This study aims to investigate the causal effect of air pollution on enterprise-level energy efficiency in energy-intensive manufacturing industries China. To address potential endogenous problem, it employs thermal inversions as instrumental variable. The finds that would significantly decrease efficiency. It shows heterogeneous influences efficiency, varying with enterprise ownership, age, lo...

The competitive global market climate of the new millennium has raised awareness of business processes as the most important management paradigm. The idea of the process organization is gaining strong momentum; the process ‘option’ is now becoming a mandatory requirement. The integration of the Process Framework into the management structure introduces clear focus on consistent and collaborativ...

Over the last few years, interest in “green computing” has motivated research into energy-saving techniques for enterprise systems, from network proxies and virtual machine migration to the return of thin clients. This paper tries to answer a possibly contentious question: would we be better served by the embarrassingly simple approach of replacing every desktop with a laptop? To answer this qu...

Over the last few years, interest in “green computing” has motivated research into energy-saving techniques for enterprise systems, from network proxies and virtual machine migration to the return of thin clients. This paper tries to answer a possibly contentious question: would we be better served by the embarrassingly simple approach of replacing every desktop with a laptop? To answer this qu...