Energy Efficiency in the Industry 4.0 Era: Attributes of Teal Organisations

Radosław Miśkiewicz, Agnieszka Rzepka, Ryszard Borowiecki and Zbigniew Olesińki
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Radosław Miśkiewicz: Institute of Management, University of Szczecin, 70-453 Szczecin, Poland
Agnieszka Rzepka: Faculty of Management, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
Ryszard Borowiecki: WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Zbigniew Olesińki: Faculty of Business and International Relations, Vistula University, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-14

Abstract: The rapid development of innovations in the industry 4.0 era led to new or evolved companies. At the same time, the accepted concept of carbon-free development requires building a new philosophy for the company’s management. The paper aims to analyse the key attributes of teal organisations (as a new type of a company) from the energy sector (as a core sector for carbon-free transformation). The paper summarises the core features of teal organisations and their attributes. In the paper, three hypotheses are tested: innovations and technologies are the most used attributes among teal organisations from the energy sector; organisational and corporate culture are the least used attributes among teal organisations from the energy sector; in the energy sector, the companies that have the attributes of teal organisations primarily work in countries with a high level of innovation and information technologies (as a core indicator of Industry 4.0) and economic development. For testing the hypotheses, the following methods are applied: a Friedman test, a paired-samples t -test, the principal components analysis, a correlation analysis, an ANOVA test (analysis of variance), and a regression analysis. The online survey generates the data for analysis. The object of the research is the workers from the energy sector companies from five countries (Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, Slovakia, and Romania). The findings of the statistical analysis confirm the first and second hypotheses. Companies in the energy sector mostly use innovations and technologies as the attributes of teal organisations. The regression analysis results show that an increase of 1% of patent applications leads to an increased energy efficiency of 1.29%. Additionally, the implemented features of teal organisations in the energy sector allow for improving the country’s energy efficiency, which, as a consequence, then boosts carbon-free development.

Keywords: company; organisation; teal company; evolutionary organisation; decarbonisation; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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