Shan Shan

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at Nottingham Trent University

The emergence of distributed energy has led to a change in the role of the consumer in the traditional sense over the past decade. The proliferation of emerging generators and distributors has created opportunities for a more decentralised and open energy market. In particular, the emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading models, challenged b...

The UK is currently approaching a critical point in the fight against climate change. To achieve carbon neutral by 2050, it is crucial that the way in which buildings are heated are reviewed to determine the most suitable solution. The UK government has acknowledged that district heating (also referred to as heat networks) forms an important part o...

Over the past 20 years, the identification of interventions related to healthcare management has been greatly facilitated by improvements in the well-being and health of the entire population. However, regardless of the positive developments in smart health applications and e-health research, there are two important gaps, (1) the role of gamificati...

When it comes to making comparisons with traditional funds, it has been observed that Robo advisers have emerged as a viable alternative that imposes a substantially lesser load on the investors. As a result, they are capable of playing a crucial role in supporting low-carbon transitions - a phenomenon that has never been investigated prior to this...

Peer to peer (P2P) energy trading as an emerging project of collaborative consumption has attracted interests and attention from recent research. Previous research has paid attention to business models, operation process, but neglected the motivations behind the mechanism of P2P energy trading. At the same time, how to design a peer to peer energy...

After the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), many countries start progressing towards carbon neutrality targets. In doing so, green technology innovations (GTIs) and clean energy are the essential factors that can help to achieve the carbon neutrality goal. Therefore, this paper examines the linkages between green technology innovation and renewable...

Since the role of fiscal decentralization cannot be overlooked in tracking sustainable development goals targets of a clean environment and climate mitigation, it is inevitable to understand the comprehensive picture of its link with environmental quality. Unlike past studies, this study investigates the combined influence of energy prices and non-...

Online health communities (OHCs) offer users the opportunity to share and seek health information through these platforms, which in turn influence users’ health decisions. Understanding what factors influence people’s health decision-making process is essential for not only the design of the OHC, but also for commercial health business who are prom...

With increasing technology advancement, online shopping, and growth of affordable segment, smartphone users’ switching behavior is becoming a concern for smartphone companies. To fill the research gap that persists in relation to the switching behavior of smartphone users from a multidimensional view, this study integrates the push-pull-mooring mod...

Social commerce significantly impacts the tourism and hospitality industry. Nonetheless, further empirical research investigating the factors that impact the purchase intentions of those who engage with travel-related social commerce. Combining the Uses and Gratification Theory (UGT) and TAM, the present study will investigate the relationships bet...

Out of Home (OOH) advertising models through deep learning method with demographical information such as gender, age, etc. While a more comprehensive model would involves fine-tuned information from audience. This paper proposed a subdivided apparel recognition model to enhance the existing audience measurement for OOH. SVM accompanied by Libra R-C...

Epidemic research can be enhanced through the use of social media data, an authoritative new data source that can not only be used to identify an epidemic and track the path of a disease but also for risk assessment and analysis. Existing research generally focuses on tracking tasks and epidemic types, but the relationship between applicable tasks...

Can applying e-gov increase African countries’ FDI inflows? While e-gov has been proved to improve various aspects of governance, the link between e-gov and FDI inflows seems to be ignored by previous literature. At the same time, as an emerging economy, China’s outward FDI has increased steadily in recent years. However, China’s OFDI flows to Afri...

While e-gov has been proved to improve various aspects of governance, the link between e-gov and FDI inflows seems to be ignored by previous literature. At the same time, as an emerging economy, China’s outward FDI has increased steadily in recent years. However, China’s OFDI flows to Africa is relatively low compared with the flows to Asia and oth...

The emergence of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading platforms provides a new method for the general public to use and trade green energy. How to design the peer to peer energy trading platform thus becomes important in facilitating user trading experience. This study will use the data mining method to evaluate factors impacting P2P energy tradin...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of natural resources, market size and five major institutional factors (voice and accountability; political stability and absence of violence; regulatory quality; rule of law and control of corruption) on Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. Design/methodology/approach This s...

This paper sought to examine the technological spillover of Chinese OFDI in Africa which is rarely investigated in the literature. We conducted a two-stage analysis in 27 African countries over the period from 2008 to 2014. In the first-stage analysis, we run regressions and found that Chinese FDI is generally beneficial to the host countries in Af...