Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry

This dissertation selects twenty companies in oil and gas industry randomly. By comparing their increased percentages in share prices in the period between 2002 and 2006, the companies are categorised into two groups: well performed and under performed companies. It is aimed to examine and compare...

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Main Author: wang, fei
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21424/
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description This dissertation selects twenty companies in oil and gas industry randomly. By comparing their increased percentages in share prices in the period between 2002 and 2006, the companies are categorised into two groups: well performed and under performed companies. It is aimed to examine and compare volume and tendencies of risk disclosures, also to analyse and compare the quality of risk management in well performed and under performed companies by answering five research questions. Content analysis method is used in this dissertation. There isn�t a clear relationship existing between business performance and the volume of risk disclosure. It is found that overall tendencies of the amount of risk information disclosed by well performed and under performed companies had increased in the five years. There is some noticeable growing in certain types of risk disclosure, environment risk and climate change risk disclosures. The results have indicated that in general well performed companies do not have better risk management than under performed companies do.
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spelling nottingham-214242018-02-15T10:24:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21424/ Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry wang, fei This dissertation selects twenty companies in oil and gas industry randomly. By comparing their increased percentages in share prices in the period between 2002 and 2006, the companies are categorised into two groups: well performed and under performed companies. It is aimed to examine and compare volume and tendencies of risk disclosures, also to analyse and compare the quality of risk management in well performed and under performed companies by answering five research questions. Content analysis method is used in this dissertation. There isn�t a clear relationship existing between business performance and the volume of risk disclosure. It is found that overall tendencies of the amount of risk information disclosed by well performed and under performed companies had increased in the five years. There is some noticeable growing in certain types of risk disclosure, environment risk and climate change risk disclosures. The results have indicated that in general well performed companies do not have better risk management than under performed companies do. 2007 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21424/1/MA_Dissertation_Wang_Fei.pdf wang, fei (2007) Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Risk disclosure risk management
spellingShingle Risk disclosure
risk management
wang, fei
Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry
title Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry
title_full Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry
title_fullStr Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry
title_full_unstemmed Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry
title_short Risk Disclosure and Risk Management in Well performed and Under performed Companies in Oil and Gas Industry
title_sort risk disclosure and risk management in well performed and under performed companies in oil and gas industry
topic Risk disclosure
risk management
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21424/