612 research outputs found
Blended learning in entrepreneurship education: the assessments of the measurement model using SmartPLS / Noraini Nasirun and T. Ramayah
Get PDFScholars of blended learning are calling for more empirical research in the area of blended learning in entrepreneurship education. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a measurement model that involved student interactions, motivation and student engagement on satisfaction in blended learning among entrepreneurship students. This study was underpinned by the Self-Determination Theory (SDT). The respondents of this study are Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) students who enrolled Fundamental of Entrepreneurship (ENT300) and participated in the flipped classroom module. ENT300 is a university subject, hence massive enrollment is expected every semester. Questionnaires were distributed to the respondents 15 minutes before the class ends in Week 14. The measurements for all constructs were adapted from previous scholars and approved by the ethical committee of the university. Data was analyzed using SmartPLS. The results indicated that the measurement model achieves its reliability and validity thus valid for further analysis. This study contributes to the empirical literature of entrepreneurship education and the practices on handling a massive enrollment using blended learning. The conclusions and recommendations for future research are also presented in this study
Exploring the Emergence of Open Spatial Data Infrastructures: Analysis of Recent Developments and Trends in Europe
No full textIn the past 20 years, European public authorities have invested considerable resources in the development of spatial data infrastructures. With the European INSPIRE Directive as an important driver, national spatial data infrastructures were developed throughout Europe to facilitate and coordinate the exchange and sharing of geographic data. While the original focus of these spatial data infrastructure was mainly on data sharing among public authorities, it became more and more evident that these data could also be of great value to users outside the public sector. In recent years, several countries and public administrations started to make a shift towards the establishment of an ‘open’ spatial data infrastructure, in which also businesses, citizens and non- governmental actors were considered as key stakeholders of the infrastructure. This chapter provides an analysis of the measures and solutions implemented in four European countries (the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Finland) to make their spatial data infrastructures open to businesses, citizens and other stakeholders. The analysis shows that in these four countries the move towards more open spatial data infrastructures can mainly be seen in the increased availability of geographic data and spatially enabled services to citizens, businesses and other stakeholders.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. This publication is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 706999.OLD Geo-information and Land Developmen
Global sourcing strategy of electrical and electronics foreign multinationals in Malaysia / Siti Halijjah Shariff, Osman Mohamad and T Ramayah
Get PDFMultinationals will source from within their company (intra) as well as from independent supplier (inter) and these suppliers may be located locally or overseas. This study highlights the percentage of components sourced from intra-domestic, intra-foreign, interdomestic, and inter-foreign sources by electrical and electronic foreign multinationals in Malaysia. These global sourcing strategies were found to be different among the different nationality of the parent company for the electrical and electronic foreign multinationals. However, the dependency on sourcing from parent country or from its subsidiaries in foreign country was not reduced even when the product is at the maturity stage
Impact of innovativeness on small and medium enterprises
No full textThe 2nd International Conference on the Roles of Humanities and Social Science in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010) organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 12th - 14th November 2010 at Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia.The year 2010 has been made as the Year of Innovation aims to celebrate and encourage
innovation among Malaysians. Innovation is recognized as the next phase of development
towards a developed country status. Innovation creates jobs and boost national
competitiveness. Innovation is a central issue for organizations in the new global economy. It
is a potential mechanism towards competitive advantages and the key to sustainable growth.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) make a valuable economic and social contribution
because of their innovative capacities. SMEs are the engine of growth in achieving the
developed nation status. Malaysian policy-makers recognized the importance of innovation
and SMEs to the competitiveness of national economies. This study is interested in how
Malaysian SMEs achieved superior performance by means of innovativeness. This study,
therefore, investigate innovativeness as the factor in improving the performance of SMEs in
Malaysia. This study answered the following; 1) What is the innovativeness climate of
Malaysian SMEs?; 2) To what extent does Malaysian SMEs exhibits innovativeness?; and 3)
Is there a relationship between innovativeness and performance of Malaysian SMEs? The results indicate that process innovativeness, product innovativeness and behavioural
innovativeness respectively have significanct relationship with organizational performance.
Since innovativeness has a positive relationship with organizational performance of SMEs,
SMEs need to design and implement cultures that will nurture innovativeness to grasp its
benefits. The findings provide an understanding based on the dimensions of innovativeness
and can be used to develop targeted programs aimed at enhancing process, product and
behavioural innovativeness among Malaysian SMEs
A comparison of five reflective–formative estimation approaches: reconsideration and recommendations for tourism research
No full textSampling weight adjustments in partial least squares structural equation modeling: guidelines and illustrations
No full textApplications of partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) often draw on survey data. While researchers go to great lengths to document reliability and validity statistics that support the generalisability of their findings, they often overlook or ignore a more fundamental issue related to data analysis—the representativeness of their sample. Addressing this concern, the present paper offers guidelines for using the weighted PLS-SEM (WPLS-SEM) algorithm to apply sampling weights in the model estimation. The results of the WPLS algorithm and the traditional PLS algorithm are then compared using a marketing research model. The findings show that researchers should routinely consider the procedure of the WPLS algorithm when using the PLS technique for assessment. The WPLS algorithm is a useful and practical approach for achieving better average population estimates in situations where researchers have a set of appropriate weights. This paper substantiates the use of the WPLS algorithm and provides business researchers and practitioners with the proper guidelines to assess, report, and interpret PLS-SEM results. It also illustrates that the use of the WPLS algorithm produces different inference test results in the structural model and different predictive relevance results. Thus, the study contributes to the advancement of PLS-SEM applications
The virtuous circle of corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance: the mediating role of firm reputation / Vani Tanggamani, Azlan Amran and T. Ramayah
Get PDFProfitability is undeniably the main goal of business organizations. This study focuses on the effect of previous-year CSR practices to current-year financial performance, and then its effect on future-year CSR practices. This study also investigates the mediating effect of current-year firm reputation on the relationship between previous-year CSR practices and current-year financial performance, and on the relationship between current-year financial performance and future-year CRR practices. Using a stratified random sampling, 200 public listed firms on Bursa Malaysia were selected as sample of this study. Content analysis of their annual reports from year 2013 to 2015 and company website was carried out to determine their CSR practices disclosure, ROA and firm reputation. Partial least squares – structural equation modelling was used to analyse the samples. Findings showed that previous-year CSR practices lead to significant and positive effect on current-year reputation and corporate financial performance. Current-year reputation mediates the relationship between previous-year CSR and current-year corporate financial performance. However, current-year corporate financial performance does not lead to future-year CSR practices disclosure. This study showed that CSR practices have immediate positive effect on corporate financial performance but the profitability did not lead to more disclosure in subsequent-year CSR practices. Hence, further study might explore a wider time gap between current-year corporate financial performance and future CSR practices. Conclusively, CSR practices are critical success factor that must be effectively and efficiently implemented by firm
Is entrepreneurial competency and business success relationship contingent upon business environment?: A study of Malaysian SMEs
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this article is to evaluate the effect of entrepreneurial competencies and the moderating effect of business environment on business success in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 212 Malaysian SME owner-founders participated in this study. The structural equation modeling (SEM) procedure was used to test the proposed model. Findings – The results showed that entrepreneurial competencies were strong predictors of business success in SMEs in Malaysia. It was also found that the association between entrepreneurial competencies and business success was more strongly evident in hostile and dynamic environments than in more benign and stable environments. Research limitations/implications – Self-report was used as the source of all data. This approach, even though criticised by some, was deemed necessary because of difficulties associated with the independent assessment of each of these variables. Nevertheless, future studies should identify ways to obtain competency data from multiple informants to minimise the possibility of response bias. Practical implications – It was suggested that understanding business success through the lens of entrepreneurial competencies is important because it provides entrepreneurs with knowledge about the way they should operate their business and encourages them to be conscious of the potential positive or negative impacts of their own behaviour. Originality/value – The study shows that entrepreneurs are capable of minimising the negative impact of business environment if they are willing to equip themselves with the appropriate competencies.Noor Hazlina Ahmad, T. Ramayah, Carlene Wilson, Liz Kummero
The Role of Absorptive Capacity, Communication and Trust in Erp Adoption
No full textT., Ramayah/0000-0002-7580-7058; Mishra, Alok/0000-0003-1275-2050The use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is proven to be valuable in several ways and it is considered a necessity in today's business. However, despite the high cost and efforts required in implementing ERPs, the success rate is reported unsatisfactory in Iranian organizations. It is argued that the success of ERP implementation is significantly related to the users' adoption behavior. As one of the most important predictors of adoption behavior, this study investigates factors affecting the intention to use ERP systems. In particular, using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), we examined the effects of absorptive capacity, communication and trust on the intention to use ERP systems. A questionnaire was sent to ERP users in 7 organizations in Iran, and 184 responses were used for the analysis. The findings suggest that trust, together with perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, have a positive significant relationship with intention to use ERR Furthermore, absorptive capacity and communication have a direct effect on the perceived ease of use which, in turn, impacts the intention to use ERP. As such, this study advances the current knowledge of adoption behavior by investigating the role of trust, communication and absorptive capacity on the intention to use. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Role of self-efficacy in e-library usage among students of a public university in Malaysia
No full textThis study looked at the influence of self-efficacy on e-library usage by 704 university students from four different schools in a Malaysian public university -, School of Humanities, School of Mass Communication, School of Chemistry and School of Biology. The results of the study suggest that self-efficacy has a significant direct impact on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use when predicting e-library usage. Results also suggest that self-efficacy, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness have direct significant impact on e-library usage. The results further indicate that perceived ease of use fully mediates self-efficacy when explaining e-library usage and perceived usefulness fully mediates perceived ease of use when predicting e-library usage
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