Logistics is the movement engine for cargos and merchandises both for domestics and international... more Logistics is the movement engine for cargos and merchandises both for domestics and international. People complete their business process through logistics transportation, especially to move cargos and merchandises reaching their end users around the world, hence transportation also can be considered as the backbone to business supply chain. Unfortunately, their operations produced negative impacts to our environment and society. Thus, business activities nowadays goes beyond sustaining economic sustainability solely. They are concern dearly on the environmental quality and human well-being as well. The objective of this paper is to review the influence of institutional policies and information technology (IT) adoption towards sustainable logistics transportations in the economic, environmental and social performance. Through understanding of Institutional Theory and Resource-Based View (RBV) Theory, institutional policies and IT adoption can be considered as the enabler for logistics performance and their sustainability. This paper expects to provide new insights to the logistics practitioners and policy makers in sustaining logistics sector in parallel with today’s world demand, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular ... more This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular Malaysia. Logistics development is paramount important to the country in supporting economic and growth and enhancing competitiveness. Malaysia as well as many developing countries are still at the moderate stage in developing logistics systems and often face considerable challenges and constraints to provide efficient and effective logistics service. The respondents were from the different logistics players and there were 41 usable questionnaires were analyzed. This study found that the existing logistics infrastructures at the average level in this region. Amongst the constraints and challenges were professionalism in supporting the development, skill of manpower and financial issues in organization. Albeit all the constraints, most respondents were satisfied with the services rendered by logistics service providers.
International journal of business and social research, 2012
This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular ... more This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular Malaysia. Logistics development is paramount important to the country in supporting economic and growth and enhancing competitiveness. Malaysia as well as many developing countries are still at the moderate stage in developing logistics systems and often face considerable challenges and constraints to provide efficient and effective logistics service. The respondents were from the different logistics players and there were 41 usable questionnaires were analyzed. This study found that the existing logistics infrastructures at the average level in this region. Amongst the constraints and challenges were professionalism in supporting the development, skill of manpower and financial issues in organization. Albeit all the constraints, most respondents were satisfied with the services rendered by logistics service providers.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of physical infrastructures and regulat... more The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of physical infrastructures and regulatory factors on the export performance. This study focuses on export performance by SME manufacturers in Malaysia. Some literature found that Malaysia is one of the countries that have the severe period of export duration, thus increase the operation cost too. Therefore,this study is called to examine these two factors that are considered as the determinants that contribute to this issue. By using quantitative research design, 200 sets of usable questionnaire are returnable. These questionnaires have been distributed to the SME manufacturers in the area of Klang Valley, Malaysia. The collected data are then analyzed by using SPSS including frequency analysis, descriptive statistic, reliability and correlation analysis. The results found that regulatory factors have a correlation with export performance, but it happens vice versa for physical infrastructures. These results are likely to br...
International Review of Management and Marketing, 2017
The growth and transformation of the manufacturing sector all around the world has spurred on the... more The growth and transformation of the manufacturing sector all around the world has spurred on the demand for logistics services. These industries need logistics as the mobility medium to run the business process especially for road logistics transportation. The road logistics transportation is a key role to move goods from suppliers to customers in order to complete the logistics cycle. This situation has sparked congestion, which has caused delivery delay and rising costs. These two major effects of congestion have affected the business performance, for either the logistics service providers (LSPs) or the consignees. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationships of logistics capability, IT implementation, and innovation capability with the LSPs’ performance. Using the correlation and standard multiple regression analysis, the theoretical models and hypotheses in this study are tested based on empirical data gathered from 81 LSPs in the East Coast regio...
The importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contributions to the nations’ economies in ... more The importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contributions to the nations’ economies in the world is an undebatable fact. The same applies to Malaysia with 98.5% of the total business establishments being SMEs; contributing to 65.3% of total employment and 36.3% of GDP. Supports from the Government are never fading with huge allocations of budget every year but yet registering high failure rate. Sustainable growth of SMEs is long overdue. The awareness of the importance of sustainable growth of SMEs has resulted in the presence of various definitions and concepts of sustainable growth. This paper seeks to explore the literature on long-term and sustainable growth for SMEs and the enhanced knowledge on this area willbe aguidance to the policy makers, supporting agencies, advisors, entrepreneurs and academicians to seriously develop an all-encompassing model for sustainable growth of SMEs. This paper suggests an integrated sustainable growth model of SMEs with four dimensions...
Information Technology (IT) is universally accepted as one of efficiency boosters. Logistics Serv... more Information Technology (IT) is universally accepted as one of efficiency boosters. Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) around the world involve in IT implementation with the purpose to increase their service efficiency in catering business demands, especially for LSPs which operate in the areas of heavy trade activities. The activities create congestion which lead to deficient of LSPs performance and increase delivery time and total costs. However, the review of literature reveals that IT implementation met with productivity paradox. Thus, in order to examine how IT implementation influences the performance of LSPs in East Coast Malaysia, 81 LSP firms in the region were involved in this study. This study also investigated the moderating effect of LSP sizes on their performance. The findings reveal that IT implementation significantly influenced LSPs’ performance, but it happened vice versa for the moderator investigation. This study has bridged the literature gaps of IT adoption in s...
International Journal of Business and Management, 2016
The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensive... more The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensively reviewing the definitions, concept, as well as the importance of innovative and innovativeness in the business world. This review covers various definitions of innovation and innovativeness, multi dimensions of innovation and how this innovation acts to generate a good firm performance and competitive advantage, relying strongly on the famous Resource-Based View theory. Since the term ‘innovation’ itself is quite difficult to interpret, observe or evaluate, as argued by many scholars, this review attempts to provide discussion and enhance understanding on these concepts especially in the firm’s context. This review could shed some dynamic ideas for future researchers to further identify, conceptualize and understand the underlying theories and perspectives which strongly influence the previous, current and future concept of innovation.
“Sustainable Development” has been the world agenda since 1972 which became official since Brundt... more “Sustainable Development” has been the world agenda since 1972 which became official since Brundtland Commission’s 1987 report. The world has united under one umbrella for the future of mother Earth with one common objective, ‘the 2030 Agenda’. Malaysia’s influence and active participation is since then and is more inclusive from 1996. In this new borderless era, sustainable development has become very important particularly in business. Innovation as the savior could lead the world towards sustainable development. United Nations (UN) acknowledged that innovation plays important role in sustainable development goals. This paper sets its focus in innovation and its contribution to sustainable development as the key objective; especially when integrated to business organizations through social, environmental and economic enterprises, bringing competitive innovation advantage to the firm, industry and nation as a whole.
The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensive... more The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensively reviewing the definitions, concept, as well as the importance of innovative and innovativeness in the business world. This review covers various definitions of innovation and innovativeness, multi dimensions of innovation and how this innovation acts to generate a good firm performance and competitive advantage, relying strongly on the famous Resource-Based View theory. Since the term 'innovation' itself is quite difficult to interpret, observe or evaluate, as argued by many scholars, this review attempts to provide discussion and enhance understanding on these concepts especially in the firm's context. This review could shed some dynamic ideas for future researchers to further identify, conceptualize and understand the underlying theories and perspectives which strongly influence the previous, current and future concept of innovation.
Logistics is the movement engine for cargos and merchandises both for domestics and international... more Logistics is the movement engine for cargos and merchandises both for domestics and international. People complete their business process through logistics transportation, especially to move cargos and merchandises reaching their end users around the world, hence transportation also can be considered as the backbone to business supply chain. Unfortunately, their operations produced negative impacts to our environment and society. Thus, business activities nowadays goes beyond sustaining economic sustainability solely. They are concern dearly on the environmental quality and human well-being as well. The objective of this paper is to review the influence of institutional policies and information technology (IT) adoption towards sustainable logistics transportations in the economic, environmental and social performance. Through understanding of Institutional Theory and Resource-Based View (RBV) Theory, institutional policies and IT adoption can be considered as the enabler for logistics performance and their sustainability. This paper expects to provide new insights to the logistics practitioners and policy makers in sustaining logistics sector in parallel with today’s world demand, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular ... more This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular Malaysia. Logistics development is paramount important to the country in supporting economic and growth and enhancing competitiveness. Malaysia as well as many developing countries are still at the moderate stage in developing logistics systems and often face considerable challenges and constraints to provide efficient and effective logistics service. The respondents were from the different logistics players and there were 41 usable questionnaires were analyzed. This study found that the existing logistics infrastructures at the average level in this region. Amongst the constraints and challenges were professionalism in supporting the development, skill of manpower and financial issues in organization. Albeit all the constraints, most respondents were satisfied with the services rendered by logistics service providers.
International journal of business and social research, 2012
This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular ... more This study investigated the current logistics development in The East Coast Region of Pennisular Malaysia. Logistics development is paramount important to the country in supporting economic and growth and enhancing competitiveness. Malaysia as well as many developing countries are still at the moderate stage in developing logistics systems and often face considerable challenges and constraints to provide efficient and effective logistics service. The respondents were from the different logistics players and there were 41 usable questionnaires were analyzed. This study found that the existing logistics infrastructures at the average level in this region. Amongst the constraints and challenges were professionalism in supporting the development, skill of manpower and financial issues in organization. Albeit all the constraints, most respondents were satisfied with the services rendered by logistics service providers.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of physical infrastructures and regulat... more The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of physical infrastructures and regulatory factors on the export performance. This study focuses on export performance by SME manufacturers in Malaysia. Some literature found that Malaysia is one of the countries that have the severe period of export duration, thus increase the operation cost too. Therefore,this study is called to examine these two factors that are considered as the determinants that contribute to this issue. By using quantitative research design, 200 sets of usable questionnaire are returnable. These questionnaires have been distributed to the SME manufacturers in the area of Klang Valley, Malaysia. The collected data are then analyzed by using SPSS including frequency analysis, descriptive statistic, reliability and correlation analysis. The results found that regulatory factors have a correlation with export performance, but it happens vice versa for physical infrastructures. These results are likely to br...
International Review of Management and Marketing, 2017
The growth and transformation of the manufacturing sector all around the world has spurred on the... more The growth and transformation of the manufacturing sector all around the world has spurred on the demand for logistics services. These industries need logistics as the mobility medium to run the business process especially for road logistics transportation. The road logistics transportation is a key role to move goods from suppliers to customers in order to complete the logistics cycle. This situation has sparked congestion, which has caused delivery delay and rising costs. These two major effects of congestion have affected the business performance, for either the logistics service providers (LSPs) or the consignees. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationships of logistics capability, IT implementation, and innovation capability with the LSPs’ performance. Using the correlation and standard multiple regression analysis, the theoretical models and hypotheses in this study are tested based on empirical data gathered from 81 LSPs in the East Coast regio...
The importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contributions to the nations’ economies in ... more The importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contributions to the nations’ economies in the world is an undebatable fact. The same applies to Malaysia with 98.5% of the total business establishments being SMEs; contributing to 65.3% of total employment and 36.3% of GDP. Supports from the Government are never fading with huge allocations of budget every year but yet registering high failure rate. Sustainable growth of SMEs is long overdue. The awareness of the importance of sustainable growth of SMEs has resulted in the presence of various definitions and concepts of sustainable growth. This paper seeks to explore the literature on long-term and sustainable growth for SMEs and the enhanced knowledge on this area willbe aguidance to the policy makers, supporting agencies, advisors, entrepreneurs and academicians to seriously develop an all-encompassing model for sustainable growth of SMEs. This paper suggests an integrated sustainable growth model of SMEs with four dimensions...
Information Technology (IT) is universally accepted as one of efficiency boosters. Logistics Serv... more Information Technology (IT) is universally accepted as one of efficiency boosters. Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) around the world involve in IT implementation with the purpose to increase their service efficiency in catering business demands, especially for LSPs which operate in the areas of heavy trade activities. The activities create congestion which lead to deficient of LSPs performance and increase delivery time and total costs. However, the review of literature reveals that IT implementation met with productivity paradox. Thus, in order to examine how IT implementation influences the performance of LSPs in East Coast Malaysia, 81 LSP firms in the region were involved in this study. This study also investigated the moderating effect of LSP sizes on their performance. The findings reveal that IT implementation significantly influenced LSPs’ performance, but it happened vice versa for the moderator investigation. This study has bridged the literature gaps of IT adoption in s...
International Journal of Business and Management, 2016
The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensive... more The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensively reviewing the definitions, concept, as well as the importance of innovative and innovativeness in the business world. This review covers various definitions of innovation and innovativeness, multi dimensions of innovation and how this innovation acts to generate a good firm performance and competitive advantage, relying strongly on the famous Resource-Based View theory. Since the term ‘innovation’ itself is quite difficult to interpret, observe or evaluate, as argued by many scholars, this review attempts to provide discussion and enhance understanding on these concepts especially in the firm’s context. This review could shed some dynamic ideas for future researchers to further identify, conceptualize and understand the underlying theories and perspectives which strongly influence the previous, current and future concept of innovation.
“Sustainable Development” has been the world agenda since 1972 which became official since Brundt... more “Sustainable Development” has been the world agenda since 1972 which became official since Brundtland Commission’s 1987 report. The world has united under one umbrella for the future of mother Earth with one common objective, ‘the 2030 Agenda’. Malaysia’s influence and active participation is since then and is more inclusive from 1996. In this new borderless era, sustainable development has become very important particularly in business. Innovation as the savior could lead the world towards sustainable development. United Nations (UN) acknowledged that innovation plays important role in sustainable development goals. This paper sets its focus in innovation and its contribution to sustainable development as the key objective; especially when integrated to business organizations through social, environmental and economic enterprises, bringing competitive innovation advantage to the firm, industry and nation as a whole.
The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensive... more The primary objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literatures by comprehensively reviewing the definitions, concept, as well as the importance of innovative and innovativeness in the business world. This review covers various definitions of innovation and innovativeness, multi dimensions of innovation and how this innovation acts to generate a good firm performance and competitive advantage, relying strongly on the famous Resource-Based View theory. Since the term 'innovation' itself is quite difficult to interpret, observe or evaluate, as argued by many scholars, this review attempts to provide discussion and enhance understanding on these concepts especially in the firm's context. This review could shed some dynamic ideas for future researchers to further identify, conceptualize and understand the underlying theories and perspectives which strongly influence the previous, current and future concept of innovation.
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