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...
Imtiaz Sifat · Azhar Mohamad ·Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: D43, D47, D53
Despite regulatory claims of straitening volatility and preventing crashes, evidences on circuit breakers’ ability to achieve so are nonconclusive. While previous scholars studies general performances of circuit breakers, the authors examin...
Christopher Gan · Rafiatul Adlin Hj Mohd Ruslan · Baiding Hu · Nguyen Thi Thieu Quang ·International Journal of Business and Economics ·2020 ·JEL: L26; O53
This study investigates the relationship between access to microcredit and SMEs’ performance. Using survey data on SME’s owners/managers in Terengganu, Malaysia in 2016, the study investigates how access to microcredit affects SME sales and...
Mujeeb Saif Mohsen Al-Absy · Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail · Sitraselvi Chandren · Shehabaddin Abdullah A. Al-Dubai ·Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business ·2020 ·JEL: M40, M41, M42, M48
This paper investigates the effect of the involvement of the board chairman in the audit committee (AC) on earnings management (EM). It examines Bursa Malaysia-listed companies with the lowest positive earnings for the years 2013 to 2015. T...
Azadeh Hadian · Cahit Adaoglu ·Journal of Asian Economics ·2020 ·JEL: F30, G32
This study examines the value effects of financial and operational hedging in a managed floating exchange rate regime with strict limitations on the trading of Malaysian Ringgit for a sample of 109 Malaysian multinationals from 2004–2018. U...
Shahanif Hasan · Aza Azlina Md. Kassim · Mohamad Ali Abdul Hamid ·International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues ·2020 ·JEL: G3, M42
In recent decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the practice of earnings management (EM) as a proxy for financial reporting, especially real activities, with effect on the quality of financial statements. The role of the audit co...
NurulHuda Mohd Satar · Md. Khaled Saifullah · Muhammad Mehedi Masud · Fatimah Binti Kari ·International Journal of Social Economics ·2021
In light of the rapid evolution of information and communication technology (ICT), every society is faced with many issues such as social exclusion, inequality and the digital divide. Hence, there is need to solve these complex challenges w...
Filzah Md Isa · Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad · Azizah Ahmad · Shaista Noor ·Journal of Economics and Business ·2021
Women entrepreneur has gained utmost importance in the past few decades in Malaysia due to their significant contribution to the country's economic development. However, few business challenges create a constant obstruction for many women e...
Suhal Kusairi · Suriyani Muhamad · Norizan Abdul Razak · Aji Purba Trapsila ·Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business ·2021 ·JEL: D21, D23, M13, M14
This study examines the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the role of Malaysian local wisdom called “Ugahari” in managing Work–Life Balance (WLB) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. Data was obtained through...
Lee Hwok Aun ·Asian Economic Policy Review ·2021 ·JEL: D30, D63, I30, J15
The New Economic Policy (NEP) which focused on poverty reduction and social restructuring has transformed Malaysia since 1971. Pro-Bumiputera affirmative action was intensively pursued and has continuously faced pushback, with heightened de...
Muhammed Abdul Khalid · Li Yang ·Journal of Asian Economics ·2021
In this paper, by combining information obtained from national accounts, household surveys, and fiscal data, we document the evolution of income inequality in Malaysia, not only at the national level (for the period of 1984–2014) but also b...
Abdo Yousef Qaid Saad · Amer M Alhusini Alshehri ·Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business ·2021 ·JEL: M00, M31, G1, G2, G21
The study aims to measures the service quality of Islamic banking in Malaysia from non-Malaysian customers’ perspective based on the six different dimensions of the SERVQUAL model, namely, Shariah, assurance, reliability, tangibles, empathy...
Jaratin Lily · Imbarine Bujang · Abdul Aziz Karia · Jaratin Lily · Mori Kogid ·Eurasian Business Review ·2017 ·JEL: F23; F31; G15
This paper investigates a tale of two measures, which are market portfolio returns and exchange rate movements. The two measures are important risk factors which affect firm share returns. This study also demonstrates that the orthogonalize...
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...
Muhamed Zulkhibri ·Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science ·2018
Purpose This paper aims to examine the distributional differences of Islamic bank financing responses to financing rate across bank-specific characteristics in dual banking system. The study also aims to provide understanding of how efficie...