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This study was conducted to find out the effect of motivation and networking on the success of Muslim millennial SMEs. This study uses a quantitative and deductive approach. A questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. Data were collected from a random sample of 60 respondents, which consisted of millennial entrepreneurs in Malaysian public universities, aged around 15 years to 45 years, and had at least three years of experience in running a business. The proposed hypothesis was tested using Multiple Regression analysis. the results confirm that at least one of the tested independent variables will significantly influence the dependent variable. Therefore, the coefficient results are examined next. It was found that motivation (β=0.241, p

The entrepreneurship education of Muslim SME millennials is still a question. This issue needs to be the main focus of developing an education model for youth that can be applied in their career and potentially become entrepreneurs who build their dynamic and successful SMEs. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of entrepreneurial spirits, namely innovative, risk-taking, and proactive, on the success of Muslim millennial SMEs. The study employed a quantitative and deductive approach. The questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. Data were gathered from a random sample of 150 respondents, comprising millennial entrepreneurs in Malaysian public universities, aged 22 to 38 years old and with at least three years of business experience. Proposed hypotheses were tested using Multiple Regression analysis. The findings reveal the significant and positive effect of innovation, risk-taking, and proactive on Muslim millennial SMEs' success, implying that a higher level of innovation, risk-taking, and proactive, is more likely to yield in Muslim millennial SMEs' success. Thus, Muslim millennial SMEs' success can be generated by instilling entrepreneurial spirit. In addition to empirical evidence, the findings provide fresh insights into how entrepreneurs can formulate strategies to achieve business success.

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between environmental cost (EC) on organisational performance (OPM) through an environmental management system (EMS) as the mediating variable. Design/methodology/approach A total of 2,600 manufacturers were identified and consequently selected as the entire study population. Additionally, this study used the structural equation modelling technique to identify the mediator effects of EMS between EC and OPM. Findings The EC and EMS relationship on OPM produced direct and indirect consequences. Hence, it is concluded that manufacturing industry in Malaysia are focused on the OPM when implementing EC and EMS. Originality/value The model would incorporate EC and EMS implementation on OPM in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. This study could also be advantageous to the industry in improving EC, EMS and OPM.

The prevalence of overweight and obesity among school children are increasing in developing countries, including Malaysia. The aim of this study was carried out the need assessment and to determine the nutritional knowledge, attitude, and physical activity among primary school children for the purpose of health education module development on childhood weight management among primary school children. This study was employed cross-sectional design with a probability of 202 school children aged ten years old. The result shows that majority of primary school children choose food that high in carbohydrate, sodium, and saturated fat. Thus, reflect to the lack of nutrition knowledge. Meanwhile, for the lowest choices were sugar intake and low-fat dairy product. The highest mean for nutritional attitude is primary school children chose to drink 100% fruit juice (mean=81 ± 0.97), and the lowest mean was eating wheat bread (mean=2.25 ± 1.16). The highest mean for sedentary activity was watching the television show during weekdays (mean 4.02 ± 1.17). The result shows the children need education on the nutritional fact in their food like carbohydrate, sodium and saturated fat, physical activity, and information to avoid a sedentary lifestyle.

The aim of this paper is to debate the concept of the balanced scorecard (BSC) and the way it will be used for evaluating the performance of safety practice in Malaysia public universities. This idea paper is especially supported secondary resources on the balanced scorecard published by other researchers. The approach of balanced scorecard model helps to the assessment of quality and safety practice of public universities. It helps public universities to create decisions and to enhance services. It translates the mission and strategy of a security practice into a system of performance indicators. A useful model is proposed that may be adapted with appropriate modifications to evaluate/managing safety practice and organizational performance of public universities in Malaysia. The study may help to those universities, who are seriously inquisitive about evaluating/managing internal safety practice, customer satisfaction, finance of universities and innovation and learning growth. Keywords: Balanced scorecard; Safety practice; Organizational performance; Malaysian public universities

This study conducted to identify the level of implementation of the Professional Learning Community (PLC) among teachers in Malaysia. Respondents of the study consisted of 419 randomly selected school teachers. Overall, the professional learning community among teachers in Malaysia is still at a moderate level. This finding will help the relevant parties to find solutions to help improve the level of implementation of Professional Learning Communities among teachers in Malaysia.

Purpose This paper aims to identify the critical success factors of the continued usage of digital library (DL) successful implementation from the perspective of users with organisation support factors as key antecedents. Design/methodology/approach Based on the extensive literature review, this study has constructed a conceptual framework based on organisational support perspectives and updated Delone and McLean’s information system success model. A pilot study was carried out on a sample of 105 respondents from military-context. A survey instrument including 22 measurement items was designed to identify the level of DL information system (IS) successful implementation practices in military context. Descriptive statistical analysis and reliability analysis were used to analyse the data with SPSS software. Findings The findings indicate that training and education, DL environment and communication support, continuation of usage intention, net benefits and user satisfaction are the critical success factors that play key role in ensuring the continued usage DL successful implementation in military context. The military-context DL needs to obtain critical success factors of DL practices implementation to sustain its continued usage, particularly for the active users of its members. Research limitations/implications This study only considered the military personnel who have visited the five main military libraries. For practical implications, the development of instruments in this study may be valuable tools to evaluate DL in other DL settings in Malaysian context other than academic settings. Originality/value This study makes a new contribution to DL IS successful implementation practices in military context. This study also provides important information for decision-makers involved in DL IS successful implementation practices and provides useful reference for future researchers in this research area.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of information system (IS) on the relationship between environmental management accounting practices (EMAP) and organizational performance (OPM) for Malaysian manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on survey data collected from 395 manufacturing companies in Malaysia. Validity and reliability analyses were performed using IBM SPSS and structural equation modeling was used to test the research hypotheses. Findings The results indicated that EMAP positively and significantly to IS and OPM. This study also found that IS partially mediates the relationship between EMAP and OPM. This study also found that IS partially mediates the relationship between EMAP and OPM. Research limitations/implications This study has a number of limitations that need to be addressed in future research. First, the population and sample of survey respondents are only targeted in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. Second, this research only uses the survey technique and is conducted in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. Third, the limitation of this study would concern the difficulty to find EMAP and IS relationship literatures in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. However, the researchers consider that there is greater scope for investigation on the EMAP, IS and OPM relationships for Malaysian manufacturing industry. Originality/value This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by examining the mediating effect of IS on the relationship between EMAP and OPM for Malaysian manufacturing industry. Thus, it is expected that the results of this study have given valuable insight of the relationship between EMAP, IS on OPM for Malaysian manufacturing industry.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between environmental management accounting practices (EMAP), environmental management system (EMS) and organizational performance (OPM) for Malaysian manufacturing industry by using structural equation modeling (SEM) approach.Design/methodology/approachThe population of the Malaysian manufacturing industry comprised 2,600 manufacturing companies. The unit of analysis is the organization that participated in the survey comprised of automotive/machinery, plastics/rubber/metal, food/tobacco, electrical/electronics and chemical/woods. Out of the 2,600 questionnaires sent to the respondents, 395 were received from manufacturing companies. The collected data are analyzed with the IBM SPSS Statistics and SEM technique.FindingsFindings found that EMS implementation as a partial mediator to improve EMAP and OPM for Malaysian manufacturing industry. Further, the implementation of EMS was found to mediate the relationship between EMAP and OPM.Research limitations/implicationsThe understanding of the importance of studying the relationship between EMAP, EMS and OPM has been emphasized in the present study. In fact, the findings of this study along with its limitations have paved the way for future research in EMAP, EMS and OPM areas.Practical implicationsThis research provides important guidelines for manufacturers and related companies to implement EMAP and EMS in order to improve OPM. Hence, the Malaysian manufacturing industry may need to consider the measurement of EMAP, EMS and OPM as beneficial to their manufacturing companies.Originality/valueThe research contributes to the environmental management accounting by empirically linking the relationship between EMAP, EMS and OPM for Malaysian manufacturing industry.

There has been a persistent reported increase in project failure in many Iraqi’s construction public project. This has resulted in project withdrawal from contractors, and revoking of companies licenses due to weak performance. This study investigated the effect of strategic and employee factors on the performance of construction public projects in Iraqi. The findings indicated that strategic and employee factors were statistically significant and they are important determinants for performance measurement. On the overall, the employee factors are more important than strategic factors and its component rewards is the most important variables. There is therefore a need for policy makers in Iraqi to focus on strengthening the role of strategic and employee factors in enhancing the project performance in construction projects.

The construction industry is a competitive high-risk industry with an unprecedented uncertainties in technology, budget, and development processes. It has become more dynamic in nature and the execution of projects have become more complex and difficult to manage. The need then evolved to develop a framework for project performance. This study investigates the factors affecting the project success and performance using a knowledge and resource-based approach. Data was collected from project managers, civil engineers, site managers, and architects. A total of 221 responses were collected. The data analysis was conducted using SPSS and Smart PLS. This results from this investigation revealed that knowledge transfer does not mediate the effect of strategic factors or employee factors on the project performance of Iraqi public construction projects. This finding indicated that the role of knowledge practices in Iraqi public project is still not matured. Top management are advised to effectively implement the knowledge management practices in public projects. Implementing knowledge management will avoid the organization the cost of repeating the same mistakes. Thus, it was concluded in this study that knowledge transfer is still in its infancy and currently it has no mediating effect between the variables of this study.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the critical success factors of environmental management accounting practices in Malaysian manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach A pilot study was carried out on a sample of 60 manufacturing companies from Malaysian manufacturing industry. A survey instrument including 25 measurement items was designed to identify the level of environmental management accounting practices implementation in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. Descriptive statistical analysis and reliability analysis were used to analyze the data with SPSS software. Findings Findings indicate that environmental safety is one of the critical success factors that play the key role in ensuring the safety awareness at workplace. Companies in the manufacturing industries need to obtain critical success factors of environmental management accounting practices implementation to enhance performance, particularly for Malaysian manufacturing industry. Research limitations/implications The limitation of this study has been the difficult to find the literature on environmental management accounting practices in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. Another limitation is this study only conducted to 60 manufacturing companies from Malaysian manufacturing industry. Practical implications For practical implications, the development of instruments in this study may be valuable tools to evaluate Environmental Management Accounting Practices (EMAP) in Malaysian manufacturing industry. This study also provides important guidelines for Malaysian manufacturing industry to implement EMAP. This research finding would provide new insights for the critical success factors of EMAP to improve performance in Malaysian manufacturing industry. Originality/value This study makes a new contribution to environmental management accounting practices in Malaysian manufacturing industry. This study also provides important information for decision makers involved in environmental management accounting practices implementation and also provides useful reference for future researchers in this research area.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between total productive maintenance (TPM), kaizen event (KE) and innovation performance (IP) for Malaysian automotive industry using structural equation modeling (SEM). Design/methodology/approach The samples were selected from the list of Proton and Perodua automotive industry. The number of collected respondents was 238 respondents. An SEM technique was used in the study. In order to test the reliability and validity of the instrument, reliability analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted. Findings Based on the results, KE does not affect the relationship between TPM and IP. However, the impact of TPM on IP increases with mediating of KE for Malaysian automotive industry. Thus, this study has shown that empirical test results prove that the implementation of TPM and KE has improved the IP for Malaysian automotive industry. Research limitations/implications This study only focused on the Malaysian automotive industry. The other limitation in this research is the number of factors and limited measurement in this study. Only a few TPM, KE and IP measurements were considered. By using the SEM technique, four TPM constructs, three for KE constructs and three for IP measures were developed and verified. Therefore, this study can assist the researchers and practitioners to the practice of TPM, KE and IP for Malaysian automotive industry. Originality/value This research provides fundamental knowledge and direction for researchers in further research as well as practitioners to constantly improve IP through the implementation of TPM and KE for Malaysian automotive industry.

Lean manufacturing practices (LMPs) focus on the systematic elimination of waste and non-value added activity from the production process in order improve environmental performance (EP). Meanwhile, ISO 14001 is an international standard that assists managers to reduce environmental impact and to expand business. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between LMP, ISO 14001, and EP for Malaysian automotive suppliers. In this study, 275 sets of questionnaires were successfully collected, being a 68.8% response rate. The structural equation modelling technique was utilized to perform the statistical analysis of the data survey. Reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis were carried out. The results showed that the impact of LMP implementation on EP increases with the mediation of ISO 14001 in Malaysian automotive suppliers. Thus, this research, which has undergone detailed methodological analysis, contributes to the limited existing literature o...

The purpose of this study is to examine the critical success factors of sustainable manufacturing practices (SMPs) in Malaysian automotive industry. The questionnaires were designed and distributed to the 50 respondents. The pilot study sample consists of 26 respondents from 50 questionnaires, with an average response rate of 52%. The results of reliability analysis show that social responsibility is critical factor influencing the direct SMPs implementation success. By implementing SMPs in Malaysian automotive industry, it can assist company to improve the quality of management. Thus, this study recommends that the future research explore the influence of SMPs on sustainable performance in Malaysian automotive industry.

Purpose The aim of this paper is to develop a model that incorporate lean six sigma (LSS) implementation, strategic control system (SCS) and organizational performance (OP) in Malaysian automotive suppliers. Design/methodology/approach A survey through questionnaire was conducted to determine the level of LSS implementation, SCS and OP measurement. In all, 252 sets of questionnaire were successfully collected that brought to 64.3 per cent response rate. Structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was adopted to analyze the data gathered from the survey. Exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis and confirmatory factor analysis for testing the construct validity, test for reliability and model measurement were carried out. Findings This study has provided a comprehensive measurement instrument to implement the LSS practices, SCS and OP for Malaysian automotive suppliers. As a result, seven LSS constructs, four for SCS and four measures for OP have been identified. This research model is a mediator model in which it investigates whether the presence of SCS mediates the relationship between LSS and OP. The analysis result through the SEM method showed that SCS does not affect the relationship between LSS and OP. However, SCS is improving OP when coupled with LSS. Research limitations/implications This study has only focused on the structured relationship between LSS Construct, SCS and OP measures. It is possible for other factors in the LSS practices to be studied in future experiments such as total productive maintenance, culture change, role structure and project management skills. Originality/value Future researchers could apply the LSS, SCS and OP measurement as a benchmark for use and can be replicated in other industry or country in the world with minor modifications on the critical factors necessary to suit the goals of the organization, culture and business environment. It could also be used as a business excellence and supplier selection tool for practitioners and researchers.

In the world of information technology, business process requires a decision-making tool that is effective and systematic in measuring and assessing the current performance of the organization and enhances its competitive edge. In this study, the development of strategic balanced scorecard tool (SBST) for the Malaysian automotive industry was developed using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology, which involves building a hierarchy of SBST, calculating relative weights of SBST by pairwise comparison, rating SBST measures, calculating performance scores, and ranking companies based on their scores. Further to that, an Excel-based tool was developed for automating the calculation of SBST for automotive industry. These SBSTs contribute to assist practitioners to evaluate internal performance, vendor performance, and in decision-making process to select the suppliers or reward the best supplier.

Automotive industry is one of the most active industries involved in the quality effort, low production cost, and continuous improvement activities. Today, lean six sigma (LSS) is integrated with strategic control system that has assisted organizations to achieve better organizational performance through high-level continuous improvement activity and better saving in terms of operation and quality cost. Analytic hierarchy process methodology was used in developing a tool of lean six sigma performance improvement to measure the performance of automotive companies. This tool was developed using a system based on Excel. Five case studies were prepared to validate this tool. The result of these case studies suggested that this tool was timely and suitable to determine organizational performance of automotive companies. Through these case studies, this tool was able to identify the strength and weaknesses that directed to where and how improvement should be done.

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between sustainable manufacturing practices, lean improvement, and performance in Malaysian automotive industry by using structural equation modelling technique. Survey questionnaires were used among 227 managers in Malaysian automotive industry. SEM technique was used to test the statistical analysis of the data required in the study. Based on the results, sustaining lean improvement is part of a mediating relationship between sustainable manufacturing practices and performance which is positive results. For this purpose, it assists academicians and researchers for sustainable manufacturing practices implementation in order to assist the automotive industry to increase lean improvement and performance.

Co-operatives in Malaysia have urgent jobs in creating business frameworks, and making it workable for the nation to join the worldwide co-operatives society and refined economies. Thus, top management in Malaysian cooperatives aggressively design and implement their strategic plan through strategic accounting procedures in leadership. The purpose of this research is to examine the association between the contemporary management accounting practices (MAP) and managerial performance in the Malaysian’ co-operative sector. Management team from the 100 leading co-operatives in Malaysia were the respondents. Descriptive on the adoption level and its relationship with the managerial performance has been analysed. The finding indicates the level of contemporary MAP is high and there is significant relationship between contemporary MAP and managerial performance among Malaysian Co-operatives. This research offers a exclusive details investigation of the contemporary MAP and an signal of upcoming trends.

The purpose of this paper is to determine the implementation of total productive maintenance in Malaysian automotive industry. 400 questionnaires were distributed to Malaysian automotive industry and 229 were completed, giving a response rate of 57.25%. Based on the developed models, the results of the study provide guidance for effective implementation of total productive maintenance in Malaysian automotive industry. This study makes a new contribution to the Malaysian automotive industry for total productive maintenance implementation. This study provides important information for decision makers to implement total productive maintenance in automotive industry and also provides useful information for future researchers in the total productive maintenance area.

This paper seeks to identify the role of the nutrition label, particularly on the use and attitude in the context of Malaysian consumer. Specifically, this paper provides the definitions of the nutrition label, nutrition label use and nutrition label attitude, and describe the potential antecedent and outcome of nutrition label use and attitude obtained from previous research. This is a content analysis involving relevant articles that were identified using both electronic and manual bibliographic search methods. Overall, it was revealed of the lack of empirical evidence on the role of the nutrition label, particularly on the consumer use and attitude in developing countries including Malaysia. The health knowledge has been frequently tested as the antecedent of nutrition label use and attitude, while healthy food choice as the outcome variable. This study provides one of the few attempts to identify, consolidate, and evaluate the extant literature on the nutrition label in the context of Malaysia. Hence, it provides a reference point that could stimulate and guide future research on the nutrition label.

This study is conducted to examine the effect of nutrition label literacy and attitude towards nutrition label on healthy food choice. Data were collected from a sample of 420 respondents, aged 15 years old and above, at the Federal Territory of Putrajaya, using self-administered questionnaire. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. The findings show that nutrition label literacy and attitude toward nutrition label have a significant influence on the healthy food choice. The effect of attitude toward nutrition label is positive, while the effect of nutrition label literacy is negative. Attitude towards nutrition label appears as a dominant variable to affect healthy food choice. The findings provide useful information and guidance to the relevant parties in designing an effective consumer education programs and promoting a healthy lifestyle among consumers in Malaysia. However, this study is limited by several factors that require a replication and improvement in future studies.

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between environmental information system and environmental performance for Malaysian manufacturing industry. This study is to examine the environmental information system (technology and processes) and environmental performance (financial performance and operational performance). This study proposed conceptual model between environmental information system and environmental performance for Malaysian manufacturing industry. Based on the proposed conceptual model, research hypothesis are being used and tested. Thus, this study provides new insights for the environmental information system to improve environmental performance for Malaysian manufacturing industry.

There is scant evidence pertaining to risks faced by Malaysian automotive SMEs, although many researches have been conducted in other countries. For that reason, this paper aims to explore supply chain risks experienced by Malaysian automotive companies. By using a case study method involving three Malaysian automotive SMEs, the data analysis reveals that Malaysian automotive SMEs are mostly affected by risks external to firm but internal to supply chain, particularly the risk of late delivery and part shortages. With respect to risk internal to firm, all three case companies admitted that human-related risk is putting pressure on them. The risks of force majeure events and government regulation emerge as the most common risks external to Malaysian automotive SME’s supply chains. Although the results of this study are limited due to the small number of case companies investigated, they suggested automotive SMEs to implement multi-sourcing or develop closer relationship with sister companies and supply chain members to manage supply chain risks.

The development of manufacturing industries in Malaysia has started more than 50 years ago. Nonetheless, after more than 50 years Malaysian manufacturing has been established, the issues of maintenance, safety, quality, cost, and performance efficiency still receive criticism, complaints, and various suggested approach to improve their product quality, operation management, and customer satisfaction. As a result, in order to improve the quality of manufacturing industries, Malaysian government has supported and encourage for develop total solution especially for quality improvement, increase safety and setup low cost for productive maintenance. Thus, to help the Malaysian manufacturer to achieve national agenda, further Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) tool essential. Recently, manufacturing companies are moving toward maintenance engineering practices, lean dashboard methodology process, statistical engineering solution, audit quality maintenance control and performance efficiency improvement; lower cost of production, cheaper maintenance cost , just in time (JIT) operation deliveries, eliminate of waste in any aspect of its operations and finally produce high quality product and better service to customer compared to competitors. The objectives of this research is to develop propose TPM tool as an important catalyst for continually seek better maintenance performance and in turn against competitive advantage. By implementing prototype of TPM system, modern manufacturing companies will eliminate waste in operation activities such as to reduce maintenance cost, reduce time monitoring and control's, reduce defect, to reduce lead time, and reduce variation process and also improve quality product and good service for customer satisfaction.