International Journal of Business and Society

An Empirical Analysis of Fiscal Composition and Economic Growth: The Case of Malaysia

The paper analyzes the long-run relations between components of fiscal composition and output per labor for Malaysia using annual data spanning 1970-2002. Applying the DOLS estimation method, we find evidence that development (current) public expenditure is positively (negatively) related to real output per labor. We also document evidence for the negative effect of indirect taxes on real activity. For the case of direct taxes (corporate and income taxes), the finding is puzzling in that its ...

Effects and Future of the Internet On the Malaysian Advertising Industry

The Internet is having a major effect around the world on how businesses are being run, with changes in relation to marketing communications, customers, media selection, and dealing with advertising agencies. What has been the effect of this new media, and what changes are perceived for business in the future? This paper will examine Malaysian advertising executives' views on the effects of the Internet on business communications, and seeks predictions on the future of the advertising industr...

An Empirical Investigation On the Sustainability of the Japan's Bilateral Imbalance

This study extends the work by Tang (2006) to empirically re-investigate the sustainability of Japan's trade accounts by using disaggregated data - her trading regions and countries. The previous study (Tang, 2006) finds Japan's trade balances are unsustainable via aggregate data. Applying the unit root tests with unknown level shifts, this study finds that Japan's bilateral accounts in three of eleven regions and thirteen of twenty eight countries are sustainable.

Technical Efficiency in Malay Manufacturing Firms

The emergence of Malay entrepreneurs is in tandem with government policy to create Bumiputera Commerce and Industrial Community (BCIC), as stated in the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1971-1990. The Malays form major composition of Bumiputera entrepreneurs. Despite of many privileges received by the Malay entrepreneurs, it is always a claim that their businesses are less efficient. The Malay firms are said to encounter many problems in doing business such as lack of fund, lack of skilled workers,...

The Role of Gender Match, Lmx Tenure, and Support in Leader-Member Exchange

The study explores the impact of gender-match, LMX tenure, and supervisory support in predicting the quality of leader-member exchange. Additionally, it aims at establishing whether there are significant variations in the quality of exchange within a group. Drawing a sample of 201 Malaysian employees from different supervisory levels, we tested several causal hypotheses pertaining to antecedents and impact of leader-member exchange (LMX) by means of structural equation modeling. The analysis ...

Online Buying Innovativeness: Effects of Perceived Value, Perceived Risk and Perceived Enjoyment

This paper proposes a model using the Structural Equation Modeling technique to identify the influence of perceived value, perceived risk and perceived enjoyment on online shoppers' innovativeness in relation to adoption of online shopping. A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather information from 554 respondents. Results from Structural Equation Modeling reveals that perceived risk was an important indicator not to be overlooked by e-retailers to evaluate Malaysian Internet users...