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    Employability And It Competency Of Accounting Graduates In Responding To 4Ir
    (2023-03)
    Zolkifli, Nur Liyana
    The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has rapidly expanded the use of technology and impacted businesses, including the accounting sector where the role of accounting and duties of accountants are changing quite extensively. In response to this situation, this study aims to identify and analyse the expected information technology (IT) competency of Malaysian accounting graduates in the 4IR. The gap between the job market’s expectations upon accounting graduates’ competency level has led to the formation of IT competency model at the end of the study. In this study, Neo-Correspondence Theory (NCT) is used as a theoretical lens to examine the IT competency amongst accounting graduates and the employers’ expectations in the workplace within the context of 4IR. This study uses a qualitative approach to explore the work environment and IT competency requirements from the perspectives of employers and accounting graduates. The data were collected using semi-structured interviews and documentary reviews and analysed using a thematic analysis approach. This study found that there is a gap between employers’ expectations and accounting graduates’ IT competency concerning the IT competency expected in the 4IR era. Emerging technologies require accounting graduates to have relevant and sufficient IT competencies to ensure their employability.
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    An Empirical Study On Factors That Influence Value-Based Sustainability Of Non-Profit Organisations In Malaysia
    (2023-02)
    February 2023
    Non-profit organisations (NPOs) play a prominent role in realising Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030 through service delivery and other aspects of sustainable development. However, it was acknowledged that NPOs face two main issues that might impair the organisations’ sustainability. First, the ongoing resource constraint issues that NPOs face worsen due to the COVID-19 crisis. Second, it was observed that NPOs emphasise less on “value-based” perspectives, whereby misalignment of interest between NPOs and stakeholders was noted. This scenario may impair organisational sustainability as value creation is hampered. Thus, addressing these two main issues, this study aims to answer the question: “What does it take for NPOs operating with limited resources to attain value-based sustainability (VBS) to achieve sustainable development?”. Due to limited resources from the government and funders, NPOs need to be more independent; hence, justifying the need to study organisation-specific factors that could influence the VBS of NPOs. Therefore, in line with the Social Resource-Based View (SRBV) and Resource Dependence Theory (RDT), this study examines the organisational factors influencing the VBS of NPOs in Malaysia. The organisational factors identified are organisational capacities, stakeholder engagement, social entrepreneurship orientation (SEO), cross-sector collaboration, and organisational fit.
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    Valuation Of Convertible Loa.N Stocks On Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE)
    (1995-03)
    Chong, Pak Kin
    The research is a preliminary empirical study on the convertible loan stocks traded on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) as there is a lack of such studies in the local market. The study aims to understand whether there exists any underpricing of convertible loan stocks as compared with a theoretical model.
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    Factors Influencing Students’ Resistance To Change And Intention To Use Mobile Learning In Saudi Arabia
    (2023-03)
    Jassim H, Alsihati Essa
    This study examined the effect of UTAUT (Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Lecturer Influence & Facilitating Condition) and MIR (Attitude, Personal Innovativeness, Self-efficacy, Self-Management of Learning & Inertia) on the m-learning resistance and intention to use m-learning among the universities students in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia under the premises of UTAUT and MIR models. Quantitative data was collected from randomly selected 358 students based on the five best-ranked and well reputed educational institutions in Saudi Arabia. Findings of the study revealed that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, lecturer influence, facilitating conditions, self-efficacy and self-management of learning positively significant impact of intention to use m-learning, meanwhile, performance expectancy, lecturer influence, facilitating conditions, personal innovativeness and self-efficacy positively significant impact of m-learning resistance.
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    Organizational Variables, Job Variables, And Job Stress: The Moderating Effect Of Personality Among Paiddealers Within The Stock Broking Firms In Penang
    (2003-05)
    Yeoh Chee Beng
    The purpose of this study is to determine whether organizational variables (formalization, centralization, and organizational climate) and job variables (role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload) affect job stress. Additionally, two personality variables (Type A personality and self-efficacy) were examined whether they serve to moderate the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable.