scholarly journals Acquisition of Electric Vehicles—A Step towards Green Consumption. Empirical Research among Romanian Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Brătucu ◽  
Adrian Trifan ◽  
Lavinia Dovleac ◽  
Ioana Bianca Chițu ◽  
Raluca Dania Todor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
High Price ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Green Consumption ◽  
Quantitative Marketing ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Special Programs ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Competitive Economy

The paper analyzes particular aspects of a competitive economy based on low carbon emissions, which requires a fundamental change in consumer behavior, by focusing mainly on green acquisitions. The article contributes to the literature by the novelty of the researched problem: identification and analysis of the attitude and behavior of Romanian students regarding the electric vehicles acquisition. Thus, a quantitative marketing research was conducted, using a sample of 1221 students from 11 Romanian university centers. Also, the paper includes an overview regarding the costs and financial benefits provided by the Romanian Government to the electric vehicles owners, such as acquisition price reductions or tax reductions. The research results show that only half of the students are familiar with the concept of green consumption, and 37.8% of them are interested in buying an electric vehicle, the main reason being the fuel consumption. The authors recommend to the state’s institutions to develop special programs, by offering attractive facilities to the young people with higher education, as potential buyers, for the purchase of electric vehicles, this way diminishing the barrier effect generated by the high price. The academic environment should initiate research, both at the micro and macroeconomic level, to quantify the economic-social implications of green acquisitions in general and electric vehicles in particular.

Primary Energy System Chain Security Under the Energy Transition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamah Alsayegh
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
System Security ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Abstract This paper examines the energy transition consequences on the oil and gas energy system chain as it propagates from net importing through the transit to the net exporting countries (or regions). The fundamental energy system security concerns of importing, transit, and exporting regions are analyzed under the low carbon energy transition dynamics. The analysis is evidence-based on diversification of energy sources, energy supply and demand evolution, and energy demand management development. The analysis results imply that the energy system is going through technological and logistical reallocation of primary energy. The manifestation of such reallocation includes an increase in electrification, the rise of energy carrier options, and clean technologies. Under healthy and normal global economic growth, the reallocation mentioned above would have a mild effect on curbing the oil and gas primary energy demands growth. A case study concerning electric vehicles, which is part of the energy transition aspect, is presented to assess its impact on the energy system, precisely on the fossil fuel demand. Results show that electric vehicles are indirectly fueled, mainly from fossil-fired power stations through electric grids. Moreover, oil byproducts use in the electric vehicle industry confirms the reallocation of the energy system components' roles. The paper's contribution to the literature is the portrayal of the energy system security state under the low carbon energy transition. The significance of this representation is to shed light on the concerns of the net exporting, transit, and net importing regions under such evolution. Subsequently, it facilitates the development of measures toward mitigating world tensions and conflicts, enhancing the global socio-economic wellbeing, and preventing corruption.

scholarly journals Competition and Coordination Strategies of Shared Electric Vehicles and Public Transportation Considering Customer Travel Utility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Zhang ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Equilibrium Solutions ◽  
Coordination Problem ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Public Transportation System

Abstract With the rise of the sharing economy and the concept of “green environmental protection and low-carbon travel”, the emerging project of shared electric vehicles is booming. However, the accompanying coordination problem between shared electric vehicles and public transportation system needs to be urgently solved. In reality, customers’ choice of travel mode is influenced by their own travel perceived utility. Thus, this paper will discuss the competition and coordination problem between shared electric vehicles and public transportation system from the perspective of customer travel utility. Considering the travel cost and comfort in the customer travel utility, the game models of shared electric vehicle and public transport system in different scenarios are established by using competitive game and cooperative game. Then, the equilibrium solutions under different scenarios are obtained by solving the models. The analysis results show that shared electric vehicles would bring some beneficial improvements to the transportation system under certain circumstances. Furthermore, public transportation system should adopt a coordination strategy with the shared electric vehicles to promote the total customer travel utility for the entire system. It is worth considering the improvement of the service quality of shared electric vehicle and public transportation next, which would affect the rate of increasing in the total customer travel utility.

Traditional Market Research and Neuromarketing Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-167
Author(s):  
Sertac Eroglu ◽  
Nihan Tomris Kucun
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Marketing Relationship ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
Traditional Marketing ◽  
And Behavior

Marketing research, dedicated to comprehending consumer behavior and purchasing practice, comprises methodical gathering, analysis, and interpretation of related data. Since the understanding of consumer behavior is a comprehensive and complicated task, the contemporary marketing studies argue that traditional marketing research should be supported by neuromarketing methods to explore consumers' psychology, motivation, and behavior. In this chapter, the advantages and disadvantages of traditional marketing and neuromarketing research methodologies and the differences between them are discussed. The traditional market research methods are explained through their qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The most commonly used grouping scheme of techniques in neuromarketing research is presented, namely, neurometric, biometric, and psychometric techniques. The marketing research supported by neuromarketing approaches enables us to look at the consumers' mind as closely as we have never experienced before and opens up new horizons in understanding consumer and marketing relationship.

Cerenity Sanitizer: Marketing Research for New Product Launch (B)

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Anand Kumar Jaiswal ◽  
Sachin Kumar Singh ◽  
A Manu
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Launch ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Toilet Seat ◽  
Quantitative Marketing ◽  
New Product Launch

The case deals with marketing research study undertaken to introduce a new product in the market. The company was planning to introduce Cerenity, a toilet seat sanitizer for women who frequently use shared restrooms. The case discusses the conclusive study undertaken involving quantitative marketing research. The research team carried out quantitative survey and collected the data. It applied various quantitative research methods such as factor analysis, multiple regression, cluster analysis and conjoint analysis for analysis the collected and drawing managerial inferences.

scholarly journals Enhancing Export Diversification in Resource-Rich Economies – Policies and Evidence from Kazakhstan

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
P. Zhelev
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Commodity Price ◽  
High Price ◽  
Export Diversification ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Price Boom ◽  
The Government ◽  
Competitive Economy

Kazakhstan has managed to benefit from its considerable endowments of natural resources during the commodity price boom in the 2000s. However, the global crisis of 2008-09 has demonstrated that relying on a single sector prone to high price volatility cannot be a viable strategy for development. The government of Kazakhstan well realizes that and for already 2 decades has been pursuing various industrial policy initiatives to build a more diversified and competitive economy. The paper aims to examine how successful were those policies by applying various indicators of export diversification. The results show that progress has been very limited as the country’s export basket is highly concentrated and still dominated by oil. This suggests that Kazakhstan should ensure better implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of its diversification initiatives.

scholarly journals Pricing Strategy and Carbon Emission Abatement under Cap-and-Trade Regulation Considering Social Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Chen ◽  
Man Yu
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Pricing Strategy ◽  
High Price ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Cap And Trade ◽  
Carbon Product ◽  
Trade Regulation ◽  
Emission Abatement ◽  
Period 2

In an uncertainty market, social learning plays a significant role in obtaining information to make better decisions. Under cap-and-trade regulation, this paper aims to investigate firms’ pricing and carbon emission abatement issues considering the impact of social learning. This paper establishes a two-period model in a market consisting of a manufacturer and heterogeneous consumers. The manufacturer produces two alternatives (ordinary product and low-carbon product) and makes decisions on sales prices and carbon emission abatement levels. Consumers make decisions on whether and which product to buy. Consumers are not sure about their valuations of products and have the opportunity to discover their true valuation by social learning. The results show that the emission abatement level on ordinary product is affected by the pricing strategy for both types of products. However, the emission abatement level on low-carbon product is only affected by its own pricing strategy. It also shows that social learning lowers the emission abatement level on ordinary product, whereas it improves the emission abatement level on low-carbon product when charging a high price for low-carbon product. Moreover, the price of ordinary product in period 1 is no less than that in period 2. In contrast, the price of low-carbon product in period 2 is higher than that in period 1.

scholarly journals Assessing the Benefits of the Sustainability Reporting Practices in the Top Romanian Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca Gabriela Petrescu ◽  
Florentina Raluca Bîlcan ◽  
Marius Petrescu ◽  
Ionica Holban Oncioiu ◽  
Mirela Cătălina Türkeș ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Quantitative Marketing ◽  
Sustainability Strategy ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Social And Environmental Performance

The concept of sustainability reporting has been addressed by experts worldwide and is defined as the process of communicating the social and environmental effects of the economic actions of organizations to special interest groups within society in general. The main purpose of this research was to identify and analyze the opinions of the real benefits obtained by large companies in Romania following the elaboration of sustainability reports and their contribution to the development of a sustainable economy. A quantitative marketing research was carried out on the sample randomly extracted from a target community of the largest 5750 companies across 35 counties that were active in strategic priority areas of Romania. Both explicitly and implicitly, the research resulted in essential aspects related to the correlation of the sustainability strategy with sustainability reporting, how sustainable development goals contribute to improving all of the processes included in the integrated company management system, how the internal and external benefits can contribute to increasing economic, social, and environmental performance, and building sustainable relationships with shareholders, employees, and stakeholders. In addition, the findings show that aligning a sustainability strategy with a global business strategy and including sustainability reporting requirements (non-financial) are important concerns at the level of the top companies in Romania.

scholarly journals On the role of electric vehicles towards low-carbon energy systems: Italy and Germany in comparison

2019 ◽  
Vol 255 ◽  
pp. 113848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Bellocchi ◽  
Kai Klöckner ◽  
Michele Manno ◽  
Michel Noussan ◽  
Michela Vellini
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Modeling for Segmented Tracks Planning of Roadway-Powered Electric Vehicles

2013 ◽  
Vol 385-386 ◽  
pp. 1159-1163
Author(s):  
Yong Tian ◽  
Bi Zhong Xia ◽  
Yue Sun ◽  
Zhi Hui Xu ◽  
Wei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
High Price ◽  
System Efficiency ◽  
Inductive Power Transfer ◽  
Charging Time ◽  
Cogent Argument ◽  
Driving Range ◽  
Installed Capacity ◽  
The Relationship

Electric vehicle has aroused peoples concern with soaring energy crisis and environmental degradation. However, it has not been widely used due to some drawbacks, such as the short driving range, long charging time, frequent charging requirements and high price. In order to solve these problems, the roadway-powered electric vehicles (RPEVs) based on an inductive power transfer (IPT) has been proposed. In the segmented RPEVs system, efficiency and annual cost are affected by the track distance, tracks interval, number of tracks and installed capacity of each track, etc. Aiming to such problem, the nonlinear programming (NLP) model for segmented tracks planning of RPEVs system is studied in this paper. Meanwhile, the relationship between the system efficiency and the number of loads is analyzed as a cogent argument to the application of segmented tracks.

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