This study examines product strategies of firms in developing countries for export ventures in global markets. It focuses on generic product features: low cost, differentiation, and specialization for analysing how they are associated with the intent to export. A rigorous database was developed from a survey of 142 SMEs inContinue Reading
How does social innovation, in the form of transformative social service, develop within a social organization? In this study, we define social innovations as new ideas that are aimed at meeting social goals, which are typically diffused and mobilized by social organizations through their social services. Although there are aContinue Reading
Research into the effect of users’ trust in social media for travel consumption remains unaddressed within tourism literature. Hence, the principal goal of this research is to examine factors influencing users’ trust in travel information provided in social networking services (SNS). Multiple regression analysis was the chosen method of dataContinue Reading
The understanding on different types of changes within and between organizational life cycle stages may identify the appropriate effectiveness model that could be applied. Hence studies have been undertaken to identify the best match of management techniques at various organizational development stages. Considering that the underlying characteristics of the lifeContinue Reading
This study investigates the role of innovativeness and learning orientation on the internationalisation performance of small and medium entrepreneurial firms. Exporting has been the most appropriate mode of expansion into foreign market for SMEs due to lower risk and less resource commitment. The literature insists that future study should payContinue Reading
The main purpose of the current research is to develop and test a theoretical framework that captures the role of corporate branding (corporate association, symbolic benefits, and functional benefits), customer involvement and customer relationship proneness on customers emotional attachment and brand loyalty in the luxury fashion industry. The nature ofContinue Reading
Inability to cope with conflicting demands of work and family has become an important topic among the employees in organisation. However, studies on inability to cope with conflicting demands on work, family and distance learning among the distance learners in Malaysia have received little attention. In this article, a sampleContinue Reading
The use of debt by REITs entity seems to be a puzzle in numerous REITs literature, as REITs are tax-exempted business entities. The trade-off theory implies that the financing strategy of using debt provides no value in a REIT entity with a marginal tax rate of zero. However, high dividendContinue Reading
In the past decade, conventional payment methods of using cash is progressively replaced with electronic payments. Recently, QR mobile payment begins to receive more attention from many countries including Malaysia. Nevertheless, QR mobile payment is a relatively green area in which very limited literature exists on this subject matter pertainingContinue Reading
This paper aims to examine the moderating effect of Shariah Supervisory Boards (SSBs) on the relationship between board size, Chief Risk Officer (CRO), and risk-taking of 24 Islamic banks (IBs) in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei from 2010 to 2015. This approach integrates the arguments of agency theory and resource dependenceContinue Reading
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