Adriana Mohd. Rizal

Abcam · International Business School

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make an important contribution to their country’s economy, job creation and balance of trade. The government has supported their development through service providers and has encouraged them to participate in the international market. Despite its importance and the encouragement from the government, partici...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers played a significant role in minimizing the maximum spread of the virus. This study aims to investigate the relationship between healthcare workers’ attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, perceived effectiveness of the pandemic, risk perception of the COVID-19 pandemic, and willin...

Digital interactive platforms (DIP) enhance communication in a growing online interaction and promote innovation in small business operations. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about the interactions between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and stakeholders via DIP and the factors contributing to accelerating internationalization...

Managing employees' well-being has garnered the attention of academics and industry practitioners worldwide over the past few years. Presenteeism, a phenomenon that is closely related to employee well-being, has attracted increasing interest in recent years. However, most studies were focused on sickness presenteeism. Hence, in terms of novelty, th...

There has been an increasing number of Middle Eastern immigrants arriving in Malaysia over the last decade due to political and economic instability in their countries. Given their somewhat ambiguous living conditions and residence status here (e.g. legal, illegal, refugee, etc.), it is imperative to understand their situation in-depth. One of the...

Customer satisfaction is one of the success factors for many retailers. With the widespread use of smartphones worldwide, retailers have adopted many new innovative and disruptive retail business models. Digitalization brings retail business into a new era and has profoundly and positively affected the business' strategy. Retailers strive to provid...

Purpose: This paper investigates the competitiveness of the food and beverages (F&B) industry in Malaysia and examines the Small and Medium Enterprises' (SMEs) demand and key perceptions towards challenges in halal logistics. Methodology: This paper adopted SWOT analysis to understand the internal (strengths, weaknesses) and external (opportuniti...

The involvement of youth in creating socially innovative products is important. As future leaders, their contributions in addressing social and environment issues improve community well beings. Nevertheless, study focusing on youth entrepreneurship remains scant especially on motivation of their involvement in social entrepreneurship activities. Th...

span>This study intends to explore the relationship between goal orientation, information literacy self-efficacy and lifelong learning outcomes of the adult learners. This study focuses on adult learners as they are actively participating in the development of the country socio-economy and recognized as the potential contributors towards the genera...

Digital interactions of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries in regards to the internationalisation is not well explored. This research shows how the digital communications amongst service providers and SMEs enable internationalisation among SMEs. The importance of the digital interactions such as social media, online marketing a...

This study's purpose is to measure entrepreneurial intention in near and distant time scales using temporal construal theory and the theory of planned behavior. It examines new patterns to measure individual intentions to become an entrepreneur, which are classified into short-term entrepreneurial intention and long-term entrepreneurial intention,...

Subject Area Social Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior. Study Level This case is suitable to be used in advanced undergraduate and MBA/MSc level. Case Overview This case teaches about green organization, its opportunity, challenges, and attitude toward sustainable agriculture. The Babylon Vertical Farms (BVF) is an agricultural and technol...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent and type of fraud scheme, prevention mechanisms and challenges experienced by the Malaysian medium enterprises. Design/methodology/approach The multiple case studies approach has been employed in this study. The data was collected through interviews with the directors, owners, managers...

Changing behaviour towards pro-environment will not only can contribute towards organization sustainability but also will help to prevent further environment destruction. However, empirical research on developing model or solution to foster employee pro-environmental behaviour in workplace is still lacking. Therefore, this paper examines existing l...

Introduction: 'National Transformation 2050' or TN50 is an ingenuity to plan Malaysia's future in the 2020 to 2050. As of the viewpoint of becoming a developed nation, one of the TN50's agenda is to make our country one of the global halal supply chain which a part of economic growth for Malaysia. Halal food or halal product is the most important a...

The environment in which higher education institutions operate changed from solely a traditional classroom environment to a mixed mode environment with e-learning taking the central attention. Profound changes and development in technology has made higher education institutions to be very competitive and seeking to apply new technologies in the del...

Takaful industry has experienced rapid growth and gained wider acceptance among Muslims and non-Muslims. The growth of takaful industry has contributed to economic development especially in the Islamic financial system. In general, this study discusses the perception of Muslim on family takaful scheme participation in Klang Valley, Malaysia. In par...

Literature on entrepreneurship mainly focuses on business entrepreneurship than social entrepreneurship. In fact, most studies are centered on large-scale businesses and professional entrepreneurs to create social transformation in the community. Literature on entrepreneurship suggests that entrepreneurs’ motivation to contribute to social wellbein...

The importance of family firm innovation in the economic growth has led to the increasing of scholars’ attention to the researches on innovation management in family firms. Despite the unique behaviour of family firms, which gives an advantage in becoming innovative, some of the family firms are reluctant to invest in innovation due to high commitm...

The purpose of this research is to examine the factors that affect employee engagement and turnover intention among employees in the plantation industry. For this purpose, a conceptual framework was proposed and empirically tested. A total of 275 questionnaires were collected using convenience sampling and analyzed using descriptive statistics and...

The study examined the effectiveness of sales training in a direct selling organization. Using a three stage model of effective training, sales managers determined the training needs assessment, transfer of training and training evaluation. Interview respondents consist of sales managers who are responsible to manage the sales force. When all three...

The concept of firm orientation by Miller seminal works (1983) was expanded further by other scholars and gradually came to be known as entrepreneurial orientation. The objective of this study is to review the literature on entrepreneurial orientation, firm growth and management capabilities within the context of university spin-off firms. Thus, th...

This paper accentuates the importance of liquidity management and its relation with profitability using a sample of Malaysian public listed companies of consumer products industry. Apart from examining the relationship between liquidity and profitability, this paper also examines size of the companies as a moderator. Data was taken during financial...

Gl obalization has led to an increase in the number of international students studying abroad. Some push factors include limited access to higher education, low technology and personal aspects. On the other hand, pull factors such as advanced knowledge, cross-culture communication and chances to study contribute to this trend. The global higher edu...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) entrepreneurial activities are critical to nation’s economic development and wealth creation. The governments provide both financial and non-financial assistances to support the development of these firms. Despite the government assistance, SMEs experience business discontinuity at the early stage of the firm dev...

This study examined the relationship between psychological capital and entrepreneurial success and the roles of entrepreneurial work engagement and entrepreneurial learning intensity as multiple-mediators in influencing the relationship. In addition, the effects of service orientation and market orientation on entrepreneurial factors were also test...

Along with the positive aspect of consumers' consumption behaviour, negative aspect also needed to consider for obtaining a complete picture of the consumption behaviour. By examining compulsive buying, this study attempts to shed some light on understanding the negativity in consumption. Based on symbolic self-completion theory, this study investi...

Studies on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) highlight more on the firms’ success than their failures. Firms’ failures, in particular business discontinuity, have not been well discussed due to sensitivity and confidentiality of data. The entrepreneurial activities of SMEs are vital in supporting nations’ economic development and wealth creation....

In December 2009, Holista CollTech Ltd. was established as a biotechnology company and its core business was the production of ovine collagen and Kacip Fatimah extracts. The ovine collagen was used mainly in a broad range of food, health supplements, cosmetics, and medical products, while Kacip Fatimah extracts were ingredients for food and supplem...