Ee Shiang Lim- Senior Lecturer at University of Science Malaysia
Ee Shiang Lim
- Senior Lecturer at University of Science Malaysia
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Introduction
Ee Shiang Lim currently works at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her current research interests are Technology and Innovation, Consumer Economics, and the Gig Economy.
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Given the limited resources and growing demand for aquatic products, China's aquaculture industry must increase its output. Improving the total factor productivity (TFP) change is an importance step toward long-term sustainable development of the aquaculture industry. The study aims to examine the productivity change, particularly TFP change and it...
This study examines the key factors influencing e-bike adoption and explores how advancing e-bike usage in Henan Province, China, can foster sustainable urban transportation and contribute to urban environmental preservation. Utilizing data from an online survey, binary logistic regression analyzes the impact of socio-demographic characteristics, p...
Music is increasingly being consumed online. Unauthorised downloading and spreading of music have posed a significant threat to the digital music industry. This study investigates the factors that affect digital music piracy among end-users in a developing country where the intellectual property rights regimes differ from those in developed countri...
This paper aims to examine how the diversity of global engagement is related to firms' participation in innovation input and output activities in the Malaysian manufacturing sector. The study uses firm-level data obtained from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey 2015. Firms are classified into four different groups based on their engagement in globa...
With the entrance of Uber into the land transportation industry, ride-hailing service has gained popularity and changed the way people travel in urban areas in Malaysia. Despite the growing popularity of this new mode of cab service, studies about factors that influence consumers’ choice to use ride-hailing service are limited in developing countri...
The demand for livestock products is rising, and China is actively encouraging farmers to increase their livestock production to meet this growing demand. At Shaanxi Province's livestock industry's current production output and growth rate, it appears unfeasible to meet the government's production target for 2025. Inefficiencies within livestock pr...
Piracy is one of the primary challenges facing the music industry. Music piracy has accounted for substantial revenue losses in this industry in Malaysia, a country in which intellectual property regimes are deemed as a matter of concern. If music piracy is left unchecked, it may destroy the value chain of the music industry. This study aims to exp...
Purpose
This paper explores the relationship between health promotion and active aging among seniors in Malaysia. The specific objectives were to (1) identify the contributing factors for seniors undergoing full medical check-up and (2) to explore the association between selected active aging factors and health promotion behavior and beliefs.
Desi...
In the past, the sharing of goods and services was generally limited to family and acquaintances. However, today’s sharing platforms enables sharing of goods and services among people who do not know each other. The emergence of the sharing economy offers individuals an alternative way of providing and using services apart from the traditional meth...
This book is part of the 2nd Universiti Sains Malaysia – International Conference on Social Sciences (USM-ICOSS) 2017 with the theme ‘Touching Lives, Bridging Societies.’ Organized by USM’s School of Social Sciences, the Conference was held on 23–25 August 2017 at The Gurney Resort Hotel & Residences, Penang. The three-day conference provided a pla...
This study aims to achieve two major objectives. First, to assess policies and initiatives implemented for the development of Malaysian SMEs, from the Eighth Malaysia Plan (8MP) to the current Eleventh Malaysia Plan (11MP), and under the SME Masterplan (2012-20). The second goal is to examine the performance and contribution of these SMEs. The stud...
This study aims to achieve two major objectives. First, to assess policies and initiatives implemented for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia from the Eighth Malaysia Plan (2001-2005) to the Eleventh Malaysia Plan (2016-2020) as well as the SME Masterplan (2012-2020). Second, to analyze the performances and con...
Nowadays, workers tend to face the problem of overemployment where desired working hours are less than their actual working hours. Some overemployed workers desire to work less hours although there may be a concomitant decline in earnings. This research is conducted to study the factors that are related to the employment status of workers in Penang...
Nowadays, workers tend to face the problem of overemployment where desired working hours are less than their actual working hours. Some overemployed workers desire to work less hours although there may be a concomitant decline in earnings. This research is conducted to study the factors that are related to the employment status of workers in Penang...
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Globalization has continuously shaped and restructured the world system by creating new economic orders. The existing economic order is in a state of flux where new orders emerge to replace older ones; and the cycle continues and carries on indefinitely. In the 21st century specifically, we witness the rise of an epoch of creativity and innovation...
It has been widely recognised that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) do not innovate as much as large enterprises. As such, there is a need to stimulate innovation activities among SMEs. Knowledge sharing is particularly important for SMEs that have scarce internal resources. As SMEs tend to rely on external sources for innovation activity,...
General insurance industry plays a vital role in the economic growth of Malaysia. The
performance of general insurance sector in Malaysia was negatively affected during the
2007/2008 Asian Financial Crisis. Statistics from the Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM) have
shown that the claim ratio was higher than its underwriting profit ratio. This has led...
The relationship between innovation and firm performance has been well studied in
the context of developed countries but very few studies on this topic have been
undertaken for developing countries. The paper empirically examines the relationship
between innovation and firm performance in a developing country, namely, Malaysia.
The study utilised f...
This work investigates the impediments to innovation faced by Malaysian manufacturing firms and whether they differ between firms that eventually engage in innovation activities and firms that do not. The shortcomings and obstacles encountered are assessed. Complementarities between the obstacles are also evaluated. The data are taken from the Nati...
