Green Concept: Affect on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Within Malaysia Perspectives

This study is about the discoveries on the green concept affect on small and medium size industry in Malaysia especially in the area of Sg. Petani, Kedah. In today’s modern world, people’s lifestyle has started to change in the attitude of buying and using green products/services in order to save wo...

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Main Author:	Aftar, Mohd Ali
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2011
Subjects:	GE Environmental Sciences
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/2905/1/Aftar_Mohd_Ali.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/2905/2/1.Aftar_Mohd_Ali.pdf
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description	This study is about the discoveries on the green concept affect on small and medium size industry in Malaysia especially in the area of Sg. Petani, Kedah. In today’s modern world, people’s lifestyle has started to change in the attitude of buying and using green products/services in order to save world for future safety and future generation. This situation has occurred because people are beginning to be aware of the importance of saving and the world for future safety and future generation. The study aims to identify factor on affect of green concept on small and medium size enterprise such as green technologies and consumer green purchasing behaviour. The study uses correlation frequency to analyses and gets result. A total of 150 questionnaires were distributed and just 105 questioners returned. The finding of the study indicated that the factors, green technologies and consumer green purchasing behaviour, had positives influenced on the performance of small and medium size enterprise.
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title	Green Concept: Affect on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Within Malaysia Perspectives
title_short	Green Concept: Affect on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Within Malaysia Perspectives
title_full	Green Concept: Affect on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Within Malaysia Perspectives
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spelling	my-uum-etd.29052022-04-11T01:01:51Z Green Concept: Affect on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Within Malaysia Perspectives 2011-06-12 Aftar, Mohd Ali Abu Bakar, Azizi Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business College of Business GE Environmental Sciences HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property This study is about the discoveries on the green concept affect on small and medium size industry in Malaysia especially in the area of Sg. Petani, Kedah. In today’s modern world, people’s lifestyle has started to change in the attitude of buying and using green products/services in order to save world for future safety and future generation. This situation has occurred because people are beginning to be aware of the importance of saving and the world for future safety and future generation. The study aims to identify factor on affect of green concept on small and medium size enterprise such as green technologies and consumer green purchasing behaviour. The study uses correlation frequency to analyses and gets result. A total of 150 questionnaires were distributed and just 105 questioners returned. The finding of the study indicated that the factors, green technologies and consumer green purchasing behaviour, had positives influenced on the performance of small and medium size enterprise. 2011-06 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/2905/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/2905/1/Aftar_Mohd_Ali.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/2905/2/1.Aftar_Mohd_Ali.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Ambec, S. and Lanoie, P. (2008), “Does it pay to be green? A systematic overview”, Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 45-62. Blanco, E., Rey-Maquieira, J. and Lozano, J. (2009), “Economic incentives for tourism firms to undertake voluntary environmental management”, Tourism Management, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 112-22. Bryman A. & Bell E. (2007). Business Research Methods. Second Edition. Oxford Cordeiro, J. and Sarkis, J. 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