: This paper examines the relationship between stock indices of Malaysia and the emerging East Asian countries, namely South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan. The cointegration analysis found a long-run relationship between the stock indices of Malaysia and South Korea. The results of the...

This article examines the total factor productivity (TFP) growth by decomposing it into technical efficiency and technological change for the 20 service industries in a developing country - Malaysia from 1987 to 1992. On average, the TFP growth of the service industries experienced positive TFP...

<title>Abstract</title>There has been little empirical analysis on the complex relationship between leadership, change readiness and commitment to change in the context of Asian countries. In this paper, we propose a research model to analyze the interrelationship between leadership, change readiness and...

<title>Abstract</title>This paper examines the joint effects of technology and exports on the economic performances of electronics firms in Malaysia. The empirical results based on the Partial Least Square (PLS) estimate procedure show that technological capability plays a multiple role in that it influences...

Set in the airport industry, this paper measures firm performance using both desirable and bad outputs (i.e. airport delays). We first estimate a model that does not include the bad outputs and then a model that includes bad outputs. The results show important differences in the efficiency and...

Cost containment, budget control, and improvements in efficiency are key drivers of the way health care foodservice operations (internal hospital foodservice departments that produce/reheat food and deliver them to patients) will respond to emerging economic and population trends. These factors...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the efficiency of UK airlines in light of all the recent industry challenges. Design/methodology/approach – The study measured the technical efficiency of airlines through the innovative data envelopment analysis (DEA) bootstrap methodology....