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Stock index futures efficiency : comparison study between Malaysia, Singapore and London
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An Empirical Investigation on Annual Reporting Practices of Malaysian State Islamic Religious Councils: Issues and Challenges
Get PDFThis paper aims to evaluate the extent and quality of disclosure of annual report and to investigate in-depth explanation on the obtained evaluation. Specifically, semi-structured interviews are conducted to address the reasons/constraints of such disclosure/non-disclosure and for not preparing an annual report. This study found that there are external and internal problems in preparing annual reports; where it was inferred that the internal problems are more serious. The former consists of lack of enforcement and reporting guidelines, whereas the latter includes attitudes of top management, lack of staff, difficulties in preparing annual reports and transformation of SIRC organisations. However, such a lack of enforcement is the main reason for the inconsistency of the annual report disclosure of some SIRC and its total absence from others. This was highlighted by majority of the interviewees. Despite of those problems, most of the SIRC’s accountants claim that they are becoming more active in issuing annual reports. It seems advantageous to address those issues and challenges and SIRC should consider producing a comprehensive annual report for the discharge of their accountability and thus, encourage more funding. They should be more transparent to enhance accessibility, concerning the extent and quality of the disclosure.Consequently, this study was able to make empirical contributions to the literature, and particularly to the practice and knowledge of this type of institutional accounting
Nonlinearity in Market Efficiency: Comparison study of Malaysia, London and Singapore.
Get PDFIt is argued that the efficiency in futures market depends on the nature of trading activity in futures and on its relation to the underlying security. Much of the studies in this are only focus on the linear relationship between this instruments and little has been done using the nonlinearity test
Expedited analytical hierarchical process for multicriteria decision making
No full textIn this study, a procedure to overcome analytical hierarchical process (AHP) limitations was developed and tested, and a tool created via pairwise comparison chart and weighted sum method hybridization was introduced. In addition, a multicriteria decision-making software was selected to validate the constructed hybrid decision-making tool. The software was formulated based on an established decision-making technique. Data for the comparison analysis were obtained from an ongoing research, and output from the comparison analysis provided evidence for the accuracy of the constructed tool. The proposed hybridized method aligned with AHP reasoning but demonstrated a faster process; hence, it was called ‘expedited AHP’
Technical quality and patient perception of hospital care quality
No full textThe purpose of this study is to examine the effects of technical quality (medical care and nursing care) on perceived service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioural compliance at a public hospital. This study is also to confirm the mediating effects of patient satisfaction between perceived service quality and behavioural compliance.A structured questionnaire was distributed to discharged patients who warded at the hospital for at least two days. To analyze the relationship between constructs, Smart PLS analysis technique was used. The findings provided empirical evidence that medical care and nursing care significantly influenced perceived service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioural compliance. Patient satisfaction mediated the perceived service quality and behavioural compliance. The results reveal that medical care and nursing care are the outstanding factors to determine perceived service quality, patient satisfaction and behavioural compliance. By evaluating the healthcare service quality, it is hoped to provide an insight to healthcare managers about the service quality dimensions and their relationship with patient satisfaction, and behavioural compliance.Although the concepts of perceived service quality, patient satisfaction, and behavioural compliance are explored frequently in healthcare service literature, there are few researches that focus on the effect of medical care and nursing care on discharged patients
Linkage of Management Decisions to Shareholder’s Value: EVA Concept
Get PDFIn this paper, the author investigated the influence of management decisions like capital structure, dividend policies, remunerations, credit policy decisions and investment decisions on shareholder wealth maximization. The main objective of this paper is to increase awareness and relationship between management and shareholders of the companies. To achieve the objective, portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model and modern financial theory providing evidence on the linkage between management decisions to shareholder’s value. Shareholders are only concerned about the value of shares of the company and the amount of return in the form of dividend paid. Thus in order to meet the demands of the shareholders of the company, managers needs to increase their abilities and skills to overcome the organizational goals. Thus the main goal of this paper is to discuss on the role of management decisions towards increasing shareholder’s wealth and meet organizational goals
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Leading Determinants for Sustainability of SMEs’ in Bangladesh: Multiple Cases Studies
Get PDFThis paper aims to find the leading determinants of SMEs’ of Bangladesh that can create sustainability and long term success for the organizations. In this paper, fifty (50) scholarly articles have been reviewed and ‘qualitative content analysis’ and ‘thematic analysis’ have taken place based on ontological and methodological paradigm approach with multiple case studies. Meanwhile, three cases have been analyzed where the participants’ gave in-depth interview about their SMEs’ and distinct leading determinants
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