Mohd Rafi Yaacob

Mohd Rafi Yaacob
University of Malaysia Kelantan | UMK · Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business

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This study seeks to investigate the business advisory awareness among some micro-sized SMEs in Kelantan,Malaysia, focusing on the advisory services supplied by various government agencies. Micro-sized SMEs werethe centre of the study because they represent a large number of SMEs in the country. Notwithstanding with thevarious advisory services prov...
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A recycling business or a green business which involves micro entrepreneurs is nothing new in Malaysia. Upon the country independence in 1957, green entrepreneurs used to go from house to house with their bicycles or trishaws to buy used bottles as well as cooking utensils (made from copper, aluminium or irons) and old batteries to resell to bigger...
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Over the years, the government business support services (GBSS) have worked closely along the governmentpolicies and experienced a number of transformations to suit the current needs of the SMEs and businessenvironment. In order to understand the philosophy and the very nature of the GBSS in the present context it isparamount to study the developme...
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This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework to study the relationship between social entrepreneurship and organizational effectiveness. It also explains various theories of change that social entrepreneurs have pursued in overcoming urban poverty in the country. The study will utilize qualitative methods to collect primary data from social en...
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Purpose This research attempts to assess the role of green intellectual capital components with respect to the sustainability business performance of manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach Empirical data for this study were gathered through structured questionnaire forms, from entrepreneurs, managers, and decision-makers of ma...
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The purpose of this chapter is to review the concept of circular economy in the context of logistics and supply chain, which it is crucial in dealing with climate change. To strengthen the circular supply chain, this chapter proposed the Quadruple Helix logistics model (QHLM). The model emphasized corporate spirituality values that instill responsi...
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There are limited green solutions have been offered to reduce pollutions caused by logistics transportation as compared to passenger vehicles. Thus, this paper aims to reveal insights from logistics companies on the perspective of policies of sustainability including financial and non-financial incentives from the government of Malaysia in assistin...
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This study aims to explore tourists’ perceived services, satisfaction and intention to revisit Islamic tourism destinations. The quantitative research method is used for this study. Data was collected via 462 questionnaires and subsequently analysed it using partial least square method. The results revealed that Islamic destination image, religious...
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This study aims to explore the role of technology on the organizational performance of SMEs in Islamabad, Pakistan during the ravages of Covid 19 pandemic. It has been widely accepted that the proper adoption of digitalization not only helpful to cushion the impact of the said pandemic but it also aids SMEs to stay afloat and gains profits. SMEs ne...
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Small businesses form a backbone of economy in developed countries as well as indeveloping countries. However, at the same time, small businesses significantlycontributed to environmental degradations because they are preoccupied with matterspertaining to business as well their limitation in resources to look after the environment.In Malaysia, bati...
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Many entrepreneurs are very interested to start Edible Bird Nest (EBN) production. However, many of them lack knowledge in suitable habitat and environmental conditions for EBN swiftlets. They suffered losses because they are not concerned about providing the management of the suitable habitat and environmental conditions before building their EBN...
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Many entrepreneurs are very interested to start Edible Bird Nest (EBN) production. However, many of them lack knowledge in pest distrubance in swiftlet house. They suffered losses because they are not concerned about pest disturbance in swiftlet house. This study aimed to identify pest in swiftlet house and to establish pest distrubance in swiftlet...
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This study explained one of the best methods in the selection process for the construction of bird nest house (BNH). The biggest problem encountered by swiftlet entrepreneurs is to identify locations with a large population of swiftlets. Swiftlet entrepreneurs often made a mistake when choosing a location as there has been no systematic and organis...
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The study investigated the effect of social media on the academic performance among Malaysian youths of the ASEAN community by referring to technology acceptance model and theory of planned behaviour. It was believed that social media had caused the decrease in education standards and poor quality graduates. This study also examined the moderating...
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Society is often exposed to the various successes of school pupils at various levels. These successes usually come from the efforts of certain parties in the school. If examined, the majority of successful students come from an excellent school. There is no doubt that, there are also students from schools that are not excellent can enjoy their own...
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Over the past two decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has steadily emerged as one of the most important agendas in the business, locally and internationally. One of the means of CSR is through community engagement, whereby it is perceived the highest level of CSR and usually identified as a viable means for sustainability for both corpor...
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company-community engagement is one of the integral components of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative for the company strategic in order to sustain in international community. The company’s CSR initiative first view focus on the profit and based on legal system, meanwhile, the second views focusing in protecting environmental, developm...
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Entrepreneurship is an important element of economic development because it does not only produce physical products and provides services but it also generates employment at the same time. Entrepreneurs develop new ideas through creativity and innovativeness and harness available resources to reap profit from their business endeavors. Realizing the...
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Traditional knowledge is very synonymous with communities and tribes around the world, especially indigenous peoples or in Malaysia known as Orang Asli. This knowledge is borne out of the constraints faced by society in daily life and often passed down from generation to generation. All aspects of life in the community such as traditional medicines...
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Sustainability of the environment is one of the major issues both in developed and developing countries. There is an abundance of studies on green buying behavior. However, a few have studied the mediating role of green buying behavior. Thus, we have developed a new model that has five direct and three mediating relationships. This empirical resear...
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This study examines the effect of corporate spirituality on the sustainability performance of logistics service providers (LSPs) and to investigate whether company's demographic is a factor for the LSPs to possess corporate spirituality. Governed by Spirituality Leadership theory and Resource-Based View theory, this study quantitatively used 31 pil...
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This study examines the effect of corporate spirituality on the sustainability performance of logistics service providers (LSPs) and to investigate whether company's demographic is a factor for the LSPs to possess corporate spirituality. Governed by Spirituality Leadership theory and Resource-Based View theory, this study quantitatively used 31 pil...
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This research aims to evaluate the link between human resource practices (HRPs) and innovation with mediating effect of entrepreneurial creativity. This research uses the hierarchical analysis to examine data collected from entrepreneurs running 172 small and medium enterprises. The results show that (a) HRPs have a positive and significant effect...
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The critique on the failure of Islamic organizations to represent the Islamic nature has been pointed towards employees’ competency in understanding the Islamic concept. Hence, this study seeks to delve into the understanding of the employee in Islamic organizations regarding the concept, implementation and challenges in such organizations by emplo...
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This paper attempts to identify the mosques’ source of fund, distribution of fund, and parties responsible in managing the fund. This study was conducted using qualitative data through in depth interviews on three different mosques in Kelantan. The findings of this study further solidify results of previous research where it was found that the main...
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The objective of this paper is to reveal the findings which regard to the behaviour level of the Bottom 40 that involved in REMODE training programme. Bottom 40 is a group of household income that lower than RM3,900 per month. The aim of REMODE training programme is to increase the entrepreneurship knowledge that relates to aquaculture industry for...
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This study aims to examine job embedding as a variable mediator of the effect on job performance of internal control locus. This study uses modeling of structural equations with data collected in Indonesia commercial television from 130 employees. The result shows that job embedding plays a major role in mediating the effects on job performance fro...
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The study investigated the effect of social media on the academic performance among Malaysian youths of the ASEAN community by referring to technology acceptance model and theory of planned behaviour. It was believed that social media had caused the decrease in education standards and poor quality graduates. This study also examined the moderating...
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Palm oil is consistently outperforming all other substitute vegetable oils in terms of the price and becomes an important food ingredient around the world. Malaysia is the second largest producer of palm oil in the world market. Meanwhile, the rapidly expanding global biofuel sector can grow into an important new market outlet for Malaysia. In orde...
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A number of intensive studies on entrepreneurs which consider entrepreneurship as one of the mostimportant elements in business have been conducted within the past few years. An entrepreneur isresponsible for every aspect of a new venture’s creation considering that they are usually the lead personin every business decision. To date, researchers ha...
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Logistics transportation plays a major role in supply chain. The supply chain would paralysed without their sustainable operations. This would affect a whole business. Unfortunately, literature reported that their services produce very harmful emission to the Earth, thus affecting the society around as well. The logistics transportation firms took...
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In order to address the issues of climate change through wise management of resources and environmental conservation, this study examined the intention and behavior towards green consumption among low-income households. This study was a cross-sectional that relied on 380 low-income household respondents who lived in coastal areas of Peninsular Mala...
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Social entrepreneurs are examined as individuals who have the abilities and capabilities to provide a solution for the present societal problems and serve a platform to overcome those problems in the future. By identifying the students’ social entrepreneurship intention will provide a new insight towards Malaysia’s social enterprise sector because...
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Logistics transportation plays a major role in supply chain. The supply chain would paralysed without their sustainable operations. This would affect a whole business. Unfortunately, literature reported that their services produce very harmful emission to the Earth, thus affecting the society around as well. The logistics transportation firms took...
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In an attempt to promote the mass consumption of environmentally friendly products in Malaysia, this study presents an investigation of the effects of several selected factors upon willingness to pay and purchase behavior of environmental-friendly products. This study employed a cross-sectional design, in which quantitative data were gathered from...
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h1>Psychometric Test has been used as an individual trait measurement for a long time for both experienced entrepreneurs as well as young generation who are looking for their potential in entrepreneurship. The assessment and measurement of strength and weaknesses of key entrepreneurial traits provides the entrepreneurial level and personal developm...
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In an attempt to develop greater interest in enterprise start-up, this study examines the level of awareness of lean start-up model and its effect on entrepreneurial intentions among Malaysian youths. In this study, we argue that greater entrepreneurial interest could be ignited in the youths if lean start-up model is applied in teaching and learni...
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A number of researches on entrepreneurs have been intensively conducted for the past years considering that it is one of the important elements in business. An entrepreneur is responsible for every aspect of new ventures creation considering that they are the lead person in every business decision. The process of forming new ventures is very challe...
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This study presents a holistic framework in CSR activities by plantation companies that operate internationally. CSR activities are the most powerful element to support the sustainability of plantation operations in the international arena while respecting the available environmental resources. Using qualitative methods, this study has successfully...
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The rapid expansion of companies, particularly through their large scale projects has met with growing concerns within the local community over the social, environmental and economic impacts of such expansion. Failure by the companies to recognize and respond to these concerns may have an adverse effect on the long term commercial viability of thei...
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Kajian berkenaan ciri-ciri usahawan sebagai salah satu komponen utama yang menyumbang kepada bidang keusahawanan telah hangat diketengahkan oleh penyelidik lepas terutamanya bagi proses penciptaan perniagaan baharu. Usahawan memiliki kualiti berbeza dibandingkan dengan mereka yang lain. Oleh itu, timbul beberapa pendekatan kearah melihat kepada psi...
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The aims of this paper are to investigate environmental performance as well as stakeholders’ pressure against Batik enterprises in Kelantan. Based on the survey of 36 small Batik entrepreneurs, only 5 enterprises (13.5%) achieved high environmental performance and the rest (86.5%) were categorised as low environmental performance enterprises. These...
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Markets for Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are expanding as the increasing of customers" tendency to outsource logistics-related activities to specialists for logistics services. By outsourcing the logistics functions to LSPs, customers would be able to focus on core business and gaining competitive advantage. But those opportunities are also m...
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Psikologi pengguna terdiri daripada beberapa komponen iaitu persepsi, pengetahuan, sikap, niat, motif dan sebagainya. Penulisan ini difokuskan kepada komponen psikologi sikap pengguna. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji sikap pelajar-pelajar pascasiswazah (Sesi 2015/2016) UMK terhadap penggunaan telefon bimbit berjenama mewah. Hasil analisis d...
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Kajian berkenaan usahawan sebagai salah satu komponen utama yang menyumbang kepada bidang keusahawanan terutamanya bagi proses penciptaan perniagaan baharu telah hangat diketengahkan oleh penyelidik lepas. Usahawan dikatakan memiliki kualiti dalam personaliti dan berbeza dibandingkan dengan mereka yang lain. Oleh itu, timbul beberapa pendekatan kea...
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Abstrak: Kajian berkenaan psikologi usahawan sebagai salah satu komponen menyumbang kepada bidang keusahawanan melalui proses penciptaan perniagaan baharu e-dagang tidak banyak diketengahkan oleh penyelidik lepas. Kebelakangan ini terdapat beberapa pendekatan penyelidikan yang melihat psikologi usahawan berkaitan kognitif, personaliti, dan motivasi...
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Over the past three decades, studies on entrepreneurs; the main components behind entrepreneurship particularly for new venture creation processes, have been widely highlighted by researchers. An entrepreneur is regarded as the main actor in entrepreneurship as he/she is the one who is responsible for a new venture creation. It involves a lot of th...
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Kertas konseptual ini adalah berkenaan fenomena keusahawanan hasil tinjauan daripada beberapa keusahawanan merujuk kepada kemasukan baru, penciptaan perusahaan baharu, penciptaan kepada organisasi baharu, proses penciptaan sesuatu yang mempunyai nilai berbeza dan lain lain lagi. Kajian berkenaan fenomena keusahawanan adalah berlatarbelakang proses...
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Logistics service providers (LSPs) need to engage with the innovation to achieve performance and keep their competitive advantage. LSPs are required to develop innovation in logistics activities to face challenges in the market. Logistics innovation can be considered as any type of associated service in logistics service. The purpose of this paper...
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Logistics service providers (LSPs) progressively confront serious rivalry due to globalization and deregulation, which required them to develop innovation in logistics activities. Innovations are key to develop new conceptual and product required to improve overall performance in the logistics sector. Logistics innovation can be considered as any t...
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Narathiwat is one of the 77 provinces in Thailand north of Kelantan, Malaysia. A majority of the population are Muslims and retain a similar socio-cultural practices as in Kelantan. At present, a variety of products from Thailand are exported to Malaysia through Kelantan. One of the prerequisites for international business is knowledge about intern...
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Logistics service providers (LSPs) need to engage with the innovation to achieve performance and keep their competitive advantage. LSPs are required to develop innovation in logistics activities to face challenges in the market. Logistics innovation can be considered as any type of associated service in logistics service. The purpose of this paper...
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Abstrak Kertas ini akan membincangkan tentang kepentingan pemilihan lokasi yang betul dalam menentukan kejayaan dan kelestarian perusahaan SBW (Sarang Burung Walit) bumiputera di Kelantan. Analisis dilakukan berdasarkan pemerhatian dan maklum balas yang diperoleh daripada enam orang usahawan SBW bumiputera di Kelantan. Penemuan lebih terarah kepada...
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Poverty reduction became a major objective in of improving the socioeconomic. It has becomes main targets and attention at many developing and developed countries. The Government continued to play the leading role in poverty eradication efforts by promoting income-generating projects, providing amenities to improve the quality of life and implement...
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Microfinance has shown to be an effective tool for combating poverty, creating jobs, and improving the poor peoples. Poverty alleviation is the main objective of improving the socioeconomic. It has becomes main targets and attention at many developing and developed countries. The objective of this research is to find out the contributing factors in...
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Microfinance has shown to be an effective tool for combating poverty, creating jobs, and improving the poor peoples. Poverty alleviation is the main objective of improving the socioeconomic. It has becomes main targets and attention at many developing and developed countries. The objective of this research is to find out the contributing factors in...
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Abstrak: Kerohanian merupakan aspek penting dalam konteks keusahawanan Islam. Malah isu pencapaian usahawan Melayu yang dikaitkan dengan sikap juga dilihat berkait rapat dengan nilai keagamaan sebagai salah satu jalan penyelesaian. Namun tidak banyak kajian yang meneliti aspek ini secara mendalam khususnya terhadap usahawan berjaya. Justeru, kajian...
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This conceptual paper provides a proposed study on Malay Entrepreneurship in the edible bird nest industry in Malaysia. It begins with an early insight into edible bird's nest industry in South East Asia and the entrepreneurship of the said industry in Malaysia. This paper draws upon self-efficacy theory approach as a basis of study. A number of re...
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This study scrutinises innovation, proactiveness and risk taking as indicators of effectiveness of a social NGO within the context of urban poverty, using Global Outreach as a case. This study begins with the introduction of brief background of organisation. Later,innovation, proactiveness and risk taking which are the gists of the content of the p...
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Spirituality is a vital aspect in the context of Islamic entrepreneurship. In fact, the Malay entrepreneur's achievement that associated with their attitude as one of the influential factors in many extents, is derived from internal religious values as a final solution. However, there is little studies that scrutinizing this issue extensively in th...
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This study examines the importance of enhancing a social entrepreneurship model for social entrepreneurs on the context of urban poverty. This study begins with the introduction of brief background of AL-FALAH Foundation. A detail of AL-FALAH Foundation's organization structure, vision, mission and its functions are described thoroughly. The study...
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The establishment of SMEs among Bumiputra entrepreneurs has experienced a rapid development in Malaysia. The government focuses on Malays entrepreneurship to eradicate poverty and to cope with social and economic imbalance among races. In 1970 the government launched a New Economic Policy (1970-1990) which aimed to increase Malays ownership to 30%,...
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The logistics industry especially business in logistics services are growing in line with the globalization and competition. One key to effective supply chain is to make the logistics function more efficiently. The globalization of supply chain has prompted many firms to develop logistics as a part of their corporate strategy. To deliver products q...