Muhammad Anshari

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainability offers transformative opportunities to address critical environmental, economic, and social challenges. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across fields like computer science, environmental science, and urban planning, AI enables innovative solutions that drive progress in areas s...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how skill development in Industry 4.0 can affect the Circular Economy (CE) business model, with the goal of ensuring that the CE business model maximises value co-creation to keep products and resources as reusable as possible. Design/methodology/approach The research design entails a qualitative stu...

The rapid pace of digital transformation is reshaping how we live, work, interact, and make decisions as individuals and societies. The impacts of digital technologies across different generations are multi-faceted, impacting cognition, relationships, and investment priorities. While this transformation may spur new innovations within businesses, t...

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the field of learning a language by providing innovative methods to enhance the learning process and attain proficiency in languages. This systematic review examines how artificial intelligence (AI) affects language learning. The chapter explores the ways in which AI can help to overcome...

Purpose This paper aims to devise a framework for mapping and designing business ecosystems and to demonstrate its effectiveness in crafting digital transformation for traditional marketplaces. Design/methodology/approach A digital business ecosystem framework is developed as a Value Exchange Network (VEN) to analyze both the existing marketplace...

Description: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science (DS) into sustainability efforts is increasingly crucial as the world faces environmental and resource challenges. By leveraging advanced AI and DS techniques, we can create innovative solutions for sectors like energy, agriculture, and waste management, promoting long-te...

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and finance technologies, collectively referred to as Industry 4.0, has prompted interesting concerns about its impact on individual performance in diverse fields. This research seeks to examine the correlation be...

Recent advancements in digital technology and widespread internet connectivity have accelerated the global adoption of digital wallet services. While existing digital wallet research has extensively identified key direct determinants to acceptance and adoption intentions, this study focuses on socio-demographic factors affecting adoption behaviors...

Purpose Recent technological developments have encouraged the United Nations to promote the adoption of digital technologies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to initiatives from businesses, an increasing number of studies indicate that public service agencies may gain benefits from adopting digital transformation. On...

As AI systems become ubiquitous, policymakers and regulators must establish effective governance frameworks that fortify ethical values. Such a model should be value-driven, principle-based, and maintain ethical integrity and public trust. Challenges include generative AI’s potential to exacerbate disinformation and other risks. This paper addresse...

As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, its potential applications in various domains, including public policy development, have garnered significant interest. This research aims to investigate the role of AI in shaping public policies through a qualitative examination of secondary data and an extensive bibliographic revie...

em>Globalization prompts manufacturers of both international and local products to devise marketing strategies to stimulate the purchase intentions. This research aims to review the underlying theories applied to explain ethnocentrism and purchase intention of foreign and domestic products, as well as the independent and mediating variables, the re...

Purpose Islamic financial technology (fintech), primarily peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, plays a substantial role in funding the unbanked population and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by offering streamlined financial services through online digital technology. In addition, Islamic fintech lending offers a promising return rate for individual and...

This study examines the applications, benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of artificial intelligence (AI) in the banking and finance sectors. It reviews current AI regulation and governance frameworks to provide insights for stakeholders navigating AI integration. A descriptive analysis based on a literature review of recent research i...

This study aims to provide a conceptual analysis of the dynamic transformations occurring in an autonomous vehicle (AV), placing a specific emphasis on the safety implications for pedestrians and passengers. AV, also known as self-driving automobiles, are positioned as potential disruptors in the contemporary transportation landscape, offering heig...

The term “Green” instantly sparks green scenery of nature relating to plants, lush fields, forests, and all types of flora. This study is a requisite effort to harness green education enabled with green technological skills and concepts in the digital arena. It will cover the analysis of the necessities of green initiatives in the context of prevai...

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a significant surge in online shopping across various contexts, influencing the buying behaviors of consumers, particularly those engaged in online and social media-based transactions. This study aims to investigate the impact of gender disparities, customer location, sustainable development goals (SDG) alignment...

The massive development of digital technology accelerated the pace of disruption in almost every industry, creating immense ambiguity and continuing to accelerate uncertainty in the business environment. The essentiality for an organization to adapt to rapid digital transformation led businesses to remain competitive and relevant in the industry. W...

The study is a case-based analysis of a merging Telco organisation that created uncertainties for many stakeholders. A qualitative research method was deployed in order to examine whether knowledge sharing could be used to ease and reduce uncertainties in facilitation in ensuring employee readiness, where objectives such as finding out factors to i...

This study examines demographic factors and personal innovativeness to information technologies (PIIT) among Brunei Darussalam's digital wallet users. Analyzing data from 181 respondents, it explores the influence of gender, age, and adopter category on PIIT levels. Results show no significant correlation between gender and PIIT levels, challenging...

This chapter examines the impact of foreign aid to southeast Asia countries. There are many arguments around the concept of foreign financing for developing countries, especially to the southeast Asia countries. Some believe foreign aid is detrimental for infrastructure development, while many also believe that foreign aid is one the key factors fo...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an upsurge in online shopping in all contexts. This also has an effect on the buying behaviours of consumers, particularly those who do most of their shopping online, including via social media. The study's two main goals are to understand the gender disparities and customer location elements that affect consum...

The proposed publication, titled "Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Sustainability: Applications and Methods," aims to explore the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and Data Science (DS) techniques and methodologies in addressing various sustainability challenges. The book will bring together cutting-edge research, case studie...

The digital transformation of public services is perceived to be a necessity rather than an option for any government, and the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the necessity of digital transformation and why it is crucial to any government agencies. To stop the COVID-19 virus from spreading, the public's physical movements were limited. This meant that...

Major paradigm shifts are occurring at rates that are difficult to keep up with, such as a rise in neoliberal paradigm trends, the emergence of new paradigms in response to global challenges, the role of international organizations in promoting new policy paradigms, and the challenges of implementing new policy paradigms in different national conte...

Purpose This exploratory study aims to investigate and identify the factors influencing discontinuance intention among past users of local digital wallets in Brunei Darussalam. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a mixed-method approach that integrates quantitative and qualitative research method. An online survey is distributed via widely...

In the contemporary era, modern civilization is immersed in a technologically interconnected environment, where numerous applications within the digital ecosystem harness advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques [...]

Purpose Finance continuously evolves as the technological innovation progresses in the society. Numerous prior studies have discussed emerging financial services due to this innovation. However, limited scholarly work has evaluated the trends and state of the art of financial innovation. Therefore, this study aims to review recent literature on fin...

This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current status and future research prospects in academic resilience. Considering the increasing volume and diversity of research in this field, a quantitative methodology is vital for illustrating existing themes and identifying potential research paths. To achieve this goal, bibliometric a...

This chapter aims to examine the demanding needs of digital ethics elaborated as a strategic foundation to expand safety concern amongst digital community and partnership for gender violence anticipation. The literature review was applied from the referred articles from peer-reviewed journals, proceedings, chapters and books related to the topic. T...

Companies are beginning to utilize the metaverse to broaden their service network and create new co-creation value for their clients. To better understand how the metaverse phenomena could impact corporate sustainability, investigative research should be conducted. In this chapter, the authors looked at the moral issues raised by businesses using m...

The recent trends of managing the way on how to achieve the communication with safe cyberspace paid a particular attention among the scholarly worldwide. The strategic initiative on having an active arrangement of communication pathway is required for further scholarly elaboration in assisting the scenario on leading to safe community in the cyber...

Research from various disciplines has been conducted to comprehend choice overload in e-commerce. Overchoice contradicts popular economic concepts by claiming that more choice is not always better. Quality papers on this topic grow in quantity and show conflicting findings in online contexts; hence, it is critical to evaluate them to understand the...

Research from various disciplines has been conducted in Indonesian settings in an attempt to develop the tourism sectors. As the number of scientific articles on digital tourism in Indonesia grows, it is critical to measure and evaluate these outputs to evaluate what has been achieved. The Scopus database is used to extract 644 final documents. Bec...

The global economic structural shifts continue unabated, with new technological drivers and innovation intensified by endogenous and exogenous factors – with COVID-19 being one factor (Wade & Shan, 2020) – leading to the irrevocable digitalisation of society. Amid the observations made by numerous scholars (Zengin et al., 2021; Nair et al., 2021),...

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Handwriting recognition is a study of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which has a high level of complexity. In addition, everyone has a unique and inconsistent handwriting style in writing characters upright, affecting recognition success. However, proper pre-processing and classification algorithms affect the success of pattern recognition sys...

COVID-19 was a global pandemic that spread rapidly and caused public anxiety and concern. Various precautions have been attempted to reduce the intensity of the pandemic and its disruptive effects on society in response to the unexpected emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital health applications offer an innovative solution that is helpful for...

Sustainable development goals (SDGs) aim to protect oceans by ensuring their sustainable use. This includes safeguarding marine and coastal habitats, reducing marine pollution, and minimising ocean acidification. This chapter seeks to promote the implementation of SDGs by evaluating the capability of Indonesia's marine patrols, as the world maritim...

We aim to add value to the ongoing inconsistencies by extracting models from past studies and building an overarching framework for understanding the purchase intentions of foreign and domestic products in the cross-border electronic commerce (CBEC) context. We review significant works in various disciplines and systematically extend abstractions f...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are worldwide chronic diseases that have strong relationships with one another and commonly exist together. Type 2 diabetes is considered one of the risk factors for NAFLD, so its occurrence in people with NAFLD is highly likely. As the high and increasing number of T2D and NAFLD,...

Healthcare can be seen as a value shop, in which solutions to health problems are offered in exchange for valuable contributions. However, the full value exchange between the healthcare provider and the patient is not always apparent. The value shop concept runs the risk of considering only what the patient pays (i.e., money, either paid by the pat...

Healthcare can be seen as a value shop, in which solutions to health problems are offered in exchange for valuable contributions. However, the full value exchange between the healthcare provider and the patient is not always apparent. The value shop concept runs the risk of considering only what the patient pays (i.e., money, either paid by the pat...

The rise of financial technology (fintech) has been one of the substantial changes in the financial landscape driven by technological advancements and the global financial crisis. This paper employs the systematic literature review (SLR) technique to review recent literature on fintech adoption or acceptance employing the Scopus database (2019–2022...

Financial technology (FinTech) has become more ubiquitous in an era of accelerating internet technology and rising e-commerce. With the increasing digitisation of the marketplace, smartphones are now used not only for communication but also as a means of payment in a number of countries. Several initiatives have been undertaken to accelerate the di...

It is expected that the metaverse will be the next generation of the internet and its online activities and will serve as the foundation for a massive online business platform. Furthermore, it will alter people's behavior, which will have an impact on businesses' decisions to choose the metaverse as their primary business platform. Metaverse Appli...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free-trade deal between 10 ASEAN member states and Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. It is the world's biggest regional trade deal, and it will create the world's most populous trade area. This edited collection features 10 contributions from multidisciplinary authors...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free-trade deal between 10 ASEAN member states and Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. It is the world's biggest regional trade deal, and it will create the world's most populous trade area. This edited collection features 10 contributions from multidisciplinary authors...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free-trade deal between 10 ASEAN member states and Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. It is the world's biggest regional trade deal, and it will create the world's most populous trade area. This edited collection features 10 contributions from multidisciplinary authors...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free-trade deal between 10 ASEAN member states and Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. It is the world's biggest regional trade deal, and it will create the world's most populous trade area. This edited collection features 10 contributions from multidisciplinary authors...

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its derivative technologies, such as machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), heralds a new era of knowledge management (KM) presentation and discovery. KM necessitates ML for improved organisational experiences, particularly in making knowledge management more discoverable and shareable. Machi...

Companies are beginning to utilize the metaverse to broaden their service network and create new co-creation value for their clients. To better understand how the metaverse phenomena could impact corporate sustainability, investigative research should be conducted. In this chapter, the authors looked at the moral issues raised by businesses using m...

Every year, the metaverse grows to make the world more efficient and easy to use for all societies and industries. When connecting the virtual world to the real world and digital information, privacy and security are two of the most talked-about topics. This is because the metaverse has a lot of sensitive information. This chapter talks about some...

The term metaverse refers to a virtual environment that exists beyond the physical world we live in but, at the same time, is similar to the real world. This chapter intends to investigate the impact of the metaverse for future business scenarios and whether there are other uses for the metaverse besides for business and entertainment purposes. The...

Purpose This study aims to synthesize the current literature and present a definition of future smart banking services known as “metaverse banking” as well as to discuss its future potential. Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes a suitable definition for metaverse banking that includes the important elements of metaverse banking and she...

A digital marketplace is a digital area or platform where demand and supply sides communicate and transact through the digital space or platform controlled by a digital marketplace provider. Digital marketplaces have become increasingly popular in recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic while disruptive innovation is a term used to...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more widely used in many organizations, including logistics, such as driver assistance, parcel sorters, and inventory planners. In the times of COVID-19, the delivery drivers have become busier as more parcels are ordered, which affects their health. Due to poor management and outdated technology, the drivers...

Many organisations invest heavily in training. However, it is argued that only a small portion of what is learnt from training is transferred to the workplace. Using an extended Training Transfer Model, the paper examines the factors that influence the transfer of training within an apprenticeship program. In-depth semi-structured interviews with p...

The entire editorial team at IJPA thanks all the reviewers for their time, insights, and commitment to providing high quality reviews. Many authors and editors also express their gratitude for a smooth blind peer review process which is made possible through reviewers’ dedication. IJPA is committed to scholarship, collegiality, and impact. Once ag...

Businesses are starting to use the Metaverse to expand their service network and establish new value co-creation for customers. However, businesses may need to carefully assess the ethical implications of their data collection and utilisation procedures for business sustainability. This paper examines the ethical concerns surrounding the usage of t...

Predicting future glycemic events such as hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and normal for type 1 diabetes (T1D) remains a significant and challenging issue. In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN)-based model is proposed to predict the future glycemic events of T1D patients. We utilized five T1D patient datasets to build the models and predic...

The applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily activities have helped us accomplish our tasks more effectively and efficiently. With the advancement of computing power and the Internet, AI systems have been applied in many areas such as business, management, and health. This paper analysed the possibility of integrating AI into the I...

Risk assessment and developing predictive models for diabetes prevention is considered an important task. Therefore, we proposed to analyze and provide a comprehensive analysis of the performance of diabetes screening scores for risk assessment and prediction in five populations: the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, US-PIMA Indian, and Trinidadian popula...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the responses taken during the pandemic of COVID-19 in sustaining agricultural activities and safeguarding local food supply via digital platforms by applying the case study method. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a case study approach due to its systematic way of collecting data, analysing inform...

Purpose As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous businesses have migrated to an online delivery platform (ODP) to survive and reconnect with their customers. This study aims to focus on how the public perceives ODP. It examined the acceptance of digital platforms for delivering daily necessities, especially food, in Brunei Darussalam during t...

This research aims to reveal factors that influence the acceptance of digital marketplace on travel in Indonesia. A modified Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) was employed as the framework for the study to derive factors that influence the acceptance of digital marketplace on travel by Indonesian consumers/travelers. The...

Purpose – The implementation of digital twin in e-government services will become the future of public service delivery. It has a great promise for significantly optimizing e-government service delivery in public services because digital twin can be leveraged to achieve value co-creation, which can be turned for innovation and new knowledge creatio...

Predicting future blood glucose (BG) values for diabetic patients, particularly for type 1 diabetes (T1D), remains an important and challenging issue. To overcome it, several well-known machine learning models have been used in recent years. Thus, a personalized model based by using random forest (RF) regression is implemented to forecast the futur...

Brunei Darussalam is among the top 10 economies in the ASEAN region that has the highest internet penetration rate. As of 2020, there are 536,589 mobile phone subscription and a 120.2% internet penetration rate in the country (Department of Statistics, 2020). Digitalisation process has become increasingly progressive in the light of the current, on...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) offers optimum productivity and efficiency via automation, expert systems, and artificial intelligence. The Fourth Industrial Revolution deploys smart sensors, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), big data and analytics, Augmented Reality (AR), autonomous robots,...

The presentation discusses how one of the Maqasid of Sharia: the preservation of faith, can be carried out in the midst of the pandemic through a digital society.

As the Covid-19 outbreak remains an ongoing issue, there are concerns about its disruption, the level of its disruption, how long this pandemic is going to last, and how innovative technological solutions like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and expert systems can assist to deal with this pandemic. AI has the potential to provide extremely accurate in...

This research examines the concept of a robo-advisor with digital twin capabilities for personal financial management. Using an exploratory study, the researchers developed an interactive and interpretive model that analyses the most critical variables to consider when designing the next level of financial robo-advisor through integrating digital t...

Purpose The adoption of knowledge management (KM) to steer new skills and capabilities among people provides evidence that KM not only offers competitive advantages but also provides a means for organisational survival, by improvising core capabilities or generate new ones that can drive people in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) era. This pa...