Management Challenges Facing Renewable Energy: An Operational and Strategic Approach

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Management Challenges Facing Renewable Energy: An Operational and Strategic Approach”. Our world is facing an energy crisis, as well as environmental pollution and climate change as a result of the depletion and use of fossil fuels. Clean energy is an ambitious goal for the entire world. In this perspective, renewable energy is a multifaceted challenge. As indicated by many researchers, one of the keys aspects of this challenge is the management problems facing the renewable energy sector. The complexity and dynamics of the changes taking place today (including approaches to management problems) undoubtedly require a search for solutions that take into account the VUCA perspective (i.e., volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity environment).

I would like to encourage you to look at management issues related to renewable energy considering a strategic perspective or an operational perspective in different areas of management. It is also important to have a multifaceted academic perspective on the problems of renewable energy from a micro-economic (individual organizations/authorities), mezo- and macro-economic (countries and regions) perspective, or sector perspective.

How many questions around management problems for renewable energy remain unanswered? Our hope is that we will be able to answer some of them and showcase the directions of future research for scientists, for whom clean energy is not only an academic research problem but also representative of their own belief that changes need to be made in this area.

Undoubtedly, we are at an inflection point in the discussion on renewable energy problems. I am sure that the management perspective is the way to share the possible solutions to strengthening the dynamics of renewable energy development.

Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:

• Conflict management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Data management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Environmental management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Financial management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Information systems challenges facing renewable energy;
• Innovation management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Knowledge management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Managerial and organizational cognition challenges facing renewable energy;
• Organizational behavior challenges facing renewable energy;
• Organizational communications challenges facing renewable energy;
• Quality management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Resource management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Risk management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Supply chain management challenges facing renewable energy;
• Technology and innovation management challenges facing renewable energy.

We look forward to receiving your paper.

Dr. Iwona Gorzeń-Mitka
Guest Editor

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