The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms

Environment protection is the buzz word in today’s corporate world. Corporations are required to implement pro-environment policies and practices to create and sustain competitiveness. To this end, green business process management (GBPM) is recognized one of the best managerial practice to protect...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nadarajah, Subashini
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/705/
http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/705/1/100.pdf
_version_ 1848766545268834304
author Nadarajah, Subashini
author_facet Nadarajah, Subashini
author_sort Nadarajah, Subashini
building INTI Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description Environment protection is the buzz word in today’s corporate world. Corporations are required to implement pro-environment policies and practices to create and sustain competitiveness. To this end, green business process management (GBPM) is recognized one of the best managerial practice to protect the environment. The fundamental argument of this thesis is that whilst GBPM is contingent upon a corporation’s internal practices, the role of upstream suppliers in facilitating effective GBPM is pivotal. Efficient integration of internal and external green business practices could accentuate GBPM. External green business practices here refer to upstream suppliers’ green business practices. In essence corporations with GBPM would need to select, monitor and collaborate with suppliers (both upstream and downstream) of green practice nature. A mismatch between green advocating corporation and non-green based suppliers would lead to ineffective GBPM. This research was undertaken with the aim of examining the influence of green supplier selection, green supplier monitoring and green supplier collaboration to effective green business process management amongst Malaysian manufacturing corporations. Using the resource based view theoretical lens, a survey was done on 122 manufacturing corporations in Malaysia. The empirical analysis using the Partial Least Square (PLS) modeling technique revealed that green supplier monitoring and green supplier selection has a significant influence toward effective GBPM in the sample manufacturing corporations. The influence of green supplier collaboration on the other hand is insignificant. Several key policy recommendations are proposed to facilitate and enhance the roles of the three factors toward effective GBPM.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T11:52:51Z
format Thesis
id intimal-705
institution INTI International University
institution_category Local University
language English
last_indexed 2025-11-14T11:52:51Z
publishDate 2012
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling intimal-7052017-03-02T05:09:56Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/705/ The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms Nadarajah, Subashini HD28 Management. Industrial Management Environment protection is the buzz word in today’s corporate world. Corporations are required to implement pro-environment policies and practices to create and sustain competitiveness. To this end, green business process management (GBPM) is recognized one of the best managerial practice to protect the environment. The fundamental argument of this thesis is that whilst GBPM is contingent upon a corporation’s internal practices, the role of upstream suppliers in facilitating effective GBPM is pivotal. Efficient integration of internal and external green business practices could accentuate GBPM. External green business practices here refer to upstream suppliers’ green business practices. In essence corporations with GBPM would need to select, monitor and collaborate with suppliers (both upstream and downstream) of green practice nature. A mismatch between green advocating corporation and non-green based suppliers would lead to ineffective GBPM. This research was undertaken with the aim of examining the influence of green supplier selection, green supplier monitoring and green supplier collaboration to effective green business process management amongst Malaysian manufacturing corporations. Using the resource based view theoretical lens, a survey was done on 122 manufacturing corporations in Malaysia. The empirical analysis using the Partial Least Square (PLS) modeling technique revealed that green supplier monitoring and green supplier selection has a significant influence toward effective GBPM in the sample manufacturing corporations. The influence of green supplier collaboration on the other hand is insignificant. Several key policy recommendations are proposed to facilitate and enhance the roles of the three factors toward effective GBPM. 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/705/1/100.pdf Nadarajah, Subashini (2012) The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms. Masters thesis, INTI International University.
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Nadarajah, Subashini
The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms
title The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms
title_full The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms
title_fullStr The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms
title_full_unstemmed The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms
title_short The Determinants of Effective Green Business Process Management Evidence from Malaysian Manufacturing Firms
title_sort determinants of effective green business process management evidence from malaysian manufacturing firms
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
url http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/705/
http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/705/1/100.pdf