The Factors Of Influencing The Climate Change Adaptation Disclosure Among The Companies In Asia Pasific Region

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2015
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Athinarayanan, Athivagar
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Climate change is the major social issue that is of increasing concern to governments, the public and business especially for those industries considered as large emitters of greenhouse. The problem statement for this study is to examine the relationship of external dimension national culture such as power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism and masculinity, internal dimension national culture as such market diversification, product diversification and industry and governance dimension such as CSR committee existence, NGO alliances, and top management commitment towards the climate change adaptation measure or activities has been carried out by the companies in the emerging countries by disclosing climate change issues in their sustainability report. The total of 120 companies has been choosing to evaluate in this research study. The scope of research concentrates only on the Asia Pacific countries which all together 13 countries. The total of 28 climate change adaptation has been selected from various sources. The research is using the descriptive, correlation and regression analysis method to measure the variables. The outcome of the analysis will be using in the future implementation of activities which related to climate change adaptation among the corporate organization.
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Climate change
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