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  • Publication
    Top management perception on green innovation in Malaysian GLCs practice
    ( 2015) ;
    Siti Noratisah Mohd Naf
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    Zaim Shah Adnan
    Today the environmental issues have influenced the organizations all over the world to innovate into green environment. Hence, Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia has to follow the green implementation trends in doing businesses either locally or globally. This study explores the perception of the top management in GLCs towards green innovation implementation in their organizations, and the reason of the implemention for the compacies that already employ the green innovation. This is a multiple case studies where the organizations selected are according to the categories of the GLCs industries. Data are collected from the interviews conducted with the top managers of the GLCs at their offices. The findings show that green innovation is implemented by the top management direction where they make the current organizational frugal innovation into green. The implementation outcome provides the GLCs with organizational sustainability through the image, branding and more green projects in the future as they are being the leader in their industries.
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    The impact of green innovation on top management leadership attributes
    ( 2011-06) ;
    Hartini Ahmad
    The main reason businesses need to innovate is due to its necessity to sustain and survive, and not for the matter of how brilliant and visionary the leaders of the organization are. Innovation has known for its very significant role in the organization progression and growth. Innovation can happen in the products, processes, and services being embark by organizations to make more profit by reducing operational cost and making processes more efficient. The concern over the environment all around the world has encouraged innovation to be more tailored to the “green”. “Green” is a name that being associated with anything or any action that has impact to the environment such as green building, green government and green innovation. This paper will discuss the impact of green innovation to the top management leadership attributes in the Governmentlinked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia. The leadership must be sensitive and understand the green demand and situational in the Malaysia and around the world with respect to the industries that these GLCs are operated. This is where the top management leadership attributes will be justified to fit the green innovation implementation. This constructive research is a qualitative multicases study. Data collection is done via interviews, focus group discussion and document analysis. The result will be analyzed to see the themes emerge from the data before the analysis being interpreted.