Relative Awareness of United States and Saudi Arabian Business Managers with Respect to Carbon Market Issues

Abstract

This study focuses on the awareness level of American and Saudi Arabian managers in the private sector with respect to a set of study-defined awareness variables associated with the carbon market and carbon management policies. A questionnaire was distributed to randomly sampled middle-level managers. A total of 126 and 51 usable responses were collected from the American and Saudi Arabian sample groups, respectively. In 14 out of the 18 awareness variables contained in the survey, the American managers scored statistically significantly higher than their Saudi Arabian counterparts. In the four variables where Saudi Arabian managers scored higher, two were statistically significant (i.e., Pollution Problems and Green Investing) while the two were not.