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The study of students’ academic performance has gained much recognition internationally where it has drawn the attention of educational researchers, particularly in the previous decade. As such, this study examined the impact of the environmental factors on student’s academic performance at the University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) city campus. It described three environmental factors, consisting of infrastructure and services; pollution and healthy environment and environmental hazard, with quality of life as a mediator. This is a survey type of study by distributing questionnaires randomly to 300 fourth-year students; however, only 200 returned and usable questionnaires were received. The study used the regression and correlation analysis to analyse the data. The result of the study shows that all variables significantly impacted academic performance of students. The result also indicates that all the variables were consequential in affecting the students’ quality of life (QoL). Since this is the first effort to look at the challenges at the UMK city campus, it offers useful inputs into the causes so that UMK and other academic institutions can take actions to provide a better environment and QoL for students in order for them to reach their fullest academic performance potential.

Despite the increase market in catering industry by 37% per year, the number of SME-catering service firms is only 30.000, or only 5% from the total number of SME in 2016. From 30,000 registered catering service company, only 10% is an active business with annual growth rate (3%). In order to achieve competitive advantage and growth, firms will develop appropriate competitive strategy, strategy which directly relate to firm performance. The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of the relationship between competitive strategy and firm performance in a different entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimension. The statistical results revealed a) innovativeness, risk taking and proactivenss were found to have a significant and positive moderating effect on the relationship between differentiation strategy and firm performance b) innovativeness, risk taking and proactivenss were found to have a significant and positive moderating effect on the relationship between CL strategy and firm performance.

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