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Volume 5 Number 1S Year 2015

62 articles in this issue 

Abbo Usman,Abd. Rahim Romle,Mohammed Mustafa Qader

Several studies identified quality of education as a major criteria influencing international students’ choice of study destination. But only recently has it seems to have gain a huge momentum by emerging as a theme which involves empirical studies. Howev... see more

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Ahmad Jusoh,Anis Syahira Zulkifli,Amran Md. Rasli,Yasin Munir

Present study is an attempt to investgate a view from academic administrators on the characteristics of future university. A stratified sampling technique is applied according to the structure of the university, i.e faculty and registrar office/university... see more

Pags. 7 - 12  

Basheer Mohammed Al-Ghazali,Amran Md Rasli,Rosman Md Yusoff,Amena Yahya Mutahar

Mobile banking has been attested to play an important role in customer satisfaction therefore retention and inclination of the customers to decide and sustainable usage of the banking services. Presumably, relative advantage, post-use-trust influence and ... see more

Pags. 13 - 21  

Dayana Syuhana Sejeli,Nurnaha Abu Mansor

Business conditions today are different from what they were in the past. Public sectors are becoming more dynamic, intricate, and ambiguous. Consequently, these amplify the possibility of leadership derailment among leaders in the public sectors. Although... see more

Pags. 22 - 26  

M.S.M. Aslam,Khairil Wahidin Awang,Khairil Wahidin Awang

Diverse and fragmented socio-cultural and environmental fabrics of rural areas offer a number of tourism entrepreneurial opportunities in anticipating the diverse interest of tourists. The tourism enterprises embody different alternative tourism labels to... see more

Pags. 27 - 33  

Fadhilah Mat Yamin,T. Ramayah,Wan Hussain Wan Ishak

Information searching in web environment is habitually tedious and challenging task. Rapid growth of web information infrastructure has led to the rapid publication of information on web environment. Too many information publish on web cause information o... see more

Pags. 34 - 39  

Hafizah Harun,Habibah Norehan Haron,Halijah Ibrahim,Azlina Kamaruddin,Rozana Abd Rahman

Physical inactivity is a growing problem among children of today’s society. Whereas levels of physical activity are influenced by motor competence, defined as the ability to execute different motor tasks necessary to manage everyday life and red... see more

Pags. 40 - 44  

Hasif Rafidee Bin Hasbollah

Heritage buildings are part of human creation, which produces icons for a country, provides local identity, reflects the cultural values and background, represents a source of memory, historical events, and contributes to the tourism industry. The process... see more

Pags. 45 - 51  

Hishan S. Sanil,Suresh Ramakrishnan

Business sustainability becomes an important issue in the present competitive business world. Therefore, organisation has to commit to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a part of their business strategy. One of the important components of this stra... see more

Pags. 52 - 56  

Nurfarahin Jasmine See Abdullah,Ismi Arif Ismail,Khairuddin Idrus

The survey of this inquiry is to define the relationship between organizational antecedent, job satisfaction, work performance as mediators and knowledge sharing practice among academician at Malaysia Research Universities. The hypothesis for this researc... see more

Pags. 57 - 62  

Maqsood Haider,Amran Rasli,Ch. Shoaib Akhtar,Rosman Bin MD. Yusoff,Omair Mujahid Malik,Alamzeb Aamir,Ahmed Arif,Shaheryar Naveed,Fariha Tariq

This study examines the human resource practices that promote employee retention. Effective human resource practices can reduce employee turnover and increase retention within an organization. Key employees are the instrument for overall growth and develo... see more

Pags. 63 - 69  

Mazlina Mustapha,Amirah Adnan

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is claimed as among the key elements in the internal control components, which help the organizations to ensure that principal risks are monitored and managed well within the organizational structure. Implementing ERM in o... see more

Pags. 70 - 76  

Muhammad Musa Tsagem,Norhani Aripin,Rokiah Ishak

This paper aims to investigate the impact of working capital management, family ownership and board size on the profitability of small and medium-sized entities in Nigeria. The panel data regression analysis is employed using financial reports of 47 SMEs ... see more

Pags. 77 - 83  

Norazah Mohammed Suki,Norbayah Mohammed Suki

This study seeks to investigate the association of consumer consumption values (i.e. functional value, social value, and epistemic value) with consumer environmental concern regarding green products among light users, average users, and heavy users. This ... see more

Pags. 82 - 97  

Murat Mahad,Shahimi Mohtar,Rushami Zein Yusoff,Abdul Aziz Othman

Mobile banking refers to the use of smart phones or other mobile devices to perform tasks online banking from your home computer, such as monitoring the account balances, transfer of funds between accounts, pay bills and prepaid top-up. Mobile banking is ... see more

Pags. 84 - 91  

Pei-Tha Gan,Siew-Yong Lim,Mohd Yahya bin Mohd Hussin,Fidlizan bin Muhammad

The studies on the demand for money rarely focus on the economic uncertainty rather than the scale variable (i.e., output), opportunity cost variables (i.e., interest rate and inflation rate) and external variable (i.e., exchange rate). To overcome this m... see more

Pags. 98 - 105  

Siti Sarah Omar

This paper seeks to empirically explore the dynamics roles of strong and weak ties within Muslim female entrepreneurs’ networks during critical problems (“tipping points”), and how this affects the subsequent performance of the small businesses. The liter... see more

Pags. 106 - 115  

Suhaila Abdul Hanan,Noor Fadhilah Said,Aida Amelia Mohd Kamel,Siti Azwin Farhana Che Amil

Road accident has been identified as a cause of injury and death around the world including Malaysia. Among those who were killed and injured are pedestrian. There were few studies investigated the cause of the accident that involved the pedestrian in the... see more

Pags. 116 - 121  

Kazeem Oluwatoyin Ajape,Arifin Mamat,Yusuf Abdul Azeez

The study of students’ motivation and attitude towards the usage of second language (L2) has recently become an important concept across the disciplines of second language acquisition and communication. This paper highlights the result of the survey quest... see more

Pags. 122 - 127  

Zahari Abu Bakar,Noorulsadiqin Azbiya Yaacob,Zulkifli Mohamed Udin

This paper reviews the role played by business continuity management (BCM) factors in enhancing the organizational performance. The constructs of this paper are based on a comprehensive review of recent literature on BCM critical success factors, BCM stan... see more

Pags. 128 - 134  

Norazlina Mohd Yasin,Mohd Hassan Mohd Osman

The role of universities has been noticed in the last two decades in immediate economic context. Traditionally, universities have emphasized on teaching, research for development, creation and transfer the knowledge. Some universities have taken more acti... see more

Pags. 135 - 138  

Anie Attan,Abdul Halim Abdul Raof,Masdinah Alauyah Md Yusof,Noor Abidah Mohd. Omar,Masputeriah Hamzah

Exit tests to measure and inform new graduates of their oral and written communicative abilities are non-existent. This paper is our attempt to determine the oral construct of the exit test through a study involving graduating students and workplace profe... see more

Pags. 139 - 143  

Nandan Limakrisna,Andriasan Sudarso,Cecep Daryus

he article aims to examine the influence of entrepreneurial orientation on buyers’ relationship, suppliers’ relationship, and complementary products relationship and the implications on business performance. The research method used was descriptive survey... see more

Pags. 144 - 149  

Enos Kabu,Deviarbi Sakke Tira

This study aims to provide a value chain map as well as its analysis over fishery business in Kota Kupang, Indonesia. Actors of this business were mapped using the value chain approach then analysed further using profitability ratios in order to know how ... see more

Pags. 150 - 156  

Novrianty Kamatra,Ely Kartikaningdyah

The company must be able to maintain a balance relationships with parties outside the company to do a corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR is a concept or action taken by the company as a sense of social responsibility to the company and the environ... see more

Pags. 157 - 164  

Wilhelmus Hary Susilo,Lili Suryaty

A concept developed from the influence of marketing 3.0 of the purchase in post graduate institutions of higher education in Jakarta. Research used the quantitative confirmatory method, of structural equation hybrid modeling. Samples used 105 post graduat... see more

Pags. 165 - 171  

Siti Mardiana,Jann H. Tjakraatmadja,Atik Aprianingsih

DeLone–Mclean model is an established and well-known information system (IS) model for assessing IS success. Based on some meta-analysis studies of DeLone–Mclean model, it is revealed that some relationships in the construct are not significant. As such, ... see more

Pags. 172 - 182  

Normala Rahmat,Yahya Buntat,Abdul Rahman Ayub

The level of the employability skills of the graduates as determined by job role and mapped to the employability skills, which correspond to the requirement of employers, will have significant impact on the graduates’ job performance. The main objective o... see more

Pags. 183 - 189  

Abdullah Rajeh Ali Alamer,Hussin Bin Salamon,Muhammad Imran Qureshi,Amran Mohammed Rasli

There are some academic efforts that have tried to measure corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Islamic banks (IBs) practices. But there is very lack in measuring the CSR of IBs through their operations not through their oriented outcomes. This articl... see more

Pags. 190 - 197  

Abdullah Rajeh Ali Alamer,Hussin Bin Salamon,Muhammad Imran Qureshi,Amran Md. Rasli

Academic efforts have started for around one decade to measure corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Islamic Banks (IBs) practices. The authors, in this field, have written based on two thoughts wide and narrow of the CSR in Islamic banking but there s... see more

Pags. 198 - 206  

Abdullah Rajeh Ali Alamer,Hussin Bin Salamon,Muhammad Imran Qureshi,Amran Md. Rasli

This article has answered on two questions; what the process-outcome weight ratio for oriented outcome should be? The second question is: What are the items would be reflected elements under dimensions of both sides? In logic thinking, the used corporate ... see more

Pags. 207 - 214  

Samrena Jabeen,Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid,Saif Ur Rehman

Switching intention (SI) of consumer is sought as main issue of retailing due to its negative effects on market share and profitability of retail outlet. Now firms need to know the factors, which contribute to choose another outlet, and customer changes i... see more

Pags. 215 - 222  

Farhan Jamil,Kamariah Ismail,Nasir Mahmood

In recent years, commercialization has gained significant importance due to its active participation in knowledge transfer, economic growth, job creation and entrepreneurship. Whereas the role of university incubators and technology parks to excel commerc... see more

Pags. 223 - 228  

Faisal Khan,Amran MD Rasli,Rosman Md Yusoff,Aqeel Ahmad

The study examined the relationship between demographic variables and burnout dimensions and their effect among the academicians at universities in Pakistan. A questionnaire-based study was carried out from 265. By using statistical techniques like descri... see more

Pags. 229 - 237  

Hamed Ganjbakhsh,Arham Bin Abdullah,Mohammadali Kazerooni Sadi,Mohammadreza Yadollahi

Recently, technology advancement influenced almost every field of life, brings new tools and techniques to reduce human effort and risk involved. Similar in the case of demolition industry, technology changed the demolition procedures significantly. Most ... see more

Pags. 238 - 241  

Shamshuritawati Sharif,Suzilah Ismail,Yuhaniz Ahmad,Ruzelan Khalid,Mohd. Faizal Omar,Zakiyah Zain

Disability may involve visual disability, physical disability, learning disorder, speech disorder, mental disorder and others various disabilities. This situation can reduce the quality of life, and causes clear drawback to that person. Due to this, in ma... see more

Pags. 242 - 246  

Erikson Togatorop

Writing is known as one of the most important but difficult academic skills. It usually takes so much time for students to master competently and hence tends to be a boring lesson. At the Batam state Polytechnic, there are still many students reluctant to... see more

Pags. 247 - 256  

Fahmi Fadhl Al-Hosaini,Saudah Sofian

The goals of organizations, despite maximization of profits should be directed at satisfying customers, particularly with respect to societal values, purposeful and strategic business gains. Previous studies have been on enhancing the financial gains with... see more

Pags. 257 - 263  

Pribanus Wantara

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty in the library of Trunojoyo University. In total, 204 participants students participated in this research. Questionnaires were used for... see more

Pags. 264 - 269  

Noor Ullah Khan,Muhammad Imran Qureshi,Amran MD Rasli,Aqeel Ahmad

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among multiple organizational climates and micro level performance (MLP) in public sector organization of Pakistan. The research study has examined that five types of organizational climates (partic... see more

Pags. 270 - 276  

Muhammad Sohail Tahir,Mohammad Norfian Alifiah

Research on corporate liquidity management practices has mainly focused on the trade-off between the potential costs and benefits of holding cash. However, in order to improve the firm financial performance, much remained to be understood, particularly, t... see more

Pags. 277 - 280  

Mas Anom Abd Rashid,Mohd Noor Azman Othman,Saidatul Shahida Rashid,Mohamad Bilal Ali

One of the approaches to reduce waste generated is reduce, recycle and reuse (3R) method. The reduction in waste generated or increase in recycling rates reflects the success of both the government and voluntary public participation. Nowadays, developed a... see more

Pags. 281 - 285  

Mega Mayasari,Gudono .

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that cause computer anxiety in the use of Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) accounting software, i.e., to assess if there are any influence of age, gender, amount of training, ownership (usage of accountin... see more

Pags. 286 - 295  

Rudy Hermawan Karsaman,Widyarini Weningtyas

In line with Indonesian Government policy to develop toll road network extensively, the operation of existing toll road need to be improved to ensure a safety, smooth and efficient of toll traffic flow. One of its aspect related to toll operation and serv... see more

Pags. 296 - 303  

Arniati .,Hendra Gunawan,Ely Kartikaningdyah

The study determine the wages models applied by the company in Batam which is expected to provide a wide range of reference models in different strata of wage and cluster companies. It is also expected to help the local government as a factor in determini... see more

Pags. 304 - 310  

Hendra Gunawan,Evelyn Octa Lina

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence about the influence of mandatory disclosure, voluntary disclosure on investor reaction to either partially or simultaneously. The study was conduct on 38 manufactured companies listed on Indonesian Stock Exchan... see more

Pags. 311 - 314  

Nanik Lestari,Ratna Wardhani

The purpose of this research is to analyze the impact activities tax planning to firm value with board diversity as moderating variable. The research was conducted for non-banking and financial firms in Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2010 to 2011. The resul... see more

Pags. 315 - 323  

Muhammad Muddassar Khan,Amran Mohamed Rasli

Higher Education Institutions in Pakistan are consistently witnessing increased level of conflicts among employee. This increase significantly impact culture of the higher education Institutions. Culture is driving force for the organizations behavior. Li... see more

Pags. 324 - 329  

Hifza Ibrahim,Hashanah Ismail

This paper reports on a study of a special market segment in Malaysia: a group of consumers labeled as the generational cohort of the Malaysian Gen Y consumers. The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of religion and intensity of religion ... see more

Pags. 330 - 334  

Shazia Parveen,Aslan Amat Senin,Arslan Umar

Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology. Open innovation is the form of innovation in the o... see more

Pags. 335 - 342  

Adam Mohd Saifudin,Nizamuddin Zainuddin,Ahmad Yusni Bahaudin,Mohd Hanizan Zalazilah,Roslan Jamaludin

Student’s employability is crucial factor that brings development to all economy. The present study looked into simulation content development which is all about developing, enriching and the applications of internet protocols in order to enrich the work-... see more

Pags. 343 - 348  

Hendra Gunawan,Rezki Amalia

The wage factor and the quality of working life needs to get the attention of the management to be able for improve the employees performance. This research aims to know the effect of wages on employees performance are  moderated by the quality of wo... see more

Pags. 349 - 353  

Sinarti .,Tia Maria Sembiring

Bankruptcy prediction gives an overview to management and investors about actual condition of the company briefly and clearly, because the poor condition does not happenall of a sudden it can be seen regularly. Bankruptcy prediction in this study uses thr... see more

Pags. 354 - 359  

Hashanah Ismail,Ung Chui Theng

This paper reports on the results of a research into the relationship between audit quality during the years before and after the incorporation of the Audit Oversight Board (AOB) in Malaysia in 2010. As the AOB only audits auditors of listed companies thi... see more

Pags. 360 - 365  

Mohammad Shakir Bin Ramli,Ahmad Bin Jusoh

This paper presents a study for analyzing and improving research productivity of Malaysian Research University (RU). In literature there are various general models for research and development analysis. Although many prior researchers have studied factors... see more

Pags. 366 - 372  

Rahmawati .,M. Dileep Kumar,Meyland Kambuaya,Farhan Jamil,Saqib Muneer

This study presents new evidence on determinants of risk tolerance of individual investors of Pakistan. The main objective of the research is to evaluate the factors that determine the individuals’ decisions. It is essential to understand the factors of r... see more

Pags. 373 - 378  

Rabia Imran,Mehwish Majeed,Abida Ayub

The aim of this study is to examine the role of high performance work system (HPWS) in increasing performance of the employees. It further explores the mediating role played by organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and organizational commitment in HPW... see more

Pags. 379 - 384  

Amina Imran,Rosman Md Yusoff

Qualitative research method has been popular among practitioners for epistemological investigation into exposition of facts but generalization and validity of the qualitative design is still subject to question. The possible solution is to employ mixed me... see more

Pags. 389 - 396  

Hasrita Lubis,M. Dileep Kumar,P. Ikbar,Saqib Muneer

In this study, the authors intend to identify psychological factors which could influence the criteria for investment decision which are discussed with three dimensions (risk, repay and corporate data). With regard to this aim, the criteria for investment... see more

Pags. 397 - 405  

Amena Y. Mutahar,Amran Md Rasli,Basheer M. Al-Ghazali

Purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of transformational leadership on organizational performance through the dynamic capabilities of organizational learning in telecom sector of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Structural equation modeling was... see more

Pags. 406 - 411  

Suwandi .,M. Dileep Kumar,Saqib Muneer

This paper examines the weekend effect on stock market returns by using the unconditional method and the conditional method. This paper uses daily closing prices of firms listed in Indonesian stock exchange by using LQ-45 index from January 2006 to Decemb... see more

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