Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration: Volume 5 Issue 3

Driving forces of the ASEAN-5 stock markets integration

Bakri Abdul Karim, Hoe Xin Ning

The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of stock market integration among five selected Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) emerging stock markets…

Strategic alliances with suppliers and customers in a manufacturing supply chain: From a manufacturer's perspective

Loke Siew-Phaik, Alan G. Downe, Murali Sambasivan

The main purposes of the study are to: test the strategic alliance framework developed by Sambasivan et al. on the strategic alliances with suppliers and customers, separately;…

Charitable donations: empirical evidence from Brunei

Michael Lwin, Ian Phau, Aaron Lim

– This paper aims to explore the demographic and psychographic characteristics of Bruneians in relation to charitable donation behaviour.

Does central government health expenditure and medical technology advancement determine economic growth rates in the Pacific island countries?

Suwastika Naidu, Anand Chand

The main aim of this paper is to empirically test a model that has central government health expenditure and advancement in medical technology as two separate determinants of…

Emotional labour and its outcomes: a study of a Philippine call centre

Cynthia P. Ruppel, Randi L. Sims, Peter Zeidler

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Western human resource (HR) theory is applicable to a call centre located in the Philippines. A call centre, due to the amount of…

Why are local authorities not compliant to central governments in the Asia Pacific region?

Yvon Dufour

Sustainable people management practices in the Asia-Pacific