Islamic Bankers Green Behaviours and Its Impact on Green Banking Growth

Main Article Content

Qaisar Ali
Shazia Parveen

Abstract

This study focuses to categorise the types of green behaviours among Islamic bankers and the impact of these behaviours on the growth of green banking in Malaysia. The data was collected through a self-administrated survey questionnaire. McConnaughy’s (2014) behavioural framework was adopted as a measurement scale. The findings prove that all five types of behaviours (conservation, work sustainability, avoiding harm, influencing others and taking initiative) of Islamic bankers have a significant positive impact on the growth of green banking. Particularly, taking initiative was the most influential behaviour for the growth of green banking. The major limitation of this study is the data collection from limited participants which is not an ideal scenario to generalise these findings. The findings are robust to develop green banking regulations, to shape a better green behaviour of Islamic bankers and to enhance green banking growth in Malaysia.

Article Details

Section

References

Julia, T., Rahman, M. P. & Kassim, S. (2016). Shariah compliance of green banking policy in Bangladesh. Humanomics, 32(4), 390–404, doi:10.1108/h-02-2016-0015.

Khan, T. & Mohomed, A.B.R.N. (2017). Ethical Banking and Islamic Banking: A Comparison of Triodos Bank and Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited. Islamic Economic Studies, 25(Special issue), 111-154. DOI: 10.12816/0036190.

Leech, N.L., Barrett, K.C. and Morgan, G.A. (2005), “SPSS for intermediate statistics use and interpretation. Job Characteristics and Organizational Commitments of Taiwanese Expatriates Working in Mainland Chinaâ€, Li-Fen Tsai 180 Mahwah, Lawrence Erlbaum, USA.

McConnaughy, J.C. (2014). Development of An Employee Green Behaviour Descriptive Norms Scale. Theses published by California State University, San Bernardino.

Oyegunle, A. & Weber, O. (2015). Development of Sustainability and Green Banking Regulations Existing Codes and Practices. CIGI Papers, 65.

Syedul, M.I., & Islam, R.M. (2017). Is Islamic Banking More Sustainable Than Conventional Banking? An Empirical Study on Selected Banks of Bangladesh. Journal of Islamic Banking & Finance, 34(1), 53-68.

Uddin, M.N. (2016). Shari’ah Based Banking and Green Financing: Evidence from Bangladesh. Journal of Business and Management, 18(1), 79-99, doi: 10.9790/487X-18137990.

Uddin, M.N. & Ahmmed, M. (2018). Islamic Banking and Green Banking for Sustainable Development: Evidence from Bangladesh. Journal of Islamic Economics, 10 (1), 97-114, doi: htttp://dx.doi.org/10.15408/aiq.v10i1.4563.

Similar Articles

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.