Investigation of the proactive strategies in green healthcare supply chain towards environmental sustainability

Norzianis Rezali Abdul Sukor

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This research aims to discover the proactive strategy through green healthcare supply chain that contribute to environmental sustainability of Malaysia's healthcare industries. This research was carefully explored, evaluated, and described in depth from the viewpoints of numerous literatures. This research uses a qualitative method that utilizes multiple case study methodology. In this research, eighteen green coordinators serving acted as informants and samples in this research. Additionally, it investigates and clarified the qualitative information gathered from Malaysia's healthcare sector. the objective of this research is to investigate the environmental management system as a proactive strategy across the green healthcare supply chain that has an impact on environmental sustainability in Malaysia's healthcare industries. This research is also an effort to discover a proactive strategy for green healthcare supply chains in a single setting in a developing country. It also contributed to one of the pillars of sustainable development in Malaysian private hospitals. The research findings enlighten the view on green healthcare supply chain practices. Besides, it also contributes to the knowledge and a promise to expand the research stream on proactive strategy, environmental management practices, green healthcare supply chain and environmental sustainability. The empirical findings suggest environmental management system by green healthcare supply chain initiatives to practitioners to obtain environmental sustainability in Malaysia's healthcare industries.


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