This paper presents a literature review examining the role of social capital in adopting sustainable agriculture, given the growing importance of sustainable agriculture for addressing climate change, food security, and resource scarcity. The review focuses on exploring the construct of social capital and its key dimensions and reviewing the impact of these dimensions on adoption. A Web of Science (WOS) database search identified 17 eligible articles for inclusion following a screening process. The review highlights that various social capital dimensions emerged from previous studies. However, these dimensions can be grouped into three primary constructs of social capital; social network, social norm and social trust. This paper also discussed how these three constructs could lead to better adoption of sustainable agriculture. The findings of this paper provide an understanding of social capital's role in promoting sustainable agricultural practices. By unpacking the construct of social capital and examining its dimensions and influence on adoption behaviours or outcomes, this paper contributes to a better understanding of the factors that influence farmers' decisionmaking processes and highlights social capital's importance in achieving sustainable agricultural development. Ultimately, this review can promote sustainable agriculture and enhance the sustainability and resilience of global food production systems.
During the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCC COP) meeting at Copenhagen, prime minister of Malaysia Dato Seri Najib Razak pledged to reduce the Malaysia CO2 emissions up to 40% by the year of 2020. Ever since that, organizations are called to embark on green innovation to achieve the target. The latest statistics from the economic census 2011 reported that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) constitute 97.3% of total business establishment in Malaysia. This clearly shows that SMEs are an important economic entity in Malaysia and participation by them on adoption of green innovation is vital to reduce the CO2 emission. Thus, this paper suggested the conceptual framework to examine the technological determinants that may influence SMEs in Malaysia to adopt one of the green innovation methods which is green production and suggested to explores the influence of government interventions toward the relationship.
This qualitative study aims to contribute by exploring the existing theory on push and pull motivations within the entrepreneurial event model to see what is missing from the existing researche. This study uses semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with a total of six Malaysian seniorpreneurs for data collection. Content analysis method was used to extract their motivation from the qualitative data. The results reveal that in terms of theoretical, spiritual motivation is one of the motivations in driving seniorpreneurs to do business apart from push and pull motivations. The findings from this study may expand a research area of practical applications of spiritual motivation in the business environment which still empirically is not sufficiently covered.
Abstract-Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) is an important economic entity in most country including Malaysia. Statistic from SME Corporation Malaysia shows that currently, there are 645, 136 SMEs and they contribute 32.7% of Malaysia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the forecast will be 41% by 2020. Statistics also have indicated that a large portion of the country's environmental problems are associated with the activities of SMEs and it is also believed that SMEs are primary source of environmental problems. Therefore, the participation of SMEs in adopting environmental friendly innovations is crucial in the effort to reduce environmental problems. Past literature have shown that technological determinants have established a stable influence in adoption of environmental innovations researches. However, past researchers have ignored the influence of organizational determinants in influencing adoption of environmental innovations. Thus, this study investigated the organizational determinants such as top management support and quality of human resources in influencing Malaysian SMEs to adopt one of the environmental innovations which is green productions. Data for this study were collected through questionnaire and analyzed by using SPSS. All organizational determinants for this study showed a significant influence on green production adoption. Since this study can be considered as one of the first attempts to empirically investigate organizational factors of green production adoption, the result helped scholars, government and government agencies to understand SMEs' behavior related to green production.
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