| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | 0691 |
| Survey Title | Fact-finding Survey on Small-scaled Companies' Measures to Deal with Environmental Issues, 2009 |
| Depositor | Japan Finance Corporation Research Institute |
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| Summary |
In recent years, consciousness of environmental problems is growing internationally, and regulations on corporate activity are being tightened. Starting with the manufacturing industry, large corporations have been proceeding with green procurement/green purchasing in response to such regulations. It is believed that the effects of this are being felt by small-sized companies making up the supply chain. Therefore, this survey was conducted to understand requests small-sized companies receive and how they deal with them and to identify problems small-scaled companies would face as environmental regulations become even stricter. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe |
12,000 companies in the construction, manufacturing, telecommunications, transport, wholesale, and service industries among companies financed by National Life Finance Corporation (today, Japan Finance Corporation National Life Corporation) in September 2008 and companies financed by Japan Finance Corporation National Life Finance Corporation in October 2008 *The service industry was limited to waste disposal, building design, machine design, and building maintenance. |
| Unit of Observation | Organization |
| Sample Size | Sample size: 12,000 companies, number of valid responses: 3,582 companies (valid response rate: 29.9%) |
| Date of Collection |
2009-07-01 ~ 2009-07-01 2009/07/01 |
| Time Period |
2009 ~ 2009 |
| Spatial Unit | |
| Sampling Procedure |
Other
12,000 companies in the construction, manufacturing, telecommunications, transport, wholesale, and service industries among companies financed by National Life Finance Corporation (today, Japan Finance Corporation National Life Corporation) in September 2008 and companies financed by Japan Finance Corporation National Life Finance Corporation in October 2008 *The service industry was limited to waste disposal, building design, machine design, and building maintenance. |
| Mode of Data Collection | Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Mail survey (anonymous questionnaire) |
| Investigator | Japan Finance Corporation Research Institute |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.0691 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | |
| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | Please refer to the abstract in Japanese. |
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) |
| Documentation | [Questionnaire] |
| Major Survey Items |
(1) Company overview/manager respondent’s attributes, etc. Management type，sales，trends in sales fluctuations，number of companies by client/customer types and percentage of total sales，client/customer contact fluctuation trends，number of suppliers/subcontractors，fluctuation trends of suppliers/subcontractors，number of employees，fluctuation trends of number of employees，number of employees who are not directly hired/fluctuation trends，state of profitability，manager’s age，state of selecting successor (2) State of requests from clients/customers to respond to environmental issues - Clients/customers who impose responding to environmental issues as a transaction condition – whether there are any, details of business conditions, number of clients/customers making such conditions, year when the request was first made, types of clients/customers making such conditions, whether or not there is support from clients/customers imposing a condition, level of difficulty in responding to environmental issues that are a transaction condition, increase in number of clients/customers making such conditions - Clients/customers that requested response to environmental issues ---- whether there are any, details of requests, number of clients/customers that made such request, year that the first request was received, type of clients/customers that made a request, response to requests to address environmental issues, whether or not there was support from clients/customers that made requests, increase in clients/customers that make requests - Experience of business cancellation or breakoff because of inability to address environmental issues, details of inability to respond, reasons for not being able to respond (3) Status of requests to suppliers and subcontractors to respond to environmental issues Whether or not request has been made to suppliers/subcontractors to respond to environmental issues, details of requests, year a request was first made, whether or not there is support for suppliers/subcontractors requested to respond (4) Efforts to tackle environmental issues Status of measures to address environmental issues other than complying with laws and ordinances, environmental management systems that have been certified, year the first measure was taken, biggest reason for having started taking measures, level of difficulty of measures, things that were difficult, business merits for taking measures, newly planned initiatives, measures respondent wants to stop taking in the future, difficulties in continuing to address environmental issues, reasons for not addressing environmental issues, intention for future measures |
| Date of Release | 2010/10/14 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Environment and conservation Business/industrial management and organisation |
| Topics in SSJDA | Economy/Industry/Management Environment |
| Version | 1 ： 2010-10-14 |
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |