By using a qualitative research approach and based on content analysis of scientific articles which consider “foreign subsidiary” as “Centre of Excellence” by multinational companies in the USA, Canada and Europe, this paper tries to explore “Centre of Excellence” concept by trying...

This paper discusses the results of the first comprehensive study of semiconductor industry in Malaysia which primarily consists of the operations set up by transnational corporations in high technology centres of Penang and Kuala Lumpur. The goals of our study were to determine the most...

The world today is witnessing an explosion of technologies that are remodelling our entire reality. The traditional way of thinking in the business field has shifted towards a new IT breakthrough: cloud computing. The cloud paradigm has emerged as a natural step in the evolution of the internet...

Governments from all around the world spend considerable amounts on IT, with the aim to improve efficiency, transparency, and to deliver more interactive services to citizens and businesses. Cloud computing is a fundamentally new approach to IT, which may lead to significant cost savings. At a...

Without any doubt, cloud computing has become one of the most significant trends in any enterprise, not only for IT businesses. Besides the fact that the cloud can offer access to low cost, considerably flexible computing resources, cloud computing also provides the capacity to create a new...

“Knowledge transfer” or “Knowledge sharing” is considered an important strategic issue among the partner firms in today’s globalized business ventures. In a trans-border or transcontinental business relation, cultural dimensions are important factors for success or failure of these...

Success of market-based entrepreneurial projects embedded with social mission contributed to growing interest to social entrepreneurship in existing literature. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the widely accepted motivational factors influencing entrepreneurial process have...

This study examined the causality relationship between corruption and poverty by adding economic growth in Nigeria using data from 1970 to 2011. VECM with co-integration test was employed to test the causality. The results indicate a long run relationship between corruption, economic growth and...

The main goal of this study was to assess the impact of participation in Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysiaís (AIM) microcredit program on the empowerment among urban low-income women in Peninsular Malaysia. To attain the above mentioned objective, this study utilized a cross-sectional design using...