Formation and control of value chains in coal industry based on emerging technologies

The article discusses new tools of the domestic coal industry management and control in the conditions of the modern external and internal challenges due to the profound energy transition and the unprecedented global sanctions imposed on the Russian economy. The novelty of the approach consists in the validation of potential of overcoming development barriers in the coal industry by means of technological integration and cooperation of coal companies and companies from the linked industries in the framework of value chains based on emerging manufacturing and digital technologies. The first section of the article reviews the modern approaches to the analysis of value chains and the role of the technologies in flexibility and sustainability of value chains relative to external shocks (stress resistance). The second section describes specifics of value chains in the coal industry, presents typical value chains, and reveals and assesses risks and barriers on the avenue toward production diversification and product differentiation in the coal industry. The third section identifies technologies capable to create transformation-resistant value chains on the basis of production diversification and product differentiation. The fourth section analyzes a case-study of creation of a tool for the value chain organization and control in the coal industry: Information and Technology Platform for the Pilot Production of Premium Coal Blends. The article ends with the conclusions and proposals for the further theoretical research and experimental practice.

Keywords: coal industry, value chains, value chain formation and management, technological integration, emerging coal and digital technologies.
For citation:

Nikitenko S. M., Pavlova L. D., Korneva A. V., Goosen E. V., Fedyunina A. A. Formation and control of value chains in coal industry based on emerging technologies. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2024;(8):163-179. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2024_8_0_163.

Acknowledgements:

The study was supported within the HSE «Mirror Laboratories» Project, Topic: Transformation of Value Chains in the Coal and 6.13.1-02/210723–1 dated 21 July 2023.

Issue number: 8
Year: 2024
Page number: 163-179
ISBN: 0236-1493
UDK: 662.66; 339.13.012.42
DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2024_8_0_163
Article receipt date: 27.02.2024
Date of review receipt: 30.03.2024
Date of the editorial board′s decision on the article′s publishing: 10.07.2024
About authors:

S.M. Nikitenko1, Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Assistant Professor, Chief Researcher, e-mail: nsm.nis@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6684-4159,
L.D. Pavlova2, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Head of Chair, e-mail: ld_pavlova@mail.ru,
A.V. Korneva2, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor, e-mail: annette_sol@list.ru,
E.V. Goosen1, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Assistant Professor, Leading Researcher, e-mail: egoosen@yandex.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1387-4802,
A.A. Fedyunina, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Vice-director for the Centre of Industrial Policy Studies, HSE University, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: afedyunina@hse.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2405-8106,
1 The Federal Research Centre of Coal and Coal Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 650065, Kemerovo, Russia,
2 Siberian State Industrial University, 654007, Novokuznetsk, Russia.

 

For contacts:

S.M. Nikitenko, e-mail: nsm.nis@mail.ru.

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