1. Introduction
Growing global environmental concerns and the development of international environmental standard
are creating the need for businesses to adopt formal environmental strategies and programmes (Daily and
Huang, 2001). Traditionally, a majority of companies around the world has used the compliance approach in
their environmental or green management initiatives driven by laws and regulations. However, in the past
several years, environmental forces such as customer boycotts, dynamic preferences, and new customer
requirements have affected basic business strategies – from pollution control to pollution prevention
(Brockhoff et al., 1999). In the environmental literature, the concept of green management for sustainable
development has various definitions; all of which generally, seek to explain the need for balance between
industrial growth for wealth creation and safeguarding the natural environment so that the future generations
may thrive (Daily and Huang, 2001). Nevertheless, the issue of how an individual organization or entire
society achieves sustainability from the green management movement is still debatable and unclear. Thus,
research on how business may structure their facilities to enhance for sustainability through green
management initiatives seems paramount.