Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector
Adoption of green initiatives by companies is important to create healthier environment. Added with the demand from wider stakeholders, companies realise the importance of disclosing information in their corporate report. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of green initiatives on com...
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| author | Wang, Xin Rui Mohd Said, Ridzwana Kamarudin, Fakarudin Abdul Rahim, Norhuda |
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| description | Adoption of green initiatives by companies is important to create healthier environment. Added with the demand from wider stakeholders, companies realise the importance of disclosing information in their corporate report. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of green initiatives on companies’ performance of plantation sector in
Malaysia. Twenty-one public listed companies were selected. Content analysis was used to collect data from annual reports and sustainability reports related to information on green product, wastewater treatment technologies and energy efficiency. Data for dependent variables which are return on asset and return on equity also were obtained from annual
reports. Descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regressions using SPSS were adopted to analyse the data. The results of this study reveal that energy efficiency have significant relationship with companies’ financial performances whereas green product and wastewater treatment technologies show in contrary. |
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| spelling | upm-810392022-07-19T08:25:35Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81039/ Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector Wang, Xin Rui Mohd Said, Ridzwana Kamarudin, Fakarudin Abdul Rahim, Norhuda Adoption of green initiatives by companies is important to create healthier environment. Added with the demand from wider stakeholders, companies realise the importance of disclosing information in their corporate report. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of green initiatives on companies’ performance of plantation sector in Malaysia. Twenty-one public listed companies were selected. Content analysis was used to collect data from annual reports and sustainability reports related to information on green product, wastewater treatment technologies and energy efficiency. Data for dependent variables which are return on asset and return on equity also were obtained from annual reports. Descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regressions using SPSS were adopted to analyse the data. The results of this study reveal that energy efficiency have significant relationship with companies’ financial performances whereas green product and wastewater treatment technologies show in contrary. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81039/1/ABSTRACT.pdf Wang, Xin Rui and Mohd Said, Ridzwana and Kamarudin, Fakarudin and Abdul Rahim, Norhuda (2019) Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8 (3 spec.3). pp. 254-261. ISSN 2277-3878 https://www.ijrte.org/download/volume-8-issue-3s3/ 10.35940/ijrte.C1061.1183S319 |
| spellingShingle | Wang, Xin Rui Mohd Said, Ridzwana Kamarudin, Fakarudin Abdul Rahim, Norhuda Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector |
| title | Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector |
| title_full | Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector |
| title_fullStr | Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector |
| title_short | Corporate green initiatives and financial performance in Malaysian plantation sector |
| title_sort | corporate green initiatives and financial performance in malaysian plantation sector |
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