Creating Innovation in Achieving Sustainability: Halal-Friendly Sustainable Port

Harlina Suzana Jaafar,Mona Leza Abd Aziz,Nasruddin Faisol,Muhammad Razif Ahmad

doi:10.3390/su132313339

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Abstract

The expansion of liberalized trade has forced companies to consider the global market demand to stay competitive. Hence, ports have started to embrace sustainability practices in their activities throughout port operations. Various research has suggested that there is more innovation when sustainability is adopted as an integral part of their business activities. This study established a halal-friendly sustainable port concept and its implementation in meeting the objectives of sustainability practices to boost innovation. To embed sustainability within port organizations, it is vital to create an organizational culture that supports innovation and integrative thinking. Based on the qualitative data obtained from 38 port stakeholders in the southern of Malaysia, the respondents supported a halal-friendly sustainable port as a potential innovation in meeting the objectives of the sustainable practices. Four components that were found crucial for the proposed framework reflect the novelty of the research and its successful implementation.

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IntroductionSustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has become popular among the academics and industry experts in recent years [25,26]
Based on an ongoing study, this paper aims to develop a halal supply chain framework in the context of international trade that focuses on port as an international gateway
By referring to ports at the southern region of Malaysia as a case study, this study develops a concept of Halal-Friendly Sustainable Port (HFSP)

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Introduction

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has become popular among the academics and industry experts in recent years [25,26]. It is reflected in the increasing number of publications debating the sustainability problems of supply chain networks in the last few years. Elkington (1997) [28] popularized the three dimensions as the triple bottom line (TBL) principles (known as the three pillars: profit, planet, and people) It has increasingly appeared as the key topic in supply chain management, especially in discussing its function in reducing the cost of operation, reducing waste, using more from less, and efficiency-oriented planning. Several authors suggested that company achievement may be enhanced when sustainability is adopted along the supply chain systems [25,30,31,32]

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