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The Mediating Role of Attitude in Influencing Consumer Purchase Intention Towards Online Apparel Shopping in Malaysia.
Get PDFOnline apparel shopping had been growing steadily in Malaysia over the decade. Regardless, the aspects of purchase intention are not well researched, and a holistic framework remains limited. Considering the potential of apparel shopping, this study was conducted to develop an
integrated framework and to understand the role of attitude as a mediator using baseline models such as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Using purposive sampling, this study retrieved 314 responses through a self-administered questionnaire from
online apparel shoppers in Malaysia. The hypotheses were tested using PLSSEM. Conclusively, perceived risk, web experience, pricing, utilitarian, hedonic, and products and service attributes demonstrated a significant relationship towards attitude. Direct relationships were also present between pricing, utilitarian, hedonic, convenience and online apparel purchase intention (OAPI). Interestingly, attitude was found to mediate all variables towards purchase intention except for convenience. The findings contribute
academically to marketing and online apparel literature in the Malaysian context. With these innovative insights, online marketers and online apparel business owners can better comprehend online buyers' interest to purchase
Understanding What Lies Behind Public Bad Leadership In the Federal Government of Somalia
Get PDFThis study investigates what lies behind public bad leadership in Somalia's federal government by analysing the perspectives of 21 respondents including senior policy analysts, senior government officials, and representatives of the NGOs, local communities, the youth, religious leaders, and scholars. The key findings of this study are that bad leadership in Somalia manifest in those who operate the federal system against society's needs, lack a clear vision and purpose, put their personal interests ahead of the public interest, dictate what they want to the community, have no prior experience in politics or federalism, and sign unverified deals with foreigners are
viewed as bad leaders. Favoritism, clan-based recruitment in government institutions, dictatorship, rapid property creation, short-sightedness, lack of vision, and corruption are major behaviors and activities exhibited bad leadership in Somalia. This study concludes that bad leadership is a fundamental contributor in Somalia's political collapse. Therefore, the study suggests certain measures that may be implemented to address the problem of bad leadership in Somalia including reforming the electoral system, finalizing the provisional constitution, boosting civic education, and thoroughly examining individuals' biographies before allowing them to run for public office
The Effect of Internet Banking Use and Customer Protection Against Cyber Crime at Bank Rakyat Indonesia
No full textWith the very rapid development of technology that helps
humans in carrying out their activities, one of them in the
banking world has emerged a product in the banking world,
namely internet banking. The problem with technological
developments is the higher the number of crimes that occur
in the internet banking process. This study uses a quantitative research method with a case study of one of Indonesia's national banks, namely Bank BRI specific in BRI KC Majalaya. This study found that the use of internet banking has a significant effect on cybercrime at Bank BRI KC Majalaya and consumer protection has a significant effect on cybercrime
Role of Social Studies Teacher to Inculcate Student Character Values
No full textThis study aims to investigate the role of social science subject teachers in instilling character values in students through the process of teaching and learning activities.
This study used a quantitative approach with a case study type conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah Indramayu. The results of the study show that teachers of the Social Sciences subject at SMP Muhammadiyah Indramayu have tried their best to carry out their duties, especially in instilling historical awareness as well as values of nationalism, identity and character in their students. This is proven when the writer observes while teaching in class being able to use strategies, various methods and modes so that the classroom atmosphere is lively and full of enthusiasm and is able to develop students to think historically analytically with various assignments. Besides that, teachers outside the classroom always monitor the character and attitudes of students to measure the extent to which what has been taught has an effect
System Continuance Success of the Local Electronic Government in Indonesia
Get PDFThe adoption and use of electronic government (e-government) services are still limited in most countries as they are largely guided by supply-side factors. However, one of the technology-enabled modernization issues is that decision-makers do not take user expectations and preferences. Referring that the citizens’ needs have become the focus of attention, it makes sense to investigate the sustainability factors of the system from the perspectives of the users. This study aimed to determine the factors that influence the
system continuance success of local e-government in Indonesia. We adopted, combined, and adapted the information system (IS) success model, the unified theory of acceptance
and use of technology (UTAUT) model, the expectancy confirmation model (ECM) to develop the research model. Around 390 valid survey data were analyzed using the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method. The findings showed that the user satisfaction, effort expectations, performance expectations, and system use
factors affect system continuance success of the local e-government in Indonesia
The Intervening Effect of Business Strategy to the Relationship between Internal and External Business Environmental and Performance among Micro and Small Industry Cluster Services and Creative Industry in Jakarta, Indonesia
Get PDFThis research aims to determine external business environmental factors which influence the measurement of business performance levels, to identify internal environmental factors/ RBV includes resources, efficiency, capabilities and competitive advantages that influence the measurement of business performance levels in MSMEs and creative industry service clusters in DKI Jakarta. To identify external & environmental business environmental factors internal/RBV which influences the measurement of business performance levels in the MSME service cluster and creative industry in DKI Jakarta. To identify and confirm the impact of Resource-Based Policies Perspective strategy indicators (RBV) and I/O indicators in making business strategies for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) operating in the service and creative industry cluster in DKI Jakarta. To identify the influence of business strategy on business performance in MSMEs in the service and creative industry cluster in DKI Jakarta. This research uses semi structured interviews and questionnaires. Data was collected using a purposive sampling method from 365 business actors operating in the creative and service economy sectors in DKI Jakarta. Data analysis uses the PLS-SEM method. The findings of this study indicate that The internal environment (RBV theory) influences the performance of businesses operating in the MSME service and creative sector clusters in DKI Jakarta, The external environment (I/O theory) affects the business performance of communities of MSME service and creative industries in DKI Jakarta, Business strategy influences the performance of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the service and creative industry clusters in DKI Jakarta, The RBV and I/O theories affect on the business performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the service and creative sector cluster in DKI Jakarta, The Resource-Based View (RBV) and I/O theories affect the business strategies of service cluster SMEs and creative industries in DKI Jakarta. Hence, enhancing the business strategy and performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in the service sector and creative economy within DKI Jakarta, specifically by augmenting the internal and external business environments that consistently yield positive outcomes, can lead to an enhancement in company performance
Factors Influencing Indian Information Technology Professionals Working on Assignment in Malaysia: The Mediating Role of Corss-Cultural Adjustment
Get PDFIn the field of international human resource management studies, cross-cultural adjustment and success of expatriates, has become important factors in the current competitiveness of Information Technology sector. This research examines the factors influencing expatriate success and the mediating role of cross-cultural adjustment among Indian IT expatriates working in Malaysia. This study was based on the model of Intercultural Adjustment by Parker and McEvoy (1993) and an empirical success and cross-cultural adjustment model for Indian IT Expatriates (SAME) who work in Malaysia on International Assignment was developed. The framework was successfully implemented with the aim to examine the influence of spouse support, HR practices such as Selection criteria, needs and effectiveness of pre-departure training and personality traits on the success of Indian IT professionals stationed in Malaysia and also study the mediating role of cross-cultural adjustment on these variables. This study focuses on certain individual, organizational and contextual factors that can affect expatriate adjustment and success because in a new environment an individual faces uncertainty, unfamiliarity and predictability issues in an international assignment. In terms of scope and originality, this study is the first attempt to integrate spouse support, selection criteria, pre-departure training and personality traits on expatriate success and mediating influence of cross-cultural adjustment. This study contributes to the understanding of the importance of expatriate success and the role of cross-cultural adjustment in new environments. A quantitative research was conducted based on a total of 293 Indian IT expatriates working on international assignment in Malaysia. The validation of the model developed for this study was done by adapting structured questionnaire and using structural equation modeling. The results indicated that spouse support and pre-departure training had no significant effect on expatriate success. However, cross-cultural adjustment fully mediated the relationships between spouse support and expatriate success and between pre-departure training and expatriate success. Selection criteria, personality traits and cross-cultural adjustment have direct effects on expatriate success and cross-cultural adjustment partially mediates the relationship between selection criteria and expatriate success. Cross-cultural adjustment partially mediates the relationship between personality traits and expatriate success. This research also provides some theoretical and practical implications with respect to expatriate management practices for managers and for technical and non-technical experts wishing to gain insights on several factors on expatriation process. This study also has important implications for Indian and Malaysian companies hiring expatriates on international assignment. The findings of this study will help future researchers, human resources managers, organizations employing expatriates who are associated with selection, training and professional development of expatriates for foreign assignment
Model of IT Implementation Readiness in Higher Education Institution in Indonesia
Get PDFThe Information Technology or widely known abbreviated as IT takes the crucial part in the Higher Education Institution in which expectedly increase administration tasks efficiency. Hereby setting-up an automatic system for covering every process such as information management, or to expand the management effectiveness by providing adequate information for further able to either taking decisions or positively elevate the organisation proficiency in a competitive way of running bussiness in a brand new style. The Higher Education Institution is more challenging and inevitably exceeds great number of complex demand nowadays, not only to organize the academic activity process or community service programme but also it designed to look forward to put more higher effort in innovation regarding information and data management that has to be well-described to the stakeholders. To fulfill the globalization recent demand, Higher Education Institutions were competed each other establishing Information Technology installments, moreover as the result, number of instalments failure arose in approximately four late decade. Later on, one of the major causes in information system implementation failure is incompatibility of both recent system and bussiness process linked with information for the organization purposes.
Furthermore, the other particular external factors caused failure were possibly human error and the process that impacted task management procedure. In addition, the capability of Information Technology implementation in Higher Education Institution theoretically still undoubtedly discrepancy along with some trouble-cases in the methodology. In sum up, this research intended as the scientific response regarding phenomenon as previously described, and this research also aimed to explore
the availability of Information Technology implementation followed by brief explanation related to the factors that affected particularly from the internal stakeholder influence. This research method develops some relevant models by elaborate and combines E-Readiness together with ZEN Framework. Methodologically, mixed sequential approach primarily applied in each research phase and pointed out quantitative method at first place. The population from this research is the internal stakeholders which samples are selected based on multi-stage purpose random sampling. Further as the results, about 338 valid responses were analysed using quantitative method coexistence with Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling or PLS-SEM and the thematic paper of Focus Group Discussion (FGD) consisting 18 participants which its result then analysed in qualitative mechanism. The conclusion from those two methodologies then interpreted by implementing the confirmed interpretation. For further, the main hypotheses delineate from the research conclude that 2 from 15 examination procedures were rejected. On the other hand, practical finding from this research contributes in the exploration
process that evaluates the capability to produce ability to compare and to make such a predictive model framework instalment in Higher Education Institution
Effect of Business Coaching on Growth and Performance and the Moderating Role of Competitive Advantage in Small Medium Enterprises in Malaysia
Get PDFHigh-impact growth is vital to the survival and sustainability of all small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Unfortunately, most SMEs' leaders do not invest sufficient time and resources in building employee competencies and assuring their organisations' high-impact growth. In Malaysia, an inadequacy of business coaching in the nation's SMEs necessitates more research into the effects of business coaching on the high-impact growth of SMEs. This study aimed to examine the effects of motivation, productivity, job satisfaction, innovation, and business model innovation on the growth and performance of SMEs in Malaysia and the moderating role of competitive advantage. A positivist philosophical approach was employed to investigate the effect of business coaching on growth and performance and the moderating role of competitive advantage in SMEs. Besides, this study adopted a causal research design. A survey questionnaire was utilised to collect data from respondents, while structural equation modelling was employed to analyse the data. According to the study's findings, motivation, productivity, innovation, and improved business model innovations positively and significantly influence the growth and performance of Malaysian SMEs. The study's findings also revealed that comparative advantage has a positive and significant influence on Malaysian SMEs' growth and performance. The findings of this study enlighten SME leaders in Malaysia and other stakeholders on the value of business coaching on the growth and performance and the key role of competitive advantage in Malaysian SMEs. The findings also have critical implications for business coaching among SMEs. The study posits that Malaysian SME leaders should promote motivation, productivity, job satisfaction, innovation, and improved business model innovations in their businesses to realise improved growth and performance