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Environmental management practices (EMPs) for sustainable development in Malaysian food processing SMEs
Malisah Latip1, Zainal Abidin Mohamed2, Ismawati Sharkawi3, Juwaidah Sharifuddin4.
The interest on environmental management has been notably increasing in the past
few years and nowadays is considered to be a mainstream challenge for organizations. The
involvement of SMEs in environmental friendly practices can be of particular significant as
their total impact can be huge, caused by cumulative effects associated to large number of
enterprises. Despite the fact that there is a growing awareness of the environmental impact
caused by SMEs, this is not transformed into practice. SMEs consider themselves as too small
to cause big impact to the environment. This can be seen from the slow adoption rate of formal
environmental management system among SMEs in Malaysia. This study endeavours to
determine the factors influencing intention to adopt EMPs among food processing SMEs by
integrating two theories namely; (i) Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework
and (ii) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Drawing upon the both theories, this study groups
the determinant factors of TOE model into technological, organizational and environmental
contexts; while the determinants factors of TPB are attitude, subjective norm and perceived
behavioral control. The data were collected via email-based survey, which was sent to 633
owner-managers of food SMEs in Malaysia, and 118 usable samples were analyzed.
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to identify latent factors affecting the intention to
adopt EMPs. The results of EFA revealed eight factor solutions with eigenvalues greater than
1.0. Generally, these factors explained 83.45 percent of the total variance, which is considered
as satisfactory. KMO measure of sampling adequacy was 0.910 indicating sufficient intercorrelations.
Results suggest that the dominance of owner-managers’ attitude (total variance:
47.72%) as the most important factor affecting the intention to adopt EMPs.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
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