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Publication date: 4 November 2019

Ethical leadership, perceived organizational support and citizenship behaviors: The moderating role of ethnic dissimilarity

Luen Peng Tan, Ching Seng Yap, Yuen Onn Choong, Kum Lung Choe, Parisa Rungruang and Zhen Li

Utilizing organizational support theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the mediation effect of perceived organizational support (POS) on the relationship between…

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Purpose

Utilizing organizational support theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the mediation effect of perceived organizational support (POS) on the relationship between ethical leadership and citizenship behavior, and investigate the moderating effect of ethnic dissimilarity in the research model.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a self-administered questionnaire, data were collected from 294 academics of private universities in China, Malaysia and Thailand. The collected data were analyzed using partial least squares path modeling technique on R platform.

Findings

The study found that ethical leadership is significantly and positively related to POS, which, in turn, related to both distinct dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviors – individual and organization. However, further analysis reveals that ethnic dissimilarity does moderate the hypothesized relationships in the research model, in which POS is found to have a mediation effect in the heterogeneous sample but not in the homogeneous sample in terms of ethnic dissimilarity.

Originality/value

To the best knowledge of the researchers, this study is among the first few research works examining the interrelationships of ethical leadership, POS, and citizenship behavior in terms of individual and organizational. Moreover, this is one of the earliest studies to examine the concepts in two different samples in terms of ethnic dissimilarity.

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Leadership & Organization Development Journal, vol. 40 no. 8
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-04-2019-0160
ISSN: 0143-7739

Keywords

  • China
  • Malaysia
  • Ethical leadership
  • Perceived organizational support
  • Thailand
  • Organizational citizenship behaviour

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Publication date: 21 November 2016

Determinants of ICT outsourcing among the locally-owned manufacturers in Malaysia

Ching Seng Yap, Yet Mee Lim, Farah Waheeda Jalaludin and Teck Heang Lee

This paper aims to examine the level of information and communication technology (ICT) outsourcing and its determinants in the Malaysian locally owned manufacturing firms…

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This paper aims to examine the level of information and communication technology (ICT) outsourcing and its determinants in the Malaysian locally owned manufacturing firms. Drawing on the transaction cost theory and the resource-based theory, four determinants – asset specificity, uncertainty, business skills and technical skills – were hypothesized to influence ICT outsourcing.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected using a questionnaire survey from 104 manufacturing firms listed on the Directory of Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers. Data were then analyzed using R package partial least squares path modeling.

Findings

The study reveals that slightly over two-thirds (68 per cent) of the surveyed manufacturers either fully or partially outsourced their ICT services. Asset specificity and uncertainty are found to be positively related to the level of ICT outsourcing, which contradict the prediction of the transaction cost theory. On the other hand, business skills and technical skills are not significantly related to the level of ICT outsourcing, which also conflict the resource-based arguments.

Research limitations/implications

The small sample size would not be able to make meaningful conclusion for the population; the small R2 value indicates that other important determinants of ICT outsourcing were not tested in this study, and the transaction cost theory and the resource-based theory do not adequately predict the level of ICT outsourcing in the Malaysian locally owned manufacturers.

Originality/value

The study serves as one of the first studies that tested the determinants of ICT outsourcing using the transaction cost theory and the resource-based theory in locally owned manufacturing firms of a developing country.

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Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, vol. 9 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SO-03-2016-0011
ISSN: 1753-8297

Keywords

  • Asset specificity
  • Malaysia
  • Resource-based theory
  • Uncertainty
  • Business skills
  • Manufacturers
  • Technical skills
  • Transaction cost theory

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Publication date: 11 November 2013

Perceived environmental uncertainty and competitive intelligence practices

Ching Seng Yap, Md Zabid Abdul Rashid and Dewi Amat Sapuan

The study aims to examine the current state of competitive intelligence practices in Malaysian public listed companies, the perception of environmental uncertainty and the…

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Purpose

The study aims to examine the current state of competitive intelligence practices in Malaysian public listed companies, the perception of environmental uncertainty and the link between the two concepts.

Design/methodology/approach

The data were collected from 123 public listed companies via mail questionnaire survey. Variables and measurement were adopted from prior empirical studies, specifically from Daft, Sormunen and Parks.

Findings

Generally, the current state of competitive intelligence practices undertaken in Malaysian companies is moderate. More than half of the surveyed companies had established a formal CI unit in their organisation, in which a majority of them practised competitive intelligence at an early (five to nine years) stage in a moderate scale (two to five employees). Using a paired sample t-test, the study found that the perception of environmental uncertainty is higher in the task environmental sector than in the general environmental sectors. A positive correlation exists between perceived environmental uncertainty and competitive intelligence practices, specifically in terms of intelligence acquisition and strategic use.

Originality/value

This study serves as one of the earliest pieces of empirical evidence in the emerging economies in relation to competitive intelligence practices.

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VINE: The journal of information and knowledge management systems, vol. 43 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/VINE-11-2011-0058
ISSN: 0305-5728

Keywords

  • Malaysia
  • Perceived environmental uncertainty
  • Competitive intelligence practices

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Publication date: 2 May 2017

Navigating Christian and Chaozhou identities: the life and career of Lin Zifeng (1892-1971)

Wing-hin Kam

This paper aims to analyse how both Lin’s birthplace identity and his Christian identity contributed to his fruitful public career and to ascertain which identity became…

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Purpose

This paper aims to analyse how both Lin’s birthplace identity and his Christian identity contributed to his fruitful public career and to ascertain which identity became the most significant.

Design/methodology/approach

Archival research is the main method used in this paper. The most important archives drawn from are the Daniel Tse Collection in the Special Collection and Archives of the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. Oral history has also been used in this paper to uncover more material that has not yet been discussed in existing scholarly works.

Findings

This paper argues that although Lin’s birthplace identity and social networks helped him to start his business career in Nam Pak Hong and develop into a leader in the local Chaozhou communities, these factors were insufficient to his becoming a respectable member of the Chinese elite in post-war Hong Kong. He became well known not because of his leading position in local Chaozhou communities or any great achievement he had obtained in business but because of his contribution to the development of Christian education. These achievements earned him a reputation as a “Christian educator”. Thus Lin’s Christian identity became more important than his birthplace identity in contributing to his successful public career.

Originality/value

This paper has value in showing how Christian influences interacted with various cultural factors in early Hong Kong. It also offers insights into Lin’s life and motivations as well as the history of the institutions he contributed to/founded. It not only furthers our understanding of the Chinese Christian business elite in early Hong Kong but also provides us with insights when further studying this group of people in other British colonies in Asia.

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Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, vol. 13 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/STICS-09-2016-0015
ISSN: 1871-2673

Keywords

  • Chinese Christian business elite
  • Christian identity
  • Lin Zifeng

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