Enhancing Ethic Integrity and Human Resource Development to Build a Green Banking Business Model in Indonesia

Subject Areas : Design of Experiment

Sobar M. Johari ¹ , Wing Keung Wong ² , Jenho Peter Ou ³

1 - Department of Sharia Economics, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), Indonesia.
2 - Department of Finance, Fintech & Blockchain Research Center, and Big Data Research Center, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan
3 - Department of Finance, Asia University, Taiwan

Received: 2023-06-10 Accepted : 2024-09-02 Published : 2024-11-21

Keywords: Fairness, Equity, Honesty, Integrity, Fuzzy Method, DEMATEL analysis,

Abstract :

In recent years, researchers and intellectuals have paid close attention to Sustainable Banking. Such interest has sparked several debates on the matter, resulting in a significant amount of study in Sustainable Banking throughout the years. An empirical study on Sustainable Banking and profitability for sustainable development has yielded varied outcomes. This study contributes to developing and improving Sustainable Banking by integrating social, resource, and ethical integrity factors of sustainability. This study uses fuzzy logic and the DEMATEL model to identify and evaluate the interdependence of two factors, ethical integrity, and sustainable human resource development. The results of the study indicate that the critical ethical factors are "fairness and equity covering the customer treatment, honesty and integrity, corporate governance" in the banking industry in Indonesia ethic integrity and HRD. Despite the importance of this topic, there has been a lack of empirical evidence until recently. In this paper, we take stock of the empirical evidence in the literature through a banking managerial lens.

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