To determine the industry sensitivity of the selected companies, the nature of their activities was considered from their company profile on the GSE website (www.gse.com.gh).com.gh
The results of the study demonstrate that industry sensitivity, firm size and age are important predictors of firms' environmental disclosure practice.
As predicted in the study hypotheses, a positive and highly significant relationship (at 5% significant level) was found between the industry sensitivity variable and environmental disclosure.
Similarly, this study determines the influence of corporate characteristics of firm size, profitability, auditor type, age and firm's foreign association on environmental disclosures, with an emphasis on industry sensitivity.
The New Yorker, February 11 , 1950 P. 19Comment on the motion-picture industry's sensitivity to criticism, and its expressed desire of raising its sight.
It can function, too, as a proving ground for new companies to overcome the water industry's sensitivity to the risks, he said.
Nevertheless, the nascent market has heightened the publishing industry's sensitivity to the potential for digital piracy, enough so that it has initiated the first criminal case under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
Nigel Edwards of the NHS Confederation, which represents health-care managers, has predicted that by 2014 the NHS will look less like a single organisation than a "regulated industry".If sensitivity to market-based reform is particularly acute when it comes to the health service, in some other areas it has gradually become a fact of life.
"The key here is it's opening up a whole load of industries where sensitivity around doing this — and where, even in industries that share a lot of data already but where GDPR is going to be a massive barrier to it in the future".
Table 13 Industry composition and sensitivity of unemployment rate to economic shock, Random effects estimates VARIABLES ΔUEt Δln(GDPt-1) −3.2945 (3.294) manufacturing sector employment share 0.040 1.5222) Δln(GDPt-1)×manufacturing sector employment share −28.199 (107.513) Constant 0.636 0.3466) Observations 234 Number of countries 17 Note: Standard errors are in parentheses.
Nevertheless, the negative publicity connected with findings of uncontrolled GMO's in the environment could seriously damage the Swiss oilseed rape industry, considering the high sensitivity of consumers regarding GE-food at the European scale [39].
