The paper addresses the concepts of inbound open innovation and outbound open innovation as the key elements of the open innovation by incorporating managerial ties and absorptive capacity from a cross-country perspective. This study draws on a cross-sectional sample of 530 companies based in...

Movements in palm oil price give important signals to various stakeholders of the palm oil industry in Malaysia. Thus, understanding external and internal factors that may affect the palm oil price is vital to the industry players for sustainability of their activities. This study investigates...

Across the globe, xenocentrism has emerged as a critical concept for understanding the behavior of consumers towards the purchase of local and foreign products. In line with this context, and based on samples collected from Malaysia and Nigeria, this study analyzed the direct effects of...

Movements in palm oil price give important signals to various stakeholders of the palm oil industry in Malaysia. Thus, understanding external and internal factors that may affect the palm oil price is vital to the industry players for sustainability of their activities. This study investigates...

Trading activities represent the flow of market information to the investors. This paper examines the effect of trading activities, i.e., trading volume and open interest, on the volatility of return for Malaysian Crude Palm Oil Futures. The GARCH model is applied by adding the expected and...

Background: Optimizing efficiency has become increasingly critical with the growing demand for finite healthcare resources driven by population growth and an ageing society. Hence, policymakers are urgently finding more efficient ways to deliver health services. Thalassemia is a complex...

In the context of Malaysian companies’ survival, the potential role of intended use of proceeds as an influential factor remains unfamiliar. This study examines the link between the intended use of IPO proceeds and the survival of 423 Malaysian listed companies over the period of 2000-2014....

The paper addresses the concepts of inbound open innovation and outbound open innovation as the key elements of the open innovation by incorporating managerial ties and absorptive capacity from a cross-country perspective. This study draws on a cross-sectional sample of 530 companies based in...

Emerging technologies such as electronic procurement have rapidly become common practice in recent years. With the advent of internet technologies and open innovations, the traditional procurement system is transformed into an electronic procurement system. Technology adoption is influenced by...

The initial impact of the Asian financial crisis in Malaysia reduced the expected value of government subsidies to politically favored firms. Of the estimated $60 billion loss in market value for politically connected firms from July 1997 to August 1998, roughly 9% can be attributed to the fall...

Large allocations for fuel subsidies have long put the Government of Malaysia’s budget under great strain. Using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, this paper evaluates the impact of fuel subsidy rationalization on sectoral output and employment. Employment is classified into...

This paper aims to analyse how capital development might affect the income gap of Malaysian households. Household in Malaysia is classified into three groups, the bottom 40% (B40), middle 40% (M40), and top 20% (T20) income groups. The gap in average income between these household groups has...

Purpose: This study aims to explore the challenges and prospects of using e-wallets in Malaysia, and what it means for businesses and customers. Suggested here are strategies to leverage the strengths and opportunities as well as overcome the weaknesses and threats. Suggested here are strategies...

Predicting the sustainability of a business is crucial to prevent financial losses among shareholders and investors. This study attempts to evaluate the Altman model for predicting corporate failure in distressed and non-distressed Malaysian companies based on the data of financially troubled...

There are many market segmentations in the credit card industry in Malaysia. One of the special categories of credit card is dedicated to the women group only and promoted as a tool for increasing women empowerment, women entrepreneurship development and women financial access ability....

Malaysia cooperative come into existence since 90 years ago during the Colonial British administration. It is one of the vital institutions in Malaysia that offering various product and services towards community and its members. One of the demanding services by community is ar-rahnu. The...

Road transport contribute over 70% of air pollution in urban areas and is the second largest contributor to the total carbon dioxide emissions in Malaysia at 21% in 2016. Transport-related air pollutants (TRAPs) such as NOx, SO2, CO and particulate matter (PM) pose significant threats to the...

This research looks into the impact of risk management on CIMB Bank's performance. This study's data originates from DataStream and CIMB Bank Malaysia's annual report. The study sample encompassed a 5-year study period. Bank performance, which is oxidised by ROA and ROE, and risk management,...

Open innovation model is best suited to SMEs as it complements internal R&D in enhancing performances and cost effectiveness through sustaining or gaining competitive advantage. This conceptual framework looks into the aspect of behavioral and cost to determine the adoption level. Aspect of...

Objective - This paper investigates the possibility and feasibility of Malaysia's Islamic banking industry hiring external Shariah audit (ESA) services in the audit fraternity as one of the Shariah governance mechanisms. Some of the scholars argued that ESA is more independent and is able to...

This paper examines the time-varying conditional correlations between seventeen metal future markets and Malaysian Islāmic bonds. We apply twelve six variate dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) FIGARCH models in order to capture potential contagion effects between the markets for the period...

There are various factors from empirical studies that many factors influence firm performance. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to review the impact of intellectual capital as a unidimensional factor on the performance of manufacturing SMEs operating in Malaysia. The framework was...

Real time exposure air monitoring is extremely important to protect the respiratory health of Malaysian Traffic Police. However, the data from monitoring stations have been inadequate to provide accurate information of their exposure. This report describes the conceptual design of a wireless...

HighlightsThe Effect of Blend ratio of Malaysian Based-used Cooking Oil Biodiesel to the Performance and Emissions Levels of a Diesel EngineMuntasser A.A Mossa a*, Abdul Aziz Hairuddin a, Nuraini A. A a and Hasyuzariza M. Tobib a• DI Engine running on Used Cooking Oil (UCO) biodiesel was...

Background: The BP statically review of world energy in 2018 states the coal is the most usage of world source energy consumption followed by renewable energy by 4000 toe difference between them. From the Malaysia scope of energy scenario in 2019 referencing the Malaysia Energy Statistics...

Buildings in Malaysia consume 14.3% of total energy and 53% of electrical energy. One of the major contributors to overall building energy consumption is the air conditioning mechanical and ventilation system (ACMV). Therefore, optimizing the building's energy efficiency for the ACMV system is...

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and movement control order (MCO), many small and micro-sized enterprises in Malaysia have been relying on social media platforms to promote and sell their products. Nonetheless, only a few studies were conducted on the success of this practice. The question of...

Governments around the world have introduced a variety of programs aimed at facilitating distance learning in the home setting during school closures due to COVID-19. However, given the cross-country variations in state capacity, these programs differ significantly in terms of design, delivery,...

Objective: The main objective of this research is to integrate the resource-based view (RBV) to analyse how the relationship between firm performance and entrepreneurial orientation is mediated by outbound innovation among furniture firms in Malaysia. Research Design & Methods: In this research,...

The paper investigates the factors affecting the profitability of commercial banks in Asian developing countries, including Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. We use panel data of four entities; ten banks in Vietnam, eight banks in Malaysia, nine banks in Thailand and all 27 commercial banks from...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of monetary policy on the credit supply of Islamicversus conventional banks of Malaysia using an unbalanced panel datasets over the period 2005-2016. While estimating the effects of three alternative measures of monetary policy on banks'credit...

Introduction: COVID-19 mortality cases could be classified to two categories which are inpatient/hospital death and brought-in-death (BID), with the understanding of characteristics of BID cases is remained poor. The objective of this study is to explore the characteristics of 29,155 mortality...

Malaysia’s energy transition to a lower-carbon pathway necessitates clear direction and policies that strike a balance between energy transition and affordability. Therefore, the current energy system's capability must be critically assessed in order to enable a sustainable transition to a...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a surge in demand for oleochemicals, due to the increased demand for cleaning and disinfectants products. Since Malaysia is one of the world’s largest producers of palm oil, the demand for oleochemicals will be a key driver to support the Malaysian palm oil...

This research paper tries to evaluate a possible full free trade area agreement –FFTAA- between Mexico and Malaysia. We propose the uses of an alternative trade liberalization evaluation model to evaluate the trend and stages of a possible full trade area agreement between two countries, in...

Tourism is a money-spinning industry that is worth mentioning in Malaysia. The main concern of this research is to identify does Halal Tourism has an encouraging impression the economic growth of the Malaysian state while studying the means to cultivate or promote halal tourism more in Malaysia...