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This paper analyzes the changes in productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry from 1996 to 2001. The data consist of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia, namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity is measured by the Malmquist index, using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The Malm...
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... Since then, newcomers joined the industry with the issuance of six new licenses in late 1993 (Mohamad, 2004). Since then, the industry is growing in tandem with robust technology. ...
... Malaysian telecommunication industry is an interesting area to focus on in this research because the productivity performance of the industry is highly related to the improvement in the efficiency components, in which the offerings or output is significantly contributed by the capability to exploit the advancement of technology. Given the high technological advancement within the industry, the labor forces should be well-equipped with knowledge in optimizing the technology available to give operators a competitive advantage in the long term (Ketler and Willems, 2001;Mohamad, 2004). This makes the telecommunication industry as the best focus to prove the importance of knowledge sharing so that the knowledge to exploit the technology can be optimized for a stronger competitive advantage within such a challenging environment. ...
Purpose of Study: This paper aims to explore the ability of telecommunication industry in Malaysia engaged in managing those unexpected events by studying the leadership ability based on spiritual leadership to optimize the potentials of their human resources’ knowledge and experiences as part and parcel of competitive advantage in meeting the challenges brought by the competition within the industry. Methodology: The present study is exploring the outcome of such areas through a combination of both qualitative and quantitative perspective methods, to provide with empirical evidence for the research problem, and also to help answer questions that cannot be answered by qualitative or quantitative approaches alone. The Exploratory Sequential Design as in model development has been selected for this study for no specificity of guiding framework to begin with as it integrates diverse areas within spiritual leadership and knowledge sharing behavior with integration to islamic leadership model, that require to begin with qualitative exploration. Main Findings: The present paper is based on the mixed method findings of such leadership style in creating the values within the workplace that able to ignite the inner-sense among the employees to feel the conscience and compassion to share knowledge beyond conventional motivational factors as in rewards, power, and relationships, aligned to the Islamic leadership model perspective. Implications/Applications: The present study will definitely help in analyzing the influence of spiritual leadership on the knowledge sharing behaviuor within the telecommunication industry of a nation. This study will also contribute to the agenda of KSB within telecommunication industry in Malaysia, by including the exploration on SL as the construct for the leadership style, so that individual employees would be motivated to share knowledge by positioning it within the context of Islamic leadership model.
... Manakala kajian yang berkaitan industri telekomunikasi di Malaysia lebih memberikan perhatian terhadap aspek produktiviti dan kecekapan (Noorihsan, 2003;2004), analisis perkembangan reformasi dan evolusi industri telekomunikasi (Choong, 1984;Chew, 1999;Poon, 2000;Sivadasan, 2001;Lee, 2002) dan masa depan telefon awam berbayar (Kamarul Shah Azman, 2001). ...
ABSTRAK Objektif kajian ini ialah mengkaji sumbangan infrastruktur telekomunikasi terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi Malaysia antara tahun 1985-2003. Model pertumbuhan ekonomi dianggarkan dengan mengambil kira, antara lainnya, pemboleh ubah infrastruktur telekomunikasi yang diukur oleh kadar penembusan talian tetap dan mudah alih bagi 100 orang penduduk. Penemuan kajian ini menunjukkan infrastruktur telekomunikasi secara konsisten memberikan sumbangan negatif terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi negara. Namun demikian pelaburan infrastruktur telekomunikasi negara mengalami pulangan pertambahan mengikut skel dan selaras dengan teori "critical mass". Ini bermakna sumbangan positif akan dinikmati apabila infrastruktur telekomunikasi negara berkembang, khususnya apabila kadar penembusan mencapai 40%. ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to investigate the role of telecommunications infrastructure in the Malaysian economic growth for the period 1985-2003. The economic growth model was estimated by including, among others, telecommunications infrastructure measured by the penetration rates of fixed and mobile lines per 100 inhabitants. The study found a consistently negative relationship between telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth. However Malaysian telecommunications infrastructure experienced increasing returns to scale which supports the critical mass theory. This implies that positive contribution will be realised as the country's telecommunications infrastructure becomes more developed reaching a 40% penetration rate.
This study evaluates telecommunications industry efficiency in 19 countries grouped into high income countries (HICs) and middle income countries (MICs). Using data from 2001 to 2013 and a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), it finds that HICs outperformed MICs, however, the two groups of countries exhibited improved technical efficiency, managerial effectiveness, and operational scale. Additionally, time in deregulation is negatively associated with technical and scale efficiency in HICs, however, the influence is insignificant in MICs. Labour productivity drives technical efficiency in HICs. Also, it augments managerial resourcefulness in HICs and MICs, however, its influence on scale efficiency is immaterial. Revenue per subscription enhances technical efficiency and managerial effectiveness in the two groups of countries. The relationship with scale efficiency, which is positive in HICs is irrelevant in MICs. Capital intensity has insignificant influence on managerial effectiveness in the two clusters of countries, however, it undermines technical efficiency in HICs and scale efficiency in MICs. Gross national income per capita is inconsequential to scale enhancement. However, it contributes to technical efficiency in the two categories of countries and drives managerial performance in HICs. Efficiency performances in HICs and MICs are insensitive to the industry's concentration level. Inflation has insignificant influence on scale efficiency in HICs and MICs. Although, it drives technical efficiency and managerial performance in MICs, the influence in HICs is immaterial. The joint impact of labour productivity and capital intensity is irrelevant to operational scale in HICs and MICs, however, it is negatively associated with technical efficiency and managerial effectiveness in MICs. This empirical study provides additional insight that managers in the industry and policy makers will find useful during strategy formulation and policy deliberations.
The purpose of this study is to measure and assess the performance of 100 largest listed companies in Malaysia. A modified strictly output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model is used to measure the relative performance of each company by utilizing a list of normalized performance indicators based on data published in the Malaysian Business (16th October, 2009). The DEA scores indicate that only 6 and 19% of the companies are operating on the best-practice frontier under the assumptions of constant return to scale (CRS) and variable return to scale (VRS) respectively. No company exhibits increasing return to scale (IRS). Most of the relatively large (revenue-top-ranked) companies show serious scale inefficiency and exhibit decreasing return to scale (DRS). Ranking based on the performance index reveals that top-ranked companies by revenue are not necessarily top-ranked performers. Although ten of the seventeen governments linked companies, GLCs are top-20 by revenue, only one remains in the top-20 ranking by DEA. Three GLCs from bottom-20 by revenue join the top performers exhibiting full scale efficiency. Non-GLCs dominate 75% of the top-20 DEA ranking.
Renewed debate over competition in healthcare suggests that greater specialization is good for the health economy. In essence, greater specialization is hypothesized to lead to lower average costs, due to learning curve effects, scale, or other operating efficiencies. This hypothesis was tested in oncology care, since this disease group is one of the few with existing specialized cancer centers already in place. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), and specifically a longitudinal Malmquist index over a 5-year period was applied to the major, specialized inpatient cancer centers to determine if these specialized centers achieve higher productivity over time, and if scale leads to higher operating efficiency. Results suggest policy and payer implications since these DRG-exempt hospitals may not be improving their technical efficiency over time. Despite advancements in technology and greater scale, the average efficiency of cancer care has marginally declined. Similarly, when compared to other hospitals with greater numbers of other service offerings, oncology care has not benefited from increasing returns to scale.
