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Mediating role of competitive advantage on the relationship between product innovations, digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneur alertness towards business performance of Bumiputera SME’s
Get PDFThis study focuses on the business performance of Bumiputera-led small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between product innovation (IN), digital entrepreneurship (DE), and entrepreneur alertness (EA) with business performance (BP). In addition, competitive advantage (CA) takes the role of a mediator. This study applied the resource-based view (RBV) theory was used as a theoretical model. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 430 SME owners in the Klang Valley, including Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, and Cyberjaya, Malaysia. The data from the 271 completed questionnaires were analysed using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The results show a positive and significant relationship between IN and BP, which CA mediates. However, DE and EA, mediated by CA, show insignificant results in this relationship with BP. Similarly, the relationship between CA and BP shows a relatively weak relationship. Theoretically, this study has proved the support of the RBV theory for the relationship between IN, DE, EA, and CA on SMEs’ business performance. This result has practical implications for owners/managers of Bumiputera-owned SMEs and policymakers. In addition, the limitations of the study and recommendations for future research were also presented
The impact of electricity infrastructure on rural development in Nigeria (1999-2015)
Get PDFThe quest for development has increased the growing concern for adequate electricity infrastructure to keep up with the emergent demands of industries and individual consumers across the globe. However, most rural regions of the developing world lag in this important developmental goal. Consequently, the state of inadequate electricity infrastructure in the rural regions of Niger State, Nigeria. This has exposed the region to untold hardship in the aspect of power supply, poor income and absence of other basic social services. This negative scenario holds Nigeria back from competing favorably with other developing countries of the world, particularly the attainment of Nigeria’s perceived 2020 vision to become part of the top 20 big economies. In view of the emergent challenges and the limitations in literature on the nexus between electricity infrastructure and rural development in Niger state, this study emerged. This study also employs political will and good governance as moderating and mediating variables respectively. The study adopts a mixed methods approach. The quantitative approach involves the administration of questionnaires to 395 respondents selected across the rural areas of the three senatorial zones in Niger state. While the qualitative aspect involved nine informants comprising of political stakeholders, electricity officers and households. The quantitative findings reveal a significant relationship between electricity infrastructure and rural development. Among the eight direct relationships examined, five were significant, that is, electricity transition, good governance and political will, significantly affect rural development. Also, electricity distribution and electricity generation significantly influence good governance. For the moderating effect of political will, the finding showed that political will moderates the relationship between electricity transition and rural development. Whereas, the mediating effect of good governance was only established in the relationship between electricity distribution and rural development. Equally, the qualitative findings supported the findings that electricity infrastructure affects socio-economic development. The findings also indicated challenges that include corruption, improper monitoring and evaluation, lack of security, challenges in power supply, and effective strategy. The study, therefore, recommends the development of effective institutions to monitor and overcome the identified problems
Factors influencing cross-border e-commerce logistics on customer satisfaction in China
Get PDFWith the development of the internet and information technology, cross-border online shopping has become a new consumption norm for Chinese residents. Logistics, as the pillar of crossborder online shopping, has attracted close attention from practitioners and researchers because it not only influences customer shopping experience, but it also influences customer confidence level in cross-border online shopping. Previous studies have shown that Chinese cross-border logistics suffer from problems such as low satisfaction levels, high transportation costs, and long delivery times. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the level of customer satisfaction in cross-border logistics in China and investigate the factors that lead to customer satisfaction in cross-border logistics. This study used a quantitative method approach to conduct a questionnaire survey of 458 customers residents in southwest China. The data were then analysed by mean value, correlation, and regression through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 on the level of customer satisfaction. The findings showed that the customer satisfaction level of cross-border logistics in China is at a moderate level, with transportation cost, delivery time, return and exchange, information tracking, and staff service quality having a significant positive relationship with customer satisfaction of the cross-border logistics. The findings of the study enable this researcher to make some suggestions on how to effectively manage cross-border logistics to improve customer satisfaction in cross-border logistics. Therefore, logistics managers should reduce consumer transportation costs, reduce delivery time, simplify the return and exchange process, and provide convenient and reliable information tracking and high-quality staff service quality to improve cross-border logistics customer satisfaction
Pematuhan pembayaran cukai pada alaf baru di Indonesia
No full textIndonesia has the lowest tax ratio when compared to other Asian nations. Taxpayer’s attitude and non-compliance with paying taxes are caused by the low tax percentage. This research aims to investigate the behaviour of taxpayers’ attitude obedience to their tax compliance attitude. Factors that influence the behaviour of tax compliance attitude in this research are internal factors like taxpayer’s knowledge, taxpayer’s understanding, taxpayer’s anxiety, as well as external factors like officers’ quality service, tax rate, and tax penalty. In addition the mediation factors perceptions of taxpayer satisfaction and t h e government spending system. This research advances the previous tax compliance model. The population analyzed in this study consists of registered Indonesian taxpayers. This research employs the Krejcie and Morgan sampling method and samples 380 respondents. The method of data analysis used in this research was by convergent validity partial least square test. The result of this research indicates that taxpayers’ understanding, officers' quality services, taxpayers’ satisfaction and the government spending system influence the taxpayer’s compliance. The taxpayer’s understanding, and tax penalties influence the taxpayer’s satisfaction. The taxpayer’s knowledge, and tax rate influence the government spending system. This research concludes that taxpayers will be more likely to obey the tax obligators if they understand taxes, receive good quality tax service from tax officers, and are more satisfied with the government’s transparency. They will also be more satisfied if they understand taxes and tax penalties
Exploring the relationship between mental health, safety climate and job satisfaction among physiotherapists in Klang Valley
Get PDFIn the high-stress world of healthcare, the intertwined relationship between mental health, safety climate and job satisfaction are pivotal. Prioritizing healthcare professionals’ mental health and nurturing a positive safety climate are essential to enhancing overall job satisfaction. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between mental health, safety climate and job satisfaction among physiotherapists in Klang Valley and to elucidate the effect of demographic variables on these elements. The findings of this study intend to offer valuable insights into potential strategies that healthcare organizations and policymakers may implement to elevate job satisfaction and increase overall productivity. A sample of 200 physiotherapists, encompassing a diverse range of demographic backgrounds, took part in this investigation. Data
analysis was conducted using Pearson Correlation Analysis, One-Way ANOVA and Multiple Regression Analysis to determine the relationships among mental health, safety climate, and job satisfaction, and to identify the influence of various demographic characteristics on job satisfaction. The findings revealed a moderate positive correlation between mental health and job satisfaction, and a robust correlation between safety climate and job satisfaction. Interestingly, demographics such as age, gender, education level, years of experience, and work setting demonstrated no significant different on job satisfaction. The combined effect of mental health and safety climate accounted for 67.4% of the variance in job satisfaction. Further analysis determined that safety climate significantly predicts job
satisfaction, whereas mental health lacked statistical significance. The research highlights the importance of prioritizing employees' mental health and safety to enhance job satisfaction and reduce turnover. It proposes comprehensive training and safety policies, emphasizing the role of policymakers in implementing regulations for workplace improvement
The influence of management commitment, safety training, safety awareness, and safety culture on safety behaviour of retail workers in northern region of Malaysia
No full textThe objective of this study is to examine the influence of management commitment, safety training, safety awareness, and safety culture towards the dimensions of safety behaviour namely safety participation and safety compliance among retail employees
of Company X’s outlets in the state of Perlis and Kedah. The present study employed a survey questionnaire consisting of 38 items to assess the six variables using 5-Likert Scale. A total of 177 workers have participated as respondents in this study. The data
analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential methods via IBM SPSS Statistics 29 software. The findings indicated that safety training and safety culture have significantly influenced safety compliance. While, safety awareness and safety culture have significantly influenced safety participation. However, management commitment and safety training did not significantly influence safety participation, and management commitment and safety awareness have no significance influences on safety compliance among retail workers. The findings of this study have provided a fresh viewpoint on the potential impact on retail workers and strategies to promote their participation and adherence to safety regulations in the workplace. The limitations of this study are financial and time constraints as well as the unwillingness of the workers to participate as this study’s respondents. For future studies, it is proposed the application of other methodological approaches such as by employing a qualitative methodology through conducting in-depth interviews, in order to obtain more comprehensive and detailed findings. Furthermore, it is recommended that future researchers to broaden the scope of their study by covering different regions within Malaysia
AK-means geometric smote with data complexity analysis for imbalanced dataset
Get PDFMany binary class datasets in real-life applications are affected by class imbalance problem. Data complexities like noise examples, class overlap and small disjuncts problems are observed to play a key role in producing poor classification performance. These complexities tend to exist in tandem with class imbalance problem. Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) is a well-known method to re-balance the number of examples in imbalanced datasets. However, this technique cannot effectively tackle data complexities and has the capability of magnifying the degree of complexities. Therefore, various SMOTE variants have been proposed to overcome the downsides of SMOTE. Furthermore, no existing study has yet to identify the correlation between N1 complexity measure and classification measures such as geometric mean (G-Mean) and F1-Score. This study aims: (i) to identify the suitable complexity measures that have correlation with performance measures, (ii) to propose a new SMOTE variant which is K-Means Geometric SMOTE (KM-GSMOTE) that incorporates complexity measures during synthetic data generation task, and (iii) to evaluate KM-GSMOTE in term of classification performance. Series of experiments have been conducted to evaluate the classification performances related to G-Mean and F1-Score as well as the measurement of N1 complexity of benchmark SMOTE variants and KM-GSMOTE. The performance of KM-GSMOTE was evaluated on 6 benchmark binary datasets from the UCI repository. KM-GSMOTE records the highest percentage of average differences of G-Mean (22.76%) and F1-Score (15.13%) for SVM classifier. A correlation between classification measures and N1 complexity measures has been observed from the experimental results. The contributions of this study are (i) introduction of KM-GSMOTE that combines complexity measurement with model selection to pick models with the best classification performance and lower complexity value and (ii) observation of connection between classification performance and complexity measure, showing that as N1 complexity measure decreases, the likelihood of obtaining a substantial classification performance increases
Causes and post-divorce experiences among initiators and non-initiators
Get PDFTerminating a marriage is an experience where couples move from a destructive relationship to divorce. This study was aimed to discover the divorce factors, divorce experiences, and counselling perceptions of initiators and non-initiators under the contested proceedings of (LRA, 1976). A qualitative phenomenological approach was adapted in this study. Semi-structured, in-depth phenomenological interviews, and legal file analysis were conducted with 14 participants. Thematic analyses were used to demonstrate analytical rigour in the stages of coding and the identification of emergent themes through the use of Nvivo. Realiability and validity were accomplished through audio recording, triangulation, and bracketing. The findings of the divorce factors revealed five core themes: marital incompatibility, family factors, infidelity and extramarital affairs, starting a new life, and financial problems. Results of divorce experiences indentified six core themes that were related to negative self-belief, blaming spouses, mental torture, confirmed and decisive decisions about divorce, long-term tolerance, and abandonment and rejection. Results of counselling perception identified five core themes that were related to long counselling procedures, schedulling, counselor credibility, counselor perceptions, and tribunal’s process/procedures. Findings indicate, on average, participants who opened a file with the Legal Aid Department in Perak under contested proceedings had their marriage irretrievably broken down. Therefore, the findings underwrite the fact that it is just and fair to have a "decent burial" in divorce as these relationships are unquestionably dead. Simultaneously, the study's findings show that counseling, which was used as a partial substitute for divorce failed to achieve its goal of reconciling the couples
Innovative work behavior among employees in the Algerian petroleum sector: the mediating role of learning goal orientation
Get PDFGiven the uncertainty, instability and turbulence in today’s economic environment, highly innovative employees are essential to the success and competitiveness of an organization. Innovation is increasingly recognized as a key source for sustainable competitive advantage that organizations can use to cope with the rapidly changing economic environment. Therefore, this study was conducted with the intention to investigate the effect of leader-member exchange, team climate for innovation, job demands, and learning goal orientation on innovative work behavior among employees from the production division in Sonatrach Corporation in Algeria. The study also examined the role of learning goal orientation as a mediator in the relationship between leader-member exchange, team climate for innovation, job demands, and innovative work behavior. The study adopts Social Exchange Theory (SET) to support the theoretical framework in the context of individuals innovative work behavior. A total of 535 questionnaires were personally distributed to full-time workers at the production division of Sonatrach Corporation in Algeria. 268 questionnaires were returned, representing a response rate of 50%. However, only 225 questionnaires were usable for further analysis. The hypotheses for direct and indirect effects were tested using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) – Partial Least (PLS) method. The results indicate that there was significant effect of leadermember exchange, team climate for innovation, and learning goal orientation on innovative work behavior. Learning goal orientation was also found mediates the relationship between leader-member exchange, team climate for innovation, job demands and innovative work behavior. However, learning goal orientation did not mediate the relationship between team climate for innovation and innovative work behavior. The present study has also highlighted the implication
The relationship between job safety climate, job satisfaction and healthy lifestyle behaviour towards mental health among paramedics
No full textOver the last five years, there have been more assaults against paramedics than there were, a 32% rise. In the UK, paramedics reported encountering verbal abuse 80% of the time and had encountered physical assault. Nonetheless, 63.9% of paramedics in Malaysia claimed to feel overworked and receive low pay (53.1%). At Malaysian healthcare facilities, this study tries to identify the variables influencing paramedics' mental health. This research aims to determine the relationship between the job safety climate, job satisfaction and healthy lifestyle behaviours and mental health. Using survey questionnaires, the variables were assessed against the respondents' level of mental health in terms of job safety climate, job satisfaction, and healthy lifestyle behaviours involving 196 paramedics who work in healthcare institutions in Pejabat Kesihatan Seberang Perai Selatan, Pulau Pinang, and that had a 100% response rate. In this study, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to examine the hypotheses. The study's findings demonstrate that among paramedics in healthcare facilities in Pejabat Kesihatan Seberang Perai Selatan, the job safety climate and healthy lifestyle behaviours are positive and significantly associated with mental health whereas job satisfaction among paramedics is insignificantly positive towards mental health as well. The results also supported the idea that paramedics can lessen mental health problems by taking more initiatives focused on healthy lifestyles and a job safety climate. Deeper knowledge should be attained by examining the function of job safety climate, job satisfaction, and healthy lifestyle behaviour in predicting mental health among paramedics, especially in Malaysia