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Lean manufacturing - a multi pronged strategy for enhancing the performance of an organisation-a case study
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2011-02)Lean Manufacturing is a systematic approach for identifying and eliminating waste in the process of manufacturing. Lean thinking is to determine the value in terms of the customer and ensure that the value is created and ... -
Life Cycle Theory of Dividends: A Review of Literature
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2018-02)Purpose: This study aimed at reviewing life cycle theory of dividends based on summarized empirical evidences provided in the previous studies. Design/methodology/approach: The key theoretical and empirical studies on ... -
Linking entrepreneurial orientation and business performance: the examination toward performance of cooperatives firms in northern region of Peninsular Malaysia
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2014-06)Studies on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and its influence on the performance of business firms have received widespread attention in the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy. A survey was conducted to assess ... -
Liquidity Risk Management of Islamic Banks in Bangladesh
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2019-02)The banking sector is the lifeblood of the economy. Today, most banks either conventional or Islamic banks face many types of risks. One of the risks is liquidity risk. One of the prime functions of the bank is to collect ... -
Management control in multinational firms: future research directions
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2011-06)Issue of control in the multinational companies has been very much debated by the scholar in the area of international business. The changes in global competitive environment have lead to changes in the headquarters-subsidiary ... -
Managing the transition of fossil fuels to renewable energy: application of ocean thermal energy conversion at Sabah
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-02)Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) existed in the last decade was built in 1930 by Georges Claude, after the thermal energy of the ocean was tapped by Jacques Arsene D‘Arsonval in 1881. However, the technology was ... -
MBA Program Evaluation of the Arab Academy for Banking and Finance Sciences – Sana’a
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2019-06)This article details a program evaluation of the Master of Business Administration program (MBA) of the Arab Academy for Banking and Finance Science. It was reviewed with the CIPP Evaluation Model, through which the context, ... -
Measurement of intention to leave one’s job: its validity and reliability
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2016-10)It is crucial for manufacturing sectors to retain talented employees and reduce employee turnover as the costliness of recruiting, hiring, training and getting new employees diminishes organisations’ performance. Although ... -
Measuring the Effectiveness of Employee Assistance Program in the RMGs of Bangladesh: An Evaluative Study
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2018-02)The core objective of the study is to examine the performance of Employee Assistance Program (EAP) in reducing or preventing job and life‐relevant problems of the workers of ready‐made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh. ... -
Mediating effect of Financial Reporting Act 2015 on financial reporting quality in Bangladesh
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2021-10)Using a structured questionnaire survey with the chartered accountants in Bangladesh, this study evaluates the mediating effect of the Financial Reporting Act (FRA) 2015 on financial reporting quality (FRQ). We proposed a ... -
The mediating effect of job engagement on the relationship between leadership styles and organizational performance: a theoretical model
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2017-02)Modern organizations are experiencing the challenges of understanding the factor that has significant and positive relationship on their performance. The aim of this study is to determine the mediating role of job ... -
Mediating Effect of Technological Innovation on the Relationship between HRM, and Performance in Selected SMEs in Malaysia
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2018-02)The study is to examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM), technological innovation and firm performance among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. The mediating effect of technological ... -
The mediation of perceived external marketability between self-direction and intention to quit among teachers
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2020-06)To study the effect of protean careers orientation on teachers’ intention to quit, this study investigated the mediating effect of perceived external marketability between self-direction and intention to quit. The framework ... -
Mental health problems among female offenders and its relation to social engineering
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2011-02)The objective of this study is to understand the common mental health problems among female offenders and how they affect the society through application of rehabilitation program. Female offenders have always been a minor ... -
Methodology and data collection challenges in the development of multidimensional inequality profiles for households
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2022-10)Inequality is a topic that is widely discussed in almost every country. The issue has long been recognised as one of the most important and long-standing social and economic challenges. This study identifies multidimensional ... -
Micro enterprise development and income sustainability for poverty reduction: a literature investigation
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2017-02)The academician and policy makers already declared that micro enterprise have significant positive role for reducing poverty specifically emergent economic nations. The micro entrepreneurs face lots of obstacles considering ... -
Migrant workers under the domestic law and International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention in Perspective of Malaysia
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2017-06)Malaysia has profited extraordinarily from the employment of migrant workers in a few financially imperative areas. Amid the most recent two decades, these workers have given the labour that has fuelled the nation's ... -
Mixed-Motivation Factors on Academic Research Commercialisation in Malaysian Technical Universities
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2018-10)Commercialisation had become one of the main activities for academics. Besides generating income for the university, academic research commercialisation is able to boost up the nation economic gains and quality of life. ... -
The Moderating Effect of External Environmental Characteristics on the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation and SMEs Performance
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2019-06)The purpose of the study is to examine the moderating effect of the external environmental characteristics on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and SMEs performance. Survey method of research was used ... -
Moderating effect of liquidity risk on the organisational culture, working capital management andinnovation towards firm performance
(School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2022-02)This study aims to investigate the impact of organisational culture, working capital management, innovation performance with the moderating effect of liquidity risk towards SME firm performance. In order to test the ...