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Case studies in management and business
No full textIMBRe is pleased to extend this book which features a compilation of business management case studies.The aims of this second volume of Case Studies in Management and Business remain unchanged from the first volume.Realizing the importance of using case study as one of the student-centered learning approach, this book is designed to enhance learning and teaching activities by providing a collection of teaching cases which could be used both for the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.This book includes relatively wide scope of work includes marketing, business policy, IT and Islamic finance. However the field is still in the field of management in general.The target audience is an academician and management students.In general, this book meets the scope of management.It is also suitable for an academician and students, but may not be appropriate in using for certain course, because of its scope is geared to specific disciplines. This book has the potential, especially if the university lecturers took it to be discussed in their classes.There is least amount of case use Malaysia environment in the market.The cases highlighted also are unique and not similar to the other cases.Furthermore, this book is using a real case in the beginning, especially in our country.In addition, this book is accompanied by teaching notes for each case.These teaching notes are available to instructors only.First to fifth case is ongoing for all cases involving the issue of whether the marketing or the service industry. The second and third cases involving issues on marketing in the nutritional industry. Consequently the third to fifth case involves a service industry that highlight on a unique issues within the companies concerned. The sixth case issues on “muamalat” are not so related to other cases.Since each case is developed by different authors, writing style and technique seem different and may disturb the concentration of the readers.The needs for local and contextual business case studies motivate most of the local case writers to write and compile teaching cases that are interesting and relevant to contemporary business situations and decisions, particularly in Malaysia
Usage of accounting information among Malaysian bumiputra small and medium non-manufacturing firms
Get PDFThis paper reports the results of a descriptive study which investigates usage of accounting information and computerized accounting information system (AIS) among non-manufacturing bumiputra small and medium sized firms (SMEs) in Malaysia,Using mail questionnaire survey,data was collected from 136 firms. Findings from this study suggest that uses of accounting information among the firm are varied,while uses of computerized AIS is minimal.Only a very small percentage of firm that prepared accounting information internally use computerized AIS.Furthermore, very few firm seek financial advice from accounting firm.This study provides important insights into the practice of financial management among bumiputra SMEs,which has received little attention thus far from academic, governmental and professional bodies
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
A case study of solid waste management in Malaysia: Issues, challenges and its business management practices
Get PDFThe paper aims to explore the business management practices and the implications for its use in tackling the issues and challenges faced by a solid waste management company in Malaysia, FreshAir. Experiencing rapid industrialization, with warm climate and high humidity, Malaysia is exposed to serious environmental and health related hazards. The case study research used semi-structured interviews conducted with the key participants of FreshAir in order to understand the use of business management techniques in tackling the issues and challenges faced by the solid waste company. Waste implies unwanted resources, which clearly create additional environmental costs and health related issues if they are not well managed. The study proposed that to sustain and remain competitive, organizations must ensure that the issues and challenges they face are managed effectively, which can be achieved by adopting relevant business and management accounting techniques. The findings suggest that the primary purpose of having business management and accounting information is to help FreshAir to make appropriate decisions to tackle the issues and challenges in solid waste management. The business management practices of FreshAir serve as an integral part of strategic, operations management and quality management, which lead to its sustainability. The study is of benefit to academics and managers by implying that the management functions of planning, organizing, directing and controlling should be in place to support sustainable waste management solutions
Faktor penentu prestasi pelajar dalam subjek perakaunan pengurusan
Get PDFKajian ini bertujuan mengenalpasti dan seterusnya menilai beberapa faktor yang menentukan prestasi pelajar dalam subjek perakaunan pengurusan di peringkat matrikulasi UUM. Subjek perakaunan pengurusan merupakan salah satu daripada subjek wajib bagi semua pelajar untuk diterima masuk ke peringkat ijazah di UUM.Subjek ini dipilih dalam kajian memandangkan pencapaian pelajar yang rendah berbanding dengan subjek-subjek lain di peringkat matrikulasi. Analisis kajian ke atas 393 sampel pelajar yang dipilih secara rawak menggunakan kaedah frekuensi mendapati purata markah pelajar secara keseluruhannya adalah dalam lingkungan gred C.Dalam menilai hubungan di antara pembolehubah, analisis regresi berganda mendapati 69% daripada variasi dalam pencapaian dalam subjek perakaunan pengurusan diterangkan oleh faktor prestasi terdahulu, tahap usaha dan sikap pelajar sendiri. Penemuan menunjukkan hubungan positif yang signifikan di antara markah perakaunan pengurusan dengan pencapaian terdahulu pelajar iaitu purata matagred keseluruhan dan pencapaian dalam subjek perakaunan kewangan yang diambil oleh pelajar dalam semester sebelumnya. Di samping itu prestasi terdahulu dalam subjek berkaitan (matematik) dan pendedahan awal dalam bidang perakaunan sama ada di peringkat matrikulasi ataupun di peringkat SPM juga menunjukkan hubungan yang signifikan dengan prestasi pelajar.Faktor-faktor lain yang juga boleh mempengaruhi prestasi pelajar adalah faktor sikap, usaha dan tahap motivasi pelajar dalam mempelajari subjek perakaunan pengurusan. Walau bagaimanapun faktor jantina, sekolah terakhir pelajar, galakan ibu bapa dan motivasi tidak signifikan dalam menentukan prestasi pencapaian pelajar. Kajian ini seterusnya mencadangkan pembolehubah yang signifikan yang boleh diambilkira dalam menerangkan variasi prestasi pelajar dalam subjek perakaunan pengurusan
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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