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The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/22762 The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance Gibson, Donald ichelp@gibs.co.za Matthews, Natalie Georgette UCTD Classification trees Carbon management Cluster analysis Corporate financial performance Corporate carbon management strategy Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. That companies need to respond to the issue of climate change is no longer in question and with multiple carbon management activity options to choose from, companies need to select the most appropriate carbon management strategy to meet the challenges of a carbon constrained future. Because of South Africa’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change as a developing country and because of business’ pivotal role in addressing this urgent issue, it is important to characterise the corporate responses to climate change. The contextual factors that influence carbon management strategy decisions need to be understood so that appropriate policy decisions are taken to encourage innovation related to climate change opportunities.To this end, secondary data in the form of qualitative responses from 70 large South African listed companies to the Carbon Disclosure Project 2011 questionnaire were analysed for this study during September and October 2012. The detailed responses were first mined using a text-mining statistical program to identify the five carbon management activities currently practised by the companies. A cluster analysis of these activities revealed four general response strategies to climate change and carbon emission reduction pressures.The companies were found to have a strong focus on saving energy with less focus on higher-order sustainability activities. While market capitalisation, turnover, sector and carbon commitment were shown to correlate and indeed predict the carbon management strategy chosen by companies, no significant link was found between carbon management strategy and corporate financial performance. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T13:43:56Z 2013-04-30 2013-09-06T13:43:56Z 2013-04-25 2012 2013-02-23 Dissertation Matthews, NG 2012, The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22762 > F13/4/212/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22762 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-151012/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Classification trees Carbon management Cluster analysis Corporate financial performance Corporate carbon management strategy The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance |
| title | The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance |
| title_full | The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance |
| title_fullStr | The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance |
| title_short | The link between carbon management strategy, company characteristics and corporate financial performance |
| title_sort | link between carbon management strategy company characteristics and corporate financial performance |
| topic | UCTD Classification trees Carbon management Cluster analysis Corporate financial performance Corporate carbon management strategy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22762 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-151012/ |