Trends in corporate environmental management studies and databases

Fujii, Hidemichi and Managi, Shunsuke (2015): Trends in corporate environmental management studies and databases.

Abstract

To explain why and how corporate environmental management is beneficial, it is important to provide incentives to private companies to encourage such environmental activities. This study proposes a new corporate financial and environmental dataset called the World Resource Table (WRT), which uses open data sources published by the Japanese government. Environmental data include Greenhouse gas emissions and toxic chemical release data. With more than 1,000 annual samples, the WRT will allow empirical analyses that use productivity measures and econometric approaches. WRT will also include corporate patent data, with linkages to analytical software packages such as GAMS and R.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: orporate Environmental Management; Financial data, CO2 emissions, toxic chemical substances, Open data, World Resource Table
• Subjects: M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M2 - Business Economics > M21 - Business Economics; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q50 - General

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