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  • Publication
    Assessing the determining factors of corporate social and environmental responsibility reporting in Bangladesh: moderating effect of industry sector and country of origin
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2018)
    Kazi Masuma Khatun
    Organizational legitimacy become subject to much deliberation due to several cases of corporate misconduct, significant discrepancies between Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) rhetoric and practices and manipulation of business practices to meet social expectations existing in society which raised up the issue of illegitimacy or legitimacy gap. A widening gap will cause an organization to lose its legitimacy and thus create several social and environmental issues. Under such circumstance an organization can adopt a number of public disclosure strategies for its survival. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to investigate the factors affecting CSER reporting as well as to identify whether industry sector and country of origin are able to moderate those relationships. In order to achieve the study objectives, the data have been collected from secondary data source: annual report, sustainability report and company's website. The sample of this study consists of 207 observations from 69 companies for three years from 2012 to 2014. Panel data analysis has been used and fixed effects and random effects have been performed using STATA version 13 to observe the association between the variables. The multiple regression findings have shown that size of organization, CSER committee, managerial ownership, government ownership, foreign ownership and audit firm have positive and significant relationship with CSER reporting while CEO duality has a significant negative relationship. On the other hand, the study has found no convincing evidence to support the effect of profitability and leverage on CSER reporting. In addition, by using hierarchical regression, this study also estimates the moderation effect of industry sector and country of origin. The study has revealed that industry sector is able to moderate the relationship between leverage, CSER committee, managerial ownership, government ownership, CEO duality and CSER reporting while country of origin has moderation effect on the relationship between profitability, CSER committee, CEO duality and CSER reporting. Thus, this study identifies three conceptually distinct, but interrelated conceptsinstitutional level, organizational level, and individual level factors. This is done in a context where prior studies do not relate these concepts to each other nor incorporate them into a single framework. This synthesis of the factors that contribute to social environmental performance and reporting is the study's substantial empirical and theoretical contribution. Apart from contributing to the body of knowledge, this study also has potential to create positive social change for a number of stakeholders as regional contributions. The present study, therefore, has implications for policy and practice, as such policies has impact on companies and how companies respond to social and environmental expectations of society in achieving legitimacy.
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    The study of online divorce the causes and factors of its spread in Saudi Arabia, and the way to reduce it
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2018)
    Faten Mohammad AlQahtani
    Social media have become a cause of marital disputes that may end in divorce .In order to achieve the objectives of this research, a tool was applied to a sample of women lawyers and social workers who worked in cases of this kind. A number of reasons were found to induce the wife to betray her husband. The most important of these was the modem means of communication. Divorce in the Kingdom by conducting personal interviews with cases that have been divorced because of the social networking sites with the work of survey questions include cases of divorce similar to the youth under forty years and then the narrative reporting approach, which is to monitor the results. Social networking sites are the most prevalent on the Internet, because of the characteristics that distinguish them from the websites, and despite the severe criticism of the social networks, is the most corrupt and widespread in the Kingdom now (Snape Chat), which is accused of criticism of the negative impact and direct on the family community , And contribute to the collapse of his contract and collapse, there are those who see it as an important means of growing and docking between communities. Thesis have addressed in this research divorce, which is expected to write in one of the modem means of communication, a subject of jurisprudence legal new appearance new, presented to him through reference to the jurisprudential rules of divorce and Law according to the jurisprudence of the frrst jurists, and then moved to divorce developed by reviewing the doctrinal views of modem cases that fall Through the current means of communication, and as indicated by the introduction to the lack of sources or the difficulty of obtaining them in this regard, I sometimes had to use what was published in the World Wide Web (Internet) until I got to address the matter legally and to establish ways of proof.
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    Keberkesanan penggunaan teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi (ICT) di Perbadanan Produktiviti Malaysia (MPC)
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2018)
    Mohd Hisyam Hatim Tai
    This study aims to examine the factors that influence the effectiveness of information and communication technology (ICT) utilization in Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC). The specific objective of this study is to understand the relationship between factors of innovation and demographic factors in influencing the effectiveness of ICT utilization. Using a simple random sampling method, a total of 210 respondents were selected consisting of MPC headquarters and 5 MPC branches throughout Malaysia. Data and information were collected using questionnaires. Quantitative data were analyzed using Pearson correlation statistical analysis, multiple regression, t test and ANOV A. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between the factors of innovation such as relative advantages, compatibility, complexity, sustainability and reliability with the effectiveness of ICT utilization in MPC. The results also showed that there was no significant difference between demographic factors and the effectiveness of ICT usage. This finding suggests that factors of innovation affect the acceptance of innovation and will be the determinant of quality in an organization.
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    Optimization of middle control points of cubic Bézier curve for handwriting representation using whale optimization algorithm
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2021)
    Nur Awanis Helmee
    This study concerns the issue of curve representation of the handwriting image using a computational method namely the Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA). The WOA is a novel nature-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm that mimics the social behavior of humpback whales. Optimization results based on structural and mathematical optimization problems previously proved that the WOA very competitive compared to the state-of-the-art optimization methods. The handwriting representation technique plays an important role in the recognition of handwriting characters. The accuracy of curve representation will affect the recognition results. Thus, this study deals with a curve fitting process to handle the accuracy issue of the curve representation. The handwriting curve representation involved a process of curve fitting which are boundary extraction, corner point detection, parameterization and parametric curve fitting. The research objective is to approximate the original handwriting curve by optimizing the location of middle control points of the cubic Bézier curve. The middle control points will change the whole shape of each Bézier curve. Thus, at the last phase of curve fitting, the WOA identifies the optimum middle control points of the cubic Bézier curve. These points give an accurate approximation of the original handwriting boundary curve. Sum of Squared Error (SSE) has been used to calculate the error between the two curves namely original handwriting and the new parametric curves. By using the chosen middle control points, the optimum smooth curve that minimizes the SSE between the original data and new representation data is then obtained. The curve fitting results of 191 handwriting boundaries by using the WOA have been compared with the direct method of curve fitting known as Least Square Approximation (LSA). It is confirmed that the WOA has a better performance in fitting the parametric curve compared to the LSA method.
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    Management innovation and sustainbale performance among Malaysian manufacturing firms
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2022)
    Mohammad Shariff Ismail
    This study aims to investigate Management Innovation (MI) Practices for Sustainable Performance of Malaysian manufacturing firms. The introduction of Management Innovation (MI) practices which included Human Resource Practices, Knowledge Management Practices, and Quality Management Practices are in expanding boundary of the underpinning theories of Resource-Based View (RBV). The growing concept of MI practices has been greatly explored it's relevance in creating competitive advantage, and thus, improve performance. The study will use Rasch Measurement Model for the purpose of analysing data, and predicting the results of 30 manufacturing firms. Out of 110 items of the instrument, Rasch Analysis has improved the validity and reliability of the instrument into 79 items. The value of Person reliability is 0.95 that is within the acceptable level of consistency of the instrument. The findings show that there are 15 firms implemented all MI practices and these firms are considered at a higher level of adaptability towards world-class manufacturing firms. The cost management is on of the most barriers of the other firms to moving forward. Then, the study concludes that manufacturing firms need to explore and exploit their dimension of MI Practices that are relevant to the Sustainable Management Accounting framework. The framework will enhance the improvement of Sustainable Performance for the sake of the manufacturing firms in Malaysia.
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