Chapter 5 Results

Abstract

This chapter presents the results of the study, both in graphical and tabular format, based on the AHP for determining stakeholder prominence, along with ANOVA and multiple comparison tests that were outlined in Sections 3.8–3.10. Section 5.2 examines the response rate for the study across each of the three countries. Section 5.3 outlines details of how the data were scored and analysed for the stakeholder prominence questions. It describes how stakeholders were classified into classes based on the results of the data analysis. Section 5.4 provides descriptive sample statistics of the study based on sex, age, birth, culture, education, occupation, and multi-national status. Not all of these demographic variables were used for analysis in the study, only country (source of the data, not birth) and occupation. Section 5.5 analyses results of stakeholder prominence over all three stakeholder attributes (legitimacy, power, and urgency) by the country of origin. These include multivariate tests to indicate the significance of differences between the results for countries overall, and Bonferroni tests for significant differences between individual countries, which were undertaken through the SPSS software package. This was also undertaken for occupation in Section 5.6.

Citation

Cummings, L. and Patel, C. (2009), "Chapter 5 Results", Cummings, L. and Patel, C. (Ed.) Managerial Attitudes toward a Stakeholder Prominence within a Southeast Asia Context (Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting, Vol. 19), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 113-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3512(2009)0000019009