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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of demographic (age, gender and race), geographic and group on purchase intention (PI) amongst millennial/young generation in Malaysia. An empirical investigation was carried out to test the hypotheses. The samples include 325 participants. SPSS software has used to measure the effect of external factors on PI. The results demonstrate that demographic, geographic and group significantly affect PI. The findings of this study help marketing, managers and companies to understand young Malaysian consumers' behaviour and PI.

Customer perceived value has become the most extensive used concept in marketing literature in recent years. It is considered as the main key to sustain the business especially in high market competition. Consequently, understanding its dimensions and the influences on customer attitude and behavior becomes crucial for all marketers. This paper reviews the related literatures and categorized dimension of perceived value of durable product into three categories namely product-related value, social-related value, and personal-related value.

Nowadays, Business is more challenging. Many of the companies increase their focus on creating the best value to the targeted customer. The center of business concern is to provide valuable product or services which can meet the customer need. The main purpose of this research is evaluating the business performance through SCM implementation in Malaysia manufacturing industry. A total of 248 respondents were selected by using purposive sampling. The data were analyzed to find the relationship between business performance and the implementation of supply chain management. Reliability and validity tests also employed. The research findings indicate significant correlation between SCM implementation and business performance. Based on the findings, strategic recommendations are proposed to implement the SCM for the manufacturing industry in Malaysia

The purpose of the current study is to examine the effect of behavioural attitude, subjective norm (SN) and perceived behavioural control (PBC) on channel-switching intention in regards to Internet and brick-and-mortar stores channels in Malaysia. Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was used in this study. Partial least squares (PLS) based on the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique was used to analyze the data. The study was based on the simple random sampling, with the survey instrument administered to the Malaysian consumers from the regions of Klang Valley and Penang. A total of 497 completed surveys were obtained. The respondents had to meet the criteria of shopping online and/or brick-and-mortar store prior to participating in the survey. Findings have shown that the TPB was successful in predicting consumer channel-switching intention. In addition, based on the results, the main constructs including attitude and SN significantly and positively predicted consumers' channelswitching intention in both channels. Perceived behavioural control was the only construct that did not predict intention.