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The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/25373 The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa Lees, Zoe ichelp@gibs.co.za Elias, Marc Brett UCTD Sustainability Attitudes Decisions Carbon disclosure Investment Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and explore the influence that corporate carbon disclosure has on investor decision-‐making and associated attitudes. The researcher conducted semi-‐structured interviews with individual investors and institutional investors and fund managers operating in the South African environment in order to gain appropriate insights about their attitudes towards the place of carbon disclosure in the investment analyses. Additionally, semi-‐structured interviews were held with three prominent petroleum companies operating in the oil and gas industry in South Africa. The results of the research were categorised into four themes that emerged upon analysis of the research findings, namely: the evolution of commercial thinking in terms of carbon emissions and carbon disclosure; the relevance of disclosing carbon emissions and disclosure practices; the association of risk, sustainability and liquidity and investor time horizons; and the emerging market of socially-‐responsible investors. The researcher found that there is a positive impact on investor attitudes with regard to their investment decision-‐making as a result of the carbon disclosure of companies. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T21:05:03Z 2011-06-09 2013-09-06T21:05:03Z 2011-03-12 2010 2011-06-09 Dissertation Elias, MB 2010, The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25373 > F11/206/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25373 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06092011-083949/ © 2010 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 Sustainability Attitudes Decisions Carbon disclosure Investment The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa |
| title | The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa |
| title_full | The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa |
| title_short | The influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in South Africa |
| title_sort | influence of corporate carbon disclosure on investor decisions and attitudes in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Sustainability Attitudes Decisions Carbon disclosure Investment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25373 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06092011-083949/ |