Date: 2024-05-29 Level: Bachelor thesis in Business Administration, 15 cr Institution: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University Authors: John Andersson Philip Brander Rasmus Olsson (84/01/19) (02/01/13) (97/04/03) Title: Grow or wither, the impact of green reporting on profitability Supervisor: Angelina Sundström Keywords: Sustainability reporting, profitability, legitimacy theory, signaling theory, stakeholder theory Research questions Does more frequent mention of sustainability keywords in companies' sustainability report increase their profitability? Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine if there is a relationship between sustainability reporting and profitability in Swedish companies listed on the stock exchange. Method: The thesis applies a quantitative method where 120 companies listed on Large- and Small Cap constituted the population. The study performed a regression analysis that examined the relationship between sustainability reporting and profitability. Conclusion: The regression analysis was based on 113 companies and the findings show that there is a positive significant relationship between sustainability reporting and the operating margin. The study also found that there is a negative significant relationship between sustainability reporting and return on equity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-67011 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Andersson, John, Brander, Philip, Olsson, Rasmus |
| Publisher | Mälardalens universitet, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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