The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS

The recent prominence of the climate crisis has prompted corporations to incorporate environmental initiatives to their corporate social responsibility strategies. Corporations create regular social media content to communications the efforts of these initiatives to stakeholders. Stakeholder reactio...

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Main Author: Foo, Tun Xiang
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/78001/
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description The recent prominence of the climate crisis has prompted corporations to incorporate environmental initiatives to their corporate social responsibility strategies. Corporations create regular social media content to communications the efforts of these initiatives to stakeholders. Stakeholder reactions to the social media content may indicate greenwashing in which efforts to communicate environmental initiatives are disproportionate to the impacts of the initiatives. This study investigates corporate greenwashing by multinational corporations in Malaysia through social media content analysis. Using Nestlé and PETRONAS as case studies, it employs a mixed-method approach, analysing both companies' sustainability reports and social media content on Facebook, along with audience perceptions. The analysis of the corporations’ content strategies reveals a focus on packaging waste reduction (Nestlé) and net-zero transition (PETRONAS). While social media content highlighted influential and impactful environmental efforts, questionnaire user perception suggests limited awareness of the initiatives. This makes it difficult to determine greenwashing. The findings suggest corporations need improved social media strategies to raise awareness and eco-consciousness among Malaysian social media users. Further research is needed on following up with Nestlé and PETRONAS on their long-term environmental goals over the next decades.
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spelling nottingham-780012024-08-02T08:00:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/78001/ The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS Foo, Tun Xiang The recent prominence of the climate crisis has prompted corporations to incorporate environmental initiatives to their corporate social responsibility strategies. Corporations create regular social media content to communications the efforts of these initiatives to stakeholders. Stakeholder reactions to the social media content may indicate greenwashing in which efforts to communicate environmental initiatives are disproportionate to the impacts of the initiatives. This study investigates corporate greenwashing by multinational corporations in Malaysia through social media content analysis. Using Nestlé and PETRONAS as case studies, it employs a mixed-method approach, analysing both companies' sustainability reports and social media content on Facebook, along with audience perceptions. The analysis of the corporations’ content strategies reveals a focus on packaging waste reduction (Nestlé) and net-zero transition (PETRONAS). While social media content highlighted influential and impactful environmental efforts, questionnaire user perception suggests limited awareness of the initiatives. This makes it difficult to determine greenwashing. The findings suggest corporations need improved social media strategies to raise awareness and eco-consciousness among Malaysian social media users. Further research is needed on following up with Nestlé and PETRONAS on their long-term environmental goals over the next decades. 2024-07-28 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/78001/1/Foo%20Tun%20Xiang%20Dissertation.pdf Foo, Tun Xiang (2024) The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] corporate social responsibility corporate environmentalism corporate communications social media engagement Nestlé PETRONAS content analysis multimodal discourse analysis sentiment analysis
spellingShingle corporate social responsibility
corporate environmentalism
corporate communications
social media engagement
Nestlé
PETRONAS
content analysis
multimodal discourse analysis
sentiment analysis
Foo, Tun Xiang
The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS
title The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS
title_full The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS
title_fullStr The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS
title_full_unstemmed The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS
title_short The significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in Malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of Nestlé Malaysia and PETRONAS
title_sort significance of corporate environmentalism towards multinational companies in malaysia: analysing environmental communications and public perceptions of nestlé malaysia and petronas
topic corporate social responsibility
corporate environmentalism
corporate communications
social media engagement
Nestlé
PETRONAS
content analysis
multimodal discourse analysis
sentiment analysis
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/78001/