Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi

As the today’s tourists are becoming increasingly concerned with the environment and environmental products, the management teams within the hotel industry believe that the integration of environment aspects into their business strategies will lead to better organisational performance. Hotel manager...

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Main Author: Jaidi, Junaidah
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20484/
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description As the today’s tourists are becoming increasingly concerned with the environment and environmental products, the management teams within the hotel industry believe that the integration of environment aspects into their business strategies will lead to better organisational performance. Hotel managers believe that the environmental integration is able to create value and competitive advantage. This research, which is grounded in the resource-based view, examined the relationship between business environmentalism strategy (corporate environmentalism and environmental management accounting practices) and organisational performance among Malaysian hotels. This research further examined the mediating role of competitive advantage on the link between environmental business strategy and organisational performance. Employing the simple random technique, data were collected from 122 hotel managers from 3 to 5-star hotels in Malaysia. The data was analysed using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach to Structural Equation Model (SEM). Results of the hypotheses testing showed that all seven hypotheses were supported. Thus, it was concluded that both corporate environmentalism and environmental management accounting practices have a positive and significant relationship with organisational performance. It was also found that competitive advantage partially mediated the relationship between corporate environmentalism and environmental management accounting practices with organisational performance…
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spelling uitm-204842018-07-06T05:56:42Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20484/ Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi Jaidi, Junaidah Corporations Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service Malaysia As the today’s tourists are becoming increasingly concerned with the environment and environmental products, the management teams within the hotel industry believe that the integration of environment aspects into their business strategies will lead to better organisational performance. Hotel managers believe that the environmental integration is able to create value and competitive advantage. This research, which is grounded in the resource-based view, examined the relationship between business environmentalism strategy (corporate environmentalism and environmental management accounting practices) and organisational performance among Malaysian hotels. This research further examined the mediating role of competitive advantage on the link between environmental business strategy and organisational performance. Employing the simple random technique, data were collected from 122 hotel managers from 3 to 5-star hotels in Malaysia. The data was analysed using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach to Structural Equation Model (SEM). Results of the hypotheses testing showed that all seven hypotheses were supported. Thus, it was concluded that both corporate environmentalism and environmental management accounting practices have a positive and significant relationship with organisational performance. It was also found that competitive advantage partially mediated the relationship between corporate environmentalism and environmental management accounting practices with organisational performance… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018 Book Section PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20484/1/ABS_JUNAIDAH%20JAIDI%20TDRA%20VOL%2013%20IGS%2018.pdf Jaidi, Junaidah (2018) Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi. (2018) In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 13 (13). Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
spellingShingle Corporations
Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service
Malaysia
Jaidi, Junaidah
Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi
title Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi
title_full Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi
title_fullStr Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi
title_full_unstemmed Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi
title_short Business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in Malaysian hotel industry / Junaidah Jaidi
title_sort business environmentalism strategy, competitive advantage and organisational performance in malaysian hotel industry / junaidah jaidi
topic Corporations
Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service
Malaysia
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20484/