volume demarcates the ways in which the country encounters and grapples with significant challenges, and delves into the range of options for future pathways to sustainability in Qatar. Relevant to policymakers and scholars in energy and environment, urban, and developmental studies, as well as the arenas of politics, climate change, and policy, this book is a landmark collection on environmental policy in the Gulf, and beyond