Sustainable development: A Malaysian perspective

Sustainable development is all the rage. Malaysian firms too have been quick to jump into the bandwagon, especially with regards to their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. However, sustainable development has been increasingly interpreted from a strictly Western-centric value system...

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Main Authors: Abdulrazak, S.R., Ahmad, Fauziah Sh.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2014
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spelling my.uum.repo.133832016-04-12T07:00:58Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13383/ Sustainable development: A Malaysian perspective Abdulrazak, S.R. Ahmad, Fauziah Sh. HD28 Management. Industrial Management Sustainable development is all the rage. Malaysian firms too have been quick to jump into the bandwagon, especially with regards to their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. However, sustainable development has been increasingly interpreted from a strictly Western-centric value system.This may pose challenges to Malaysian firms as they adopt sustainable practices into their operations.Four key issues are presented and discussed, particularly in relation to Malaysian’s socioeconomic landscape.Following that, this paper calls for a return to the fundamentals of sustainable development, which is unfettered to value suppositions and instead focused on more pragmatic reasons.To that end, this paper proceeds to make recommendations of a more suitable approach in embracing sustainable development in Malaysia that would bring about a virtuous cycle of enrichment for the business sector as well as the society. Elsevier Ltd. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd http://repo.uum.edu.my/13383/1/31.pdf Abdulrazak, S.R. and Ahmad, Fauziah Sh. (2014) Sustainable development: A Malaysian perspective. In: International Conference on Accounting Studies (ICAS) 2014, 18 - 19 August 2014, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.11.072 doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.11.072
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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Abdulrazak, S.R.
Ahmad, Fauziah Sh.
Sustainable development: A Malaysian perspective
description Sustainable development is all the rage. Malaysian firms too have been quick to jump into the bandwagon, especially with regards to their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. However, sustainable development has been increasingly interpreted from a strictly Western-centric value system.This may pose challenges to Malaysian firms as they adopt sustainable practices into their operations.Four key issues are presented and discussed, particularly in relation to Malaysian’s socioeconomic landscape.Following that, this paper calls for a return to the fundamentals of sustainable development, which is unfettered to value suppositions and instead focused on more pragmatic reasons.To that end, this paper proceeds to make recommendations of a more suitable approach in embracing sustainable development in Malaysia that would bring about a virtuous cycle of enrichment for the business sector as well as the society.
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author Abdulrazak, S.R.
Ahmad, Fauziah Sh.
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title Sustainable development: A Malaysian perspective
title_short Sustainable development: A Malaysian perspective
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