Editorial

Citation

Bhattacharyya, S. and Dey, P. (2009), "Editorial", International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Vol. 3 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijesm.2009.32803baa.001

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Volume 3, Issue 2

This regular edition contains six papers, a view point and three book reviews. Six papers cover various areas of energy-related research – two focusing on innovation and development, one on economic growth and energy, one on energy budgeting, one on oil vulnerability and one supply chain management.

Cleff and others have used the concept of lead markets to analyse the innovation strategies of EU member countries and to find out if the locally preferred innovation has the likelihood of becoming internally successful designs. This concept is used to analyse the innovation strategies of energy producers in Europe and the paper finds that France leads the market in EU and should be the focus for global innovation design.

Cesarotti and others present a method for planning and controlling energy budgets. They review the available approaches and suggest an improved approach that energy managers in the firms can rely on to monitor, budget and control energy-related expenses. They apply the suggested method to an Italian industry.

Hanneson analyses the link between growth in energy use and GDP growth using a long time series data (1950-2004) for 171 countries. Although this issue has been analysed in the past in the literature, nobody has used such a long series and such a large sample. The paper finds that the growth in energy use declines with an increase in GDP per capita for any given growth in GDP. The paper further claims that reducing CO₂ emissions from energy use will be a difficult task given the GDP growth requirements of developing countries.

Tantoush et al. examines the effects of sanctions on the buyer-supplier relationships in Libya. They use the literature and interviews to reveal that the sanctions have adversely affected the relationships in the supply chain of Libyan oil industry.

Mourshed and Quddus perform an econometric analysis to see if research and development in renewable energy has been influencing reduction in CO₂ emissions in the European countries. They consider 15 European countries and their analysis shows that expenditure on renewable energy R&D is negatively correlated to per capita CO₂ emission.

Roupas et al. analyse the oil vulnerability of 27 EU members using a synthesis of six indicators by following the principal component analaysis (PCA). The paper presents the methodology and applies the concept to the country cases to analyse how the oil vulnerability has changed between 1995 and 2007.

We hope that the papers as well as the view point and book reviews will be appreciated by the readers.

Subhes Bhattacharyya and Prasanta Dey