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With the emergence of a knowledge-based economy, knowledge has become an integral factor in providing a competitive advantage for organizations including higher education institutions. The objective of this study is to empirically examine the mediating effect of product development capability (PDC) in the relationship between knowledge acquisition (KA) and competitiveContinue Reading

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Cyber harassment is a form of psychological violation aiming to humiliate victims through the social media by spreading information to the public. According to the Stressor-Emotional Model, cyber harassment is the cause of stress, that can trigger negative emotions and shaping negative behaviours. The effect of negative emotion at workContinue Reading

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Managers could opportunistically misuse corporate social responsibility (CSR) to obfuscate earnings management (EM) by reporting more CSR activities that eventually accomplished stakeholders’ advocacy as their demands on CSR are satisfied. Likewise, sensitive industries have a higher commitment to CSR to appease their stakeholders’ adverse reactions to the nature of theirContinue Reading

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Institutional and social network are several major research traditions in the business and management areas. This paper examines the role of owner/managers’ social network on entrepreneurship initiatives and the underlying socio-cultural factors promoting or impeding SME development in Kazakhstan. A semi-structured interviews were carried-out with thirteen SME owners/managers in AlmatyContinue Reading

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Coopetition has become more influential in the development of organization theory due to the increasingly complex, dynamic, and interdependent relationships among organizations. This concept is paradoxical because it combines two opposites—competition and cooperation. This study aimed to explained how coopetition is used in public sector organizations, including institutional relations withinContinue Reading

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Engineers are very driven to go up the career tree, and they aim for psychological achievement. Nevertheless, the struggle between fulfilling the company’s work demands and having their ambitions and expectations affected their well-being. In Malaysia, engineers are reported as one of the groups of unhappy employees. Consequently, this researchContinue Reading

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Organizational citizenship behavior is an important element in volunteer activities and this is acknowledged by many studies that explored factors that drive volunteer engagement. A review of the literature showed that organizational citizenship behavior is influenced by factors related to volunteer characteristics and organizational factors. This study was conducted toContinue Reading

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Hedging practices among Shari’ah compliant firms (ShC) are still not well explored and firms in Malaysia is very much lag behind in derivatives usage against firms in the developed countries. This study investigates the influence of financial derivatives usage on the value of Shari’ah and non-Shari’ah compliant firms (non-ShC) inContinue Reading