The effect of organisational internal factors and technology orientation on environmental sustainability performance of Malaysian construction firms

Construction organisations worldwide are under pressure to minimise resource consumption and prioritise the call for environmentally responsive projects. Within the Malaysian construction industry, the fundamental elements of organisational internal factors (such as managerial attitudes, social responsibility, and company culture), technological orientation, and coercive pressures have not been thoroughly researched as preconditions for construction firms to attain environmental sustainability. This study seeks to fill this gap by applying the contingency resource-based view, institutional, and learning theories to investigate the effects of organisational internal factors and technology orientation on construction firms’ environmental sustainability performance. The study also considered the intervening role of coercive pressure. A total of 185 construction firms from the eleven states in the peninsula Malaysia (the Federal Capital Territory of Kuala Lumpur inclusive) participated in the online survey. After the data screening using SPSS (version 26), the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) algorithm and bootstrap techniques were utilised to test the hypothesised paths in this study. The empirical evidence supported the hypothesised direct and indirect effects of managerial attitudes, social responsibility, and company culture on environmental sustainability performance. Also, there is a strong positive effect of company culture on environmental sustainability. This relationship suggests that when construction firms integrate environmental culture, their environmental sustainability performance increases. This finding conforms with the contingency resource-based view theory, which submits that a firm's culture is a viable source of continual competitive advantage and that firms with robust cultures are viewed as exemplars of excellent management. Similarly, this study's findings also established that coercive pressure is a positive mediator and a catalyst that plays a complementary role between managerial attitudes, company culture, social responsibility, technology orientation, and environmental sustainability performance. This shows the impact of government pressure in ensuring that rules and regulations are followed in project delivery. Hence, to ensure environmental sustainability in construction project delivery, more emphasis is recommended to improve top managers' attitudes, social responsibility, and company culture towards the natural environment. Simultaneously, government agencies need to be strengthened to ensure that construction regulations are strictly adhered to

Impact of Oil and Gas Internal Risk Factors on Project Success: Moderating role of Government Support

Organisational internal risk factors, which include management, material, finance, and design risk factors, affect oil and gas construction projects' success in emerging nations, in which Malaysia is no exception. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of these internal risk factors and government support on oil and gas projects among sixty-one (61) employees of oil and gas firms using a questionnaire survey. The data collected were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM) techniques. The results revealed that all the exogenous variables (design risk, management risk, financial risk and material risk factors and government support) significantly impact project success. According to the findings, all exogenous variables (design risk, management risk, financial risk, material risk factors, and government support) have substantial effects on project success. The study developed an all-inclusive framework that can assist stakeholders in the industry in mitigating internal risk factors in ensuring the success of projects. Policy implications and future study paths are considered

Validating the Effects of Organizational Internal Factors and Technology Orientation on Environmental Sustainability Performance of Malaysian Construction Firms

The essence of emphasizing the importance of environmental sustainability among construction firms is to lessen the effects of construction activities or projects on the environment and make the construction activities more sustainably economically and friendly to the environment. This significant deliberation has stimulated various research interests by construction firms, owing to the damaging effects of construction activities such as various forms of environmental pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss on a global scale. Using the Partial Least Squares- Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) approach, this study validates the environmental sustainability performance (ESP) as a construct from the perspectives of 186 construction firms within Peninsular Malaysia. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted where data was gathered from G7 construction firms through a well-structured questionnaire. Findings from this study revealed that organizational internal factors (Managerial attitudes, social responsibility, and company culture), and technology orientation have significant effects on the environmental sustainability performance (ESP) of Malaysian construction firms

Managing external risk factors on oil and gas project success: a dream for all firms

Embedded in the Malaysian oil and gas sectors’ experience, this study assesses the impact of external risk factors, which include political, economic, social, and environmental risk factors, and government support on the success of oil and gas construction projects in Malaysia using 61 employees of the oil and gas firms using a questionnaire survey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) results revealed that all the exogenous variables (political risk, economic risk, social risk, and environmental risk factors as well as government support) have a significant positive effect on project success. SEM results show that government support has no significant moderating effect on the impact of political, economic, social, and environmental risk factors on project success. The study developed an all-inclusive framework that can assist stakeholders in the sector in mitigating external risk factors in ensuring the success of projects. Policy implications and future study directions are also considered