Mohd Ali Bahari Abdul Kadir

Universiti Teknologi MARA | UiTM · Faculty of Business Management

The present study demonstrated scale development of the social support (SS), whose measurement should be re-evaluated based on past studies findings. This study aimed for scale development and investigated the dimensionality of items measuring the SS construct. The validation for content and face validity used Modified Delphi Method with seven pane...

Social status is essential to every individual whether they may or may not be aware of it and admit the importance of social status in their lives. Even in the case of Bumiputera graduates entrepreneurs, they acknowledged that social status is beneficial in businesses although some of them were reluctant to admit the importance of social status. Th...

This paper is part of an ongoing doctoral study exploring the entrepreneurial self-efficacy concept. This paper aims to form a concept relevant to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and gain the theoretical basis to support this conceptualization. For this paper, the researcher analyzed and investigated the literature as a first step to better understan...

In 2020, 202,400 from 5.36 million graduates in Malaysia were unemployed. Although the unemployment may have happened mainly because of the COVID-19 pandemic and various Movement Control Order (MCO), 16,000 of them were already unemployed for more than a year. The situation has raised a question as to why they did not become entrepreneurs. Hence, t...

Fundamental understanding about social entrepreneurship development in Malaysia in the light of Malaysian economic system and values. As a developing nation, the evolution of economic orientation in the country has shaped the development of social entrepreneurship along with the economic planning modules.

The historical development of social entrepreneurship is not entirely different from the development of entrepreneurship in the study of the firm. This is due to the social and business concerns of the capitalistic enterprises as both means and ends to the business objectives.

In Malaysia, environmental issues are increasing and achieving environmental consciousness and business success is very challenging. The objectives of this research are to know the relationship between regulations, customer pressure and social responsibility towards expected business benefits. Convenience sampling method was conducted to companies...

Environmental problems are becoming more prevalent not only in Malaysia but globally as well. The most serious issue that has been posted is the lack of explicit environmental protection capabilities. According to the results of this study, regulations, consumer pressure, and social responsibility have a significant association with planned market...

This paper presents an ongoing doctoral study exploring the entrepreneurial intention of pilot public vocational high school students in entrepreneurship development programs in Jakarta, Indonesia. This paper is a preliminary study that employed two methods of data collection, namely questionnaires and interviews. The method allows for triangulatio...

Social enterprise plays a noteworthy role in the society as it endlessly delivers social value very much needed by the community. In 2015, Malaysia has launched its Malaysian Social Enterprise Blueprint, a three-year blueprint that entails pivotal strategy to promote and accelerate development of the sector, of which by the year 2018, supposedly be...

The e-commerce trend has increasingly grown in Malaysia. The revenue for e-commerce platforms in 2019 is USD3.7 billion with more than 20 million users. There were various calls from the ministries for Malaysian to take up e-commerce as it is progressively contributing to the country’s GDP. Bumiputera entrepreneurs have been demanded to play active...

This phenomenological study aimed to identify and describe the general meaning structure of eudaimonic well-being experience in performing the role of halal executive. We interviewed three halal executives about their lived experiences with eudaimonic well-being and analysed the data with Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological method. The general me...

The global Halal industry is large and continues to grow as the global Muslim population increases in size and dispersion. There are 1.84 billion Muslims today spread over 200 countries and is expected to increase to 2.2 billion by 2030. The industry will be worth USD6.4 trillion by the end of 2018 with more non-traditional players and emergent mar...

The book is a proposition on a method to be used in inculcating entrepreneurial traits and competencies among learners. It is a tool to guide educators to deliberately plan their courses to target specific improvement on learners' entrepreneurship beliefs, values, attitudes or competencies.

As Malaysia continues to grow economically, youth entrepreneurship has becoming a vital factor in ensuring a brighter future for the nation. Entrepreneurship is seen as not only the solution to unemployment but also fundamental in nurturing young people to unleash their potential to the fullest. In order to encourage young generations to embark on...

A decade ago the concept of social entrepreneurship was rarely discussed in Malaysia even though the practice of delivering social values to the population has been around for years. Efforts that combined the concept of entrepreneurship and social development were established years before the emergence of the term. Only in recent years the concept...

Entrepreneurship is an important field in practical and education sector. Realizing the importance of entrepreneurship, Malaysia has taken numerous efforts in promoting entrepreneurship and there has been urges by the policymakers for the universities to contribute to the nation towards achieving the goal of becoming and entrepreneurial nation. The...

Social enterprise plays a significant role in the society as it continuously delivers social value to its clients. Although considerable attention has been dedicated to the importance of sustainability in social enterprise domain, the literature revealed the lack of empirical evidence pertaining key factors of social enterprise sustainability, thus...

Despite the concept of Jihad being interpreted differently, it has been adopted to convey positive virtues in the business world. However, while much research has been generated on the topic of Jihad after the September 11th attack, precious little information is available in the area of business Jihad. The purpose of this study is to explore the e...

Recognising the importance of entrepreneurship education in promoting entrepreneurship development and the economy, Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education has taken the initiative by making entrepreneurship subjects compulsory to all students at the nation public universities. At the same time, these students are encouraged to take part in the many...

ABSTRACT This study investigates the meanings of sustainability from the viewpoint of faith-based social entrepreneurs in order to gain better insights concerning sustainability of social enterprises. The private Islamic schools in Malaysia are experiencing rapid development due to the growing demand for the Islamic education system. However, in th...

Abstract: Social entrepreneurship generally refers to the synthesis of business concepts and social welfare to bring about social & economic development of a country. According to Forbes, any definition of social entrepreneurship should reflect the need for a substitute for the market discipline that works for business entrepreneurs and play the ro...

This paper has been prepared to discuss contemporary issues in leadership, and also serves as a means of reviewing the literature in the area of Servant Leadership. Islamic leadership principles and a spiritual dimension in leadership are touched upon. The main purpose of this paper is to better understand the aforesaid leadership terms through emp...

The current study was commissioned by PUNB (Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Berhad). PUNB's business operations are focused on providing integrated entrepreneur development packages to assist Bumiputera entrepreneurs in Retail and Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) sectors. The slow rate of progress by Bumiputera entrepreneurs and the plummeting...