Potential impacts for monitoring sustainability: case study of hollow fiber membrane

Sustainability level is a new indicator of quality and efficiency for product life cycle. Sustainability should be balanced among Triple Bottom Line (TBL) aspects namely environmental, economic and social elements. For monitoring the sustainability of product, a comprehensive framework considering potential impacts for sustainability assessment should be developed. Previously, several studies presented frameworks to assess the sustainability level. However, few studies relate their frameworks with the potential impact of all TBL. Determination of potential impacts with its parameter is important during framework development. Potential impacts for environmental such global warming, acidification and eutrophication should be taken seriously. In this study, potential impacts for each sustainability aspects are shown. For the case study of hollow fiber membrane the potential impacts were obtained from primary and secondary data such product specification, bill of materials, literature reviews and help of GaBi Software

The mediating role of overall equipment effectiveness on the relationship between fit manufacturing and business performance

Advanced manufacturing technology systems have replaced traditional manufacturing systems as manufacturing industry have many technological developments in recent years. Now, the primarily concern is effectiveness of the equipment for the modern manufacturing technology systems. Though, there is a lack of empirical studies confirming this impact on business performance. Recently, manufacturing industries have adapted fit manufacturing strategies in order to enhance the system effectiveness to get competitive advantage. These strategies are mainly, lean, agile and sustainable manufacturing. This paper aims to systematically review the literature on the existing fit manufacturing strategies and their relationship with business performance from year 2009 to 2015, also to find the possible intervening variable that can influence the inconsistency of the relationships between the fit manufacturing strategies and business performance. On the basis of the findings from the systematic literature review, we suggest researchers on the in the field of operations management to investigate the mediating relationship of overall equipment effectiveness between the relationship of the fit manufacturing strategies and business performance

The impact of risk management practices on the performance of construction projects

Construction performance and risk management has been widely discussed in the literature from various perspectives. The main objective of performing risk management in construction industry is to ensure timely delivery of good construction within sepecific budget. However, the failure of many construction projects in meeting deadlines, cost and quality targets is continuously on the rise and there are signs of accentuating year after year suffering significant financial losses of construciton works in Oman. Therefore, there is a need for empirical evidences to explain the relationship between risk management and project performance. This study applied quantitative methods to examine this relationship. Construciton companies from grade excellent to grade second in Oman haven included in the survey. The result revealed that practicing risk managementimprove the performance of construciton project significantly. Based on this result it is essential to hire qualified project managers who has sufficient knowledge in risk managmeent and its main activities

Exploratory factor analysis of green resource management practices for sustainability in Johor Darul Ta'Zim (JDT) organization

In order to move toward sustainability, organizations need an increasingly constructive transition on sustainable development to create synergies and develop new solutions that the development of human resource is required to make and it is considered as the first step in this path. This paper aims to help performance management for sustainable organizational transitions, with special emphasis upon green human resource management (GHRM) practices within organizations, in this case study, sports centre due to the structure, nature and attitude towards human resource as well as multiple effects at both macro and micro levels of the society. There are limited studies investigating what organizational members in the sports center perceive about a sustainable development and to be more exact, there are even far less previous studies that have addressed the issue of sustainability from the perspective of main human resources, as one of the most important stakeholders of organization. This study concentrates on GHRM that could assist with organizational sustainability through the alignment of the human resource management practices and its objective is to identify and classify of GHRM practices with exploratory factor analysis on a pilot study with 97 respondents from JDT football team members to place sustainability in this large public sports-intensive center in southern Malaysia. According to the research results the seven-factor model along with thirty two variables was identified with total variance 66.237% and for first factor was accounted 41.584%. The research findings provide a useful reference to sustainable development in JDT centre as well as for 'sports organizations' more broadly throughout Malaysia

Proposed framework for end-of-life vehicle recycling system implementation in Malaysia

Part of: Seliger, Günther (Ed.): Innovative solutions : proceedings / 11th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, Berlin, Germany, 23rd - 25th September, 2013. - Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2013. - ISBN 978-3-7983-2609-5 (online). - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-40276. - pp. 187–193.Normally in Malaysia, vehicles are being used extensively regardless of its age or condition. This situation is not only in rural areas but exists in major cities. Vehicle manufacturers expected their vehicles to last in 15 years, hence vehicles exceeding this limit are considered as End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV). The extensive usage of ELV may lead to vehicle failure which threatens the safety of its user as well as other road users. ELV usage also contributes to environmental pollution. In order to overcome this, a framework for ELV management needs to be developed. Prior to that, a survey was done to study the current practice being applied in Malaysia. This paper also study the existing framework applied by other countries as adaptation for Malaysian ELV recycling implementation framework. This framework is expected to assist the government in drafting new ELV related policies

The level of adoption of green supply chain management and green innovation in Malaysian manufacturing industries

Recently, corporate environmental practice such as Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) and green innovation appears as a novel organized environmental practice for manufacturing companies to handle the increasing environmental issues. The aim of this paper is to assess the level of adoption of GSCM and green innovation practices. A total of 123 responses from Malaysian manufacturing companies were collected from mail questionnaire. The results showed Malaysian manufacturing companies are in trial adoption stage for both GSCM practices and green innovation. Internal environmental management practice of GSCM practices are relatively high adopted in Malaysian manufacturing organisation. Meanwhile, most of all green innovation practices are heavily implemented in Malaysian manufacturing companies. This paper empirically attempts to provide understanding and new insights for sustainability management area where GSCM and green innovation practices are important to improve organisational environmental performance, which can directly offer great benefits for both researchers and practitioners

Understanding stakeholder pressures in adopting environmental management practices based on stakeholder theory: a review

The concept of green business is generated from the emerging of environmental pressures that mainly focused on eliminating negative environmental impacts throughout companies’ activities. This purpose of this paper is to review and provide understanding on the stakeholder pressures based on stakeholder theory in driving organization to implement any environmental management practices such as green supply chain management and green innovation. This paper concludes by suggesting the stakeholder theory can be as an underlying theory in supporting the connection between the implementation of an environmental management practices and organizational performance

The Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from Malaysian Companies

The aim of this study is to investigate the determinants of capital structure for Malaysian manufacturing companies. The studied subjects were 174 Malaysia manufacturing companies listed on Bursa Malaysia from year 2011 to year 2014. Firm fixed-effect with robust standard was used in data analysis to address the potential heterogeneity and endogeneity that arise from panel data. The analysis shows that firm profitability and non-debt tax shield are negatively related to firm leverage. On the other hand, several corporate governance mechanisms, namely, ownership concentration, separation of CEO-chairs, board independence, are not related to firm leverage. Liquidity, firm size and asset structure are also not related to firm leverage of manufacturing firms

Proposing a new hierarchical framework for the evaluation of quality management practices: a new combined fuzzy hybrid MCDM approach

This study aims to evaluate the quality management (QM) practices in Iranian hotels that are small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through the integration of the fuzzy set theory with both qualitative and quantitative methods. The criteria were collected through the literature survey and the fuzzy Delphi method (FDM). This study applied fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (FMCDM), including the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP), the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR). In the FDM phase, 21 practice was selected and categorized into four main factors. Results of the study indicated that the quality assurance was ranked as the highest important fac- tor. From the practical viewpoint, this paper proposed new integrated model that applied FDM, FAHP, TOPSIS and VIKOR for the evaluation of QM practices in the hotel industry and introduced the environmental perspective as a new viewpoint of QM systems, espe- cially in hotels as SMEs. In addition, the proposed model highlights a new insight into MCDM and contributes to the present body of knowledge in the area of QM systems

The Effects of Computer Self-Efficacy and Technology Acceptance Model on Behavioral Intention in Internet Banking Systems

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to determine the acceptance of internet banking system amongst potential young users in internet banking. Specifically, it has been attempted to examine the effects of Computer Self- Efficacy (CSE) and extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) on the Behavioural Intention (BI) to use the internet banking systems. Data was obtained from 222 undergraduate marketing students in a Malaysia's public university. The finding showed that Perceived Usefulness (PU), Perceived Ease of use (PE) and Perceived Credibility (PC) of extended TAM had a significant relationship with BI. It was found that PC exerting a stronger influence than PU and PE on respondents’ BI to use the internet banking systems. This study validated the critical role of CSE in predicting individual responses to information technology systems. The finding also unveiled that indirect relationship existed between CSE and BI through PU, PE and PC of TAM