Data Analysis and Hypothesis Testing for Environmental Effects on Business Strategy

RESEARCH REPORT

Table of Contents
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
2. Data Analysis...........................................................................................................................3
2.1 Descriptive Statistics............................................................................................................6
2.2 Hypothesis Testing...............................................................................................................7
2.2.1 T-Test................................................................................................................................7
3. Data Analysis – Inferential.......................................................................................................9
3.1 Correlation............................................................................................................................9
4. Discussion..............................................................................................................................11
5. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................12
6. Limitations..............................................................................................................................13
7. Future Research......................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................13
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1. Introduction
This report’s purpose is to analyze the data, where nearly 60 companies are selected from
1000 companies for the analysis. The selection was made based on specific parameters. To begin
with the analysis part, a set of research questions is prepared. The stakeholder’s theory is kept in
mind while preparing the questions. For instance, the climate change which is integrated for the
business. Moving further, control variable are applied for the selection of the companies. For the
data analysis, CDP Survey 2015 is used to gather the data, which is later scrutinized to 60
companies. Altogether, the analysis is later conducted on all the companies (SCOTUSblog,
2018).The objective is to complete the data analysis for the selected companies, where
appropriate statistical tests will be conducted to find effective results which don’t seem to be
unusual. Then, implications of outliers will be considered. Regression will be carried out,
followed by t-tests. Various research papers will be reviewed to understand the environmental
effects. The t-tests will be performed separately for every single industry type. The hypothesis
will be tested. The limitations of the analysis will be identified and the future possible research
will be forecasted. The results will be determined and evaluated. Finally, the relationships of the
variables will be discussed and concluded.
2. Data Analysis
To begin with, 60 companies have been selected out of approximately 1000 companies on the
basis of these parameters.
Firstly, the research question is selected on the basis of stakeholder’s theory i.e.is the climate
change integrated to the business?
Secondly, the control variable was applied as per below:
Choose all the NO s to get usable data to get a representative sample (23 No)
Afterward randomly select the 37 Yes
Thirdly, the companies which were not N/A or having a score of zero have also been removed.
Finally, the information of 60 companies is left (Stt.natsci.msu.edu, 2018).
The data was collected from the CDP Survey 2015 which initially had more than 1000
companies and it cut down to 60 companies. After getting the data, it is found that there are 30
companies which are integrated to the business strategy with climate change and 23 companies
are not. As, it is not equally distributed on the basis of control variables and it more into the
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favor of companies which are integrated. Further, for making the comparison the analysis is done
on all companies together.
SPSS Analysis
Open SPSS
Load the excel data set
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