Sustainability policy of construction contractors: A review

Zuo, Jian; Zillante, George; Wilson, Lou; Davidson, Kathryn; Pullen, Stephen

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2012.03.011

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“…This is in line with findings by Nejati, Shafaei [13], based on their studies on university mission and vision statements in developed countries, where they found that the majority of universities were highlighting sustainability issues through their websites. In addition, according to Zuo, Zillante [14], in a study of 50 international contractors, they found that almost 80% of the companies revealed their sustainability policies through their websites. Moreover, websites are used to publicise information relating to organisational matters [15] and have been chosen as a data source by many researchers for measuring sustainability practices [16]; identifying corporate social responsibility among the top 10 universities [13]; exploring e-commerce in developing countries [17]; investigating market orientation in local government [18]; investigating hotel information quality [19]; investigating tourism [15,20,21]; and examining government sustainability policy [22].…”

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“…Content analysis analyses and explores the correlation between texts and possible themes or concepts [23] and it is most appropriate and well accepted in social and environmental research [13]. This method has been used by many researchers such as Zuo, Zillante [14], Denskus and Esser [24], Kim and Weaver [25], Hine [26], Zhang [27], Braun and Clarke [28], Capriotti and Moreno [29], Lambert and O'Halloran [30], and Gill, Dickinson [31].…”

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Commitment to sustainability: A content analysis of website for university organisations

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IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Abstract. This research aim on investigating the commitments of organisations towards sustainability. For this research context, 'commitment' refers to the extent of information provided by universities in their website which demonstrated initiatives towards achieving the sustainability goal. The objective of this study was to identify sustainability initiatives highlighted within university websites using Australia as a case study. Thirty-nine (39) websites were reviewed and web content analysis was performed to publicly available data including any relevant accessible PDF documents attached to the universities website. Specific websites information was reviewed to detect sustainability themes in the broad university management and operations (i.e., in general policies, corporate mission statements, research activities, positions available and strategies). The commitment of Australian universities was significant and well established with a set of twenty (20) related themes were identified. The findings have some limitations because the established themes only emerged from the websites' content without human validation which possibly weakens the correlations between website information and organisations actual practice. This possibility is recognised and for this reason, further assessment may be advantageous to provide verification of the findings. Therefore, further studies using other techniques are suggested such as interviews or observations for validation of data and reinforce the entire conclusions. An interesting aspect of this study is the validity of reviewing organisational websites for gauging actual practice and a number of researchers supporting this approached as indicated in methodology section of this paper.

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Commitment to sustainability: A content analysis of website for university organisations

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Ariff

et al. 2018

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Jones, Shan and Goodrum (2010) argue that construction companies' approaches in the three areas (economic, social, and environmental) are not evenly distributed based on a sample study of 300 US companies consisting of 150 owner companies, 75 contractor companies and 75 design firms. In a separate study, Zuo et al (2012) investigate the sustainability policy practices in the construction industry. The findings show that sustainability policy development varies from case to case in construction companies, however, there is a trend of increasing levels of disclosure on energy efficiency, greenhouse gas reduction and integration of renewable energy resources into projects.…”

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Critical Evaluation of Environmental, Social and Governance Disclosures of Malaysian Property and Construction Companies

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2017

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There is an increasing demand from stakeholders for higher transparency on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures. Yet not much is known about the state of sustainability reporting in Malaysia especially in the property and construction industry. This paper aims to fill this gap accordingly. Content analysis of corporate websites, sustainability and annual reports was adopted as the main methodology in this study. Findings show that corporate governance indicators are most reported by Malaysian construction companies compared to other environmental or social indicators. It was also found that details on actual health and safety performance of these companies and the initiatives implemented were largely absent from their reporting. Given the increasing number of rating tools in the capital markets which serve to rank and file companies based on their sustainability disclosures and performance such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4Good Index, it is questionable as to how reliable this can be done for the Malaysian property and construction market. The paper will be useful to construction management practitioners and ESG analysts with a focus on Asian markets.

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“…Dentre as 50 maiores construtoras do mundo listadas pela Engineering News Record (ENS), 80% têm sites para divulgar suas políticas de sustentabilidade, 28% têm seus relatórios de sustentabilidade listados pela GRI, 16% estão listadas no índice de sustentabilidade Dow Jones e 4,3% participam do pacto global da ONU (Organizações das Nações Unidas) (ZUO et al, 2012).…”

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“…As empresas que estão no topo da lista disponibilizam informações mais detalhadas (ZUO et al, 2012).…”

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Sustainability policy of construction contractors: A review

Cited by 69 publications

References 57 publications

Commitment to sustainability: A content analysis of website for university organisations

Commitment to sustainability: A content analysis of website for university organisations

Critical Evaluation of Environmental, Social and Governance Disclosures of Malaysian Property and Construction Companies

Requisitos de sustentabilidade aplicáveis ao setor da construção civil pesada.

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