| dc.description.abstract | The motivation of the thesis is the need to incorporate sustainability into the energy industry, especially renewable energy. It focuses primarily on climate change and sustainability at corporate levels. While two Norwegian companies such as, Aker Solutions and Norsk Hydro, where I have discussed sustainability and its adaptation practice. The main objective of the thesis is to respond to reporting and disclosure area and how companies are addressing their climate challenges and United Nations SDGs alignment with legitimacy theory.
Legitimacy demonstrate that the majority of the company is committed to the new changes; however, the transition process of improvement will continue within the company. Ultimately, most companies’ understand and accept the importance of this change. It seemed on overall results of the data that companies have many progression as well as there are some lacking and issues connected to Professor Rob Gary’s thought of about, how the companies and employees want to understand sustainability and ignore the real perspective. It is also marked in the thesis with Lindblom (1994) third strategy on, how companies distract its attention to something else to hide the real situation.
I have been trying to find annual and sustainability reports from both of the companies and more’ for the last 2 to 3 years. I brought their reporting and transparency data and also collected interviews from the relevant employees of the sustainability department of company which enhanced my knowledge and helped me understand real time scenarios. However, I have found that there are some points that have been overlooked mostly. Which we should brought to lime light of discussion, employees don’t always share real information and we don’t get the real situation from the company level and the so-called annual and sustainability report.
Overall, the thesis brings new insights to the organizational studies literature by understanding how companies react and negotiate with challenges by opening up questions about the ‘how’ and ‘what’ of sustainability. | |
