Norazah Mohd Suki , Norbayah Mohd Suki , Nur Shahirah Azman
{"title":"Impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Links Between Green Marketing Awareness and Consumer Purchase Intentions","authors":"Norazah Mohd Suki , Norbayah Mohd Suki , Nur Shahirah Azman","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30123-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30123-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the mediating roles of corporate social responsibility on the links between green marketing awareness and consumer purchase intentions. Data was analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) approach for the analysis of structural equation models with SmartPLS computer program version 2.0. PLS results revealed that corporate social responsibility partially mediated the link between green marketing awareness and purchase intentions of the product. Consumers develop positive green marketing awareness based on the growing environmental knowledge. They were aware of the green marketing program of the retail store when they noticed that the store allocated specified space to sell eco-friendly products. Furthermore, the companies make their green marketing activities known to the publics by distributing eco-friendly fliers which helps to increase sales revenue, raise consumer awareness, and develop greater intention to purchase the products. The outcomes of the mediating effects of this study add a new momentum to the growing literature and preceding discoveries on consumer green marketing awareness, which is inadequately researched in the Malaysian setting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"37 ","pages":"Pages 262-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30123-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90918393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The methodologies of shadow economy estimation in the world and in Lithuania: whether the criterions fixing digital shadow are included?","authors":"Ligita Gasparėnienė, Rita Remeikienė","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30277-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30277-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"10 1","pages":"753-760"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84334563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CSR and Disbaled Consumers","authors":"M. Maciaszczyk, P. Maciaszczyk","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30251-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30251-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"1 1","pages":"855-860"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82881165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation and Competitive Advantage: Moderating Effects of Firm Age in Foods Manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia","authors":"Nurul Nadia Abd Aziz , Sarminah Samad","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)00032-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)00032-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aims to examine the influence of innovation on competitive advantage in foods manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia and the moderating effects of firm age on innovation-competitive advantage relationship. Given the correlational nature of research, the researchers adopted a random sampling technique in Malaysian foods manufacturing SMEs. Mailed structured questionnaires were employed for the collected 220 foods manufacturing SMEs. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to answer the objectives and hypotheses of the study. Finding of the study revealed that innovation has a strong positive impact on the competitive advantage, in which innovation contributes 73.5 percent variance in competitive advantage. The results indicate that SMEs should invest in innovation to gain competitive advantage. The study also found the moderating effect of firm age on the influence of innovation on competitive advantage. The study suggests a framework for analyzing the impact of innovation on competitive advantage to be applied in other settings of Malaysian SMEs. The findings of this study may be used as a guideline for entrepreneurs to establish network with research organization and universities for innovative activities or program which ultimately may gain competitive advantage in the marketplace. This study contributed to the literature by empirically investigating the effect of innovation on competitive advantage, specifically in foods manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia. Findings and implications of the study are also discussed in this paper.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"35 ","pages":"Pages 256-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)00032-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74342992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intan Maizura Abdul Rashid, Irza Hanie Abu Samah, Razleena Razali, Muhammad Fazlee Sham, Nursakinah Abdul Karim, Haslina Hassan Basri, Wan Norsyafawati W. Muhamad Radzi, Aida Nazima Abashah, Mohd Khairulnizam Zahari
{"title":"The Importance of Perceived Leadership Elements in Strategic Planning at Public University","authors":"Intan Maizura Abdul Rashid, Irza Hanie Abu Samah, Razleena Razali, Muhammad Fazlee Sham, Nursakinah Abdul Karim, Haslina Hassan Basri, Wan Norsyafawati W. Muhamad Radzi, Aida Nazima Abashah, Mohd Khairulnizam Zahari","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30343-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30343-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Leader always play as an integral part in our daily life. No matter where on earth we are living the elements of leadership always exists in one's community. The purpose of this study is to investigate the importance of perceived leadership elements which is leadership decision making, leadership style, and leadership change flexibility. The study was done among the academic staff at one of public university in Malaysia. 150 questionnaires were administered among various levels of academic staff. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were perform, thus the result indicates that leadership decision making <em>(r=0.55, p=0.001,)</em> shows the highest of positive significant result toward strategic planning compared with other two variables. This research warrant more investigation upon strategic planning and other variables.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"39 ","pages":"Pages 422-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30343-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74070630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Taxonomy of the Least Developed Countries Based on the Tourism Economic Impact Analysis","authors":"Gabriela Hrubcova, Tomas Loster, Petr Obergruber","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30347-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30347-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Taxonomy as primarily empirical approach to the classification has become an important part of science in development of the diverse socio-economic processes. Furthermore, the topic of developing countries is currently a discussed topic at the international level. It is closely related to tourism as one of the sources of their potential growth. This paper aims to develop the taxonomy of the least developed countries based on the tourism economic impact analysis. We use the cluster analysis as a quantitative method for constructing taxonomies and analyze the countries based on the several different measures. As a result, taxonomy is developed based upon the outcomes of the cluster analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"39 ","pages":"Pages 446-450"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30347-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76775313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Customers’ Perceived Value of Retail Store on Relationship between Store Attribute and Customer Brand Loyalty: Some Insights from Malaysia","authors":"Seyed Rajab Nikhashemi , Arun Kumar Tarofder , Sanjaya Singh Gaur , Ahasanul Haque","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30148-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30148-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Customer brand loyalty has been an important area for practitioners in retailing industry due to various developments in the increasingly competitive environment. The objective of the current study is to identify the role of perceived value of the store brand in relationship between store attributes and customer brand loyalty. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data (n=418), from the customers visiting hypermarkets such as Tesco, Aeon Big, Mydin and Giant's in metropolitan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Structural Equation Modeling is employed to analyze the data. The results demonstrate that store attribute has a direct effect on customers’ perceived value as well as on their loyalty with the store brand. The store attribute also has an indirect effect on store brand loyalty via customers’ perceived value of the store brand. The study recommends hypermarkets to understand customers’ perception towards their brand in order to develop better marketing strategy which can enable them differentiate themselves from competitors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"37 ","pages":"Pages 432-438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30148-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75655815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role and Responsibility of Auditors in Prevention and Detection of Fraudulent Financial Reporting","authors":"Lajos Zager, Sanja Sever Malis, Ana Novak","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30291-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30291-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research examines the roles and the responsibilities of the key stakeholders of the financial reporting in the prevention and detection of fraud. The methods used and types of transactions most vulnerable to fraudulent financial reporting are examined. For the need of the empirical part of the paper, the questionnaire survey was conducted. The respondents, external auditors, evaluated how often they encounter circumstances indicating the possibility of fraud. In accordance with the conducted research the most common technique used to fraudulent financial reporting involved overstatement of assets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"39 ","pages":"Pages 693-700"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30291-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90329434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of Undeclared Work in the EU Member States","authors":"Madalina Ecaterina Popescu , Amalia Cristescu , Larisa Stanila , Maria Denisa Vasilescu","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30294-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30294-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the context of European economic recovery, undeclared work has become a true challenge for the labour market policies, mainly because it affects tax revenue, social security and labour standards. Without better understanding of the main determinants of undeclared work, little can be done to prevent it. Having these in mind and based on the Eurobarometer survey, the paper aims to find the main factors that trigger undeclared work. Our findings suggest that after the economic crisis, the trust in national authorities has dropped and generated more undeclared payments, especially for the case of small and medium firms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"39 ","pages":"Pages 520-525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30294-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81588394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaches to the Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility","authors":"Miriam Jankalova","doi":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30302-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30302-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The evaluation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) becomes the problem. The practice demonstrates that currently there are methods, standards and initiatives that allow evaluating this state. The question is which approach is the right one, because his choice may depend from the findings “whom and to what purpose the evaluation serves”, from the object and subject of the evaluation, as well as from the knowledge of current trends in the evaluation. The aim of this paper, based on an analysis, is to identify appropriate approach to evaluating the CSR of the company. The CSR concept is closely connected with ethical, environmental and social audit, sustainable development, management, philanthropy and various forms of donation. De facto, CSR offers a set of principles and values on which is possible to build a more cohesive society and to establish the transition to a sustainable economic system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101040,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Economics and Finance","volume":"39 ","pages":"Pages 580-587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30302-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86468528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}