The present study is conducted to find out the entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial orientation of faculty and students towards commercialization of research. The study is conducted on a sample of respondents belonging to one research university of Malaysia. The results indicate that entrepreneurial orientation of faculty and students is having more influence towards commercialization of research than entrepreneurial intention alone. The results also indicate that the faculty and students are having a strong entrepreneurial mindset. The study contributes to the existing body of literature related to entrepreneurship and the concept of entrepreneurial university. The study also recommends future course of action..

From the last few decades, maximum studies focused to understand the importance of going into the deal of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). The current study examined the motivation to recognize either the assumed benefits of the deal of Mergers and Acquisitions have posted increase or not. The current study calculated whether the deal is beneficial or harmful for the organizations who want to enter into the deal of M&A. The study scrutinizes the issues by using the perspective of history, waves, motives and methods to determine Merger and acquisition value. The study focuses on the current Literature available on M&A from the recent past to portray unlike the methods used to gauge performance of M&A. Although field of M&A research is far too broad and more complex to be covered in a review paper, therefore, the study attempts to start covering some historical and background issues such as History, waves in M&A, Methods of measuring deals and M&A motives.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship and short-term linkage between the Asian REIT markets and their respective macroeconomic variables. Design/methodology/approach – The data collected comprised total return REIT Index from Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea and their macroeconomic variables from the date of availability of the data until December 2014. The macroeconomic variables are either available in monthly or quarterly basis, they will be separately tested with REIT Index respectively to their frequency. All the variables are tested for its stationarity prior to the investigation of their long-run relationship and short-term linkage using Johansen cointegration test and Granger causality test. Findings – The results showed that certain of the emerging REIT markets show a higher degree of integration with macroeconomic variables in the long run. This implies that the emerging REIT markets are more sensitive towards the change in macroeconomic environment in relative to the developed REIT markets. Practical implications – The paper implied that the distinction of each market structure and their unique way of policy implementation. The findings can assists policy makers to understand about the significance of policy implementation on the Asian REIT markets prior to decision making and also for the portfolio management my asset managers. Originality/value – The paper is one of the few attempts at assessing the long-term relationship and short term linkage between the Asian REIT markets and the macroeconomic variables.

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