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Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding

The implementation of environmental management system (EMS) by public sector agencies is in line with the Malaysian Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and the New Public Management doctrine. Local authority is chosen as a sample because of its important role in advancing towards sustainable d...

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Main Authors: Madi, Nero, Joseph, Corina, Rahmat, Mariam
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2017
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HF5601 Accounting
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/21007/1/shsconf_four2017%201%207iv.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.210072017-02-23T01:35:11Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/21007/ Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding Madi, Nero Joseph, Corina Rahmat, Mariam HF5601 Accounting The implementation of environmental management system (EMS) by public sector agencies is in line with the Malaysian Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and the New Public Management doctrine. Local authority is chosen as a sample because of its important role in advancing towards sustainable development.This study aims to examine impediments to the ISO 14001 implementation by Malaysian local authorities using the institutional theory as the underlying framework. The survey instrument was developed and distributed via mail to all 146 local authorities in Malaysia.Finding revealed that the impediments to the EMS implementation were explained by lack of coercive, normative and mimetic isomorphism under the institutional theory.It is expected that the survey findings would fill in the gaps in the literature in better understanding the lack of implementation of IS00 14001 particularly in the emerging economy. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/21007/1/shsconf_four2017%201%207iv.pdf Madi, Nero and Joseph, Corina and Rahmat, Mariam (2017) Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding. In: 17th Annual Conference of the Asian Academic Accounting Association (2016 FourA Conference), 20-22 November 2016, Kuching, Sarawak. http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173405001 doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173405001
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Madi, Nero
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Rahmat, Mariam
Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding
description The implementation of environmental management system (EMS) by public sector agencies is in line with the Malaysian Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and the New Public Management doctrine. Local authority is chosen as a sample because of its important role in advancing towards sustainable development.This study aims to examine impediments to the ISO 14001 implementation by Malaysian local authorities using the institutional theory as the underlying framework. The survey instrument was developed and distributed via mail to all 146 local authorities in Malaysia.Finding revealed that the impediments to the EMS implementation were explained by lack of coercive, normative and mimetic isomorphism under the institutional theory.It is expected that the survey findings would fill in the gaps in the literature in better understanding the lack of implementation of IS00 14001 particularly in the emerging economy.
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author Madi, Nero
Joseph, Corina
Rahmat, Mariam
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Joseph, Corina
Rahmat, Mariam
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title Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding
title_short Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding
title_full Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding
title_fullStr Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding
title_full_unstemmed Impediments of environment management system (EMS) implementation in Malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding
title_sort impediments of environment management system (ems) implementation in malaysian local authorities – a preliminary finding
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