Impact of sustainability practices on share performance with mediation of green innovation: a conceptual paper

Corporate sustainability is now becoming an essential part of corporate business strategy. Companies in developed countries are adopting environmental, social, and economic practices to become a social ambassador. In many countries, companies that choose corporate social responsibility by adopting sustainable practices tend to have better financial performance and brand image. Many countries are rapidly adopting corporate sustainability strategies to promote green innovation. Researchers have argued that it is still considered to be a cost for the firm's investors, especially in developing countries like Malaysia. Evidence shows that these strategies show a positive sign in the company's financial performance. However, in some studies, it is still considered to be a sunk cost, particularly in the Asian region. It is challenging, if not impossible, to embed responsible behavior truly. The companies need to promote social, environmental, and economic practices that are considered to be beneficial for external investors. The paper proposes the conceptual model to understand how shareholders will respond if companies adopt sustainability practices, primarily if they invest in green innovation projects. The study is going to develop into a concrete hypothesis for future studies. This study aims to explore the impact of sustainability practices on the company's share performance with the mediation of green innovation. The model serves as a useful guide for adopting corporate sustainability practices to promoting green innovation and how it will affect the firm's share performance

Malaysia resilient initiatives: case study of Melaka into resilient city

Asia experienced 70% of all the disasters in the world and there is no indication that this will decline in the future. The disaster experienced by a city is mostly caused by the combination and collision of climate change, urbanization, socialeconomic instability, terrorism, natural disaster, cyber-attack, poverty, and endemic outbreak. The crisis fallen upon a city has captured attention of many audiences, thus in order to conquer the issues, city needs to be resilient in order to face and overcome the situation. Melaka was declared as a world heritage site and the government are taking serious efforts in order to maintain its heritage site by making it a resilient city. This article discusses the policy related initiatives taken by Melaka in preparing the city into resilient state. This is done by using literature and document analysis method on relevant reports, policies and literatures. The output of the research would be beneficial to the state of Melaka in the context of local authorities preparing strategic directions and managing urban development in order to become a resilient city

Community resilience frameworks for building disaster resilient community in Malaysia

Disasters cannot be prevented fully but their impacts and severity can be lessened through the application of certain frameworks. However, there is currently a lack of a robust framework in building the disaster resilient and sustainable communities in Malaysia. Malaysians are increasingly finding themselves not being spared from disasters especially flood events. In order to keep pace with these occurring disasters in Malaysia, Community Resilience Frameworks are the backbone strategies among various stakeholders and can assure non-futile efforts for building safer and more resilient communities. Community Resilience Framework sets out the drivers, existing good practices, scopes, aims and work streams respectively for a long-term programme designed to increase the disaster resilience of communities. This paper has attempted to review the existence of disaster resilient communities in detail. Some Community Resilience Frameworks in the context of natural disasters in Malaysia will also be discussed. In this paper, literature is used as a foundation for a new insight contribution. A document analysis method on relevant policies and literatures also been adopted. It is envisaged that the findings of this study could be clinically useful for building a disaster resilient community and also closing the gaps in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Malaysi

Student housing a resilient housing rental market: case of federal polytechnic neighbourhood Bauchi, Nigeria

In the last three decades globally higher institutions (HIs) have been experiencing an unprecedented upsurge in student population and student enrolment in His generally outstrip the HIs student housing. In many countries of the world like Nigeria, HIs are obviously incapacitated in accommodating the growing student population which compelled numerous students to overflow into their HIs’ neighbourhood seeking for alternative housing accommodation in the private housing rental market. Indeed the scenario of HIs student's housing shortfalls and increasing students housing demand evolved the interest of many people in a student housing rental market. This is because it has been uncovered that business in student housing rental is lucrative and guaranteeing business that ensured profit for a long term. This paper, therefore, explores the nature and landscape of student housing rental in Nigeria where the business is immature then drawn the conclusion

Challenges of Students Housing Provision in Malaysia

The world population has been growing tremendously, which surged up the demand and enrolment in educational institutions to unimaginable level globally. Similarly, Malaysia has witnessed tremendous growth in higher education both in the order and establishment of new higher education institutions (HEIs) to match up with the demand. However, there is no commensurate increase in the student housing facilities to match up with the growing enrolment and demand; hence, accommodate a certain proportion of the total students. The paper explored qualitative methodology data from in-depth expert interviews of selected public and private universities in Malaysia; discussed the problems of HEIs student housing provision to four identified themes: student enrolment, government policy, funding and land issues as what exacerbated the issues. Therefore, challenges for student housing provision are enormous; hence HEIs and Government cannot adequately respond and satisfy the demand unless private housing developers actively involved otherwise problems of student housing provision will continue to persist

Building resilient future: information technology and disaster management - a Malaysian perspective

The recent evets of flooding, earthquakes, uncontrolled wildfires, hurricanes, and deadly storms in world has considered a serious threat to mankind and preparing for devastating disasters has never been more critical and urgent. Emergency Events Database suggests that by year 2050 the damages to flood related incidents to coastal cities will cost near to US$1 trillion. Risk from acts of nature cannot be fully prevented but needs to minimize and safe the innocent lives and property by utilizing disaster management technique to mitigate the losses. This paper presents Information Technologies applications in disaster management phases such as Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery. Geographic Information System, Remote Sensing, mobile technology, drone, and satellite imagery and MOBILISE analytic platform considered as effective and efficient ways of strengthening resilience when disaster strikes and tremendously helpful for coordinating responses and accelerating the recovery of individuals and communities in the aftermath of recent natural disasters

Issues and challenges in Muslim cemetery management (MCM) in Malaysia

Cemetery needs is a basic facility that is as important as other basic facilities to the communities in Malaysia particularly to Muslim society. Recently, a lot of issues arise in Muslim Cemetery Management (MCM) caused by increase in human population and development booming. Land shortage for burials is one of the many issues that emerge out of accelerated urban growth in most developing Asian countries, including Malaysia. Furthermore, cemetery problem is not systematically managed causing the community become uninterested to make a visit and this support superstitions mentality among the community. Thus, this paper examines problems that arise from the traditional practices of Muslim funerary as well as raises other important issues and challenges when planning for the land use needs of the dead. This paper will also provide some recommendations that can be applied to counter the existing issue

Dimensionality and reliability of the determinants of reverse mortgage use intention

The decision to use reverse mortgage is influenced by a myriad of factors among which some are behaviourally related. Identification and validation of these behavioural factors are necessary to be able to objectively explain their interrelationships and effect on individual’s decision to use the product in the future. This paper reports a pilot survey result that aimed at validating a questionnaire designed specifically to collect data on the behavioural factors that might likely influence individual’s intention to use reverse mortgage in the future. Using a convenient sampling strategy, a total number of 102 sampled respondents were used in the study. The data were analyzed with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23 where a factor analysis and reliability analyses were conducted. The result revealed that out of the 53 items that originally formed the questionnaire items, only 41 were retained. A total of 10 components emerged from the data which were named in accordance with their underlying constructs. All the factor loadings in reported satisfied the acceptable threshold of .50. The reliabilities of the items and the respective scales were also within the acceptable range of .70. It was therefore concluded that the questionnaire was reliable and can be used for the purpose to which is was designed fo

A review on the application of remote sensing and geographic information system in flood crisis management

Flood is considered as one of the most devastating hazards around the globe and emerged as an important issue among all the stakeholder to manage. Every year when the flood occurs, it has a terrible impact on human lives and demolishes billions of dollars property and infrastructure as well. The flood catastrophe and its losses can be reduced and prevented by flood inundation maps which provides a reliable and accurate information to the public. The principle objective of this paper is to review the application of Geographical information system (GIS) and technology of Remote sensing (RS) in geospatial skills and expertise in sciences, the integration and utilization of spatial and information technology effectively and more prominence is on using non-structure approaches based on remote sensing and geographic information system in flood crisis management. The advantages of solving complex logistics operations, accuracy with high speed which provides a reliable change, improved communication, monitoring capability, modeling, estimation of flood risk, promoted a cost saving mechanism with greater efficiency/friendly adaptability with the environment of theses digitize systems purposes to using more and more spatial application in flood crisis management. Geospatial information and remote sensing utilization serves as bridge between the flooding security measures and early prediction system. The paper encompasses the advantages of RS & GIS which acts as a tool in monitoring and improving before, during and after the flood crisis management in Malaysia

Penilaian kepatuhan syariat islam dalam merekabentuk tanah perkuburan islam berkonsepkan taman teknologi

Tanah Perkuburan Islam di Malaysia telah mencapai banyak pembaharuan. Antaranya pembinaan Raudhatul Sakinah iaitu tanah perkuburan dalam taman. Pada peringkat awal, dua tanah perkuburan telah dijadikan tapak pembinaan iaitu Tanah Perkuburan Islam KL-Karak dan Tanah Perkuburan Islam Bukit Kiara yang diuruskan oleh Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (JAWI). Lanjutan dari itu sekumpulan penyelidik dari UTHM melakukan penambahbaikan melalui usaha merekabentuk Tanah Perkuburan Islam Berkonsepkan Taman Teknologi menggunakan dengan aplikasi Geographical Information System (GIS) sebagai nilaitambah dalam dalam proses pembinaan tanah perkuburan Islam yang lebih sistematik. Lokasi kajian ini terletak di Tanah Perkuburan Islam, Parit Raja, Batu Pahat. Perkembangan ini memerlukan memerlukan satu garis panduan yang jelas agar usaha yang dilakukan berada dalam ruang lingkup kepatuhan syariat Islam. Justeru kertas kerja ini dihasilkan bagi menilai kepa rekabentuk tanah perkuburan Islam berkonsepkan taman teknologi ini adalah selari dengan ketetapan syariat Islam. Pendekatan kajian ini menggunakan kaedah temubual, permerhatian dan kajian perpustakaan. Hasil dari analisis kajian, terdapat tiga aspek yang perlu diambilkira semasa merekabentuk tanah perkuburan berkonsepkan taman teknologi iaitu tujuan mengkebumikan jenazah, tujuan menziarahi kubur dan bentuk binaan di atas tapak perkuburan. Dapatan daripada kajian ini akan menjadikan rekabentuk Tanah Perkuburan berkonsepkan Taman Teknologi menepati syariat Islam, diterima serta dimanafaatkan oleh seluruh masyarakat Islam di Malaysia