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Choong, Chee Guan. "Sustainability in the Malaysian palm oil industry." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589047.
Full textLim, Chye Ing. "Sustainability Assessment of Malaysian Palm Oil Industry." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75678.
Full textSalam, Burhanuddin bin Abd. "A systems model for the Malaysian palm oil industry." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283754.
Full textChee, Tahir Aidil Bin. "A systematic approach to sustainability metrics : palm oil production as a case study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670180.
Full textKamarulzaman, Nitty Hirawaty. "An empirical investigation into the development of E-supply chains in the Malaysian palm oil industry." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507423.
Full textMojilis, Frederica. "Determinants of environmental disclosure in the oil palm industry in Malaysia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/344.
Full textGopal, Jaya. "The development of Malaysia's palm oil refining industry : obstacles, policy and performance." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/7273.
Full textBasiron, Y. B. "An investigation into the use of macroeconometric model simulation and optimal control for policy planning in the Malaysian rubber and oil palm industry." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375413.
Full textHashim, Arshad. "Export performance and marketing strategy for Malaysian palm oil." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1994. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU060622.
Full textHashim, Zulkifli. "Management of phosphorus supply in acid Malaysian soils under oil palm." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246726.
Full textDaud, Wan Mohd Ashri Wan. "Production and characterisation of activated carbon from Malaysian oil palm shell." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389601.
Full textWang, Wendy Yanling. "Assessment of ant biodiversity in Malaysian (Sabah) oil palm plantations in relation to oil palm age and across spatial scales." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648783.
Full textMorel, Alexandra C. "Environmental monitoring of oil palm expansion in malaysian borneo and analysis of two international governance initiatives relating to palm oil production." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530061.
Full textTong, Yee Siong. "Agro-commodity global value chains and upgrading : the case of Malaysian palm oil." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/279016.
Full textTheppuangtong, Yuenyong. "Prospects of oil palm development in Thailand." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/130889.
Full textHamid, Ku Halim Ku. "Production of activated carbon from Malaysian oil palm shell by chemical and physical methods." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322920.
Full textTagoe, Sheila M. A. "Effect of mycotoxigenic microorganisms on palm fruits and palm oil produced at the cottage industry level." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503918.
Full textZhenyue, Lai. "Pelletisation of biomass oil palm kernel shells for gasification." Thesis, Curtin University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1184.
Full textPettersson, Tobar Rebecka. "A more sustainable Palm oil industry : A case study on the Government in Indonesia achieving SDGs number 8 and 13 with the help of the palm oil industry." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98037.
Full textChalil, Diana. "AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ASYMMETRIC DUOPOLY IN THE INDONESIAN CRUDE PALM OIL INDUSTRY." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2566.
Full textThe apparent increase in market concentration and vertical integration in the Indonesian crude palm oil (CPO) industry has led to concerns about the presence of market power. For the Indonesian CPO industry, such concerns attract more attention because of the importance of this sector to the Indonesian economy. CPO is used as the main raw material for cooking oil (which is an essential commodity in Indonesia) and it contributes significantly to export earnings and employment. However, dominant producers argue that the increase in economies of scale and scope lead to an increase in the efficiency, which eventually will be beneficial for the end consumers and export earnings. This research seeks to examine whether the dominant producers do behave competitively and pass the efficiency gains to the end consumers, or they enhance inefficiency through market power instead. In order to identify the most suitable model to measure market power in the Indonesian CPO industry, different market power models are explored. These models can be divided into static and dynamic models. In general, all of them accept the price–cost margins as a measure of market power. However, static models fail to reveal the dynamic behaviour that determines market power; hence the dynamic models are likely to be more appropriate to modelling market power. Among these dynamic models, the adjustment model with a linear quadratic specification is considered to be a more appropriate model to measure market power in the Indonesian CPO industry. In the Indonesian CPO industry, producers can be divided into three groups, namely the public estates, private companies and smallholders. However, based on their ability to influence market price, smallholders are not considered as one of the dominant groups. By using the adjustment cost model, the market power of the dominant groups is estimated. The model is estimated using a Bayesian technique annual data spanning 1968–2003. The public estates and private companies are assumed to engage in a noncooperative game. They are assumed to use Markovian strategies, which permit firms to respond to changes in the state vector. In this case, the vector comprises the firms and their rivals’ previous action, implying that firms respond to changes in their rivals’ previous action. The key contribution of this thesis is the relaxation of the symmetry assumption in the estimation process. Although the existence of an asymmetric condition often complicates the estimation process, the different characteristics of the public estates and private companies lead to a need for relaxing such an assumption. In addition, the adjustment system—which can be seen as a type of reaction function—is not restricted to have downward slopes. Negative reaction functions are commonly assumed for a quantity setting game. However, the reverse may occur in particular circumstances. Without such restrictions, the analysis could reveal the type of interaction between the public estates and private companies. In addition, it provides insights into empirical examples of conditions that might lead to the positive reaction function. Furthermore, the analysis adds to the understanding of the impact of positive reaction functions to avoid the complicated estimation of the asymmetric case. As expected, the public estates act as the leader, while the private companies are the follower. Interestingly, results indicate that as well as the private companies, public estates do exert some degree of market power. Moreover, the public estates enjoy even higher market power than the private companies, as indicated by market power indices of -0.46 and -0.72, respectively. The exertion of market power by both the public estates and the private companies cast some doubts about the effectiveness of some current policies in the Indonesian CPO industry. With market power, the underlying assumption of a perfectly competitive market condition—that serves as the basis for the government interventions—is no longer applicable. Hence, many government interventions are unlikely to have the desired effect. The Indonesian competition law that has been imposed since 1999 might be effective in preventing firms to sign collusive contracts. In fact, even without such an agreement, firms in the CPO industry are likely to exert some degree of market power. As an alternative, eliminating the ‘sources’ of market power might be a better solution. If the public estates have the aim of maximising welfare, privatisation might improve their efficiency, hence they have ability to suppress the private companies’ market power. However, if in fact, the public estates deliberately reduce output to gain higher profit, privatisation might increase the degree of market power of both groups of companies even further. In such a condition, addressing the long term barriers of entry stemming from the requirement of high investment might be a better alternative to address the market power problem in the CPO industry.
Vergez, Coralie (Coralie Sandrine Elsa). "Overcoming the challenges of certification for independent smallholders in the palm oil industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80677.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-98).
Independent smallholders' certification in the palm oil industry has been recognized as a significant challenge both in the academic literature and in the interviews conducted with experts prior to writing this thesis. According to both sources, a massive certification of independent smallholders seems very unlikely in the medium-run. At the same time, smallholders are a critical component of the palm oil value chain, both in terms of production and land use. This thesis focuses on the challenges palm oil independent smallholders in South East Asia are faced with when it comes to certification. The paper is structured around four chapters. Chapter I opens the paper with an analysis of the current context in the palm oil industry and of the rising concerns related to sustainability. The main bottlenecks preventing smallholders to become certified are then developed in Chapter II. In Chapter III, certification of smallholders is presented through the lens of the collective action problem framework. Two case studies then illustrate the fact that certification can be achieved. Based on these case studies, as well as on interviews with experts and on academic papers, we formulate the necessary conditions to create a favorable environment for independent smallholders to achieve certification before suggesting ways to implement them (Chapter IV).
by Coralie Vergez.
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Conteh, Juliana Konima Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Women and palm oil processing in Sierra Leone: a case study." Ottawa, 1992.
Find full textNilsson, Sara. "Palm oil - towards a sustainable future? : Challanges and opportunites for the Swedish food industry." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-97335.
Full textHarahap, Fumi. "An evaluation of biodiesel policies : The case of palm oil agro-industry in Indonesia." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Energi och klimatstudier, ECS, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-222618.
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Huddleston, Paul Stephen. "Contract farming in oil palm : the case of Ghana and the Philippines." University of Western Australia. Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0222.
Full textBloxom, Jennifer Michelle. "Fueling the Appetite for Water: The Palm Oil Biofuel Industry in San Pedro Sula, Honduras." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193399.
Full textCahyadi, Eko Ruddy [Verfasser]. "Contract farming and risks for smallholders in the oil palm industry in Indonesia / Eko Ruddy Cahyadi." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek und Universitätsbibliothek Hannover (TIB), 2013. http://d-nb.info/1036673898/34.
Full textMay, Peter Herman. "A modern tragedy of the non-commons agro-industrial change and equity in Brazil's babassu palm zone /." [Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University], 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15080259.html.
Full textKasri, Noor Suhaida Binti. "A critical analysis of the resolution of the Malaysian Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council : a case study of the crude palm oil futures contract." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2012. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3444/.
Full textAli, Fazlin. "An investigation of management accounting control systems in the palm oil industry : a sociomaterial approach to practice change." Thesis, Aston University, 2015. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/25677/.
Full textShields, Francine. "Palm oil & power : women in an era of economic and social transition in 19th century Yorubaland (south-western Nigeria)." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1926.
Full textMartinez, Edna Yiced [Verfasser]. "Capitalist Accumulation and Socio-Ecological Resilience : Black People in Border Areas of Colombia and Ecuador and the Palm Oil Industry / Edna Yiced Martinez." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1173661859/34.
Full textKurz, Sarah. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Governance – A Driver for Change towards Environmental Sustainability? : An Embedded-Case Study on the Sustainability Discourse in the Palm Oil Industry." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44518.
Full textCapriola, Margherita. "Climate Crimes : Climate change and deforestation: a case-study of state-corporate crime in Peru." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Latinamerikainstitutet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144124.
Full textAzhar, Badrul. "The ecological impacts of palm oil industry on avian and mammal biodiversity." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150355.
Full textYaacob, Mohd Rafi. "An Investigation of the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry’s Environmental Strategies, Stakeholders’ Pressure, Environmental Effectiveness and Competitive Advantage." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/30617.
Full textOver the last three decades there has been increasing pressure from stakeholders on businesses to be environmentally responsible. Business organisations cannot help but take this consideration seriously because it has a far-reaching impact on their very survival. This research is intended to bring insights into how and why a business’s management responds to environmental pressure from stakeholders. How a business responds to its stakeholders is known as environmental strategy. In addition, this study also investigates how proactiveness in implementation of each type of environmental strategy impacts on a business’s environmental effectiveness and competitive advantage. In Malaysia palm oil is the most important agricultural commodity in the country, and contributes substantially to the economy. Unfortunately, its activities are not without environmental costs. Deforestation, depletion of flora and fauna, excessive use of chemicals, air and water pollution are the results of the industry’s activity. But due to stakeholders’ pressures, the industry has embraced environmental management in its activities, albeit at a slow pace. Against this background, this study seeks to investigate the efficacy of corporate environmentalism, using a number of palm oil companies as case studies. This study is paramount as no such study has previously been conducted in Malaysia. The Malaysian palm oil industry offers an interesting case for studying corporate environmentalism in developing countries. Using a mixed-methods or triangulation of analysis of nine palm oil companies, which are listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, as case studies, this research investigates the environmental practices of the palm oil companies, and the relationship of these practices with stakeholders’ pressures, environmental effectiveness and competitive advantages. The results of the study reveal that three levels of overall environmental strategy are adopted by the participating palm oil companies. They are labelled by the researcher as minimalists - four companies; intermediators - two companies; and proactivists - three companies. The minimalists refer to companies that exercised the lowest environmental strategy, while the proactivists are those who exercised the highest environmental strategy. The intermediators are in the middle, that is, those companies that seem to be in the early stage of becoming proactivists, but have yet to achieve such a level. The proactivists were classified as those who exercised a proactive strategy, but both intermediators and minimalists exercised a reactive environmental strategy. In terms of the relationship between environmental proactiveness and stakeholders’ pressure it was found that the management of the more proactive companies tended to perceive a wider range of threats from environmental stakeholders compared with reactive companies. Apart from regulatory stakeholders, they also perceived pressure from primary stakeholders, especially their top management, as well as secondary stakeholders including ENGOs, competitors, and the media. On the contrary, reactive companies only perceived threats from regulatory stakeholders. Not only did proactivists differ in terms of stakeholders’ pressure, they were at the same time perceived to be more environmentally effective and to gain more competitive advantages than less proactive companies. Based on the research findings it seems there is a significant positive correlation between a proactive environmental strategy and both environmental effectiveness and competitive advantage among Malaysian palm oil companies. In this study measurement of the environmental strategies and environmental effectiveness was solely based on a triangulation of surveys (seven-point scale items) and in-depth interviews. In order to increase the validity of the study, future researchers need to triangulate these data with other quantitative data. For instance, at a company level, a company’s resources can be measured based on its financial statistics such as sales, net profit, return on investment, and the amount spend on research and development. Moreover, the environmental effectiveness of a mill can be measured in terms of monthly data of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), of palm oil mill effluents and Ringelmann Chart of air emissions, and the amount of money expended on de-sludging for certain periods of time. In both plantations and mills, future researchers can gather data related to environmental accidents, fines and court cases. The key findings of this research are instructive. The majority of the participating palm oil companies in Malaysia adopted reactive environmental strategies. Only a few adopted proactive environmental strategies, and they were more likely to exercise environmental practices at strategic and tactical levels such as top management involvement in environmental issues as well as deploying environmental management systems which mostly related to the bottom line of their businesses. Serious attention towards the destruction of the tropical rainforest as a result of their activities is lacking among participating companies.
Yaacob, Mohd Rafi. "An Investigation of the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry’s Environmental Strategies, Stakeholders’ Pressure, Environmental Effectiveness and Competitive Advantage." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/30617.
Full textOver the last three decades there has been increasing pressure from stakeholders on businesses to be environmentally responsible. Business organisations cannot help but take this consideration seriously because it has a far-reaching impact on their very survival. This research is intended to bring insights into how and why a business’s management responds to environmental pressure from stakeholders. How a business responds to its stakeholders is known as environmental strategy. In addition, this study also investigates how proactiveness in implementation of each type of environmental strategy impacts on a business’s environmental effectiveness and competitive advantage. In Malaysia palm oil is the most important agricultural commodity in the country, and contributes substantially to the economy. Unfortunately, its activities are not without environmental costs. Deforestation, depletion of flora and fauna, excessive use of chemicals, air and water pollution are the results of the industry’s activity. But due to stakeholders’ pressures, the industry has embraced environmental management in its activities, albeit at a slow pace. Against this background, this study seeks to investigate the efficacy of corporate environmentalism, using a number of palm oil companies as case studies. This study is paramount as no such study has previously been conducted in Malaysia. The Malaysian palm oil industry offers an interesting case for studying corporate environmentalism in developing countries. Using a mixed-methods or triangulation of analysis of nine palm oil companies, which are listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, as case studies, this research investigates the environmental practices of the palm oil companies, and the relationship of these practices with stakeholders’ pressures, environmental effectiveness and competitive advantages. The results of the study reveal that three levels of overall environmental strategy are adopted by the participating palm oil companies. They are labelled by the researcher as minimalists - four companies; intermediators - two companies; and proactivists - three companies. The minimalists refer to companies that exercised the lowest environmental strategy, while the proactivists are those who exercised the highest environmental strategy. The intermediators are in the middle, that is, those companies that seem to be in the early stage of becoming proactivists, but have yet to achieve such a level. The proactivists were classified as those who exercised a proactive strategy, but both intermediators and minimalists exercised a reactive environmental strategy. In terms of the relationship between environmental proactiveness and stakeholders’ pressure it was found that the management of the more proactive companies tended to perceive a wider range of threats from environmental stakeholders compared with reactive companies. Apart from regulatory stakeholders, they also perceived pressure from primary stakeholders, especially their top management, as well as secondary stakeholders including ENGOs, competitors, and the media. On the contrary, reactive companies only perceived threats from regulatory stakeholders. Not only did proactivists differ in terms of stakeholders’ pressure, they were at the same time perceived to be more environmentally effective and to gain more competitive advantages than less proactive companies. Based on the research findings it seems there is a significant positive correlation between a proactive environmental strategy and both environmental effectiveness and competitive advantage among Malaysian palm oil companies. In this study measurement of the environmental strategies and environmental effectiveness was solely based on a triangulation of surveys (seven-point scale items) and in-depth interviews. In order to increase the validity of the study, future researchers need to triangulate these data with other quantitative data. For instance, at a company level, a company’s resources can be measured based on its financial statistics such as sales, net profit, return on investment, and the amount spend on research and development. Moreover, the environmental effectiveness of a mill can be measured in terms of monthly data of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), of palm oil mill effluents and Ringelmann Chart of air emissions, and the amount of money expended on de-sludging for certain periods of time. In both plantations and mills, future researchers can gather data related to environmental accidents, fines and court cases. The key findings of this research are instructive. The majority of the participating palm oil companies in Malaysia adopted reactive environmental strategies. Only a few adopted proactive environmental strategies, and they were more likely to exercise environmental practices at strategic and tactical levels such as top management involvement in environmental issues as well as deploying environmental management systems which mostly related to the bottom line of their businesses. Serious attention towards the destruction of the tropical rainforest as a result of their activities is lacking among participating companies.
Casson, Anne. "Oil palm and resistance : the political ecology of the Indonesian oil-palm sub-sector in an era of turbulent change." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146041.
Full textFlori, Indrasanti, and 卓珊迪. "Impact Analysis of National Standard in Palm Cooking Oil Industry – A Case Study in Indonesia." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3d646b.
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Palm cooking oil SNI (Indonesian National Standard) has specific requirement of Vitamin A containing in cooking oil with the objective to improve people's nutrition. This standard became mandatory with the government's new policy in the form of Ministerial Regulation and Technical Guideline, which will be effective on the 31st December, 2018. In this research, we estimate the impact of the policy in palm cooking oil SNI mandatory application by conducting cost analysis. The system affected by the regulation is examined to identify the stakeholder affected. Later we identify all costs that should be included to the analysis and estimate their values based on data availability. Finally, observation and management insight are presented to evaluate the results of cost analysis.
Benoit, Nzokizwa. "Analysis of the socioeconomic impact of the palm oil industry on smallholder farmers in Rumonge, Burundi." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27144.
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Chen, Tsung-Hung, and 陳琮宏. "A Study on Business Strategy of Palm Oil Industry in Thailand-A Case of Company Golden Time." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c47rjs.
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管理學院高階經營碩士學程在職專班
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This paper discusses the development of the GOLDEN TIME company,an industry of palm oil in Thailand.The purpose is to analyze the company problems,find the strategies,and search the way of cooperation among rival companies to make the win-win condition.As a result of the awareness of environment protection in recent years,it is important for a company to manufacture in an eco-friendly way. This paper is based on PEST analysis, Porter five forces analysis, SWOT analysis, and Co-Opetition strategy. Using the method of case studing with these four analyzing tools finds the strategies of operating, business advantages, and the development of future etc. I hope that my research can provide other companies in Thailand some insight, such as causes of problems, solutions to problems, and appropriate strategies to develop in Thailand. Last but not least, this research could be helpful to firms which have a hard time striking a balance between environment and production.
Gillespie, Piers Arnold. "Politics, power and participation : a political economy of oil palm in the Sanggau District of West Kalimantan." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150653.
Full textRaffiudin, Riaty. "Withering of patrimonial state-business relations in Indonesia following the 1997-8 economic crisis? Case studies of the electronics and palm oil industries." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/26221/.
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