Sustaining the emerging carbon trading industry development: A business ecosystem approach of carbon traders

Guangyu Hu, Ke Rong, Yongjiang Shi and Jing Yu

Energy Policy, 2014, vol. 73, issue C, 587-597

Abstract: This paper explores how carbon traders nurture the business ecosystem to sustain the emerging carbon trading industry development. We collected primary data from a multinational carbon trader and its ecosystem partners in China, through the construction of interviews and documentary. The research findings show the carbon trading industry has experienced four-stage evolution with different driving forces; the carbon trader attracted and organized ecosystem partners to facilitate the CDM project owners to create carbon credits and trade them; a systematic business ecosystems approach through the lens of Context, Cooperation and Configuration, initiated by carbon traders, has facilitated the industry development. Our findings also implicate to industrial practitioners and policymakers for sustaining the emerging industry development at both the current- and the post-Kyoto protocol periods.

Keywords: Business ecosystem; Carbon trading industry (CTI); Clean development mechanism (CDM) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.05.024

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