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- PublicationThe Effect Of Change On Some Of The Organisational And Job Factors: A Case Of Introduction Of Cellular Manufacturing(1998-04)Periaswamy, KeamalathaThis research was conducted to examine the effects of change on some of the organisational and job factors. The factors measured are supervision, communication, job commitment, skill variety and working condition. Factors like age, race, working experience and salary were also included to examine the moderating effect on the above relationship.
- PublicationRelationship Between Rate Of Promotion And Perceived Organizational Political Climate(1998-04)Cheah, Ken CheongThe objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between employees' rate of promotion and their perception of organizational political climate in a technology based American multinational corporation located in Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone, Penang, Malaysia. The study also examined the influences of moderating variables like age, marital status, gender and job status on the relationship.
- PublicationSustainability Reporting In Malaysia: Impression Management And The Influence Of Internal Resources(2024-07)Wong, Chong ChieBursa Malaysia mandated the presentation of sustainability statements in annual reports for public listed companies in 2016. The research attempts to study companies' reactions to this requirement, focusing on their compliance and impression management levels aiming to evaluate if companies are prepared for mandatory sustainability reporting and if their transparency and authenticity are intact. This research explores the impact of resource-based theory on impression management, suggesting that companies with strong sustainability performance might not resort to impression management if they deploy sufficient resources in their sustainability operations. The study uses mixed methods to address the research questions. Firstly, content analysis is done to study the sustainability statements of the top 100 largest public listed companies in Malaysia to analyse their compliance level and impression management level. Regression analysis is then performed to test the influence of internal resources on the impression management level by using the existence of a sustainability committee, sustainability vision and mission statement, financial performance, adoption of an environmental management system, experience in voluntary sustainability reporting, and sustainability related award winning as the independent variables. Next, interviews are conducted to provide further insight into the results obtained above.
- PublicationMacroeconomic Uncertainty, Ceos’ Corporate Distress Experience And Corporate Cash Holdings(2024-09)Khong, Jiunn ShyanThe recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war have spurred a growing concern about the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on corporate activities, particularly corporate cash holdings as cash represents the most valuable asset of a firm given its functions and liquidity. Using a sample of listed firms in the United States from 1992 to 2021, the finding of this study supports the tradeoff theory, the real-option effect, and the risk-averse effects, which suggest that firms hoard more cash in response to macroeconomic uncertainty. Besides, drawing from the upper echelons literature, which reveals that decisions made by CEOs are largely influenced by their past experiences, this study also investigates whether corporate distress experiences of CEOs matter to cash holdings decisions of firms when dealing with macroeconomic uncertainty. It is found that CEOs with corporate distress experience has a significant interaction effect on the macroeconomic uncertainty-corporate cash holdings relationship. Furthermore, this study further discovers that the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on corporate cash holdings is greater in firms which managed by CEOs with recent or multiple corporate distress experience. This findings in line with the recency law, the reinforcement hypothesis, and the saliency hypothesis which claim that recent or multiple experience has a more robust impact than distant or single experience on an individual’s decision making. Overall, this study provides novel insights into the underlying effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on corporate cash holdings, the channel that reinforce this effect through the lens of CEOs’ personal trait, and whether the variation in the CEOs’ personal trait matters.
- PublicationMobilising Erp In A Gbs Company In Malaysia: An Interpretive Case Study(2024-08)Kenny, Quah Wei JieIn today’s dynamic global business landscape, the mobilisation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems has become a critical organisational challenge, particularly in Global Business Services (GBS) setting. This interpretive case study delves into the complex dynamics of ERP mobilisation within a multinational manufacturing company based in Malaysia from 2019 to 2023. Through a comprehensive exploration of the case, this study aims to shed light on the complex interplay between technological integration, organisational change, and the responses of key actors, specifically employees involved in the ERP system mobilisation. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as the primary theoretical framework, this study investigates how ERP systems become active actors within the network of the organisation. It goes beyond traditional notions of technology adoption and highlights the roles played by both human and non-human elements of actors in shaping the mobilisation process. The study unveils the progression of ERP system mobilisation within the case company disguised as MOLECULE which has MOLECULE’s GBS as its GBS centre. Recently, this company went through a merger and acquisition agreement.