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The determinants of providing affordable electricity for all in top energy-consuming African countries vary and are in line with the percentage of the current population with access to electricity and volatility in a country’s electric power system, but there is rare evidence of such research. This study categorizes Egypt–Algeria as a panel of countries with 100% access to electricity, and Nigeria–South Africa as otherwise, to investigate the causal relationship between domestic electricity demand, renewable electricity generation, population, and GDP. The study proposed and implemented a novel machine learning model for viable and volatility-driven pathways for renewable electric power transition up to 2030. Results from Pedroni cointegration analysis suggest no evidence of long-run relationships among the variables. Nonetheless, there exists a short-run unidirectional causal relationship from GDP to electricity consumption for Nigeria–South Africa; all except Egypt can achieve 100% access to green electricity. The implication is that, through radical renewable electricity generation innovations, countries can achieve renewable-dominated electric power systems despite expected disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic. For sustainable energy planning, countries aiming to achieve 100% renewables is possible due to the radical transition pathways since it takes into account the volatility.
Mark Agyei-Sakyi; Yunfei Shao; Oppong Amos; Armah Marymargaret. Determinants of Electricity Consumption and Volatility-Driven Innovative Roadmaps to One Hundred Percent Renewables for Top Consuming Nations in Africa. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6239 .
AMA StyleMark Agyei-Sakyi, Yunfei Shao, Oppong Amos, Armah Marymargaret. Determinants of Electricity Consumption and Volatility-Driven Innovative Roadmaps to One Hundred Percent Renewables for Top Consuming Nations in Africa. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6239.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMark Agyei-Sakyi; Yunfei Shao; Oppong Amos; Armah Marymargaret. 2021. "Determinants of Electricity Consumption and Volatility-Driven Innovative Roadmaps to One Hundred Percent Renewables for Top Consuming Nations in Africa." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6239.
Waste management has become a pressing environmental, social, and economic issue. In Ghana, the government has decentralized the waste management system to include private sector actors as key players to improve the collection, disposal, and recycling of waste. With this development, a heterogeneous population of entrepreneurs has engaged in waste recycling, achieving mixed results in terms of performance. The aim of this paper is to identify shared personality traits and characteristics of entrepreneurs that make certain firms engage in waste recycling more innovatively than others. An extensive literature review was used to identify these personality traits and characteristics, which were then modeled using upper echelon theory (UET) to investigate their impact on innovation performance. A regression analysis approach was adopted based on the data collected from 157 entrepreneurs’ founders, co-founders, and shareholders among the waste recycling firms in Ghana selected for the annual Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development (SEED) Award competition. The key contribution of this research is to better understand the relationship between entrepreneur traits and innovation performance. Given the fact that in small start-ups, the founder plays the most important role, this paper serves as a foundation for defining individual-level factors critical in sustaining sustainable innovation performance in the waste recycling sector. The results of this study will help shareholders and policymakers better understand and implement strategies for determining and selecting innovative waste recycling entrepreneurs.
Kouame Dorcas; Bekolo Celestin; Shao Yunfei. Entrepreneurs Traits/Characteristics and Innovation Performance of Waste Recycling Start-Ups in Ghana: An Application of the Upper Echelons Theory among SEED Award Winners. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5794 .
AMA StyleKouame Dorcas, Bekolo Celestin, Shao Yunfei. Entrepreneurs Traits/Characteristics and Innovation Performance of Waste Recycling Start-Ups in Ghana: An Application of the Upper Echelons Theory among SEED Award Winners. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):5794.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKouame Dorcas; Bekolo Celestin; Shao Yunfei. 2021. "Entrepreneurs Traits/Characteristics and Innovation Performance of Waste Recycling Start-Ups in Ghana: An Application of the Upper Echelons Theory among SEED Award Winners." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 5794.
With the increasing complexity of markets, rather than creating offerings in isolation, more and more firms are pursuing value co-creation as part of ecosystem construction. This requires firms to pay greater attention to the integration of complementary resources. Motivated by practice, we develop three game theory models to explore whether focal firms should cooperate with its complementors. We compare models involving non-cooperation, a vertical cooperation strategy, and a horizontal cooperation strategy, finding that complementary manufacturers may prefer vertical cooperation than non-cooperation when the unit production cost of components is not too high. Furthermore, when the level of complementarity and unit production cost of components is pronounced, horizontal cooperation is the most effective mechanism for complementary manufacturers to realise value co-creation, and is always beneficial to traditional suppliers.
Lisha Huo; Zhifeng Qian; Yunfei Shao; Yi Jin. A good match or a quarrel? Value co-creation between complementary manufacturers. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 2021, 1 -17.
AMA StyleLisha Huo, Zhifeng Qian, Yunfei Shao, Yi Jin. A good match or a quarrel? Value co-creation between complementary manufacturers. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. 2021; ():1-17.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLisha Huo; Zhifeng Qian; Yunfei Shao; Yi Jin. 2021. "A good match or a quarrel? Value co-creation between complementary manufacturers." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management , no. : 1-17.
Display devices have significantly changed our daily life for decades, from the watches, television, to the laptop and smartphone. As the desire of advanced display device with high-resolution, long operation life and lightweight properties, several display techniques have been demonstrated. There are mainly four types of electronic display device: cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid-crystal display (LCD), organic light-emitting diode (OLED), and micro-LED. Due to the different working principles and device structures, each type of display device has its special characteristic properties. The performance of devices could be adjusted through the material selection or device design. With careful device structure regulation, not only the efficiency but also the stability would be improved. Herein, a brief review of innovative strategies towards the structure design is presented.
Li Ma; Yun-Fei Shao. A brief review of innovative strategies towards structure design of practical electronic display device. Journal of Central South University 2020, 27, 1624 -1644.
AMA StyleLi Ma, Yun-Fei Shao. A brief review of innovative strategies towards structure design of practical electronic display device. Journal of Central South University. 2020; 27 (6):1624-1644.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi Ma; Yun-Fei Shao. 2020. "A brief review of innovative strategies towards structure design of practical electronic display device." Journal of Central South University 27, no. 6: 1624-1644.
The evolution of a collaborative innovation network depends on the interrelationships among the innovation subjects. Every single small change affects the network topology, which leads to different evolution results. A logical relationship exists between network evolution and innovative behaviors. An accurate understanding of the characteristics of the network structure can help the innovative subjects to adopt appropriate innovative behaviors. This paper summarizes the three characteristics of collaborative innovation networks, knowledge transfer, policy environment, and periodic cooperation, and it establishes a dynamic evolution model for a resource-priority connection mechanism based on innovation resource theory. The network subjects are not randomly testing all of the potential partners, but have a strong tendency to, which is, innovation resource. The evolution process of a collaborative innovation network is simulated with three different government behaviors as experimental objects. The evolution results show that the government should adopt the policy of supporting the enterprises that recently entered the network, which can maintain the innovation vitality of the network and benefit the innovation output. The results of this study also provide a reference for decision-making by the government and enterprises.
Zhaoyang Wu; Yunfei Shao; Lu Feng. Dynamic Evolution Model of a Collaborative Innovation Network from the Resource Perspective and an Application Considering Different Government Behaviors. Information 2019, 10, 138 .
AMA StyleZhaoyang Wu, Yunfei Shao, Lu Feng. Dynamic Evolution Model of a Collaborative Innovation Network from the Resource Perspective and an Application Considering Different Government Behaviors. Information. 2019; 10 (4):138.
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhaoyang Wu; Yunfei Shao; Lu Feng. 2019. "Dynamic Evolution Model of a Collaborative Innovation Network from the Resource Perspective and an Application Considering Different Government Behaviors." Information 10, no. 4: 138.
Sustainable careers at present are characterized by elements of both planned and unplanned career transitions traversed over the entire life course. Planned career transitions involve voluntary departure from the routine career while unplanned career displacements come in the form of involuntary retirement decisions resulting from the job-cuts imposed by organizations. Involuntarily-displaced workers are challenged with threats, such as an unwelcoming job-market, depleted skillsets and potential obsolescence which results in limited employability. For developed nations, extant research has investigated to a reasonable extent this budding avenue of post-retirement career decision making and its dependency on various micro-level socioeconomic determinants. However, the same avenue is, as yet, unexplored for developing economies. In an endeavor to fill this gap, the present research is undertaken to study different post-retirement career trajectories chosen by middle-aged and elderly workers after a job loss from the information and communication technology (ICT) sector in Pakistan. We employ the technique of multinomial logistic regression on data obtained from 295 early displaced workers (M = 217, F = 78) to compare different retirement decisions in the light of various socioeconomic factors, such as age, gender and specific measures of human, social and financial capital and risk-taking ability. Age, gender and health status are observed to be major deterrents to sustainable career participation while technical qualification helps to sustain reemployment opportunities. Our research offers notable contributions to the realm of sustainable career development by identifying the factors which influence workers’ employability for sustainable workforce participation. Managerial and theoretical implications are discussed followed by conclusions and research limitations.
Muhammad Shehzad Hanif; Yunfei Shao. Contemplating the Antecedents of a Sustainable Work Life in an Emerging Economy: Lessons from Early Retirees in the ICT Sector of Pakistan. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4734 .
AMA StyleMuhammad Shehzad Hanif, Yunfei Shao. Contemplating the Antecedents of a Sustainable Work Life in an Emerging Economy: Lessons from Early Retirees in the ICT Sector of Pakistan. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (12):4734.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMuhammad Shehzad Hanif; Yunfei Shao. 2018. "Contemplating the Antecedents of a Sustainable Work Life in an Emerging Economy: Lessons from Early Retirees in the ICT Sector of Pakistan." Sustainability 10, no. 12: 4734.
Technology innovation involves both the market development and technical development in the technology commercialization process. This article builds a Knowledge-Supernetwork model to describe the various knowledge elements and innovation actors elements involved in the collaborative innovation process. And the innovation activities of knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration, R&D innovation problems mining, R&D innovation problems evaluation are realized based on this model. After R&D problems distinguished by collaborative innovation matrix, TRIZ provide strong support to get innovative problem solutions.
Ting Chen; Yunfei Shao; Yujun Han. Collaborative Innovation Model Research Based on Knowledge-Supernetwork and TRIZ. LISS 2014 2015, 1169 -1174.
AMA StyleTing Chen, Yunfei Shao, Yujun Han. Collaborative Innovation Model Research Based on Knowledge-Supernetwork and TRIZ. LISS 2014. 2015; ():1169-1174.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTing Chen; Yunfei Shao; Yujun Han. 2015. "Collaborative Innovation Model Research Based on Knowledge-Supernetwork and TRIZ." LISS 2014 , no. : 1169-1174.
The paper analyses combinative incentives by the reconciliation of outcome and behavior-based incentives schemes based on service innovation. According to the analysis of debate over manager incentives between OBI and BBI, the paper proposes the combinative incentives mode using both outcome and behavior-based criteria for rewarding manager based on the service innovation, then the change meaning of relative parameters in the model is deeply discussed and the significance of combination incentive contract is that the expected gains of the manager and the owner are increased under the restraints.
Chen Shuang-Ying; Shao Yun-Fei. Research of Combinative Incentives of Manager based on Services Innovation. 2007 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management 2007, 1 -4.
AMA StyleChen Shuang-Ying, Shao Yun-Fei. Research of Combinative Incentives of Manager based on Services Innovation. 2007 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management. 2007; ():1-4.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen Shuang-Ying; Shao Yun-Fei. 2007. "Research of Combinative Incentives of Manager based on Services Innovation." 2007 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management , no. : 1-4.