scholarly journals Impact of the Coronacrisis on Germany's Transition to a Climate-neutral Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 100-112
Author(s):  
Vladislav Belov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Energy ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Structural Policy ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Double Transition ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transformation Processes

The author continues the study of the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the economic and political space of Germany. The second article outlines the features of the double transition ‒ energy and digital ‒ to a climate-neutral economy. Germany is carrying it out within the framework of the European Green Deal, the adoption of which almost coincided with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus crisis has become a catalyst for the transformation processes in the field of energy and digitalization, many of which Berlin began to implement long before the onset of its consequences. Lockdowns have led to a reduction in industry's primary energy and electricity consumption, motivated businesses to relocate employees to home-based work, and accelerate the introduction of new digital technologies. The coronavirus crisis has become a challenge for government departments, healthcare institutions, secondary and higher education, which management and employees were not ready for a quick use of distance technologies. The author analyzes the structural policy of the coalition government, the contribution of German-French initiatives and projects to the implementation of the double transition in the field of energy, cloud technologies and artificial intelligence, assesses the role of a new Climate Protection Law

The Role of Oil and Gas in the Economic Development of the Global Economy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Oil And Gas Producers ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Factor Inputs ◽  
The Impact

This chapter is concerned with the role of oil and gas in the economic development of the global economy. It focuses on the context in which established and newer oil and gas producers in developing countries must frame their policies to optimize the benefits of such resources. It outlines a history of the issue over the last twenty-five years. It considers oil and gas as factor inputs, their role in global trade, the role of oil prices in the macroeconomy and the impact of the geopolitics of oil and gas. It then considers various conventional views of the future of oil and gas in the primary energy mix. Finally, it challenges the drivers behind these conventional views of the future with an emphasis on why they may prove to be different from what is expected and how this may change the context in which producers must frame their policy responses.

Digital Retail and How Customer-Centric Technology is Reshaping the Industry

2018 ◽  
pp. 1560-1580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Penas Franco
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Retail Industry ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explains the digital disruption that has occurred and is still happening in the retail industry. It explains the relative positions of the world's leading retailers Wal-Mart, Amazon and Alibaba and the business models of the two top online competitors. It focuses on the impact of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) technologies and new retail trends enabled or boosted by technology such as omni-channel, customer experience, internet of things (IoT) and analytics, fulfillment and delivery. It deepens into IT and business model customer-centric design, the role of the customer and the store in the new digital retail and finishes with an assessment of ROI in retail digitization. The chapter concludes the fundamental IT-enabled changes of digital disruption are critical for all players, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, pure online players and those with both an online and an offline presence.

scholarly journals Financial Literacy and the Impact of Movement Control Order (MCO) Among the Muslim Mompreneurs: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 377-386
Author(s):  
Syarah Syahira Mohd Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Movement Control ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Family ◽  
Financial Income ◽  
Control Order ◽  
The Impact

This empirical paper investigates how the mompreneurs manage their businesses during the Covid 19 lockdown and how the pandemic affects their family. The role of a mother in a family encompasses the livelihood of the family members, which extends to the family’s financial standing. A mother’s role in a family ranges from a homemaker and, to a certain extent, a financial provider. In Malaysia, it was reported in 2018 that 60.2% of entrepreneurs are housewives. However, it is believed that many women are working at and from home with high cost of living, especially in urban areas. They become home-based entrepreneurs, especially during this unprecedented pandemic, i.e. Covid-19, and restricted by the Movement Control Order (MCO). This study adopted an exploratory qualitative study whereby six (6) mompreneurs who are operating their businesses from home were interviewed to understand how the pandemic and the lockdown have affected their lives. This paper further examines their coping mechanism to the pandemic and financial income during this crisis. Mompreneurs’ financial literacy is also observed in this paper to explore their financial understanding. This research is an exploratory study, and it only provides general ideas on how a home-based businesswoman survive and cope during the lockdown. The findings from this paper are suitable to be used as a benchmark for an extensive quantitative study in the future to further understand the behaviour of the mompreneurs, especially in Malaysia.

Digital Retail and How Customer-Centric Technology is Reshaping the Industry

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Pablo Penas Franco
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Retail Industry ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explains the digital disruption that has occurred and is still happening in the retail industry. It explains the relative positions of the world's leading retailers Wal-Mart, Amazon and Alibaba and the business models of the two top online competitors. It focuses on the impact of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) technologies and new retail trends enabled or boosted by technology such as omni-channel, customer experience, internet of things (IoT) and analytics, fulfillment and delivery. It deepens into IT and business model customer-centric design, the role of the customer and the store in the new digital retail and finishes with an assessment of ROI in retail digitization. The chapter concludes the fundamental IT-enabled changes of digital disruption are critical for all players, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, pure online players and those with both an online and an offline presence.

scholarly journals Assessment of the impact of risks of energy companies in a pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 07002
Author(s):  
Natalya Solopova ◽  
Oleg Karpovich ◽  
Anna Minnullina ◽  
Ruslan Minnullin
Keyword(s):  
Electric Power ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Electric Power Industry ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
External Risk ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
The Impact

The life-supporting role of the electric power industry during the spread of the coronavirus was especially pronounced. Electricity has become necessary for remote education of children, video calls, hospitals, etc. The main trends in electricity demand include changes in the ratio of electricity consumption in industry, transport and commercial sectors, as well as households due to the quarantine of some consumers. The paper identifies key risk-forming factors for the energy industry at the macro level and, based on an expert assessment, identifies the most probable and most powerful risks. By analogy with external risk-forming factors, the internal risk-forming factors of energy companies were analyzed, and their range of internal risks was determined.

scholarly journals Impact of Economic Accessibility on Realized Utilization of Home-Based Healthcare Services for the Older Adults in China

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Di ◽  
Lijian Wang ◽  
Liu Yang ◽  
Xiuliang Dai
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Utilization Of Healthcare ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Home-based healthcare service has gradually become the most important model to cope with aging in China. However, the contradiction between oversupply and insufficient demand of healthcare services is becoming increasingly serious. How to effectively improve the realized utilization of healthcare resources has become a key issue in the development of healthcare services. Based on the social background of “getting old before getting rich”, this article explores the relationship between economic accessibility and realized utilization, and finds that the impact of economic accessibility on realized utilization is inverted U-shaped, not a linear positive effect. In addition, considering the moderating role of family support, it is found that family support can strengthen the inverted U-shaped effect of economic accessibility on realized utilization. Therefore, exerting the role of family and improving economic accessibility can effectively solve the dilemma of low utilization of healthcare services.

scholarly journals Gender Justice in Feminist Analysis of Public Policies in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera ◽  
Patricia Duarte Rangel
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Female Presidents ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Women's Policy Agencies

Abstract: This paper presents part of the authors’ postdoctoral research at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. It focuses on the transformation processes triggered by feminist-driven governmental actions in Brazil, Argentina and Chile over the last few years, especially during the terms of Cristina Fernández, Dilma Rousseff and Michele Bachelet. Using concepts and theoretical insights from specialized literature, we address questions about lobbying and disputes in the political arena in order to understand the impact of feminisms on public policies, and the extent to which these policies relate to the intersectional nature of discrimination (gender, race / ethnicity, class). Four major public policies areas are examined, namely economic autonomy, social facilities, health, and violence, from three analytical angles: 1) the role of women’s policy agencies in policy making processes; 2) Gender-Aware Public Policies during the mandates of female presidents in Argentina, Brasil e Chile; 3) the intersectionality of gender justice in public policy-making.

scholarly journals Therapists’ Contributions to the Alliance in Home-Based Family Treatment: The Role of Alliance Building Behaviors, Personality, and Clinical Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Welmers-van de Poll ◽  
G. J. J. M. Stams ◽  
A. L. van den Akker ◽  
G. Overbeek
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Training And Supervision ◽  
Alliance Building ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAlliance is a robust contributor to the outcome of adult, youth, and family therapy, but little is known about therapists’ contributions to the alliance in conjoint family treatment. We investigated the predictive value of therapists’ personality, clinical experience and observed alliance building behaviors for mid-treatment alliance as reported by therapists and family members. Participants were 77 parents and 21 youth from 57 families receiving home-based family treatment from 33 therapists. Therapist openness to experience and agreeableness as well as therapists’ in-session engagement and emotional connection behaviors predicted more positive therapists’ and family members’ reports of the alliance. Therapist neuroticism, extraversion and conscientiousness predicted more negative alliance-reports. In-session safety behaviors also predicted more negative alliance-reports, but this finding was only significant for therapists’ and not family members’ reports of the alliance. Clinical experience did not predict quality of alliances. We conclude that training and supervision of family therapists could benefit from focusing on emotional connection with and active engagement of family members in treatment, and from increasing self-awareness of the impact of their personality on alliances with family members.

Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Brambilla ◽  
David A. Butz
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Intergroup Threat ◽  
Economic Threat ◽  
The Impact ◽  
General Climate

Two studies examined the impact of macrolevel symbolic threat on intergroup attitudes. In Study 1 (N = 71), participants exposed to a macrosymbolic threat (vs. nonsymbolic threat and neutral topic) reported less support toward social policies concerning gay men, an outgroup whose stereotypes implies a threat to values, but not toward welfare recipients, a social group whose stereotypes do not imply a threat to values. Study 2 (N = 78) showed that, whereas macrolevel symbolic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward gay men, macroeconomic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward Asians, an outgroup whose stereotypes imply an economic threat. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the role of a general climate of threat in shaping intergroup attitudes.

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