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The digital supply chains enabled by Big Data Analytics (BDA) capabilities have become a business significance to develop a competitive and sustainable supply chain. The implementation of BDA for sustainable supply chains introduces various organisational challenges for the manufacturing firms demanding complementary capabilities. This study presents an investigation of the linkages between BDA capabilities, circular economy (CE) practices, and sustainable supply chain (SSC) flexibility on the SSC performance. Based on a survey of 320 manufacturing organisations, the study presents very interesting results. It is revealed that the BDA does not have a direct effect on sustainable performance. The CE practices and SSC flexibility are significant mediating variables between the BDA capabilities and SSC performance. The BDA is found to drive the implementation of CE practices. Further, CE practices are found to develop SSC flexibility with the BDA complementing these flexibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate entrepreneurial leadership (CEL) plays a critical role in promoting innovative behavior that disrupts existing practices in organizations, to say the least, encouraging new policy initiatives that could affect the business and social performance of the organizations under their sustainable development goals (SDGs). CEL can help achieve SDGs by redesigning different contextual factors to help promote various policy initiatives. In this vein, this study identifies the factors which could improve the business and social performance of the organizations helping to achieve SDGs through an amalgam of theoretical lenses, particularly the dynamic capability view. Based on extant literature, we developed, validated, and applied a theoretical model using the partial least square structural equation modeling technique on data collected from 327 respondents from different organizations. The study found that CEL capability significantly and positively impacts the various organizational entities and resources, which in turn affects the business and social performance of the organizations. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The shortage of younger employees to replace retiring baby boomers necessitates the cultivation of capable management executives to assure suitable leaders are ready for appointment. This research study specifically focuses on SMEs in Malaysia to investigate if owner-managers' personal culture would have an impact on the degree of sophistication of succession planning system. Based on the data collected from 105 SMEs and analyzed with SPSS, key findings are that individual culture namely stimulation and conformity have significant relationship with the degree of sophistication of succession management plans. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed., INTRODUCTION With baby boomers coming to an age of retirement and shortage of younger employees stepping up in replacement, business succession planning is vital in cultivating capable management executives who [...]

Despite wide reporting of the general association between the use of government-sponsored export promotion programs (EPPs) and firm export performance, export sales and macro level export performance, very little is know about the real impact of these programs on firm export performance. This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding the direct and indirect impact of government export promotion programs on export performance of Small and Medium- sized Enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures. Using internationalization process theory and resource-based theory, it conceptualizes direct role of EPPs on a number of organisational- and management-related factors that have direct or indirect impact on firm export performance. This provides a new direction for future researchers, managers and policy-makers. Keywords: Export promotion programs, Export performance, Organisational factors, Management factors, Entrepreneurship, SMEs., INTRODUCTION Export plays an important role in a nation's economic prosperity. A country's ability to compete successfully in the world markets, ability to maintain a favorable balance of trade, and [...]

This conceptual paper discusses the concepts of green entrepreneurship and green value added. In this paper GVA is projected as an ideal green platform for small and medium sized organisations that is founded by green entrepreneurs. Green entrepreneurship is considered critical for the successful development of GVA because of its flexibility, propensity to take calculated risks, innovative orientation and perseverance while facing challenges., INTRODUCTION Natural environmental issues are increasingly becoming integral part of business in every passing day without being recognized as such. It has been argued by many scholars that holistic green [...]

The collaboration between Malaysia and Nigeria in the areas of agriculture namely exchanging sees, plants, trees and other natural resources is presented. Findings show that economic climate, governmental intervention, public scrutiny, competitive development, favorable management attitude and intention and ease of use and important factors of socio-environmental marketing adoption.

In this research, attempt was made to unveil gender differences in information and communication technology (ICT) usage, perceived system attributes, and entrepreneurial traits among Malaysia entrepreneurs. Results show that male entrepreneurs are more flexible and persevering as compared to female entrepreneurs. Risk-taking propensity is an important technology usage determinant among female entrepreneurs but not among male entrepreneurs. Innovativeness is associated with usage by male and female entrepreneurs. Mean perceptions of system's usefulness and ease of use are significantly higher for female entrepreneurs than for male entrepreneurs. There is a strong impact of perceived usefulness on system usage by male and female entrepreneurs. There is no significant association between perceived ease of use and usage. Overall ICT usage, usage of basic and advanced systems, and systems usage for administrative, planning, and control purposes do not differ based on gender. KEY WORDS: Entrepreneur, Information and Communication Technology, Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Gender Differences, INTRODUCTION The benefits of deploying information and communication technology (ICT) in business cannot be over stated. There is a growing understanding of how businesses should operate using ICT to achieve [...]