This study focuses on short-term investment and financing decisions influenced by a firm’s working capital policy the effect of policies financial performance manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Working were measured policies. was ratio current assets to total assets. categorized as conservative policy, aggressive matching policy. considered which not previous empirical studies. The data included ...

The question addressed is how the strategic choice of flexible manufacturing technologies intensifies and interacts with competition among firms. We focus on the manufacturing flexibility that allows a firm to produce its outputs at shorter expected delivery time. We find that increasing the number of firms will decrease firms’ incentive to acquire more flexible manufacturing technologies. r 20...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current level of best manufacturing practices in Malaysian ISO 9000 certified small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a survey on 270 ISO 9000 certified manufacturing SMEs. Based on an extensive search of literature on performance requirements, eight areas were identified. Thus, the question...

This study investigates the practice of manufacturing flexibility in small and medium sized firms. Using the data collected from 87 firms from machinery and machine tool industries in Taiwan, we analyzed and prescribed the alignment of various manufacturing flexibility dimensions with business strategies. Several practical approaches to developing manufacturing flexibility in small and medium s...

Innovation capabilities are the key ingredient in enhancing the firms’ competitiveness and ensuring their survival. Obviously, there are quite different in innovation activities between mauufacturing firms and service firms. It is necessary to consider the distinctness between them in evaluating firms’ innovation capabilities. This paper proposes a model of innovation capabilities in manufactur...

Since the last decade, industrial sector had rapidly evolved with presence of state-of-the-art technologies that transformed industries, society, as well processes due to novel opportunities stipulated by Industry 4.0 Digital Technologies. Thus, manufacturing industry internationally have been pursuing paradigm shift and attempting implement Technologies into their respective organizations. How...

The environmental literature has focused on examining how firms leverage innovation to convert challenges into driving forces of competitive advantage. This paper enhances the knowledge implementation strategies in Malaysian manufacturing industry by impacts shared vision and strategic focus advantage greening industry. Smart PLS technique was used analyse data collected from 124 their as well ...

Manufacturing firms are increasingly seeking cost and other competitive advantages by tightly coupling and managing their relationship with suppliers. Among other mechanisms, interorganizational systems (IOS) that facilitate boundary-spanning activities of a firm enable them to effectively manage different types of buyer–supplier relationships. This study integrates literature from the operatio...

This research seeks to examine the determinants of affiliation to pyramid structure of Malaysian public listed firms. A motivation of the research comes from the phenomenon of pyramid structure causing divergence of ultimate owners' actual ownership and control leading to severe expropriation of minority shareholders' interest. The method adapts Attig Model and employs Panel Generalised Least S...

There is few papers that analyse South East Asian firm board size and this paper adds to this literature; focusing on the larger listed firms in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. While it is apparent that large firms have large boards there is also more subtle cross-country variation concerning the impact of leverage and profitability on board size. Finall...