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Marine plastic pollution (MPP) is increasing in recent times because of the high usage of plastic products. Green consumption behaviour (GCB) gaining attention as effective approach to achieving sustainable source reduction of plastic pollution, which negatively affects both human pollution and marine biodiversity and ecosystem. Although, Higher Education (HE) students are key stakeholders in addressing environmental issues, including MPP, there is limited empirical research in Ghana on factors influencing HE students’ GCB. This study, in an endeavour to bridge the gap, used the revised theory of planned behaviour (TPB) framework to investigate the factors influencing higher-education students’ green consumption behaviour in the Ghanaian context. Specifically, the purpose of the study is to examine the interplay of consumer novelty seeking (CNS), environmental concern (EC), perceived behavioural control and social influence on green consumption behaviour among higher-education students in Ghana. The study also explored the moderating role of gender in the relationship between CNS and green consumption behaviour.

This study used quantitative approach to obtain data from a sample of 233 students at the University of Cape Coast and used the partial least squares structural equation modelling approach for the data analysis.

The findings provide valuable insights, highlighting the important role of CNS and ECs in driving higher education students’ green consumption behaviour in Ghana. This study also found a revealing role for gender as a moderator in the relationship between CNS and green consumption behaviour, with females exhibiting a more pronounced response to CNS in influencing green consumption behaviour. On the contrary, the authors found a non-significant impact of perceived behavioural control and social influence.

Although this study presents results that provide valuable insights for policy and practical implications, it has some limitations worth mentioning for future research directions. Firstly, the participants sampled for this study comprised only higher education students from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, which may limit the applicability of the findings to other student populations at various universities in Ghana and beyond. Moreover, the exclusion of non-students who are considered as “Generation Z” (i.e. born within 1995–2010) may narrow the scope of generalisability in the context of young consumers’ green consumption behaviour in Ghana. To enhance the generalisability of future studies, it is recommended that the scope of this study be extended. Furthermore, it should be noted that this study primarily measured higher education students’ green consumption behaviour based on self-reported data. Therefore, future research could adopt alternative approaches, such as non-self-reported measures or experimental data so to reduce the complexities and the gap that may exist between attitudes and behaviour.

These results provide valuable insights for policymakers, educators and environmental advocates to develop targeted initiatives that resonate with Ghanaian higher education students to foster green consumption practices and contribute to global efforts against marine plastic pollution.

The novelty of this study lies in the decision to propose a TPB model by including variables like CNS and EC that are believed to positively shape attitudes towards green consumption behaviour. The rationale for examining these variables is grounded in the belief that they are appropriate factors that may predict students’ green consumer behaviour, which may serve as a potential solution to marine plastic pollution.

The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.

Asks why performance improvement is debated so much more in sport than in business, and whether business has anything to learn from sport techniques.

Looks at different performance levels and why it is beneficial to utilise modern techniques.

Finds that a major reason the performance of the average UK firm lags behind that of the average business in the US, France and Germany is that UK senior managers are often failing to use modern management practices.

Points out that France, Germany and the USA have had business schools since the turn of the twentieth century, but it was not until the mid‐1960s that they came to the UK. But there is now a national network of management scientists, far more numerous than sport scientists. The resource is there, but businesses need to learn how to use it.

Argues that if sport scientists can help athletes, business schools and industry need to work more closely together to get the same benefits for firms.

By now there should be little ignorance about the advent of the new micro‐electronics technology, large scale integrated circuits made up from little pieces of metal oxited silicon wafers — the so‐called silicon chips. These tiny chips, less than five mm square, can contain microprocessors capable of performing the tricks that room‐sized computers found difficult ten years ago. At the moment their commonest usage is in calculators, electronic games and the remote control for the latest teletext domestic televisions but this may well be the consumer tip of a huge industrial iceberg, upon which this country might just founder. To combat this possibility both the last Labour Government and the present administration are spending large sums of money both in publicising the potential of the new technology to key decision‐makers in industry, through the Microprocessor Applications Programme (MAP), and also by direct investment through the National Enterprise Board in the setting up of companies both to manufacture the chips themselves and to build equip‐ment incorporating these devices.

Despite widespread publicity given to the concept of the “paperless office” office automation is still in its infancy. Most offices have got little further than installing a few word processors, some of which may be interlinked.

Attempts to contextualize the current high level of interest in business process re‐engineering (BPR) in UK business and industry. Reviews a number of surveys of UK business involvement with BPR and suggests long‐term secular trends in the business environment of Western firms that seem likely to have encouraged its use. Presents a brief history of the development of BPR to date, examining some of the seminal works on BPR and highlighting the major debates currently found in the literature. Examines the novelty of BPR in relation to other, more established, management approaches, with particular emphasis on the similarities and differences between total quality management and BPR. From case studies reported by UK businesses in the literature and popular press, concludes that: a large number of applications are found in the financial services sector; there is a notable absence of BPR case studies in SMEs; and there is a lack of information available about the failure rates of BPR projects in UK businesses. Identifies several areas where further research is required. Concludes that BPR addresses the need for established enterprises to move to a new organizational paradigm, from one focused on functions to one focused on processes. This need to change has been brought about by the advancing capabilities of information technology, increased levels of competition, the increasing sophistication of consumers and the threats posed by new entrants who have already adopted radically different modes of operation. Since these forces for change appear to be long‐run tendencies in developed economies, BPR cannot be viewed as a passing fad.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the critical success factors of business process reengineering (BPR) in higher education (HE).

Empirical case studies collected from three private higher education institutions in Malaysia, which have embarked on BPR successfully.

Seven factors were found to be critical to BPR implementation success. The factors are teamwork and quality culture, quality management system and satisfactory rewards, effective change management, less bureaucratic and participative, information technology/information system, effective project management and adequate financial resources.

The paper provides a framework for future research to explore organisational development in making BPR happen successfully.

This research contributes to studies of BPR in HE context, by considering the soft issues in its implementation.

It is widely acknowledged that customer relationship management (CRM), market orientation, organizational learning and innovation are the most critical knowledge‐based capabilities required to achieve superior performance. The purpose of this paper is to identify management practices that are necessary to develop these capabilities.

The findings of this paper are based on the analysis of a number of best practice case studies that have been published on many subjects, including, for example, strategic marketing, relationship marketing and knowledge management.

Successful companies are configurations of management practices that enable the development of knowledge‐based capabilities. This paper identifies the factors that give a firm superior knowledge‐based capabilities.

The paper provides managers with some insights into how to develop better knowledge‐based capabilities.

The paper highlights a set of attitudes and practices that are necessary for firm success in today's competitive environment.

States that a review of the literature on materials requirements planning (MRP) implementation in less developed countries in general, and in Egypt in particular, revealed that no systematic study has attempted to investigate how manufacturing companies have been implementing MRP systems. Thus attempts to investigate the state of the art of MRP implementation in Egypt. States the major mail survey findings of the 93 responses received, of which 52 were MRP companies which operated in quite different business environments within the Egyptian industrial sector. The findings of the current study may permit MRP managers and users to obtain a better understanding of MRP promoters, suggest some ideas for further research and acquaint the reader elsewhere in the world how manufacturing companies in less developed countries such as Egypt are implementing new production management systems like MRP systems. The findings of the study suggest that MRP implementation in Egypt is relatively similar to implementation in manufacturing companies in the newly industrialised countries in the west.