Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya

In the light of corporate sustainability issues, the environmental challenge should be appropriately addressed whilst maintaining firms’ competitive advantage. The paradigm shift towards knowledge-based economy has prompted management focus to achieve competitive advantage by intensifying the green...

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Main Author: Ahmad Yahya, Naimah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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spelling my-uitm-ir.827822024-03-04T03:31:54Z Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya 2019 Ahmad Yahya, Naimah Balance sheets. Financial statements. Including corporation reports. Financial reporting. Financial disclosure In the light of corporate sustainability issues, the environmental challenge should be appropriately addressed whilst maintaining firms’ competitive advantage. The paradigm shift towards knowledge-based economy has prompted management focus to achieve competitive advantage by intensifying the green intellectual capital resources and proactive environmental strategy in causally ambiguous, socially complex and rare. However, whether or not and how the green intellectual capital as well as proactive environmental strategy contributes to the firms’ competitive advantage has always been argued. Hence, the main purpose of this study is to investigate whether green intellectual capital and proactive environmental strategy have positive significant relationship with firms’ competitive advantage. Green intellectual capital comprises of green human capital, green innovation capital, green organisational capital and green relational capital while proactive environmental strategies are represented by greening strategy and beyond greening strategy. This study utilised survey research by collecting data from 224 managers in the Malaysian manufacturing sector, where the firms are listed in the FMM directory. 2019 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82782/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82782/1/82782.pdf text en public phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Accountancy Arshad, Roshayani
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Arshad, Roshayani
topic Balance sheets
Financial statements
Including corporation reports
Financial reporting
Financial disclosure
spellingShingle Balance sheets
Financial statements
Including corporation reports
Financial reporting
Financial disclosure
Ahmad Yahya, Naimah
Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya
description In the light of corporate sustainability issues, the environmental challenge should be appropriately addressed whilst maintaining firms’ competitive advantage. The paradigm shift towards knowledge-based economy has prompted management focus to achieve competitive advantage by intensifying the green intellectual capital resources and proactive environmental strategy in causally ambiguous, socially complex and rare. However, whether or not and how the green intellectual capital as well as proactive environmental strategy contributes to the firms’ competitive advantage has always been argued. Hence, the main purpose of this study is to investigate whether green intellectual capital and proactive environmental strategy have positive significant relationship with firms’ competitive advantage. Green intellectual capital comprises of green human capital, green innovation capital, green organisational capital and green relational capital while proactive environmental strategies are represented by greening strategy and beyond greening strategy. This study utilised survey research by collecting data from 224 managers in the Malaysian manufacturing sector, where the firms are listed in the FMM directory.
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author Ahmad Yahya, Naimah
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title Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya
title_short Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya
title_full Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya
title_fullStr Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya
title_full_unstemmed Green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and Malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / Naimah Ahmad Yahya
title_sort green intellectual capital, proactive environmental strategy and malaysian manufacturing firms’ competitive advantage / naimah ahmad yahya
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Accountancy
publishDate 2019
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/82782/1/82782.pdf
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