Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives

Environmental issues are now becoming a constant if not a dominant issues in society and government agenda. There is an expectation that all institutions especially industries take proactive steps towards improving their environmental performance. Malaysia recognises this shift and has move tow...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah Sidek, 'Atiah, Backhouse, Chris
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/1/42055.pdf

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spelling	iium-420552015-05-11T00:59:15Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/ Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives Abdullah Sidek, 'Atiah Backhouse, Chris TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Environmental issues are now becoming a constant if not a dominant issues in society and government agenda. There is an expectation that all institutions especially industries take proactive steps towards improving their environmental performance. Malaysia recognises this shift and has move towards a more positive approach in promoting environmentally sound and sustainable development practices for industries and businesses including SMEs. Yet there are many aspects of the SMEs sector are still isolated and need to be investigated. This case study is the first part of the investigation and perceived as an opportunity to explore and understand the weakness of the current system in Malaysia. A series of interviews were carried out with senior management of metal and fabrication SMEs in United Kingdom and Malaysia to understand the attitude towards environmental sustainability, current environmental and operation performances, and other key improvement areas. This paper presented the findings of the case study and the comparative analysis helps identify key areas for continuous improvement, in order to better promote environmental sustainability to Malaysian SMEs especially in the metal and fabrication sector 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/1/42055.pdf Abdullah Sidek, 'Atiah and Backhouse, Chris (2014) Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives. In: 4th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) 2014, 7-9 Jan 2014, Bali, Indonesia. http://iieom.org/ieom2014/pdfs/374.pdf
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spellingShingle	TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Abdullah Sidek, 'Atiah Backhouse, Chris Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives
description	Environmental issues are now becoming a constant if not a dominant issues in society and government agenda. There is an expectation that all institutions especially industries take proactive steps towards improving their environmental performance. Malaysia recognises this shift and has move towards a more positive approach in promoting environmentally sound and sustainable development practices for industries and businesses including SMEs. Yet there are many aspects of the SMEs sector are still isolated and need to be investigated. This case study is the first part of the investigation and perceived as an opportunity to explore and understand the weakness of the current system in Malaysia. A series of interviews were carried out with senior management of metal and fabrication SMEs in United Kingdom and Malaysia to understand the attitude towards environmental sustainability, current environmental and operation performances, and other key improvement areas. This paper presented the findings of the case study and the comparative analysis helps identify key areas for continuous improvement, in order to better promote environmental sustainability to Malaysian SMEs especially in the metal and fabrication sector
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdullah Sidek, 'Atiah Backhouse, Chris
author_facet	Abdullah Sidek, 'Atiah Backhouse, Chris
author_sort	Abdullah Sidek, 'Atiah
title	Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives
title_short	Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives
title_full	Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives
title_fullStr	Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives
title_full_unstemmed	Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives
title_sort	environmental sustainability issues in malaysian metal and fabrication smes: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives
publishDate	2014
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42055/1/42055.pdf
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Environmental sustainability issues in Malaysian metal and fabrication SMEs: comparative analysis from a case study perspectives

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