Quality In E-Procurement Success

Nowadays, the quality of virtual service is diminishing, in which different aspects of E-business industry is signifying, especially in the business to business (B2B). E-procurement is part of the e-business, therefore, quality factors of E-procurement originates from e-business. Much research has focused on the critical success factors of E-procurement, however, when it comes to implementation, many E-procurements fail, which can be very costly. This article attempts to increase the success rate of E-procurement, and ensures that the success of E-procurement is more sustainable. This research estimates the structural equation model by collecting data from 208 managers to employ quantitative analysis to investigate the relationship between E-procurement quality factors. The result of this research shows that the quality of the organization culture has partial mediator relationship to the success of E-procurement. Meanwhile, the quality of IT infrastructure does not have a mediator relationship with the success of E-procurement. Lastly, quality of knowledge management has a full mediator relationship with the success of E-procurement and it does not affect the dynamic capability of organization directly

SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCIES: A STUDY AMONG WOMEN MICRO- ENTREPRENEURS IN MALAYSIA

Abstract -Women entrepreneurship as one of the key contributors of economic development through a rapid development process reduces poverty, unemployment, and inequalities, and improves the overall well being of children. Social capital is the most under-rated influential factor, which may have a strong influence on entrepreneurial competencies and enterprise performance. This study aims to examine the effect of social capital (i.e., structural, cognitive, and relational) on entrepreneurial competencies (i.e., conceptual, commitment, and organizing) among women micro-entrepreneurs in Peninsular Malaysia. This study employs a cross-sectional approach and quantitative data are collected through structured interviews. It was found that social capital has a significant positive effect on entrepreneurial competencies. Development policies and programs in Malaysia should therefore focus on building social capital among micro-entrepreneurs to foster the national development process that reduces poverty, unemployment rate, and inequalities. JEL Classifications: C31, J16, L2

Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of Industry 4.0-A Budge towards Sustainability

The Fourth Industrial Revolution involves noteworthy challenges and scopes to organizations from the technological, industrial and organizational perspective. This review intends to scrutinize how organizations recognize the idea of Industry 4.0, the challenges in launching the smart technologies and the opportunities to Industry 4.0. Researchers argued that sometimes these challenges, as well as opportunities are very crucial to recognize. Hence, the challenges and opportunities should be identified properly, evaluated accurately and then should be implemented accordingly. With the intention of understanding the dimensions of barriers and scopes of Industry 4.0 as a disruptive technological issue and to contribute the extant literature, a planned review method was employed to gather the literature. The originality of the study is to be conceptual in nature as it is a review paper, but future empirical research is suggested. Additionally, future research implications offered in the study would be supportive for the researchers intending to perform research in this domain and to summarize the challenges and success factors of Industry 4.0