New product development (NPD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. Literatures have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general. New product development especially for SMEs virtual team are somewhat lacking in the literature and constitute a research gap. This paper aim...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between board diversity and firm value in firms manufacturing non-manufacturing sectors listed on Bursa Malaysia. methodology utilized 200 samples Malaysian companies from 2014 2016. variables were gender, age, educational level, outsider director, nationality. Diversity data collected annual report, while all financial data, such as...

Concurrent engineering is considered as a key concept that enables manufacturing companies to develop new products rapidly with cost saving, without affecting its quality. The purpose of this paper is to report the evaluation of the level of practices of concurrent engineering in Malaysian manufacturing industries. This evaluation was carried out by sending the questionnaire to the appropriate ...

this study examines inventory management practices of flour milling manufacturing firms and their effects on operational performance. five flour milling manufacturing firms in lagos were used for this study. structured questionnaire was the major instrument for the collection of relevant primary data while descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation was deployed to analyzing the ...

Purpose This paper aims at comparing teleworking adoption decision processes of multinational firms operating in Malaysia and Malaysian indigenous firms. It shows how to make comparative statistical analyses of teleworking adoption decision for the top managers of a firm. Design/methodology/approach A total of 98 organizations (represented by the CEO or Director of Human Resource Division) furn...

The main purpose of this study is to empirically compare of intellectual capital (IC) and its efficiency between advanced and low technology manufacturing companies using a sample of 135 Malaysian listed manufacturing companies during the 2006-2012 period. The manufacturing companies are classified into different sectors based on their products and services (Standard Industrial Classification (...

The reported study was conducted to compare and contrast current manufacturing practices between two countries, Australia and Malaysia, and identify the practices that significantly influence their manufacturing performances. The results are based on data collected from surveys using a standard questionnaire in both countries. Evidence indicates that product quality and reliability is the main ...