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Investigating the Factors Influencing on the Development of Leaders for Smart City in Duqm: A Special Economic Zone in Oman
Get PDFThe main objective of this study is to examine the factors influencing the development of leaders for Smart city at Duqm in Oman. Clearly, smart city is a
municipality that uses ICT to increase operational efficiency, share information with the public and improve both the quality of government services and citizen
welfare. Generally, more than half of the global population lives in urban environments. We formulated four objectives in this study. In doing so, a sample of 220 respondents who were all managers and senior lever employees of SEZAD leading the development are
employed in this study. A well-structured questionnaire was employed as research instrument. The SPSS V25 was used to analyse the data following quantitative method
where cross sectional data were employed. We hypothesized that there is a positive and significant relationship between budget, technological skill, academic skill and
infrastructure with development of leadership. Our data confirmed that a positive and significant relationship is found between budget, technological skill, academic skill and infrastructure with development of leadership. This study also claims that leadership development produces higher performing organizations through improving leader
effectiveness at all levels of management. In order to maximize the full economic, social and environmental potential of a smart urban development agenda, we suggest that smart leadership about understands the close interdependence of businesses and communities in cities where success involves creating and maintaining balanced and mutually beneficial relationships across business and community needs in the digital era
Absorptive Capacity and Sustainable Competition: Case Study of a Logistic Company in Vietnam
Get PDFAbsorptive Capacity is a popular concept that has been studied as the key source of sustainable competitive advantage of firms. Scholarly works on this issue are diverse and employs multitude of approaches and theories. However, despite many studies carried out, controversies remained with regards to issues related to the focus, factors contributing and diverging views on how Absorptive Capacity as a social construct is related to competitive advantage. This study was conducted to probe deeper into how Absorptive Capacity contributes to
sustainability of firm’s competitive advantage. It was carried out as a case study to address a growing concern that past studies had failed to provide a collective
understanding and a unified operationalization of the concept of Absorptive Capacity, implying that the construct might have been reified and taken for granted. In addition, there were growing calls for more research on Absorptive Capacity to be conducted in its natural setting to gain greater insights of real life complexity and that issues related to Absorptive Capacity development can be captured and understood. Data was
collected through interviews, observations of events and social practices of organizational members and analysis of both historical and current documents. Theoretically, the study adopted strategic management viewpoints and the Resource Based View and Dynamic Capability View provided the theoretical frameworks for analysis. The focus was on building a theory based on the complexity of Absorptive Capacity in real-life setting.The principle finding of this study is that Absorptive Capacity contributes to building of organizational resilience. The Company profited from external information by correctly identify, acquire, process and assimilated into its existing knowledge stock before being exploited for commercial gains. Second, the study found that Absorptive
Capacity is a two-stage sequential process. The first is context dependent whilst the second was problem dependent. However, rather than both being linear, the first stage was more cyclical. Third, the transition from the knowledge updates to exploitation was not immediate. The time taken for relevant external information to be captured and assimilated into the firm’s knowledge reservoir is contingent upon its knowledge management structure and the timing gap between the making of decisions to actual implementation depended more on its management and decision making structures. Four, six factors were found to contribute to the development of Absorptive Capacity. Finally, this study suggests a new improved model of Absorptive Capacity development to extend the intellectual discourse on this topic
AeU Insights - Webinar 4: Adjunct Professor Forum: University-Industry Collaboration
No full textUniversities are committed to excellent teaching, innovative research, and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community. Emphasis on university-industry collaborations is a global trend not only in OECD countries, but also in emerging economies and increasingly in developing countries, including Malaysia. Often governments play a role in these types of collaboration, and these three-way partnerships between Industry-Government-University are sometimes called Triple Helix. For example, the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education) has highlighted the need to take collaboration between universities and industries to the next level. The objective of this Webinar is to discuss how both institutions and industries could mutually gain from these collaborations by addressing the fundamental issues, such as: (a) What is university-industry collaboration? (b) Why would universities and industries collaborate? (c) What helps university-industry collaborations succeed? (d) Often, the partnership usually originates from the STEM areas, how can a university find an industry partner in the non-STEM (e.g. social science) areas? and (e) What would be the future models of university-industry collaborations in the post-Covid era?
In this Webinar forum we are pleased to have a panel of three doyens, who are AeU’s Adjunct Professors and have the expertise in University-Industry Partnership to share their first-hand experiences on how to initiate and sustain this partnership, especially during 19 pandemic
The Influence IT Governance Mechanism on Effectiveness ITG and IT Performance: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling Approach (PLS-SEM)
Get PDFThis article presents raw inferential statistical data that determine the IT Governance effectiveness on the IT Performance.To identify influence mechanism Information
Technology Governance (ITG) on Effectiveness ITG and IT Performance.Data were collected from respondents in all regions of Indonesia. Quantitative research methods are
used to analyze data. The structured questionnaire was distributed to respondents in all regions of Indonesia who understood the field of IT Governance in Higher University whose reliability and validity were confirmed. Structural equation modeling (SEM) using Smart PLS software, version 3, is used to present data. SEM path analysis shows an estimate of the relationship of the main constructs in the data The results obtained from
this dataset shows positive relationship between mechanism Structure, Process and Relation to IT Governance effectiveness, consciousness also has a significant influence on the IT Performance and positive relationship between IT Governance effectiveness and IT
Performance. However, mechanism structure and process has proven to have a negative and insignificant influence on the IT Performance Effective IT governance related to
mechanism ITG and IT Performance level of unit analysis. One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study is that evaluate the mechanism ITG impact to effective IT governance that focus on higher education institution (HEI). This study already examines a validation of evaluation model and collecting data in particular higher education institution (HEI) as a single case study
E-Learning Implementation Challenges and Impact on Education System of Pakistan
Get PDFThe proposed study discusses the various parameters of the interest of the student towards e-learning by
analyzing the primary data of the students' feedback from a questionnaire. It analyses the e-learning process
among students who are using this tool in their school colleges. A stratified sampling method has been adopted
for a sample size of 200 and the data has been collected from different grade students of the school, college, and
universities of the Pakistan.
Further, the study provides a detailed discussion of the challenges of adopting eLearning and its impact on the
ordinary education system during a Corona Virus disease outbreak around the world and especially in Pakistan.
It explains how the educational institution faces the challenges of immediate and unplanned switching from
ordinary learning methods to e-learning approaches in this dire situation. This article will help educational
professionals, students, and policymakers for new age education
The Demand for Life Insurance in a Developing Country and The Mediating Role of Persuasion
Get PDFThis study examines the demand for life insurance in a rapidly developing economic environment in South East Asia, focusing on Malaysia. The study extends the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) by introducing a mediating variable ‘Persuasion’ in examining the demand for life insurance among policy buyers. Fuelled by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the life insurance market is expected to grow significantly and the role of the state and regulatory body to regulate this process would be pivotal. Given the increasing significance of this industry both before and after the epidemic, this study identifies seven research variables from previous literature sources related to finance and international insurance, including financial literacy, saving motives, religiosity, risk aversion, agent, persuasion and purchase intention of life insurance. A causal research design is used to formulate research framework and testable hypotheses for this study. Data collection encompasses face to face interviews with 385 life insurance policy holders between May 2019 and March 2020 by using a survey questionnaire. Data analysis is mainly based on PLS-SEM method by using SPSS and Smart PLS statistical software packages. Results reveal persuasion as an important construct that explains the demand for life insurance, while agent is found to have the highest impact towards persuasion. The study also finds a full mediation effect of persuasion in the demand for life insurance for risk aversion and agent. These findings add new insights to the body of knowledge in life insurance literatures. Furthermore, research is useful for policy makers including government, finance, and insurance agencies; and recommends relevant strategies to further improve life insurance penetration in the population
Online Group Purchasing Environment, the Effects of Price Discounts and Crowd Psychology on Purchasing Behavior
Get PDFThe goal of this study is to determine the influence of impulsive purchase behavior on mobile marketing, discounts, and consumer lifestyle. The approach used is a combination of quantitative research and an explanation survey. The population for this study is comprised of active internet users who have completed marketplace transactions. The dataset was sampled in a non-probabilistic manner (convenience sampling) and included data from 100 respondents. The results suggested that mobile marketing and promotions had no obvious influence on impulsive purchases made by marketplace customers. Meanwhile, lifestyle has a good influence on the impulsive purchase behavior of marketplace consumers by 35.1 percent. Mobile marketing, incentives, and lifestyle all have a combined influence on the marketplace of 20.9 percent on impulse purchases. While the remaining 79.1 percent is impacted by elements that have not been investigated. This research was conducted using earlier studies as a baseline against which to establish the hypothesis for each variable. The study's design was quantitative, with an emphasis on explanatory research. Convenience sampling was used in this study. This study was successful in determining the effects and interactions associated with impulse purchasing. Discounts, lifestyle, and mobile marketing are integrated and analyzed to see which aspects have the biggest influence
Goal Setting: A Tool for Motivation
Get PDFWhile we all know that motivation is a vital factor for boosting employees’performance, the tools used for achieving this are taken up differently by different
researchers and philanthropists. In this article, an attempt has been made to project goal setting exercise as an effective tool for boosting employees’ motivation in an
organization’s performance management system (PMS)
Factors that Influence Entrepreneurial Intention among Pre-Retirees in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia
Get PDFAs Malaysia is becoming an aged nation by 2030, according to the Department of Statistics, Malaysia, where 14% of the population will be in their 60s in the next 10 years, pre-retiree Malaysians particularly are encouraged to generate consistent and secure income sources to protect a sustainable retirement lifestyle. One of the practical
strategies is to encourage the development of senior entrepreneurship. Most of the entrepreneurship researches in Malaysia are mainly focused on certain groups of
people, particularly on younger people seeking alternative to being employed. The pre�retirees or the senior cohort thus have been neglected and overlooked. The main
objective of this study is to examine the determinants that affect entrepreneurial intention among Malaysian pre-retirees between ages 45 to 59 years old. Specifically,
it examines the relationship between the independent variables of entrepreneurial attitude, individual entrepreneurial orientation, instrumental readiness and
entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the dependent variable of entrepreneurial intention. A questionnaire survey adopted in this study secured the required information from 616
target respondents in Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur and State of Selangor, whose analyzed responses thus explain the 65.5% variances in entrepreneurial intention
among Malaysian pre-retirees. The research findings established, using SPSS version 27 and Smart PLS 3.0 application, suggest that Entrepreneurial Attitude, Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation, Instrumental Readiness and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem have significant positive relationships with Entrepreneurial Intention, also showing that Entrepreneurial Attitude has mediated partially the relationship between Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Entrepreneurial Intention. This study also found that there are gender and ethnicity differences on the three dimensions of individual entrepreneurial orientation: risk taking, innovativeness and proactiveness; except for
ethnicity on risk taking only. The overall results provide useful informational insights for the Malaysian government and other public interest groups including financial
institutions and business advisory agencies keen to tap on pre-retirees as a productive and contributory source for entrepreneurial SME business development. In this way,
the research gap in entrepreneurship development can be bridged by exploiting a potential untapped resource of pre-retirees for further country economic wealth creation
and improving post-citizenship retirement welfare
Edu-Tourism: Leisure Motivation, Travel Behaviour and Travel Satisfaction among Foreign Students in Malaysia
Get PDFMalaysia’s aspiration to be an international education hub has over the years attracted about 100,000 foreign students annually into institutions of higher learning, generating education revenues to the national economy. Moreover, travel and tourism activities among these foreign students add to the tourism revenues and also improve the attractiveness of Malaysia’s education industry. To attract more foreign students and improve inbound tourism among them, this study assesses their leisure motivation, as leisure activities in whatever form is a basic need for well-being. This study evaluates how leisure motivation can influence their travel behaviour, and whether travel satisfaction would mediate it. Methodology used is quantitative research, with multi-stage cluster sampling and self-administered questionnaires for data collection. The sample size was 429. Hypotheses were tested using simple linear regression, multiple regression and canonical correlation analysis, to identify relationships among the three main variables leisure motivation, travel behaviour and travel satisfaction, and their sub-variables. Findings showed that leisure motivation significantly influences travel behaviour, and travel satisfaction has mediating influence on those relationships. Stimulus-avoidance factor is the strongest leisure motivator among foreign students, which significantly influences urban and adventure tourism. Intellectual factor, the second strongest, significantly influences urban and rural tourism. The third, competence-mastery factor, significantly influences sports, adventure and urban tourism. Lastly, social factor significantly influences rural tourism. Social factor has no significant influence on travel satisfaction. Adventure tourism has no significant influence on travel satisfaction