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Motivation and Barriers for Business Start-Up among Graduates: A Gender Difference
No full textThe gender issue in entrepreneurship has been researched from different views and dimensions. Some of the studies have focused on distinguishing between male and female entrepreneurs in terms of their personal skills and socio-demographic characteristics and others have attempted to determine individual intention and behavior toward entrepreneurship. The study analyzes gender difference on the perception of motivational factors and barriers for business start- up among graduates. The study is conducted in Kano metropolitan using a cross sectional/survey design. The population of the study composes of graduates who are either unemployed or employed for not more than three years and have obtained a Bachelor degree or Higher National Diploma qualification as the basis for selection. Discriminant analysis (DA) is used to investigate gender difference on the basis of perception about the selected variables on business start-up. Discriminant analysis is useful in creating an equation that will minimize the possibility of misclassifying cases in their respective groups or categories. The result shows highly significant discriminant function (p < .000) and indicates that the proportion of the total variability not explained is about 37.7%. The Box?s M is 14.012 with F = 4.638, which is highly significant at p < 0.003. There is evidence to reject the null hypothesis, which states that the groups do not differ on their perception about motivation and barriers for business start-up. It is recommended for future studies to explore the moderating effect of religiosity and culture on business start-up
The Role of Market Complexity, Skills and Perceived Usefulness on the Marketing Support Services
No full textThis study aims to examine the relationships between managing market complexity, skills, and frequency of usage of marketing support services. The research was conducted through a structural equation modeling using data from 67 SMEs that operate in Malaysia. To analyze and interpret the result, a measurement model and a structural model were utilized for the main constructs ? managing market complexity, skills, perceived usefulness, and the usage of marketing support services. This study found that owners, who are facing difficulties in managing their businesses, which are focused on market complexity, are more frequent users of the marketing support services. In terms of skills, SMEs with longer experience are lesser users of the marketing support services. The results from the moderator analysis failed to validate that perceived usefulness affects the relationship between managing market complexity and the frequency of usage as well as skills. The results of this study can prove to SMEs that frequent use of marketing support services can help in dealing with market complexity. The role of perceived usefulness should not be sidelined by service providers as it may have a negative impact in the long run. The findings will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, and service providers
Economic Growth in Malaysia: A Causality Study on Macroeconomics Factors
No full textThe volatile state of economic growth has long been the theme of studies among researchers. Past findings associate a number of factors behind the fluctuation in economic growth in varying degrees. In this study, four macroeconomic variables, namely oil prices, foreign direct investment (FDI), exports, and inflation are particularly selected to test their relationship and impact on the economic growth of Malaysia, as measured using Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By utilizing time series data from 1976 to 2016, a series of empirical analysis including the Augmented-Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Phillip Peron (1988) unit root assessment, Johansen and Juselius test of cointegration and Granger causality analysis are employed to assess the direction of impact and long-run relationships between the variables. Our findings reveal there is a long-run impact among them. While oil prices, foreign direct investment, and export are significant to influence economic growth, there is no indication of causality between inflation on any of the variables
Factors Influencing Customer Satisfaction in Online Shopping
No full textThe study aims to determine the factors influencing customer satisfaction in online shopping among Malaysian youth. Online shopping is increasingly popular among Malaysians, including teenagers, due to its time-saving, convenience and availability anywhere and anytime. As online technology is still new in Malaysia, online sellers find it challenging to retain online buyers. The study adopted a survey through a quantitative approach by distributing questionnaires among the youth in Malaysia. The findings indicated that product quality, security, and shipping significantly affect customer satisfaction in online shopping. Furthermore, the study provides recommendations for online sellers and policymakers in enhancing the strength of online platform as the best transaction for customer
Factors Affecting Customer’s Intention towards Purchasing Halal Collagen Beauty Drinks in Malaysia: a Structural Equation Modelling
No full textThis study attempted to highlight the relationship between three factors, namely attitude, subjective norms, and knowledge of customers towards their intention to purchase Halal collagen beauty drinks. There is an increasing trend of consuming collagen beauty drink products among Malaysian women in recent years. As a Muslim nation, the sources of collagen which are mainly derived from animal parts have become a major concern for Muslim customers, especially their Halal status. In addition, the target respondents of this study were females because they are conscious of beauty and willing to buy several ranges of collagen beauty drink products in the market. The sample of the study consists of 380 Muslim female customers which were collected through self-administered questionnaires using a two-stages sampling technique. This study used a structural equation model (SEM) to develop and test the conceptual model. The results show that attitude, knowledge, and subjective norms have a significant relationship with customer purchase intention towards collagen beauty drink products
Impact of Students’ Trust on Social Networking Services
No full textWeb 2.0 technology is thewebsite and platform for sharing virtual information and communication worldwide. Social networking services (SNSs) technology perform the role of human interaction. The SNSs users can instantly transfer and receive information from other users. Nevertheless, users experience trust issues when delivering information to social networking platforms. Generally, the trust component is the fundamental issue in sharing any type of information on online platforms. Therefore, the study attempts to examine the impact of students\u27 trust in using social networking platforms. Accordingly, the study collected 110 valid survey questionnaires using a social media platform. The study also used the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 software for data analysis. The findings revealed that students’ trust in information disclosure and effort expectancy is essential for using SNSs. The study enhances knowledge of how to improve SNSs trust by extending the factors conceived of users\u27 trust in social networking sites. The study provides knowledge on integrity and honesty to develop students’ trust in using SNSs
Lecturers’ Motivation in Conducting Online Classes During Movement Control Order
No full textSince the pandemic Covid19 outbreak at the end of year 2019, many things in the world have gone drastic changes. These include language teaching and learning. This exploratory case study is aimed to investigate the perceptions and motivation of Arabic language lecturers in Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) regarding online teaching practices during the Movement Control Order (MCO), which is enforced due to the pandemic. The researchers employed responsive semi-structured interviews, which allowed the respondents to share about their teaching practices and how technology assisted and thus motivated them to be more resourceful in their teaching practices during MCO. Nine Arabic language lecturers (5 female and 4 male) from the Faculty of Major Language Studies, USIM were interviewed in the study to get in depth information regarding their teaching practices and how technology motivated them to be more innovative in their teaching during MCO. The results indicated that online learning can be a solution for the Arabic language educators and practitioners in sharing their knowledge by using e-learning or other platforms as education needs to be conducted during MCO. One of the online learning benefits is lecturers become motivated and students become active during online lesson as they are the ones who take responsibility of their learning
The Use of Metadiscourse in Good Malaysian Undergraduate Persuasive Essays
No full textMetadiscourse is used by a writer to organise his text and textually interact with the potential readers. An effective use of metadiscourse reflects the writer’s writing ability because it is one of the aspects in composing process of making a successful text. However, ESL writers especially undergraduates tend to face problems in using metadiscourse markers in their writing. Many of them do not use the metadiscourse markers appropriately in their essay writing. This preliminary study investigates the use of metadiscourse markers in good persuasive essays written by undergraduates from a public university in Malaysia. The corpus examined in the study was built from 195 persuasive essays written by the second year students at the university. The objective of this preliminary paper is to present the metadiscourse markers found in a corpus of good undergraduate writers’ essays. The markers are classified in the main categories (organisational and interpersonal discourse markers) and sub-categories based on Tan et al.’s (2012) simplified metadiscourse framework for ESL lay writers. Using a computer-mediated concordance software, this study aims to reveal the frequency of the metadiscourse markers use in a total of 195 good persuasive essays produced by Malaysian undergraduate writers. The findings presented in this paper are anticipated to be beneficial for other researchers who are interested in finding an example of metadiscourse markers usage in good persuasive essays
The Nexus between Economic Liberalisation and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from ASEAN, China, and India
No full textThe main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic liberalisation on economic growth. This paper also explores the relationship between trade and financial liberalisation. The analysis focuses on all ASEAN countries as well as China and India. Using the Generalised Method of Moment (GMM) dynamic panel data analysis, this paper finds that economic liberalisation is significantly related to economic growth in ASEAN6 and CLMV. For ASEAN, China, and India as a whole, trade openness has no significant impact on economic growth. However, a strong financial growth nexus exists. In ASEAN6 and CLMV, the results indicate that economic liberalisation leads to economic growt
The Role of Work Discretion in Activating Entrepreneurial Orientation among Employees
No full textThe purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between work discretion and entrepreneurial orientation dimensions namely innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness among employees of cement manufacturers in Johor, by applying the quantitative approach. An online internet-based web survey questionnaire method is adopted to collect data for the study and the population consists of all employees (N=300) of cement manufacturing organizations in Johor. Response rate of 70.4 percent is achieved. Formulated hypotheses are tested with multiple regression analysis and the findings indicate that all three hypotheses are supported providing empirical evidence confirming significant relationship between work discretion and entrepreneurial orientation dimensions investigated in the study. In addition, implications of the study are also discussed apart from the avenue for future research in the area of entrepreneurial orientation