Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia

This study is undertaken to examine the factors that affect environmental technology adoption amongst food and beverage companies in Peninsular Malaysia. It covers four non regulatory factors which include characteristics of the environmental technology, communication networks, economic factors and...

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Main Author: Rahimi, Abidin
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Published: 2009
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spelling my-uum-etd.20962013-07-24T12:14:23Z Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia 2009 Rahimi, Abidin Abdullah, Che Sobry College of Business (COB) College of Business TP Chemical technology This study is undertaken to examine the factors that affect environmental technology adoption amongst food and beverage companies in Peninsular Malaysia. It covers four non regulatory factors which include characteristics of the environmental technology, communication networks, economic factors and technology performance that were argued to have significant effect on environmental technology adoption. The specific objective of this study is to determine the existence of relationships between the independent variables and the environmental technology adoption. This study is based on survey design and the time horizon was cross-sectional. Responses from 76 food and beverage companies were obtained and analyzed. The hypotheses were tested using correlation and multivariate statistical analyses. The results of analysis confirmed the hypotheses that there were significant relationships between the four factors and environmental technology adoption. Thus, the results of this study will be beneficial for researchers as well as industrial practitioners in the implementation of environmental technology. 2009 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/2096/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/2096/1/Rahimi_Abidin.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/2096/2/1.Rahimi_Abidin.pdf application/pdf eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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eng
advisor Abdullah, Che Sobry
topic TP Chemical technology
spellingShingle TP Chemical technology
Rahimi, Abidin
Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia
description This study is undertaken to examine the factors that affect environmental technology adoption amongst food and beverage companies in Peninsular Malaysia. It covers four non regulatory factors which include characteristics of the environmental technology, communication networks, economic factors and technology performance that were argued to have significant effect on environmental technology adoption. The specific objective of this study is to determine the existence of relationships between the independent variables and the environmental technology adoption. This study is based on survey design and the time horizon was cross-sectional. Responses from 76 food and beverage companies were obtained and analyzed. The hypotheses were tested using correlation and multivariate statistical analyses. The results of analysis confirmed the hypotheses that there were significant relationships between the four factors and environmental technology adoption. Thus, the results of this study will be beneficial for researchers as well as industrial practitioners in the implementation of environmental technology.
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title Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia
title_short Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia
title_full Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia
title_fullStr Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Factors Influencing Environmental Technology Adoption: A Study on Food and Beverages Industry in Peninsular Malaysia
title_sort factors influencing environmental technology adoption: a study on food and beverages industry in peninsular malaysia
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url https://etd.uum.edu.my/2096/1/Rahimi_Abidin.pdf
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