Articles and Journals
Welcome to Articles and Journals in which you can find the publications of our professors and lecturers. In the future our doctorate and master candidates publications can be found here as well.
Organizational behavior and transformational leadership
The book “Organizational behavior and transformational leadership” presents the construction of an inductive model, called the employee-directed transformational leadership model (EDTLM), which theoretically implied relationships among transformational leadership, human resource practices, employee commitment, and employee performance.
Sustainable human resource management practices in organizational performance: The mediating impacts of knowledge management and work engagement
Modern business and global organizations are regularly presented with challenges caused by unpredictable competitive environments. Human resource management (HRM) practices give sustainable opportunities for employees to use their abilities and express their enthusiasm to obtain skills and knowledge and to apply them at the workplace with a view to achieving engaged individuals and increasing organizational performance.
The impacts of integrated e-Learning system toward the challenges facing education sector during and post Covid-19 pandemic
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the school campuses have stopped face-to-face lessons to reduce its outbreak among students and staff members. This study presents a conceptual framework to investigate the factors influencing the usage of e-Learning platform among students of higher education institutions and their e-Learning system as course delivery.
Factors Influencing the Usage of E-Business to Improve SME Performance
This article presents a theoretical framework for investigating factors influencing e-commerce implementation among SMEs to enhance their performance, and how these factors—percieved ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived privacy—could be used for this purpose.
Examining factors affecting success of enterprise resource planning system adoption on organisation performance among medium-sized enterprises sector
The current study applied resource-based value, contingency and diffusion of innovation theories to explain the factors affecting ERP system adoption. In this light, a proposed conceptual framework has been designed based on information obtained from newly developed questionnaire which were distributed to one hundred and forty-four (144) medium-sized enterprise organisations in Ondo State, Nigeria.
Effects of COVID-19 in E-learning on higher education institution students: the group comparison between male and female
In response to the emerging and ever solution to the COVID-19 outbreak. This study proposes a theoretical framework based on literature and model to determined E-learning portal success. The study compared males and females to E-learning portal usage. The study objective is to check the difference between male and female E-learning portals’ accessibility among the students’ perspective.
The Obstacle Challenging SMEs Performance in Ogun State, Nigeria.
This study presents a conceptual framework for determining the effects of Market Orientation, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Information Technology on the performance of small and mediumsized firms (SMEs) in Nigeria. The resource-based value theory was used to explain the elements affecting SMEs’ performance. Furthermore, this study’s conceptual framework is based on the data derived from a newly constructed questionnaire.The Impacts of Enterprise Resource Planning System Adoption on Firm’s Performance Among Medium Size Enterprises
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impacts of ERP system adoption on the relationship between performance of medium enterprises (PME) and communication process (CP), organization structure (OS), technological change (TC), and technology infrastructure support (TIS) and moderated by top management support.
Turning Students from Job Seekers into Job Creators: The Role of High Impact Entrepreneurship Educational Practices
This study focuses on the role of High Impact Entrepreneurship Educational Practices (HIEEP) in turning students from job seekers into job creators. The main objective of this study is to examine the direct and indirect effects of the Entrepreneurship Internship Program, Business Incubation Program and Entrepreneurial Supportive Environment on Entrepreneurial Self-Employment mediated by Entrepreneurial Education Knowledge.
The Empirical Evidence of Enterprise Resource Planning System Adoption and Implementation on Firm’s Performance Among Medium-Sized Enterprises
The objective of this study is to examine the mediating role of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system adoption on the relationship between performance of medium enterprises (PMEs) and organizational culture (OC), communication process (CP), organizational structure (OS), information technology readiness (ITR), technological change (TC), government policy (GP), information access (IA) and technology infrastructure support (TIS).
The Impacts of Enterprise Resource Planning System Adoption on Firm’s Performance Among Medium Size Enterprises
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impacts of ERP system adoption on the relationship between performance of medium enterprises (PME) and communication process (CP), organization structure (OS), technological change (TC), and technology infrastructure support (TIS) and moderated by top management support.
THE EFFECT OF HIGH IMPACT ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES (HIEEPS) ON ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EMPLOYMENT AMONG BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENTS
Purpose of the study: This study is carried out to examine the effects of High Impact Entrepreneurship Educational Practices (HIEEPs) namely Entrepreneurship Internship Program, Business Incubation Program and Entrepreneurial Supportive Environment on Entrepreneurial Self-Employment among business school students from three public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) located in Northern region of Malaysia.Entrepreneurial intentions of Gen Z university students and entrepreneurial constraints in Bangladesh
This research examines a variety of restrictions preventing Bangladeshi youth, particularly Generation Z university students, from becoming involved in entrepreneurship. Moreover, the study examines the influence of Entrepreneurial Attitude (EA), Subjective Entrepreneurial Norms (SEN), Entrepreneurial Perceived Behavioural Control (EPBC), and Entrepreneurial Resilience (ER) on Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) of Bangladeshi Gen Z university students. A systematic literature review methodology following PRISMA procedure was performed to identify the relevant articles.Does emotional exhaustion influence turnover intention among early-career employees? A moderated-mediation study on Malaysian SMEs
The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between early-career employees’ emotional exhaustion and turnover intention in the information technology sector. Given the scarce empirical evidence on how turnover intention and emotional exhaustion can be reduced among early-career employees, ethical leadership was investigated as a mediator in this relationship based on the Social Exchange Theory (SET).
The panorama of corporate environmental sustainability and green values: evidence of Bangladesh
Corporate environmental sustainability is gradually becoming consciously recognised by textiles due to increasing pressure from diverse stakeholders and enhancing competitiveness. However, the textiles in developing countries continue to face issues such as severe water pollution, emissions, and increased carbon footprint, despite using various recycling techniques. To tackle these ecological issues, micro- and macro-factors must be incorporated into sustainable policies and practices.
Paradoxes on sustainable performance in Dhaka’s enterprising community: a moderated-mediation evidence from textile manufacturing SMEs
Manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are heading towards smart manufacturing despite growing challenges caused by globalisation and rapid technological advancement. These SMEs, particularly textile SMEs of Bangladesh, also face challenges in implementing sustainability and organisational ambidexterity (OA) due to resource constraints and limitations of conventional leadership styles.
Green Human Resource Management, Top Management Commitment, Green Culture, and Green Performance of Malaysian Palm Oil Companies
Examining the impact of green human resource management (GHRM), top management commitment (TMC), and green culture (GC) on green performance (GP) of Palm oil companies (POCs) in Malaysia is the aim of the study. A self-administered structured questionnaire was adapted to collect data. SPSS and Smart-PLS software analyzed the 165 firms’ usable responses.The panorama of corporate environmental sustainability and green values: evidence of Bangladesh
Corporate environmental sustainability is gradually becoming consciously recognised by textiles due to increasing pressure from diverse stakeholders and enhancing competitiveness. However, the textiles in developing countries continue to face issues such as severe water pollution, emissions, and increased carbon footprint, despite using various recycling techniques. To tackle these ecological issues, micro- and macro-factors must be incorporated into sustainable policies and practices.
The Influence of Green Behaviour Using Theory of Planned Behaviour Approach: Evidence from Malaysia
The study focuses on the influence of green behaviour based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). A conceptual model has been developed from TPB with additional factors linking green behaviour. A quantitative research method has been adopted. The data is gathered from a survey which has been administered by distributing questionnaires to 280 green consumers in Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia.
Does Dysfunctional Behavior Matter When it comes to Audit Quality in Malaysia?
Audit quality is becoming a concern and a problematic issue due to corporate scandals in the business sector. The auditors were accused of incompetence and lack of independence in detecting fake financial reporting, which led to the company’s failure. The dysfunctional auditors’ behaviour has an impact on audit quality. As a result, this study aims to scientifically investigate and analyse the elements that may lead to dysfunctional auditor conduct and decreased audit quality. The factors addressed include time constraints, task complexity, and client importance on dysfunctional auditor behaviour and audit quality in the Malaysian setting. A total of 133 respondents were involved in this survey, selected by the snowball sampling method. The results reveal the propensity of individual auditors to accept dysfunctional behaviour due to time, budget pressure, and task complexity.
Green product as a means of expressing green behaviour: A cross-cultural empirical evidence from Malaysia and Nigeria
Due to overconsumption, there is no significant urgency than the climate emergency for the publicity of green products that may conceivably led to reducing environmental impact. Considering the limited studies as a means of comparing green behaviour and its determinant in developing nations, this study focused on environmental awareness, attitude and perceived behavioural control (PBC) by applying the measurement of impacts on green behaviour.