Proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference

Internal marketing and employees' performance: relating marketing strategies in human resource efforts.- Individual entrepreneurial orientation and talent retention of engineers: a pilot survey.- Entrepreneurial orientation of technology-based smes in malaysia.- Financial literacy of entrepreneurs in the small and medium enterprises.- Customers' intention to purchase halal cosmetics and personal care products: the moderating role of religiosity.- Factors that contribute towards opportunity creation and identification orientation.- The influence of intellectual capital and corporate entrepreneurship towards small and medium enterprises' (smes) sustainable copetitive advantage: building a conceptual framework.- The 11th malaysia health plan: demand for investigation on health consumers' intention towards national web-based health information service.- The effects of e-service quality on users' satisfaction: a case of e-filing at lhdn.- exchange rate exposure: does international involvement matter?.- Shock and volatility transmission between oil prices and stock returns: case of oil-importing and oil-exporting countries.- Effect of cash holding towards firm's efficiency: moderating effect of earning quality.- Revisiting exchange rate exposure: a case study of malaysia and singapore.- the impact of reducing tick size on malaysian's stock market liquidity.- Predicting the financial fragility in malaysia.- Measuring bank stability: a comparative analysis between islamic and conventional banks in malaysia.- The effect of religiosity, financial knowledge, and financial behaviour on financial distress among undergraduate students.- Effects of intellectual capital on microfinance institutions' performance.- an analysis of house price index as the alternative pricing benchmark for islamic home financing.- Global digital divide: inter-regional study on the impact of ict diffusion on economic growth.- The mediating role of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between job

Professor Dr. Fauziah Nordin is a professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior. Born in Selangor, Malaysia in 1958, Professor Nordin received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Northern Illinois University in 1983, USA, followed by a Masters in Business Administration degree from Western Illinois University, USA in 1985. In 1999, she received a PhD in Human Resource Management from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Professor Nordin has been with University Teknologi MARA for slightly more than 30 years. Dr. Abdul Kadir Othman is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA. Currently, he is heading the Centre for Postgraduate and Professional Studies at the faculty. Holding this position requires him to ensure that the postgraduate students have quality educational experience that can be used in their job or to differentiate themselves from the rest of the applicants when entering into the job market. In doing so, he is responsible to ascertain that the curriculum is up-to-date and comparable with other universities, the facilities are sufficient, the academic staff are highly qualified and the activities are adequately challenged. He obtained his Diploma in Public Administration from Universiti Teknologi MARA before continuing his Bachelor Degree in Corporate Administration and graduated in 1998. He then pursued his Master at Malaysian Graduate School of Management of Universiti Putra Malaysia and was conferred MSc in Management in 2001. He obtained his PhD in the field of organizational psychology in 2009 from Universiti Teknologi MARA. He is an active researcher and has received several national grants and contract research from leading organizations such as CFM, MTM and MPC.

Dr. Erne Suzila Kassim, received her Bachelor Degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, majoring in Economics and Sociology. Upon her graduation, she worked as a Quality