Renewable energy potential in the automotive sector: Czech regional case study

Pechancová, Viera

dc.title	Renewable energy potential in the automotive sector: Czech regional case study	en
dc.contributor.author	Pechancová, Viera
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues
dc.identifier.issn	2029-7017 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2017
utb.relation.volume	6
utb.relation.issue	4
dc.citation.spage	538
dc.citation.epage	545
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
dc.identifier.doi	10.9770/jssi.2017.6.4(1)
dc.subject	Automotive supply chain	en
dc.subject	Environmental impact	en
dc.subject	Renewable energy sources	en
dc.subject	Sustainable production	en
dc.description.abstract	Bearing in mind the instant innovations in renewables and the pressures to adopt ecological behaviors, companies are pushed to make changes in the energy field as well. Especially companies in the automotive sector have begun to implement sustainable production practices. The Czech Republic is not an exception, suggesting that sustainable actions have begun to be more significant at the local level as well. This article addresses the state of the art of using sustainable energy actions, concentrating on the renewable energy in the automotive supplier network within a selected region in the Czech Republic. Analyzing a broad context of renewable energy utilization at the regional level, the researched company sample shows that it is not yet a common practice. The results confirm that renewable energy sourcing needs to find its economic viability or justification in environmental legislation. Only then it can further spread along the automotive supply chain.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1007231
utb.identifier.obdid	43876516
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85021323798
utb.source	j-scopus
dc.date.accessioned	2017-09-03T21:40:03Z
dc.date.available	2017-09-03T21:40:03Z
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights.access	openAccess
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Pechancová, Viera
utb.fulltext.affiliation	Viera Pechancová Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, 5139 Mostni Str., Zlin, 760 01, Czech Republic E-mail: pechancova@fame.utb.cz
utb.fulltext.dates	Received 11 February 2017; accepted 17 May 2017
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	The author is thankful for the financial support received from the Czech Science Foundation, grant No. 16-25536S: “Methodology of Developing a Predictive Model of Sector and Company Performance in the Macroeconomic Context”.
utb.scopus.affiliation	Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, 5139 Mostni Str., Zlin, Czech Republic