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The determinants of Chinese Muslims' consumption of halal products: implications for Malaysia's halal export to China
Full text linkIntegrating aggregate and disaggregate analyses, this study examines the determinants of Malaysia's export of halal products to China at both macro and micro levels, with a view to developing policy implications that can assist in fostering Malaysia's halal exports to China.
Export has been an essential source of income for economic growth and development throughout Malaysia's history, with manufactures exports accounting for the largest portion. However, during the last decade Malaysia has been losing its price competitiveness due to shortages in labour and natural resources, stagnation in upgrading manufacturing technology, and inadequate development in human resources.
In this context, it is proposed that halal products will become the next export-oriented products of Malaysia, and non-Muslim countries will become the new, targeted markets. On the one hand, Malaysia has an acknowledged reputation in halal credibility and is expanding its export of halal products globally, while on the other hand, China has recently become the world's most eye-catching market for halal products. With a fast growing Muslim population and consumer income, the demand for halal products by Chinese Muslims is expected to grow into a sizeable market.
Despite this potential, there is a lack of comprehensive research into the key determinants of Malaysia's halal exports to China. Also, the preferences of Chinese Muslims in purchasing halal products, particularly halal personal care products, have not been systematically studied. Rather, available studies on Malaysia's exports to China tend to focus largely on the macro factors, such as exchange rates, free trade agreements, and competitive advantages. This study fills these gaps.
In more detail, at the macro level, this study examines the determinants of Malaysia's export to China with aggregate data from the UNComtrade. This aggregate study mainly focuses on the importance of diplomatic relationships in fostering Malaysia's exports to China, using an augmented gravity model. Through utility maximization, institutional aspects, such as diplomatic relationships, and halal related variables are incorporated into the gravity model, which is then estimated using data from Malaysia's exports to China. The estimation uses the fixed effect to capture unobserved commodity characteristics that may be correlated with the error term, and accommodates possible endogeneity, autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity issues.
At the micro level, this study uses disaggregated data to examine the determinants of Chinese Muslims' consumption of halal personal care products. Two types of data are used.
1) Revealed preference data. This study identifies key determinants of Chinese Muslims' demand for halal personal care products, using a logit model. Revealed preference data were collected from five cities in Western China to estimate the signs and magnitude of the influence by each independent variable on consumers' intention to purchase.
2) Stated preference data. This study investigates Chinese Muslim's preferred halal attributes for halal toothpaste, using a stated preference choice model. Stated preference data were used because halal personal care products are not common in China. Using this method, the study captured desired attributes of halal toothpaste preferred by Chinese Muslims, even if they were not using it.
Findings from the aggregate study reveal how diplomatic relationships boost Malaysia's exports to China. In addition, marketing events, such as international halal exhibitions, promote Malaysia's exports to China. While findings from the disaggregated data analysis suggest that apart from faithfulness, reliability of recommendations, product origin and product price, the two most important determinants in influencing the purchase of halal products by the Chinese Muslims are product availability and halal authenticity.
The findings will assist policy makers, industry leaders, business consultants, exporters and importers of halal products in developing their export strategies and strategizing trade approaches with China. They will also benefit other similar economies that are seeking to improve on, or tap into, the China Muslim market. In addition to the policy implications, this study also contributes to the existing literature from two additional aspects. Firstly, this study contributes to existing literature of institutional aspect of trade, in particular on developing countries (Malaysia and China) that are less explored. Secondly, this study provides an in-depth analysis of the purchase behaviours of Chinese Muslims, contributing to the literature on consumption behaviour
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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