Stakeholder engagement: Defining strategic advantage for sustainable construction
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Q2. What was the purpose of the questionnaire?
As financial performance is the ultimate goal of a company (Fineman, 1996; Bonifant, Arnold, & Long, 1995; Hart, 1995), the questionnaire was designed establishing economic improvement as the requirement to be fulfilled.
Q3. What is the main reason why people want to work with us?
The manager from one of the most successful construction companies in the UK noted:“Obviously people want to work with us because the authors are not driven only by cost.
Q4. What is the main point of the study?
The study reveals that aspects such as publicity and reputation are extremely vulnerable to public opinion and have strong effects on a firm’s performance in the construction sector.
Q5. What is the main motivation for companies to become green?
He claims the function of society as the influential factor to become green is the core incentive for businesses to create more environmentally friendly technologies.
Q6. What is the main factor influencing performance in the construction sector?
Regarding the construction sector, the approach of positive managerial attitude towards “green” corporations as the main factor influencing performance, exhibits a limitation.
Q7. What are the main reasons for the authors’ claim that environmental strategies are not the main driving force?
They state that these strategies create value by improving performance through reducing costs of input resources, higher efficiency, lower energy consumption, waste reduction and differentiated products.~
Q8. What is the main reason for the climate change levy?
Despite the tough target, enormous incentives are provided by the Climate Change Agreement, which gives an 80% discount on the climate change levy charge in exchange for attaining energy-efficiency or carbon emission reduction targets (DEFRA, 2008).
Q9. What is the effect of stakeholders on the management of sustainability?
Insert table 3 about hereA linear regression analysis revealed that stakeholders account for approximately 20% of positive managerial attitude towards sustainable development (R 2 =0.198).
Q10. What is the main argument for sustainability?
These arguments advocate that managerial attitude is the primordial factor within sustainability boosting financial performance in a company.