Browsing by Author "Muhammad Shukri Bakar"

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    Determinants of Business Success: Trust or Business Policy?
    (International Refereed Research Journal, 2012-07) Esuh Ossai-Igwe Lucky; Muhammad Shukri Bakar; Adebayo Isaiah Olusegun
    Most times businesses prefer to trust their business partners and customers in achieving success than keeping to the rules and regulations guiding the business activities. Experience has also shown that many businesses claimed to rely on trust to achieve business success, however, business policy seems to play more significant and effective role in achieving business success and keeping the business going. Therefore, the issue of whether trust determines business success better than business policy called for an urgent attention as many businesses relied on trust rather than business policy. In view of this, the paper examines which among one of these factors better determine business success. It examined trust and business policy based on credit and loans perspective. Based on the literature and previous business experience, it was argued that businesses could make better success and prevent the business from death by sticking on their business policy rather than mere business trust which could be injured.
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    The Mediating Role of Intrapreneurial Orientation between Leadership Style, Knowledge Sharing Behaviour and Performance of Malaysian Academic Leaders: A Conceptual Framework
    (Sains Humanika, 2015) Esuh Ossai-Igwe Lucky; Muhammad Shukri Bakar; Rosli Mahmood
    Although significant relationships have been documented between the variables of leadership styles, knowledge sharing behaviour and performance, still their relationships remain less studied particularly as they relate to academic leaders' performance. To address this paucity and to explain these linkages further, authors have continued to propose a mediating role in the relationship among these variables. As a result, this paper develops and proposes intrapreneurial orientation as a mediator on the relationships between leadership styles (transformational and transactional), knowledge sharing behaviour, and performance of academic leaders in Malaysian universities. First it argues that transformational and transactional leadership styles and knowledge sharing behaviour should influence intrapreneurial orientation and performance, second, intrapreneurial orientation would also affect performance. Next, it argues that by acting as a mediator, intrapreneurial orientation may act as a conduit that will better explain the relationships amongst these variables.