GLOBAL GREEN SHIFT
Articles in refereed journals on the theme of global green shift
2020
Circular Organizing. Chapter 11 in O. Fjeldstad and C. Snow (eds), Designing Modern Organizations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
Greening of industrial policy. Chapter 10 in A. Oqubay, C. Cramer, H.J. Chang, and R. Kozul-Wright (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy. Oxford, UK: OUP (forthcoming).
The greening of industrial hubs. Chapter 24 in A. Oqubay and J.Y. Lin (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development. Oxford, UK: OUP
Schumpeterian economic dynamics of greening: Propagation of green eco-platforms, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-020-00669-5
Greening trends within China’s energy system: A 2019 update, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 18 (17), article 3 (with Carol X Huang), https://apjjf.org/2020/17/MathewsHuang.html
2019
The rise of new green industries: A dynamic view of China's (and India's) eco-modernizing experience, Chapter 9 in Wei Shan and Lijun Yang (eds), Reform and Development in China: After 40 Years. Series on Contemporary China, Volume 44, 2019, pp. 187-214. Singapore: World Scientific.
The green growth economy as an engine of development: The case of China, Chapter 14 in R. Fouquet (ed), Handbook on Green Growth. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2018
‘New wave’ revolution in city-focused, closed environment food production, CAB Reviews, 13/006: 1-16, at: https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20183168248
Urban mining of e-waste is becoming more cost-effective than virgin mining, Environmental Science and Technology, 52 (8): 4835-4841 (with X. Zeng and J. Li)
Moving to a Circular Economy in China: Transforming industrial parks into eco-industrial parks, California Management Review (accepted for publication) (with Hao Tan and Mei-Chih Hu)
The Greening of China’s Energy System Outpaces its Further Blackening: A 2017 update, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 16 (9), article 2 (with Carol X Huang), https://apjjf.org/2018/09/Mathews.html
China’s Belt and Road as a Conduit for Clean Power Projects Around the World, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 16 (18), article 3 (with Carol X Huang), https://apjjf.org/2018/18/Mathews.html
2017
China’s takeover of the port of Piraeus in Greece: Blowback for Europe, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 15 (13), article 3, http://apjjf.org/2017/13/Mathews.html
China’s Continuing Green Shift in the Electric Power Sector: Evidence from 2016 data, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 15 (10), article 4 (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/2017/10/Mathews.html
China’s New Silk Road: Will it contribute to export of the black fossil-fuelled economy?, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 15 (8), article 1 (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/2017/08/Mathews.html
2016
Korea’s greening strategy: The role of smart micro-grids, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 14 (24), article 6 (with Sung-Young Kim), http://apjjf.org/2016/24/Kim.html
Taiwan’s green shift: Prospects and challenges, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 14 (19), No. 2 (with Mei-Chih Hu), http://apjjf.org/2016/19/Hu.html
Global trade and promotion of cleantech industry: A post-Paris agenda, Climate Policy, 17 (1): 102-110, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14693062.2016.1215286
Competing principles driving energy futures: Fossil fuel decarbonization vs. manufacturing learning curves, Futures, (2016): 1-11 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328715300227
Circular Economy: Lessons from China, Nature, 531 (7595): 440-442 (24 March 2016), (with Hao Tan), http://www.nature.com/news/circular-economy-lessons-from-china-1.19593
China’s continuing renewable energy revolution – latest trends in electric power generation, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol 14 (17), No. 6 (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/2016/17/Mathews.html
Internationalization of emerging Indian multinationals: Linkage, leverage and learning (LLL) perspective, International Business Review, 25: 435-443 (with M. Thite, A. Wilkinson, and P. Budhwar), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593115300093
2015
The revision of China’s energy and coal consumption data: A preliminary analysis, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13 (44), No. 2 (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/-John_A_-Mathews/4398
A ‘Great Reversal’ in China? Coal continues to decline with enforcement of environmental laws, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13 (34), No. 1 (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/2015/13/34/John-A.-Mathews/4365.html
Trade policy, climate change and the greening of business, Australian Journal of International Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2015.1048782, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10357718.2015.1048782
Are the land and other resources required for total substitution of fossil fuel power systems impossibly large? Evidence from concentrating solar power and China, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 46: 275-281 (with M.C. Hu and C.Y. Wu), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115001331
Accelerated internationalization and resource leverage strategizing: The case of Chinese wind turbine manufacturers, Journal of World Business, 50 (3) (July 2015): 417-427 (with Hao Tan), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951607000387
The greening of China’s black electric power system? Insights from 2014 data, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13 (10), No. 2 (March 16 2015) (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/2015/13/10/Hao-Tan/4297.html
2014
Emissions: Exempt green tech from trade rules, Nature, 514 (7524) (30 Oct 2014): 567, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7524/full/514567c.html
China’s renewable energy revolution: What is driving it? The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 12 (44), No. 3 (Nov 3 2014) (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/2014/12/44/John-A.-Mathews/4209.html
A ten trillion watt ‘Big Push’ to decarbonize the world’s electric power, Journal of Sustainable Energy Engineering, 2 (Sep 2014): 87-100 (with Hao Tan), http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/scrivener/jsee/2014/00000002/00000002/art00002
Manufacture renewables to build energy security, Nature, (11 Sep 2014), 166-168 (with Hao Tan), http://www.nature.com/news/economics-manufacture-renewables-to-build-energy-security-1.15847
Jousting with James Hansen: China building a renewables powerhouse, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, March 26 2014 (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/-John-A.-Mathews/4791/article.html
Renewables, manufacturing and green growth: Energy strategies based on capturing increasing returns, Futures, 61: 13-22 (with Erik Reinert), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328714000731
China’s continuing renewable energy revolution: Global implications, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 12 (12) No. 3, March 24 2014 (with Hao Tan), http://apjjf.org/2014/12/12/Hao-Tan/4098/article.html
Energy: China leads the way with renewables, Nature, 508 (7496): 319 (with Hao Tan), http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7496/full/508319a.html
China’s energy industrial revolution, Carbon Management , 5 (1): 1-3 (with Hao Tan), http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.4155/cmt.13.68
2013
The industrial logistic surface: Displaying the impact of energy policy on uptake of new technologies, Energy, 57: 733-740 (with Paolo Baroni), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544213004660
Greening of development strategies, Seoul Journal of Economics, 26 (2): 147-172, http://www.sje.ac.kr/upload/repec/wpaper/260050d8186d0fb4acfb1b00776e1bcc.pdf
The renewable energies technology surge: A new techno-economic paradigm in the making? Futures 46: 10-22, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328712002182
The transformation of the electric power sector in China, Energy Policy, 52: 170-180 (with Hao Tan), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512008683
China’s Energy Industrial Revolution (Part II), The Asia-Pacific Journal, 11 (3) (Article no. 3) Jan 14 2013 (with Hao Tan), available at: http://japanfocus.org/-Hao-Tan/3881
2012
China's Industrial Energy Revolution (Part 1): Renewable targets just became even more demanding, The Asia-Pacific Journal, 10 (2) (Article no. 52), Dec 24 2012 (with Hao Tan), available at: http://japanfocus.org/-Hao-Tan/3874
Design of industrial and supra-firm organizational architectures: Economic growth and sustainability, Journal of Organizational Design, 1 (2), 42-63, http://www.jorgdesign.net/article/view/6454
Green growth strategies: Korean and Chinese initiatives, Carbon Management, 3 (4): 353-356, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4155/cmt.12.43?journalCode=tcmt20
Reforming the international patent system, Review of International Political Economy, 19 (1): 169-180, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09692290.2011.616457?journalCode=rrip20
Green growth strategy: Korean initiatives, Futures, 44: 761-769, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328712001449
Financing climate-friendly energy development through bonds, Development Southern Africa, 29 (2): 337-349 (with Sean Kidney), http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0376835X.2012.675702
Knowledge flows in the solar photovoltaic industry: Insights from patenting by Taiwan, Korea and China, Research Policy, 41: 524-540 (with Ching-Yan Wu), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733311001922
2011
Fast-follower industrial dynamics: The case of Taiwan’s Solar PV industry, Industry and Innovation (with Mei-Chih Hu and Ching-Yan Wu), 18 (2): 177-202, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13662716.2011.541104
A conceptual lignocellulosic ‘feed+fuel’ biorefinery and its application to the linked biofuel and cattle raising industries in Brazil, Energy Policy, 39: 4932-4938 (with Hao Tan, Michael J.B. Moore and Geoff Bell), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421511004782
Naturalizing capitalism: The next Great Transformation, Futures, 43: 868-879,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328711001455
China’s energy industrial revolution, l’Industria, 32 (2): 309-328, https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1430/34910
Progress towards a Circular economy in China: The drivers (and inhibitors) of eco-industrial initiative, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 15 (3): 435-457 (with Hao Tan), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2011.00332.x/full
China’s move to a Circular Economy as a development strategy, Asian Business & Management, 10 (4): 463-484 (with Yiming Tang and Hao Tan), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/abm.2011.18
2010
Designing energy industries for the next industrial revolution. Organizational Dynamics, 39 (2): 155-164,https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Mathews6/publication/247142483_Designing_Energy_Industries_for_the_Next_Industrial_Revolution/links/55b3401608aed621ddfe1c55.pdf
Climate bonds: Mobilizing private financing for carbon management, Carbon Management (with Sean Kidney), 1 (1): 9 – 13, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4155/cmt.10.15?journalCode=tcmt20\
Mobilizing private funds to drive an energy industrial revolution, Energy Policy, (with S. Kidney, K. Mallon and M. Hughes), 38: 3263- 3265, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421510001114
Publications
Articles in Nature
Countries should follow China’s lead and boost markets for water, wind and solar power technologies to drive down costs, say John A. Mathews and Hao Tan
The country consumes the most resources in the world and produces the most waste — but it also has the most advanced solutions, say John A. Mathews and Hao Tan
