Elsadig Musa Ahmed

Multimedia University | mmu · Faculty of Business

This study aims to examine the factors determining Palestinian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Digital Technology (DT) adoption intention. A modified Technology Organisation Environment (TOE) framework integrated with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) theory is employed. Data was collected via a questionnaire as a sample for the quantitativ...

This study investigates the relationship between technological innovations, financial development, and income inequality implications on achieving Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG10) in seven Asian economies via testing the inverted U-shaped hypothesis of technological innovation on income inequality in the concept of technological Kuznets curv...

This study examines the potential impacts of energy efficiency and renewable energy on economic growth proxies by gross domestic product and environmental quality proxies by carbon dioxide emissions across eight selected Asian countries from 2000 to 2020. This study contributes by calculating green total factor productivity and carbon total factor...

PURPOSE: This objective of this study is to assess and review the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in light of digital technology developed by the digital revolution, innovation and climate change integration, COVID-19, world global wars, conflicts and natural disasters and their implications for the implementation of the 2030 A...

The United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global call to action to end poverty, protect the earth's environment and climate, and ensure that people everywhere can enjoy peace and prosperity. These are the goals the UN 2030 Agenda and its SDGs is working on in Sudan. This study's objective is to assess th...

Local communities' participation in decision-making, economic empowerment, and environmental conservation are the primary foci of this study as they pertain to sustainable tourist development. Aligning tourist projects with local needs and beliefs, encouraging ownership, and gaining support requires effective community engagement in decision-making...

Conferences pave the way for scientific cooperation by meeting and connecting with researchers from different countries. They also help in cooperating collective research projects such as edited books, special issues in peer-reviewed journals or funding applications. This presentation aims to explain the benefits that will be generated from Scienti...

This chapter aims at contributing to the benefits of linking globalization and digitalization to develop the digital economy and digital inclusion, fills knowledge gaps, and completes the digital transformation of the globalization-enhanced economy. The policy implications will be created based on this chapter significant findings to be employed by...

The nexus between globalization and digitalization presents unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, there is a pressing need to understand how these forces interact to shape our economies, societies, and environment. However, existing knowled...

This study aims to examine digital technology adoption and globalization innovation implications on green sustainable economic growth on Asian Pacific selected countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, India, Korea, China, New Zealand, Australia) via integrating digital technology adoption (digitalization and digitiza...

This study’s primary purpose is to establish a model of employee engagement from the perspective of academics in Malaysian private higher educational institutions (PHEIs) that may contribute to the body of knowledge. It is carried out to determine the mediating role of the meaning of work, a dimension under the higher construct of psychological e...

The positive impact of productivity growth made Malaysia one of the most remarkable growth record in modern history, led by manufacturing sector as an engine of growth of Malaysian economy since 1987. This study examines the economic impact of water pollutant emissions on Malaysia's manufacturing sector productivity growth. Autoregressive estimatio...

The positive impact of productivity growth made Malaysia one of the most remarkable growth records in modern history, led by manufacturing sector as an engine of growth of Malaysian economy since 1987. This study examined the negative economic impact of dirty fuel emissions on Malaysia's manufacturing sector productivity growth and to the factors d...

The study developed two models (output and labour productivity) of Total Pollutant Emissions (TPE) based on the concept of pollution as a residual. TPE is a counterpart to the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) the Solow’s residual that expresses the technological progress indicator based on the combined quality of the input factors. On the other hand...

The positive impact of productivity growth made Malaysia one of the most remarkable growth records in modern history, led by manufacturing sector as an engine of growth of Malaysian economy since 1987. This study examines the negative impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) and water pollutant (BOD) emissions in combination as well as profits generated by t...

This study is the forerunner research in Saudi Arabia that examine the moderating effects of age on knowledge management in telecommunication industry. This study provides unique measurement in evaluating the initial implementation of knowledge management in telecommunication industry in Saudi Arabia, thus building a comprehensive advantage among t...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the financial system under considerable strain and triggered an unprecedented reaction in the financial market. To promote financial stability and strengthen the Malaysian financial market, the authorities banned regulated short selling activities in March 2020 and subsequently lifted the ban in January 2021. This stud...

This paper examines big data analytics implications on the central banking financial system’s technological progress. A digital technological progress framework and model is established to analyze the economy’s aggregate supply via covering the monetary policy, big data analytics, pollutants emissions as independent variables and the economy’s aggr...

The main objective of this study is to model and examine the green technological progress’s positive and negative externalities spillover effects on the sustainable economic growth of 15 economies from Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America. The study calculated labour and capital contributions to green total factor productivity growth via the inclus...

The study aims to investigate the factors pursuing the women entrepreneurs to accept Islamic microfinance (IMF) in urban and rural areas of Malaysia. For this purpose, the study applies the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Innovation and Diffusion Theory to explain Islamic microfinance adoption. Using the structural equation model (SEM) with pr...

Malaysia is an emerging Asian economy that seeks to move towards a technology-driven and high-tech production-based pattern of development and thus replicate the experience of the newly industrializing economies (NIEs) of Asia. The progress of the Malaysian economy is highly influenced by three critical factors namely public delivery system, forei...

This study’s primary purpose is to establish a model of employee engagement from the perspective of academics in Malaysian private higher educational institutions (PHEIs) that may contribute to the body of knowledge. It is carried out to determine the mediating role of the meaning of work, a dimension under the higher construct of psychological emp...

Evaluation of Job Performance and Its Role in Academic Quality Job performance is important to institutions of higher learning. Academic quality should be linked to the accreditation and audit requirements for academic qualification agencies of every country as well as professional agencies around the globe. Every institution of higher learning sh...

Sudan News Agency (SUNA) Main Economic A call to review the sustainable development goals and link them to innovation Presentation: Amani Qandoul Khartoum 10/31-2022 (SUNA) - The workshop for reviewing the sustainable development goals and linking them to the innovation brought by the digital revolution called for tracking the performance of the...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of e-commerce (EC) on total factor productivity (TFP) of Iranian manufacturing SMEs. The model is based on both econometrics and growth accounting approach to fill the gaps of previous studies. This study model uses two years of panel data and has six EC measurements: number of employees using co...

The main objective of this paper is to examine the digital big data the positive and negative externalities spillover effects on the economic decisions and policy implications as an important tool of digital economy digital technologies. It also examines big data analytics implications on Central banking's technological progress in managing the eco...

This study aims to modify the model proposed by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and amended by Nanayakkara in order to assess the performance of Sudanese microfinance institutions (MFIs) in terms of reducing poverty, social performance and financial sustainability. The primary data was collected by the means of a questionnaire and...

This study examines the mediating effect of risk management practices on the relationship between understanding risk and management, risk identification, risk assessment analysis, risk monitoring, credit risk analysis, and financial performance. Besides, examined the relationship between risk-related factors and risk management practices, as well a...

Synopses of scientific paper writing and publishing Workshop The proposition of this workshop is to discuss scientific paper writing and publishing in Web of Science (WoS) or ISI and SCOPUS databases indexed journals. The workshop will cover all aspects of scientific writing, submission and publishing manuscripts in Web of Science (WoS) and SCOPUS...

This chapter develops frameworks and models to examine digital transformation into digital economies via digital technologies' applications at both the macro and micro levels via both positive and negative externalities generated by digital technologies and pollutant emissions. A productivity mixed-method approach has been developed based on the ch...

This presentation highlighted the integration of innovation of digital technology via The impact of the use of artificial intelligence and neural networks in predicting the future economic growth of countries in light of the COVID 19 pandemic. Digital Big Data that is captured via digital technologies networks will help to achieve Sustainable Devel...

Synopses of scientific thesis writing guidelines The proposition of this workshop is to discuss scientific thesis writing guidelines. The workshop covered all aspects of thesis scientific writing guidelines. To grasp with fundamental contents for writing a quality scientific theses for all levels (PhD, DBA, MPhil, Masters Theses, MBA, Undergraduat...

This study examined the supply and demand of natural rubber in Malaysia, intending to identify the factors that shaped the Malaysian rubber industry production and consumption. Two models were estimated the supply and demand of natural rubber, mainly using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model cointegration approach over the period 1980-2...

This study examined the supply and demand of natural rubber in Malaysia, intending to identify the factors that shaped the Malaysian rubber industry production and consumption. Two models were estimated the supply and demand of natural rubber, mainly using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model cointegration approach over the period 1980-2...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of entrepreneurship education (EE) through attitude toward behaviour (ATB), subjective norm (SN) and perceived behavioural control (PBC) on Entrepreneurial intention (EI)among University students in Nigeria. The study unit of analysis comprises of students from the three public universities in Kano...

Purpose Hotel industry is witnessing a radical change as a result of technology interaction such as artificial intelligence (AI) in service tasks. As a result of this transformation, the pattern of service delivery based on human interaction has been changed to digital interaction. This brought opportunities to the hotels industry and consolidate i...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the determinant factors that influence the adoption of mobile banking by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Palestine. The aim of this paper has supported with the objectives to identify the role of mobile banking practices in enhancing sustainable growth and development of Palestine SMEs; determining the fact...

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to explore the voicer's own psychological or behavioral reactions to voice. A framework was proposed to predict how and when employee voice is related to innovative behavior in the workplace based on conservation of resources theory. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected from a three-wave survey inclu...

Traditionally, money served as a medium of financial transaction but now the system advances to the introduction of a new electronic payment through Blockchain technology known as cryptocurrency. The phenomenon of this cryptocurrency in Malaysia is very new and it is still in debate among Malaysians especially Bitcoin’s cryptocurrency. This researc...

This study aims to model information and communications technology (ICT) cybersecurity negative externalities spillover effects on sustainable economic growth. Three productivity frameworks and models were developed to measure ICT cybersecurity negative externalities spillover effects on sustainable economic growth. An econometric and growth accoun...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the acceptance of public electronic procurement (PEP) in the post-introduction phase. The PEP introduced in the year 2000 and served to link up stakeholder of public procurement from various government agencies with Malaysia’s private company. The research set out to examine factors including performanc...

47 workshops presented in Sudanese Economic Planning Forum Workshops under Sudanese Researchers Initiative on 22 September 2020 to 18 June 2021, please provide valuable comments in any workshop related to you via reading the PowerPoint presentations and watching the videos to help us to transform these workshops into policy papers, action plans, an...

This study examines Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows spillover effects influence on the labour productivity of the most important Asian-Pacific countries (Malaysia, and New Zealand). The modified-intensive growth theory model that is based on labour productivity (out per worker) is employed. Both growth accounting and econometric approaches...

This article aims to examine the intention to use Islamic microfinance by women entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Microfinance plays a significant role in developing the modern economy in the world by alleviating poverty, creating employment, and empowering women in society. The framework was built on Innovation and Diffusion Theory and Planned Behaviour...

The study aims to examine the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Member Countries (MCs) digital transformation into digital economies via digital technology applications at both the macro and micro level. A mixed methodology is used. This is based on the modified models and frameworks to be employed by IsDB MCs at both the macro and micro level to uti...

Policy papers are different from the standard research papers in several respects: They are usually addressed at a non-academic audience, such as a particular official, agency, or organization. They often focus on prescriptive (Narrow) questions. They may begin by diagnosing a particular issue or situation and typically argue for a solution that wi...

Sudan Economic Planning in Light of The Sustainable Development Goals The United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global call to action to end poverty, protect the earth’s environment and climate, and ensure that people everywhere can enjoy peace and prosperity. These are the goals the UN 2030 Agenda and i...

Purpose The study aims to examine the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Member Countries (MCs) digital transformation into digital economies via digital technology applications at both the macro and micro levels. Design/Methodology/Approach A mixed methodology is used. This is based on the modified models and frameworks to be employed by IsDB MCs at...

This study reviews literature on mobile banking adoption in organizations to identify its influential factors and its operationalization in prior literature. We classify the factors that influence mobile banking adoption using the three contexts suggested by the Technology, Organization and Environment (TOE) framework, namely, technology, organizat...

This paper investigates reason for the non-utilization of mobile banking by SMEs sectors in Palestine using a survey of 408 SMEs. The results of the study indicate that majority of Palestine SMEs are using computerized systems and utilizes basic ICT technologies, while the use of mobile banking are less than 30%. However, there are key factors that...

The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has turned the entire world into a ghost new world disrupting everything in our daily life and shutting the entire countries and cities across the globe. Covid19 is considered by many people as the first biological world war ever experienced in modern times with immeasurable impact on our normal life. Despite the...

Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) showed that the digital technology that is shaped by the digital economy around the globe is highly needed. This study aims to model and examine the digital economy's positive and negative externalities spillover effects on the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) members’ countries (MCs) sustainable economic growth considering...

This study attempts to apply significant knowledge economy drivers of information and communications technology (ICT) to the implementation of mobile banking (M-bank) in order to increase the outreach for Sudanese microfinance. Access to financial service is key for economic development and poverty alleviation. Microfinance is one way of fighting p...

Purpose: The study aims to examine the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Member Countries (MCs) digital transformation into digital economies via digital technology applications at both the macro and micro levels. Design/Methodology/Approach: A mixed methodology is used. This is based on the modified models and frameworks to be employed by IsDB MCs a...

This study illustrates the perception to use public electronic procurement (e-Procurement) system by Malaysia’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and examines the six predictors for the SMEs employees’ perception to use e-procurement system in their daily activities. The study modified the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Usage Technology (UTAUT)...

Purpose This study aims to explain the integration of innovation and climate with the economic growth Green Productivity (GP) concept. This is drawn from the integration of two important developmental strategies: productivity improvement and environmental protection. Productivity provides the framework for continuous improvement, while environmenta...

Purpose – This study aims to examine Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Adoption of electronic government procurement (EGP) in the post-introduction phase as the portal was introduced in the early year 2000. Design/methodology/approach – This study integrated electronic public services into two acceptance theories (the technology a...

Blender three-dimensional (3D) is the open-source software (OSS) investigated in this research. Currently, Blender 3D users in Malaysia are still less compared with other countries. Determinants of Blender 3D usage are investigated to increase its usage among Malaysian 3D animation users’ especially 3D animation companies. Variables for this resear...

This paper examines the influence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows on the catching up process developed by physical capital, labour, human capital, absorptive capacity, and telecommunications investment on 11 selected Asian-Pacific's sustainable productivity growth, includes (ASEAN 5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thail...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of microfinance programs sponsored by Sudanese microfinance institutions (SMFIs) on monetary poverty reduction in Sudan where poverty is widely spread. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted the control group approach, where income and expenditure are taken as welfare indicators. Th...

Background: School counselling interventions have a substantial impact on students’ educational and personal development. Individual and small group counselling, classroom guidance and consultation activities seem to contribute directly to students’ success in the classroom and beyond. Aim: This paper attempted to study impact of counselling servic...

Knowledge based economy (K-based economy) flagships should be developed in order to develop Sudan’s knowledge economy foundations for future development by studying the experience of the countries that planned and developed their economies into knowledge economy such as countries in America, Europe and south East Asia. It should be noted that devel...

This study aims to explain the integration of innovation and climate with economic growth that was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2018 in terms of the concept of Green Productivity (GP). This is drawn from the integration of two important developmental strategies, viz. productivity improvement and environmental protection. Productivity pro...

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The proposition of this workshop is to discuss scientific paper writing and publishing in Web of Science (WoS) or ISI and SCOPUS databases indexed journals.

Purpose: This paper aims to explain women's employment status in the context of privatisation. Their position is discussed in terms of women's employment before privatisation; discrimination against women in the labour market and work place; women's experience of redundancy; women's experience of job seeking; women's responses to the changing situa...

In this paper, the validity of the Wagner’s law is investigated in tenth selected Sub- Saharan African countries, namely Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, and DR Congo. Five variants of the Wagner’s law were tested for the period 2005-2014, using panel econometric approache...

This study assesses the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) and human capital spillover effects on productivity on selected five countries of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, (ASEAN5), Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, plus three East Asian Countries (China, Japan, and South Korea). The factors...

It is common for people to ask -- if they own gold or dinar, how can they use it to buy goods or services? The intention of this research is to address this issue by introducing a new concept of a payment system using electronic gold dinar (e-dinar). It is foreseen that if people can keep their money in a form of gold rather than in paper money, th...

The study examined the nature of factors that influence customer’s perception of service quality provided by Finance Bank Zambia Plc. is a private sector indigenous bank in the country. This is an analytical study based mainly on the primary data collected through a scientifically developed questionnaire and secondary information sources. Based on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain bio-economy dimensions as a new stream of knowledge-based economy that exists in the new era of the information and communications technology. Design/methodology/approach – Bio-economy refers to the production of a wide range of goods and services from plant, animal and forest-based material. It is...

The study reviewed the bioeconomy concepts and dimensions as explained in several past studies in Europe, Canada, United States of America and Latin America as leading countries in bioeconomy strategies and policies. It should be mentioned that bio-economy is new stream of knowledge-based economy that exists in the new era of the information and co...

The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between CO2 on quality of life and on economic growth in ASEAN 8. Pollution may directly decrease output and quality of life by decreasing productivity of man-made capital and labor. The income levels per capita gross domestic product per capita were measured from the year 1965 to 2010. This s...

There is no one standard definition of the knowledge-based economy but an acceptable one must place importance on the generation and exploitation of knowledge to create new value in the economy. Indeed, knowledge is information that is put to productive work. Knowledge includes information in any form, know-how and know-why. The knowledge-based eco...

The paper empirically tests the validity of the Wagner's law in selected Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), divided into higher and lower income countries for the period 2005-2014. Panel fixed effect model was used to investigate the relationship between public expenditure and economic growth following five identified framework in the econometric literature...

This paper inspects the influence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows on the catching up process developed by labour, physical capital, human capital, absorptive capacity, telecommunications investment, and export channel on Asia Pacific's sustainable productivity growth. A panel data from the period of 1970 to 2012 was used. The modified ex...

This study assesses the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) and human capital spillover effects on productivity on selected five countries of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, (ASEAN5), Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, plus three East Asian Countries (China, Japan, and South Korea). The factors...

This study assesses the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) and human capital spillover effects on productivity on selected five countries of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, (ASEAN5), Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, plus three East Asian Countries (China, Japan, and South Korea). The factors...

The main objective of this study is to estimate the determinants of the aggregate import demand function for Sudan during the period 1978 to 2014. The year 1978 was chosen because was the first year of devaluation as recommended by the IMF, and the year 2014 where the data were available. The study tests the stationary of individual series namely,...

This study attempts to establish the factors determining high attrition rate for Information and Commiunication Technology (ICT) sector in Malaysia. The high attrition rate determinants include job opportunity, job stability, job satisfaction, managerial support and talent management. The sampling techniques for this study are based on purposive an...

Purpose This study illustrates the intention to implement total quality management (TQM) applications in Oman’s Ministry of Justice (MOJ). The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of TQM implementation on the MOJ’s work performance (WP). Design/methodology/approach The study modified the TQM efficiency model by including new variables th...

Throughout early 2012, Oman allowed the Islamic banking for the first time as a response to a public demand during what was called "Arab spring". Consequently, this study presumed that, such new entry will create impact on the customers’ switching intention as customers may intent to switch to the new Islamic banks. The main objective of this study...

Purpose: This paper aims to explain bio-economy as a new stream of knowledge-based economy that exists in the new era of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Design/Methodology/Approach: Bio-economy refers to the production of a wide range of goods and services from plant, animal and forest-based material. It is more than just grain...

This study examined the privatization policies effects on Sudanese Women’s economic position. In a qualitative analysis the study found that Women’s economic positions were strongly influenced by these redundancies. Both groups of respondents from the bank and the factory have shouldered the impact of privatization policies in a similar way, as the...

Purpose: This paper aims to explain bio-economy as a new stream of knowledge-based economy that exists in the new era of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Design/Methodology/Approach: Bio-economy refers to the production of a wide range of goods and services from plant, animal and forest-based material. It is more than just grain...

This paper investigates income distribution-environment nexus in the context of countryspecific time series data from four member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN-4), namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand. The short run and long run effects of income inequality, economic growth, domestic investment, trade...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure the factors determining the productivity development in the Asia Pacific countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach The extensive growth theory that is expressed as the decomposition of th...