Environmental protection through small businesses: an analysis of the role of stakeholders in green operations

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Environmental protection through small businesses: an analysis of the role of stakeholders in green operations

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Title: Environmental protection through small businesses: an analysis of the role of stakeholders in green operations
Author(s): Rasi, Raja Zuraidah; Abdekhodaee, Amir; Nagarajah, Romesh
Abstract: In this paper we investigate key causal linkages in proactive environmental practices based on an empirical study of 232 Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). We propose a conceptual framework and test this framework using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The key focus of this study is to explore SMEs' environmental initiatives and the impact of stakeholders' involvement in determining SMEs' environmental strategies. The study examines the relationship between stakeholders' involvement (customers, suppliers, government, top managers and employees) and proactive environmental practices (internal management systems, processbased changes, product-based changes). The results support the notion that SMEs have moved to develop an increasingly proactive environmental orientation. Although our survey strongly suggests that each stakeholder has a different role and impacts differently on SMEs' sustainability practices, vertical partners play the most critical roles in supporting environmental practices based on product and process-based changes.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Source: Advanced Materials Research: Progress in Environmental Science and Engineering: selected papers from the 2011 International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2011), Shanghai, China, 21-23 October 2011 / Hexing Li, Qunjie Xu and Daquan Zhang (eds.), Vol. 356-360, pp. 2555-2565
Publication year: 2012
FOR Code(s): 0912 Materials Engineering
Keyword(s): Environmental management; Product and process-based changes; Small and medium sized enterprises; SMEs; Stakeholder theory
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications
ISSN: 1022-6680 (series ISSN)
ISBN: 9783037852675, 3037852674
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.356-360.2555
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