Impediments of Environment Management System (EMS) Implementation in Malaysian Local Authorities – A Preliminary Finding

Nero Madi,Mariam Rahmat,Corina Joseph,Y.Y Abdul Talib,D Abdul Kadir,A Ahmi,M.H Mohd Sharif,S Ishak,F.H Rusly,R.H Raja Mohd Ali

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20173405001

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https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173405001

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Abstract

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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Reforms introduced by the Malaysian Government in 2009 and 2010 are set to achieving the nation’s bold aspirations of Vision 2020 by joining the high-income nations
Despite the numerous reports by organisations who have benefitted from implementing the standard, only 3 out of 149 Malaysian local authorities are implementing ISO 14001 [4], and the implementation are influenced by merely the internal organizational factors
In the previous study conducted by [8], the two most significant impediments expected by organizations during the Environmental Management System (EMS) planning stage include documentation and training of employees and there was no significant impediments during the implementation stages as the employees were involved in the decision making process

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Reforms introduced by the Malaysian Government in 2009 and 2010 are set to achieving the nation’s bold aspirations of Vision 2020 by joining the high-income nations. It is put forward here that, there are possibly several institutional factors that influence the non implementation of EMS by Malaysian local authorities. To investigate impediments of EMS implementation by the 146 Malaysian local authorities, this study employed the institutional theory, which has been used by many researchers to understand various organizational and individual practices and activities.

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