Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?

This paper examines different perceptions on climate change management and disclosuresfrom the viewpoint of stakeholders in Indian Corporations. The paper shows how climatechange strategies and disclosures at different organizational levels can be linked to thesocietal and competitive contexts that...

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Main Authors: M.S.V. Prasad, B. Sandhya Sri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Wollongong 2008-09-01
Series:Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
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Online Access:http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj/vol2/iss3/4
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description This paper examines different perceptions on climate change management and disclosuresfrom the viewpoint of stakeholders in Indian Corporations. The paper shows how climatechange strategies and disclosures at different organizational levels can be linked to thesocietal and competitive contexts that companies face, embedded in a stakeholder view.Companies are divided according to certain attributes - location, geographical spread,industry, degree of vertical integration and diversification, companies prioritizing particularstakeholder groups, and their climate change strategies and disclosures including internalmeasures, supply-chain measures and/or market-based measures that move beyond the supplychain are analyzed.This paper attempts to illustrate how institutional, resource-based, supply chain andstakeholder views are all important to characterize and understand corporate strategicresponses to a sustainability issue.
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spelling doaj.art-3e1b10acf018422f80d44d0cf0b0ac352022-12-21T18:20:40ZengUniversity of WollongongAustralasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal1834-20001834-20192008-09-01236375Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?M.S.V. PrasadB. Sandhya SriThis paper examines different perceptions on climate change management and disclosuresfrom the viewpoint of stakeholders in Indian Corporations. The paper shows how climatechange strategies and disclosures at different organizational levels can be linked to thesocietal and competitive contexts that companies face, embedded in a stakeholder view.Companies are divided according to certain attributes - location, geographical spread,industry, degree of vertical integration and diversification, companies prioritizing particularstakeholder groups, and their climate change strategies and disclosures including internalmeasures, supply-chain measures and/or market-based measures that move beyond the supplychain are analyzed.This paper attempts to illustrate how institutional, resource-based, supply chain andstakeholder views are all important to characterize and understand corporate strategicresponses to a sustainability issue.http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj/vol2/iss3/4climate changecorporate responsestakeholdersperceptionenvironmental accountingIndia
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Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?
Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
climate change
corporate response
stakeholders
perception
environmental accounting
India
title Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?
title_full Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?
title_fullStr Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?
title_full_unstemmed Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?
title_short Corporate Response to Climate Change: What do Stakeholders Expect?
title_sort corporate response to climate change what do stakeholders expect
topic climate change
corporate response
stakeholders
perception
environmental accounting
India
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