Business strategies climate change - Profiles of business strategies for climate change

The objective of this project is to develop and apply a tool for the operationalization of the Baumgartner & Ebner’s (2010) description of the corporate sustainability strategy profiles in the context of climate change. The following steps are envisaged to be carried out. 1. Adapt the various aspects of the economic, ecological, internal and external social aspects of corporate sustainability strategy to climate change (hereinafter referred to as the four dimensions of corporate sustainability strategy). 2. Develop Likert scales to measure the maturity levels for the climate change-adapted aspects for each of the four dimensions of corporate sustainability strategy 3. Apply the Likert scale using the CDP/TrueCost database to score companies on climate change-adapted aspects for each of the four dimensions of corporate sustainability strategy 4. Conduct cluster analysis on the strategy score thus obtained in Step 3 to discern patterns in strategies across different sectors and nations.