Stakeholder Theory in Canada and Germany Companies

MGT723 Research Project
Semester 1 2018
Assessment Task 2: Data Collection
Title: - Stakeholder Theory in Canada and Germany
Companies

Introduction:
Carbon emissions is a serious issue globally and many countries are struggling to see how they
can contain this menace that has threatened the well-being of the climate. It has resulted to
unaccounted amount of pollution in some countries that it becomes very difficult to stay
comfortably. Activities by humans such as deforestation, consuming of non-renewable energy
sources, farming practices (e.g., the utilization of compost, and raising domesticated animals),
modern procedures, refrigeration, and the utilization of a few customer items — result in the
outflow of ozone harming substances (Chunbo & Stern, 2008).
One technique to empower and perhaps direct organizations to decrease the ozone depleting
substance outflows coming about because of their exercises, is through the deliberate or
compulsory detailing of organizations' ozone depleting substance discharges (Smith, 2009).
The aim of this study was to identify and compare the carbon emission for two countries: Canada
and Germany. The study also sought to find out whether there is significant difference in the
average intensity emissions for companies that offer incentives towards management of
emissions and those that do not.

Literature Review – Summary
Environmental change is at present a theme of incredible enthusiasm to organizations, financial
specialists, policy makers, and scholastics. In view of the part of ozone harming substances like
carbon outflows in causing worldwide warming and the huge outcomes that environmental
change may have on the planet, a plenty of activities trying to decrease the carbon outflows of
both open and private associations have developed around the world (Bonner, Hastie, &
Sprinkle, 2000). In like manner, numerous partnerships are giving motivating forces to their
workers outfitted towards diminishing carbon emanations coming about because of the
company's activities (Bansal & Roth, 2000).
The scholarly writing incorporates numerous examinations that have investigated the adequacy
of money related versus nonmonetary motivating forces, in fields as differing as financial
matters, psychology research and many more. Inside financial aspects, organization hypothesis
contemplates the impact of money related motivating forces on individual performance,
contending that fiscal motivations are utilized so as to adjust the key goals with those of the
agent's. In this way, the ideal contract is basically an exchange off between chance sharing
between the representative and the firm and motivating force arrangements, gave that the quality
of the money related motivating forces ought to diminish in extent to the commotion of the
execution measures upon which the agreement is based (Aguilera, Rupp, Williams, & Ganapathi,
2007).
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Conceptual Model:
The conceptual model for this study is shown below;
Dependent Variable Independent Variables
Carbon emission
Intensity
 Country
 Offer of incentives
Hypotheses:
The following hypothesis were tested for this study;
 There is significant association between country and the highest level of direct
responsibility for climate change within the organization.
 There is no significant correlation between intensity and percentage change in intensity
for the various countries.
 There is no significant difference in intensity for the two countries (Canada and
Germany)
Data collection
Data was collected from Canada and Germany firms. The sample size for the selected firms in
the two countries is 166 firms and the included firms were randomly selected into the sample.
Data was processed and cleaned in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The missing
data were coded -999 and 999. Only useful variables were included in the dataset, the non-useful
variables were deleted from the dataset. A separate data file (excel file) has been attached
together with this report.