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The Study Of Environmental Information Disclosure Quality On The Impact Of Financial Performance Of Listed Firms In Energy Industry

Posted on:2014-11-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2309330422960992Subject:Business Administration
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It can be seen, while economy developed rapidly, the community has been keen inenvironmental topics. From the development path of many national, there is a commoncharacteristic between the progress of economic and the change of environmental.Itcan be summed up: while a economic entity in pursuit of industrialization, GDPgradually growth, the environmental problems become even more seriously.Thepursuit of sustainable social development process makes that, disclosure of theenvironmental information has also become a research focus for scholars, which usedto drive the growth of the national economy. The rapid development of the economybring about the environment pressure, the finiteness of resources becomes an importantand limiting factor in the economic growth and sustainable development of society.While enterprises adopt measures for environmental pollution actively, this canpromote enterprise performance to make the interests of the corporation and societyunited. In the process of sustainable development, environmental informationdisclosure has become a key entry point for the domestic and foreign scholars study thecorporate environmental management.Enterprises should give full play to its positive role to of environmentalinformation disclosure in the process of enterprise production and management. Theenergy industry is the basic industry of the national economy; it is the national pillarindustry. Energy industry in China to supply and the demand of the national economyto promote comprehensive ability is stronger. It also shows that in the process ofChina’s current economic development and the importance of the energy industry isunmatched by other industries. In recent years continuous phenomenon ofenvironmental pollution has been brought into public attention. At the same time, theenergy industry in order to improve the level of environmental management, reducecosts, ensure sustainable production, we must strengthen the input of theenvironmental management, also need to accelerate the pace of the construction ofenvironmental management information system.At first, this article discussed the background of this research and the significanceof the discussion. Then this article detailed relevant research literature of the formerscholars on Disclosure of Environmental Information and business performance. Basedon environmental information disclosure quality affects financial performance analysis,and then build an empirical model on the corresponding relationship. This articleselects the coal and power industries listed companies as samples. And then statisticsout of the company’s environmental information disclosure quality through the annual financial report of listed companies in the environmental protection informationcollection, and analyzed the present situation and problems of environmentalinformation disclosure of listed companies. This article adopted the performanceindicators to be explained variable, environmental information disclosure index asexplained variable, a multiple regression model to test the relationship between theenvironment information’s disclosure and corporate economic performance. Accordingto the conclusions, the article presents the relevant recommendations to strengthenenvironmental management and to improve economic performance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Environmental information disclosure, Coal listed companies, ElectricityListed industry, Financial performance
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