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The Impact of Supply Chain Social Capital on Market Orientation: The Buyer Perspective
Get PDFDeveloping the strength of social ties between buying and supplying organizations is increasingly cited as a critical differentiator of high and low performers in global supply chains. While the creation of relational capital within an organization is a relatively well-identified concept in organizational research, comparatively little research exists on the bonding and bridging social ties that create relational value in supply chains. In our research, we extend theoretical models of group social conduits into this context and develop a model that posits the impact of social capital on the reactive and proactive market orientation between buyers and suppliers. Results from our study of 114 technology-based companies in Malaysia suggest that formal social capital are important in the creation of relational capital, which in turn can lead to improving market orientation eventually supplier relationship outcomes. Formal bridging social capital conduits appear to play a lesser role in deriving these benefits
Tourists’ attitude matters for the international travelling intention to Malaysia: a study on tourism quality experience and travel frequency as determinant factors
No full textPurpose: This study explores the mediating role of attitude on tourism quality experience and travel frequency as the determinants of international tourists' intention to visit Malaysia.
Design/methodology/approach: This study used the quantitative survey analysis
methodology to develop and test a structural model with partial least squares (PLS-SEM).
Findings: This study investigates the concepts of creating a positive tourist attitude to build a destinations' image, using Travel frequency that relies on traditional forms of travelling. The study highlights the importance of examining the influence of a credible and valuable source
that can help build tourist quality experience towards a destination and its impact on the audience's intention to revisit the destination in Malaysia.
Research limitations/implications: The population of this study was limited to international tourists who visited tourism destinations in Malaysia. Therefore, the results from this study
may not be generalised beyond this population.
Practical implications: The findings will help highlight the methods to develop destinations' revisit intention of travellers with their perceptions towards destination attributes and quality of experience.
Originality/value: This research reveals the underlying procedure of forming tourists'
intention for taking their perception of experience quality, tourist attitude, and visit intention
with a latent construct of travel frequency
Investigating the Effect of Satisfaction toward Self-Service Technology (SST) and Behavioral Intention Relationship: Its role in the green hotel industry
Get PDFToday's hotels are deploying self-service technologies (SSTs) to allow efficient and effective service delivery. SST significantly impacts customers' interaction with service providers. Through the survey, this study explores the relationship between SST and customer behavioural intention via customer satisfaction for Malaysia's green hotel industry. Data from 431 respondents were analysed using structural equation modelling with the partial least squares approach. The findings showed customer satisfaction mediated the association between SST and customer behavioural intention. This finding would help the green hotel's managers to focus on SST which could boost customer satisfaction and indirectly improve the likelihood of positive behavioural intention
Tourism product quality perceptions and big spenders' travel intentions in Malaysia: a comparative study of Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern countries / Zaliha Zainuddin, Mazni Saad and Mohd Hanafi Azman Ong
Get PDFTourism has been the second-largest economic driven in Malaysia's economy. This paper aims to examine the mediating role of perceived tourism products quality (TPQ) in Malaysia towards electronic word-ofmouth (eWOM) and travelling intentions of Southeast Asia (SEA) and the Middle East. Two-fold objectives were developed: (1) To investigate the significant difference of the perception between SEA and Middle East countries on Malaysian's tourism products quality and (2) to examine the mediating role of perceived tourism products quality in Malaysia towards eWOM and travelling intentions of SEA and the Middle East. Methodology design using the SEA and Middle East tourists who have been to Malaysia was approached through the online Google Form survey. Upon processing 92 respondents from the Middle East and 79 respondents from SEA, the data sets of responses were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) and MANOVA techniques. The findings show a significant mediating effect of perceived TPQ toward the relationship of eWOM and revisit intention. Besides, comparison analysis shows that SEA tourists are more likely to revisit Malaysia than the Middle East, the same as for the finding of eWOM and perceived TPQ. TPQ has a mediating impact on eWOM and revisits intention for both markets. The findings of this study are expected would positively affect stakeholders, especially the State Tourism, Tourism Board, and tourism industry players
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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