Choi Meng Leong

• PhD (Financial Economics)
• Swinburne University of Technology

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors determining the green purchasing behaviour of sustainable apparel products. This study employed Stimulus–Organism–Behaviour–Consequences (SOBC) theory, in which green product attributes (stimulus), perceived effectiveness (organism), green labelling satisfaction (organism) and green purchase i...

Purpose This research examines the determinants influencing consumer readiness to invest in smart home devices. Design/methodology/approach Employing a mixed-method strategy, this study initially applied a cross-sectional survey to gather responses from 311 Chinese consumers. The investigation applied structural equation modeling when assessing th...

Purpose This paper examines the asymmetric effects of inflation and interest rate on stock prices in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach Variables such as interest rate, inflation rate, gross domestic product (GDP), and exchange rate were tested using the time-series data fitted to the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model. The...

Purpose Food waste among young consumers is a significant concern that threatens food sustainability due to consumption behaviour. This study has integrated the Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour to extend the Theory of Planned Behaviour to measure young consumer’s intention to reduce food waste in a developing country context. Bringing in emotion,...

This study examines the influence of utilitarian and hedonic experiences, customer engagement, and customer value anticipation on customer retention in the authorized automotive after-sales service sector, using customer satisfaction and customer delight as mediators. We collected 316 samples and employed Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation M...

Drawing upon the mobile technology acceptance model (MTAM), this study addresses this conspicuous gap by identifying the necessary conditions for fostering trust and usage intention of mobile payment (m-payment) gateways. Data collected from 218 users of mobile-payment from Malaysia were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation mode...

This study explores relevant studies on Islamic insurance, including key themes, research areas, and research objectives. This study lays foundation for understanding the current status and trends in Islamic insurance research by systematically collecting, organizing and analyzing relevant literature. This study combines systematic literature revie...

Purpose This study aims to examine the gender differences in purchase intention towards green packaging product. The paper extended the theory of planned behaviour by unravelling the dynamics of quality, product attributes, and green packaging as part of strategic elements for the marketing mix. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional-survey...

Purpose This study aims to explore e-wallet continuance intention in Malaysia using perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU), perceived risk (PR) and perceived security (PS). Additional emphasis is placed on the degree of necessity of risk and security conditions driving the continuance intention to use e-wallets. Design/methodology/...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors affecting the intention to visit community-based homestays among young adults in a developing country during the pandemic by incorporating the mediation effect of perceived values and moderation effects of safety and health concerns. Design/methodology/approach Data from young adults were gathered...

Over the years, macroeconomic fundamentals and the stock market were found to have symmetrical relationship in numerous scientific investigations. These fundamentals provide crucial knowledge regarding stock price indices by providing forecasts for the future and information on the current status of the economy. This study employs a Nonlinear Autor...

Purpose Leveraging the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the stimulus–organism–response (S–O–R) theory, this paper aims to investigate how the utilitarian and hedonic factors in virtual reality (VR) technologies affect consumers' intention to travel in the endemic phase of COVID-19. At the same time, the study incorporated emotional engagement...

This study investigates the relationship between information characteristics and consumers’ behaviours in regards to electronic word of mouth, such as information quality, information credibility, information task-fit, needs of information, attitude towards information and purchase intention of new flavoured bubble tea in an extended Information Ac...

This study proposed a novel attempt to explain the effect of government support and individual's perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 in adopting e-Wallet by integrating technology acceptance model (TAM) and health belief model (HBM). A total of 232 valid responses were collected through online survey. The hypotheses were analysed and validated by...

This study proposed a novel attempt to explain the effect of government support and individual's perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 in adopting e-Wallet by integrating technology acceptance model (TAM) and health belief model (HBM). A total of 232 valid responses were collected through online survey. The hypotheses were analysed and validated by...

This study proposed a novel attempt to explain the effect of government support and individual's perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 in adopting e-Wallet by integrating technology acceptance model (TAM) and health belief model (HBM). A total of 232 valid responses were collected through online survey. The hypotheses were analysed and validated by...

Travelling is considered one of the best ways to escape one’s day-to-day routine activities. Tourists’ travel is driven by several motivational factors, which lead them to plan or continue on a travel trip. However, since the emergence of COVID-19, travelling has become a major issue for the whole travel industry. The recent spread of Omicron makes...

Purpose This study explores the disposition behaviour of late adolescents towards unfinished food. Specifically, this paper identifies and discusses the manner (the how's) and the reasons (the why's) of food disposition. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted a taxonomy of decisions pertaining to consumer disposition processes. A generic q...

The discourse on responsible tourism, although not new, has been given a new lease on life in the wake of COVID-19. Before 2020, global tourism mobilities were unparalleled with seemingly little standing in the way of the juggernaut that tourism had become. Typically, tourism is seen through an economic lens – for the jobs it provides and the impet...

Competition within the service industry is getting more intense due to privatisation and rising number of business entities creating toward competitiveness in the market. The banking sector is known as one of the service industries with a high rate of turnover in Malaysia. Some of the reason employees choose to leave an organisation are such as ard...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of learner-content interaction, learner-learner interaction, learner-instructor interaction, self-regulated learning, and Internet self-efficacy is present on e-learning satisfaction. The gender effect is also included in the investigation of the impact. Many studies have been conducted to reveal...

The magnitude in which global crises and the ongoing societal challenges affects our life has called for attentions to be more socially responsible, environmentally friendly and caring for the wider community. A lot has been said recently about tourism restart or recovery as a consequence of COVID-19, highlighting the need for greater pragmatism an...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the intention of using mobile payment (m-payment) services in Sarawak, Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach A total of 194 online payment users were selected to respond to the structured questionnaire. The partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyse the data by assessing...

Purpose Given the intense competition in the hotel industry, this study investigates the effect of overwork (OW) and overtime (OT) on turnover intention (TI) as well as the moderating effect of incentives in the context of non-luxury hotels in an emerging market. Design/methodology/approach Using a purposive sampling technique, a total of 271 fron...

In literature, inferior performance still prevails as one of the unresolved issues with regard to the monetary model of exchange rate. A money demand function that is unstable can contribute to the inferior performance of the model. One of the causes for an unstable money demand function is the application of the simple sum monetary aggregate in th...

Stability of the exchange rate is critical for policy formulation in Indonesia and thus, has boosted the study of exchange rate behaviour. In this study, the monetary model of exchange rate has been utilised to determine the exchange rate for Indonesia. The model was improved by means of including the Divisia monetary aggregate as the money measure...

BNM has discarded the use of monetary targeting due to the speeding up of financial reforms as the relationship between money and important macroeconomic indicators in Malaysia has weakened. However, the implementation of the interest rate targeting requires the authorities to alter the policy rate recurrently. Alternatively, the authorities may co...

This study was aimed to examine whether students’ experiences in e-learning are related to learning outcomes and satisfaction. Three learning experiences, which are course design, interaction with the instructor and interaction with peer students were identified as the predictors of learning outcomes and satisfaction. Self-administered questionnair...

Recent changes to China's financial system, in particular ongoing interest rate liberalization, gradual movement toward a more flexible exchange rate regime, and rapid development of capital markets, have changed substantially the environment in which monetary policy operates. In light of these changes, we estimate an error correction model using a...