Identifying Critical Barriers And Drivers For Green Supply Chain Management Application In The Malaysian Construction Industry
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Date
2018-03
Authors
Heng, Yong Ming
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
The construction industry is a major contributor to both global pollutions and global warming. Booming construction activities consume large amount of natural resources and cause degradation of ecology, eventually result in an adverse impact to our earth, human beings, natural environment and other living creatures. Devastating floods, annual dry spells, irregular weather patterns as well as unpredictable storms have become major concerns in Malaysia. Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM), which is the integration of environmental thinking into the supply chain management has started to gain attention from many parties as they are increasingly aware of the global pollution issues. In Malaysia, green initiatives especially in construction, are new and at the infancy stage. Besides that, studies on GSCM in construction industry are limited and not much information are found to discuss the application of GSCM in construction process when this research is carried out. Therefore there are lack of knowledge and lack of discoverable green management pattern in local market as the relevant knowledge is yet to be transfered from other industries or countries to Malaysia. Thus, this study aims to identify the level of adoption of GSCM in the Malaysian construction industry as well as analyse the critical barriers and drivers of GSCM adoption. Investigation of adoption level of GSCM application in construction industry is the first objective of this study. Moreover, identifications of barriers and drivers of GSCM implementation are the other objectives. Likewise, this study also investigates the relationship between the adoption of GSCM, barriers and drivers of GSCM initiatives.
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Drivers for green supply chain management , in the Malaysian construction industry