The effects of environmental knowledge and green products awareness on green management and sustainable performance: Evidence from manufacturing sector in UAE

Majdi Khaleeli,Latha Krishnadas,Suja Pradeep

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2020.10.031

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This research intends to figure the antecedents of Green Management and its implementation in manufacturing sector companies in UAE. The study also intends to explore the relationship between the implementation of green management and sustainable performance as measured by complied scale of social, economic and environmental performance. Quantitative research methods are used and the necessary data are collected from 134 companies by using google form survey sent to participants. Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 22 is used to analyze the data. The findings of this research reveal that managers’ environmental knowledge and managers’ green product awareness were positively and significantly associated with green management and that green management was also positively and significantly associated with sustainable performance.

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Global warming and climate change are making the major threats to our world today and scholars have conducted several studies that address the eco-system and explored the best practices that companies need to follow to resolve and mitigate these threats (Raharjo, 2018; Berrone et al, 2017; Akturan, 2018, Cankaya & Sezen, 2018)
Based on the above analysis, the three hypotheses originally proposed in this research were accepted at significance level of (0.05), namely, positive and significant relationship was found between managers environmental awareness and managers’ green product awareness as independent variables and green management is dependent variables, the two independent variables found to explain 0.53 of the variances in the dependent variable
This research lends strong support to the third hypothesis that proposed a positive relationship between green management as independent variable and sustainable performance as it indicated that (0.68) of the variance in the sustainable performance is attributed to green management practices

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Raharjo (2018) argued that companies have negative environmental impacts alongside with their positive performance, and this will lead to a conflict of interest between stockholders and society. Scholars called for more research on environmental issues and sustainability to explore how companies can reduce their negative impacts on our planet that results from their operations (Raharjo, 2018; Fan et al, 2015). Some other researchers argued that consumer awareness can play vital role in addressing these issues as they can control their consumption and buy environmentally friendly products (Wang et al, 2017). This research intends to explore the antecedents and enablers of green management, i.e., the management that apply the green practices such as reducing waste, pollution, and protecting the environment and society, it intends to explore if green management practices are associated positively with company performance. This research intends to explore the antecedents of green management, and whether or not green management practices are associated with sustainability performance of small and medium size companies in UAE

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