National Environmental Factors for Implementing Total Quality Environmental Management in the Libyan Food Industry

Saad, A., Su, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-9541-8869, Marsh, P. and Wu, Z. ORCID: 0000-0002-1707-0238, 2016. National Environmental Factors for Implementing Total Quality Environmental Management in the Libyan Food Industry. British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade, 11 (4), p. 23182. ISSN 2278-098X

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Abstract

Aims:
Investigates national environmental factors on implementing total quality environmental management (TQEM) in the Libyan food industry (LFI), in order to develop modern managerial techniques.
Study Design:
A questionnaire was conducted with 62 managers and 518 employees from three companies in the LFI.
Place and Duration of Study:
The study was carried out in Libya, the fieldwork was conducted in 2013.
Methodology:
Using existing measures obtained from the literature and new ones specifically developed for this research, a battery of items was derived to investigate technical capability, organizational culture, competition, government policy and human resource.
Results:
The results revealed that, five national environmental factors are identified. The findings show that the social responsibility factor is a new phenomenon that has not generally been studied in Libya, and particularly not in the LFI.
Conclusion:
This research contributes to the knowledge by investigating the national environmental factors for implementation of TQEM in a different context (i.e., the Arab/North African context). The findings provide a valuable basis to establish a framework model for the implementation of the TQEM in the Libyan context.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade
Creators:	Saad, A., Su, D., Marsh, P. and Wu, Z.
Publisher:	SCIENCEDOMAIN international
Date:	2016
Volume:	11
Number:	4
ISSN:	2278-098X
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.9734/BJEMT/2016/23182 DOI
Rights:	© 2016 Saad et al.; This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Record created by:	Jill Tomkinson
Date Added:	04 Apr 2016 09:28
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 14:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27285

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