Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry

This piece of research focuses primarily on which are the main types of sustainability initiatives within the electric utility sector with direct attention on five companies being Eletrobras, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG, Fortum, Copel and Edison. Additionally this research looks at...

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Main Author: Murdoch-Hayes, Justin
Other Authors: Kauppakorkeakoulu, School of Business and Economics, Business and Economics, Organizational Communication, Taloustieteet, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/57887
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description This piece of research focuses primarily on which are the main types of sustainability initiatives within the electric utility sector with direct attention on five companies being Eletrobras, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG, Fortum, Copel and Edison. Additionally this research looks at the primary stakeholders who are both the drivers and recipients of these specific set of sustainability initiatives. In order to obtain results to these questions, I examined the sustainability reports of the five aforementioned companies for years 2008 and 2014 from the GOLDEN Project database. I used qualitative content analysis as my method to establish which initiatives and stakeholders were most prevalent in the six year span. Out of the 14 possible primary initiatives both donation & funding as well as communication were the main two with the company being the main driver behind these initiatives and local communities and society being the most recorded recipient. Having used the qualitative method of content analysis I was able to determine the primary initiatives as well the stakeholders who were the dominant factors in relation to driving the initiatives and being the main recipients. When looking at the content of the initiatives it could be argued that well researched theories in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability reporting such as legitimacy and stakeholder theory could potentially be the factors behind initiatives such as communication and donation & funding being the primary cited forms in companies’ sustainability reports.
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spellingShingle Murdoch-Hayes, Justin Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry Corporate social responsibility sustainability reporting legitimacy stake- holders content analysis social reporting environmental reporting Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 sidosryhmät yritysvastuu legitimiteetti ympäristöraportointi
title Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
title_alt Case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
title_full Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
title_fullStr Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
title_short Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved
title_sort sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved a case study of the golden project and the electric utility industry
title_sub a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
title_txtP Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
topic Corporate social responsibility sustainability reporting legitimacy stake- holders content analysis social reporting environmental reporting Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 sidosryhmät yritysvastuu legitimiteetti ympäristöraportointi
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