Expatriation in Malaysia: Predictors of Cross-Cultural Adjustment among Hotel Expatriates
Haslina Halim
· Hassan Abu Bakar
· Bahtiar Mohamad
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2019
The stress experienced by expatriates is usually caused by the inability to adjust to the host culture, which largely results from their lack of social skills needed in dealing with the new cultural environment. Thus, the main purpose of th...
Entrepreneurial orientation dimension affects firm performance: A perspective from the Malaysian furniture industry
Fazal Akhbar
· Rao Aamir Khan
· Fazli Wadood
· Abdul Talib Bin Bon
·Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review ·2020 ·JEL: L20
The main objective of this study is to verify the impact of entrepreneurial orientation dimension on firm performance of furniture industry in Malaysia. In this study, we used a quantitative research method and collected data through a ques...
The Correlates of Developing Green Supply Chain Management Practices: Firms Level Analysis in Malaysia
Tulus Suryanto
· Muhammad Haseeb
· Nira Hariyatie Hartani (Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM))
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018
Over all businesses are ever changing competition environment, organization are always required to make modification internally and externally to compete globally successfully into marketplace. Supply chain management is key sources for fir...
Factors Eliciting Corporate Fraud in Emerging Markets: Case of Firms Subject to Enforcement Actions in Malaysia
Abdul Ghafoor
· Rozaimah Zainudin
· Nurul Shahnaz Mahdzan
·Journal of Business Ethics ·2019
This study investigates the key factors that elicit financial reporting fraud among companies in Malaysia. Using enforcement action releases issued by the Security Commission of Malaysia (SC) and Bursa Malaysia, we identify a sample of 76 f...
Cultivating entrepreneurial culture among students in Malaysia
Zubair Hassan
· Muneeb Khan Lashari
· Abdul Basit
·Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review ·2021 ·JEL: O15, P47, Q01, Z12
This study contributes to the existing literature on promoting entrepreneurial culture among students by establishing the key determinants of entrepreneurial culture through risk-taking behaviour, innovation, creativity, and empowerment. On...
Beyond institutional voids and the middle-income trap: The emerging business angel market in Malaysia
Richard Harrison
· William Scheela
· P. C. Lai
· Sivapalan Vivekarajah
·Asia Pacific Journal of Management ·2018
Emerging economies are characterized by the presence of institutional voids which challenge and constrain the behavior of economic agents. In this paper we report on one set of agents, angel investors, in Malaysia, which investors fear is e...
Busy Auditors, Ethical Behavior, and Discretionary Accruals Quality in Malaysia
Karen M. Y. Lai
· Andriyawan Sasmita
· Ferdinand A. Gul
· Yee Boon Foo
· Marion Hutchinson
·Journal of Business Ethics ·2018
The required professional and ethical pronouncements of accountants mean that auditors need to be competent and exercise due care and skill in the performance of their audits. In this study, we examine what happens when auditors take on mor...
Corporate governance and performance of REITs: A combined study of Singapore and Malaysia
Jayalakshmy Ramachandran
· Khoo Kok Chen
· Ramaiyer Subramanian
· Ken Kyid Yeoh
· Kok Wei Khong
·Managerial Auditing Journal ·2018
Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and performance of Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) in Singapore and Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The CG attributes that contribute best...
Factors affecting profitability in Malaysia
Ali Saleh Alarussi
· Sami Mohammed Alhaderi
·Managerial Auditing Journal ·2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting profitability in Malaysian-listed companies. It has been argued that profitability is the main pillar for any company to survive in the long run. Although profitability i...
Lead engagement partner workload, partner-client tenure and audit reporting lag: Evidence from Malaysia
Wan Nordin Wan Hussin
· Hasan Mohamad Bamahros
· Siti Norwahida Shukeri
·Managerial Auditing Journal ·2018
Purpose Motivated by a recent call from DeFond and Zhang (2014) for auditing scholars to use “a richer set of audit firm, auditor office, and individual auditor characteristics to capture competency”, this study aims to extend the related l...
Motivational Factors for Halal Certification Adoption among Small and Micro Enterprises in Malaysia
Nur Shuhada Abdul Basir
· Chemah Tamby Chik
· Sabaianah Bachok
· Noradzhar Baba
· Rasidah Hamid
· Maria Mohd Salleh
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018
The halal food industry is vital to the world wide muslim consumers to ensure the food they consumed, use and purchase are hygienic, clean and not harmful to health. Muslim is the largest group in Malaysia with 61.3% from total population....
Planning to improvise? The role of reasoning in the strategy process: Evidence from Malaysia
Paul Hughes
· Vitor Leone
· Ian R. Hodgkinson
· Mathew Hughes
· Darwina Arshad
·Asia Pacific Journal of Management ·2017
Planning and improvisation are depicted as alternate decision-making orientations in the strategy process literature, executed by two parallel cognitive contexts: rational or intuitive, but can rationality and intuition be harmonized in the...
Political connections and the cost of debt: Re-examining the evidence from Malaysia
Chwee Ming Tee
·Journal of Multinational Financial Management ·2018 ·JEL: G30; G32; G34; P26
This study extends prior work on the relationship between politically connected firms (PCFs) and the cost of debt in Malaysia. Motivated by the results of Bliss and Gul (2012), this study employs a longer and comprehensive dataset to re-exa...
A Conceptual Paper on Impact of Corporate Governance on Operating Performance during Goods Service Tax Implementation in Malaysia
Sitraselvi Chandren
· Ayoib Che Ahmad
· Zaimah Abdullah
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018
The purpose of this conceptual paper is to address the link between corporate governance and operating performance during and after GST implementation. With the support of agency theory, this paper develops five propositions for the relatio...
An Investigation of Challenges in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation: The Case of Public Sector in Malaysia
Dahlia Fernandez
· Zaini Zaino
· Hawa Ahmad
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018
The implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to surge the performance has induced various organizations towards its adoption. Even though the government may perhaps strive for enhancements from ERP adoption, however, the...