Amid increasingly complex shifts in the international carbon regulatory regime and the intensification of green trade barriers, Chinese export enterprises are confronted with difficulties in achieving mutual recognition of carbon footprints. Building energy-carbon management centers constitutes an effective pathway to address these difficulties. Accordingly, this study systematically investigates upstream and downstream stakeholders involved in the construction of such centers, including system and technical service providers, manufacturing enterprises, and firms with green supply chain requirements. The findings reveal that enterprises generally advance energy-carbon management through models such as self-built center systems, public service platforms, or third-party services, achieving phased progress in improving policy frameworks, fostering local pilot innovations, and enhancing management efficiency. Nevertheless, deep-seated problems remain salient, including inadequate data traceability in energy-carbon management, incompatible standard systems that hinder international mutual recognition, and data security concerns that impede platform-based participation. To tackle these issues, efforts should be directed toward establishing a whole-industry-chain carbon data traceability system, promoting international alignment and mutual recognition of carbon accounting standards, and constructing secure and trustworthy public energy-carbon management centers, thereby systematically strengthening enterprises’ carbon management capabilities and international competitiveness.

Jinkai Ke. Building Corporate Energy-Carbon Management Centers: Models, Bottlenecks, and Optimization Pathways. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 6: 65-71. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2026.080608.

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