In many copycat type industries, a single big deal often shuffles the landscape for the remaining competitors.
It all sounds good on theoretical paper, and in general is a good idea, but the problem with Ocean Wise is that yes, they are protecting our oceans, but because their criteria is based on how huge factory fishing type industries operate, they are not taking into consideration a certain responsibility to the people whose livelihoods depend upon fishing close to their homes.
EnvDisc is Environmental Disclosures; profit is profitability; size represents firm size; age represents age of company; foreignassoc represents foreign association; auditor represents auditor type; industry represents industry type.
Using the random effect regression model, the effect of profitability, firm size, auditor type, industry type, foreign association and age on firms' environmental disclosure was estimated.
The study considers six explanatory variables that may influence environmental disclosure i.e. firm size, profitability, auditor type, industry type, foreign association and age of the firm.
These results may vary based on sample size, period of time, industry type, industry size and complementary factors such as R (bigwedge ) D and human capital.
−1.900 0.001 0.000 −1.068 0.33 0.001 Observations 167 167 Number of Firms 17 17 R-Square 0.4872 0.5149 Note: EnvDisc is Environmental Disclosures; profit is profitability; size represents firm size; age represents age of company; foreignassoc represents foreign association; auditor represents auditor type; industry represents industry type.
At the region level, we include GDP per capita and the average years of schooling; at the industry level, we include variables indicating industry type, industry age, industry scale, the sexual and educational composition of industry employees, average revenue per capita, as well as proportion of state-owned entities representing the level of state monopoly for an industry.
He fears the government will use a heavier hand, nudging the country's state banks to make loans as a matter of government policy, for example, at a time when they are struggling to purge their balance sheets of bad loans made to Rust- Belt-type industries in the 1980's and 1990's.
"It used to be a hand shake-type industry, which was fine when prices were lower.
The respondents considered in the study belong to different age groups, gender, entrepreneurial background, experience, industry types, industry locations and stages of business development (Table 1).
