Gray clustering assessment of environmental cost-benefit study in enterprise—A case of Haier

Abstract

The Haier’s environmental invest have a positive impact on Economic and environmental performance. The pollution and waste created by enterprises has increasingly become a serious problem as it leads to deterioration of ecological environment and climate change. The enterprises are tend to ignore the impact of toxic waste on the environment, and the lack of initiative from governing bodies to fulfill the environmental responsibility of enterprises will inevitably lead to serious damage to the natural environment. To perform their environmental responsibility, calculating the costs and benefits of environmental protection invest is an important content of enterprises’ performance assessment. In the present paper, Haier enterprises’ environmental responsibility was analyzed by calculating their environmental protection invest, reduction of environmental pollutants emission, and optimization of energy from 2007 to 2011. Grey clustering evaluation model was constructed using selected environmental cost and benefit indices, the evaluation results were analyzed, and the effects of environmental invest on environmental benefit in enterprises’ energy-saving emission and low carbon development were discussed. The study results showed that the enterprises’ environmental invest have a long-term impact on business performance. Because of increasing investments in environmental cost, Haier’s environmental performance has improved significantly, and the impacts of environmental investment are perennial. The enterprises’ environmental awareness and contribution on prevention of toxic waste resulted in increased economy, and improvement in energy consumption indicators, pollutant emission indicators, and greenhouse gases emission indicators.