The issuance of Malaysian Halal certification by the sole national Halal authority, JAKIM, plays an integral role in protecting the integrity of food production in parallel with the religious requirements, especially for Muslim consumers. Given that food production is invisible to the sight of consumers, a company should adhere to Halal-related standards and guidelines in a way to secure a Halal certification in this lucrative Halal industry. The securement of Halal certification indicates that Halal businesses strive to hold significant social responsibility and obligations to society through their business products or services. Hence, this study attempts to conceptually discuss and address the issues of Halal business responsibility practices of Malaysian food SMEs from the stakeholder theory, which calls for deliberations based on Halal food- and social responsibility-related preceding literature to suit the appropriate term of Halal business responsibility practices. The future research and ways forward are further discussed therein.
Ramli et al. (Thu,) studied this question.