Health Technology Assessment and Its Use in Drug Policy in Malaysia
Asrul Akmal Shafie
· Haarathi Chandriah
· Yee Vern Yong
· Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh
·Value in Health Regional Issues ·2019
Objective To describe the process and role of health technology assessment (HTA) in the context of drug policy in Malaysia. Methods We summarized the HTA process through review of documents and reports available in the public domain combine...
Influence of ethical ideology and emotional intelligence on the ethical judgement of future accountants in Malaysia
Suhaiza Ismail
· Zuhudha Rasheed
·Meditari Accountancy Research ·2019
Purpose This paper aims to identify the influence of personal factors on the ethical judgement of future accountants in Malaysia. In particular, there are two research objectives for this study: first, to investigate the influence of ethica...
Mirror, mirror on the wall, are we ready for Gen-Z in marketplace? A study of smart retailing technology in Malaysia
Siew Imm Ng
· Jo Ann Ho
· Xin Jean Lim
· Kee Lin Chong
· Khairunnisak Latiff
·Young Consumers ·2019
Purpose In this digitalization age, smart technologies are on the cusp of changing all business sector including retailing. Today’s consumers desire to shop in a smart store where the physical products on display are connected to the intern...
Relations between Innovation and Firm Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Southeast Asian Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam
Kyunga Na
· Young-Hee Kang
·Journal of Open Innovation: Technology Market and Complexity ·2019
This study aims to investigate the effects of product and process innovations on manufacturing firm performance in Southeast Asian emerging markets. To this end, using a cross-national sample of 2324 manufacturing firms from the World Bank...
Socioeconomic Factors, Food Supply and Food Security among Communities at the Malaysia-Thailand Border: A Human Security Approach
Bakri Mat (Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM))
· Ku Nurasyiqin Ku Amir (Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM))
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2019
Food security is one of the non-traditional security components that forms the basic needs of a nation, households, and individuals. Any problem in food supply or disruption in any of the four key elements of food security will threaten sec...
The elusive quest for high income status—Malaysia and Thailand in the post-crisis years
Kunal Sen
· Matthew Tyce
·Structural Change and Economic Dynamics ·2019
Both Malaysia and Thailand were seen to be part of the miracle growth economies of East Asia and fast moving into high income status in the early 1990s. Following the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of the mid 1990s, both countries have observ...
The Impact of Renewable Energy on Economic Well-Being of Malaysia: Fresh Evidence from Auto Regressive Distributed Lag Bound Testing Approach
Muhammad Haseeb
· Irwan Shah Zainal Abidin
· Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye
· Nira Hariyatie Hartani
·International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy ·2019 ·JEL: I31; Q22; Q52
This present study examines the role of renewable energy in influencing economic well-being in Malaysia. We used annual data over the period of 1980–2016 in order to apply recent econometrics. The study used renewable energy and economic gr...
The Issues in Order Picking and Packaging in a Leading Pharmaceutical Company in Malaysia
Veera Pandiyan Kaliani Sundram
· Irwan Ibrahim
· Mashitah Mohamed Esa
· Natasya Nabilah Mohd Azly
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2019
Picking and packing is the one of the main principle action in a distribution centre. Picking and packing action ensures the right product at the right quantity reaches the right customer. As such, this study is purported to recognize the i...
Variegated National Retail Markets: Negotiating Transformation through Regulation in Malaysia and Thailand
Alexandra Dales
· Neil M. Coe
· Martin Hess
·Economic Geography ·2019
The last two decades have seen a major wave of retail globalization that has driven the transformation of retail markets in the emerging economies of Southeast Asia and beyond. This article provides a systematic analysis of the divergent pa...
Views of Indonesian consumer towards medical tourism experience in Malaysia
Harriman Samuel Saragih
· Peter Jonathan
·Journal of Asia Business Studies ·2019
Purpose Indonesians are known for their unique behaviour and willingness to travel abroad for healthcare treatments. More than half of the healthcare “tourists” who travel to Malaysia come from Indonesia, followed in numbers by those in Ind...
Visitor’s perceptions of the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) as an urban open space for environmental learning: results of a qualitative study
Johannes Machiel Dreyer
· Noor Azlin Yahya
· Nik Azyyati Abd Kadir
·Environment, Development and Sustainability ·2019
The campus of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) is forest plantation research site established since 1926. Urbanization and other development affecting Kuala Lumpur led to FRIM being one of the few remaining green open spaces ne...
Assessing the economic and social impacts of fiscal policies: Evidence from recent Malaysian tax adjustments
Saeed Solaymani
·Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: H2, H24, H25, O15
This study is the first attempt to analyze the effectiveness of recent two major tax policies, the reductions in personal and corporate income taxes and a rise in indirect tax and their combine, under both balanced and unbalanced budget con...
Challenges experienced by immigrant entrepreneurs in a developing non-Western country: Malaysia
Hamizah Abd Hamid
·Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review ·2020
The objective of the article is to explore the challenges experienced by immigrant entrepreneurs in a developing non-Western immigrant-receiving country. Through a qualitative approach, this study examined the experiences of immigrant entre...
Drivers of export competitiveness: new evidences from the manufacturing industry in Malaysia
Miao Zhanga
· Md Aslam Mia
·Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy ·2020 ·JEL: D22 F23 L60 O14
With cognizance to firms’ heterogeneity in an industry, this paper employs the most recent, unpublished and large-scale firm-level data of 14,687 manufacturing firms in Malaysia in 2015 to revisit the drivers of manufacturing exports. Apply...
Economic Ripple Effect: The Effect of Public Transfer Payment Policy in Malaysia
Muhammad Adli Amirullah
· Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada
· Mohamed Aslam
·Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics ·2020 ·JEL: C00, E60, H53
This article models the interconnection between the public transfer payment policy in Malaysia and the overall Malaysian economy using an inter-linkage coordinate space. This space is represented graphically, with the public transfer paymen...