The importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contributions to the nations' economies in the world is an undebatable fact. The same applies to Malaysia with 98.5% of the total business establishments being SMEs; contributing to 65.3% of total employment and 36.3% of GDP. Supports from the Government are never fading with huge allocations of budget every year but yet registering high failure rate. Sustainable growth of SMEs is long overdue. The awareness of the importance of sustainable growth of SMEs has resulted in the presence of various definitions and concepts of sustainable growth. This paper seeks to explore the literature on long-term and sustainable growth for SMEs and the enhanced knowledge on this area willbe aguidance to the policy makers, supporting agencies, advisors, entrepreneurs and academicians to seriously develop an all-encompassing model for sustainable growth of SMEs. This paper suggests an integrated sustainable growth model of SMEs with four dimensions of the economic factors.

The success of technology transfer (TT) within international joint ventures (IJVs) in the developing countries has frequently been measured by the degree of technology that is transferred to local partners. As compared to other formal technology transfer agents such as foreign direct investments (FDIs) and licensing, technology transfer through IJVs have been acknowledged by many studies as the most efficient mechanism to internalize the foreign partner’s technologies, knowledge and skills which are organizationally embedded. However, the transfer process has always involved a complex relationship between IJV partners which may cause direct impact on degree of technology transfer. The success of inter-firm TT requires a strong existence of a close and intense communications between the technology supplier and recipient. The main objective of this paper is to empirically examine the effects of two critical elements of relationship characteristics: relationship quality and mutual trust on two dimensions of degree of technology transfer: degree of tacit and explicit knowledge. Using the quantitative analytical approach, the theoretical model and hypotheses in this study were tested based on empirical data gathered from 128 joint venture companies registered with the Registrar of Companies of Malaysia (ROC). Data obtained from the survey questionnaires were analyzed using the correlation coefficients and multiple linear regressions. The results revealed that relationship quality, as the critical element of relationship characteristics, has a significant effect on both degrees of tacit and explicit knowledge; where the effect was slightly stronger on degree of explicit knowledge. Similarly, mutual trust between partners has shown consistent strong significant effects on both degrees of tacit and explicit knowledge; where its effect on degree of tacit knowledge was found slightly stronger than degree of explicit knowledge. The study has bridged the literature gaps in such that it offers empirical evidence on the effects of two generic relationship attributes: relationship quality and mutual trust on two dimensions of degree of inter-firm technology transfer: degree of tacit and explicit knowledge in IJVs.

The main objective of this paper is to empirically examine the moderating effect of MNCs' country of origin (Western vs. Asian MNCs) in the relationships between degree of inter-firm technology transfer and two dimensions of local firms' performance: corporate and human resource performances. Using the moderated multiple regression (MMR) analysis, the theoretical models and hypotheses in this study were tested based on empirical data gathered from 128 joint venture companies registered with the Registrar of Companies of Malaysia (ROC). The results revealed that MNCs' country of origin has significantly affected the relationships between degrees of technology transfer and local firms' corporate performance; where the relationship was found stronger for Asian MNCs as compared to Western MNCs. However, MNCs' country of origin did not significantly moderate the relationship between degree of technology transfer and local firms' human resource performance. The study has bridged the literature gaps in such that it offers empirical evidence and new insights on the significant moderating effects of MNCs' country of origin in the relationships between degree of inter-firm technology transfer and local firms' performance technology using the Malaysian sample.

Job satisfaction and organisational commitment are variables that have been frequently studied. However, the relationship between ethical decision-making and these two variables are seldom explored. This study conducted on 200 employees from public and private companies in various parts of Kuala Lumpur, aims to investigate the relationship between these three variables. Instruments were used from Paolillo & Vitell (2002), Hunt, Wood & Chonko (1989) and Dubinsky & Hartley (1986) to measure ethics, organisational commitment and job satisfaction respectively. Results show that there is a positive correlation between ethics and organisational commitment and between job satisfaction and organisational commitment. However, contrary to expectations, there is no significant correlation between ethics and job satisfaction. The negative correlation between organisational commitment and position r = -0.288, p< 0.1 suggests that people higher up in the hierarchy are less committed towards the organisation. The absence of any significant correlation between ethics and age, experience, and position is also contrary to previous studies conducted in the West. This suggests that, unlike the West, ethics does not increase or decrease with age, experience, and position.

The main objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing technology transfer literature by reviewing and outlining the mechanisms (channels) of technology transfer. This review aims to stimulate and generate dynamic ideas for future researchers i.e. to further identify and understand the technology transfer's channels, the processes prior to the transfer, the parties involved, the type of technologies in the transfer process, and the justification for selecting specific mode of transfer. Since technology transfer literatures cover a wide research area, this paper sets its perimeter by focusing on the transfer mechanisms which involve both intra and inter-firm technology transfer.

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The significant role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in economic development has been acknowledged and focused for a very long time. They dominate the business establishment around the world. The current challenging and volatile business landscape has called for greater scrutiny to identify survival toolkit for SMEs, given that SMEs are very much important to the dramatic economic changes. Thus, understanding practices that may damage business success is needed urgently. With this crucial and critical situation, it is the time now to identify an alternative approach to understand practices that lead to business success. The purpose of this study is to concentrate on the influence of strategic entrepreneurship (SE) which is manifested in exploration activities only that in-turn represented by strategic opportunity recognition construct, on sustainable SMEs performance in Malaysia. This paper is an attempt to address this challenge by developing a framework for the assessment of recognizing the important role of SE in efficiently contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Firm Performance. Contribution/ Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature on organizational sustainability performance which was found to be limited, particularly by focusing on SMEs in context of Malaysia. It is hoped that this article will instigate research ideas among scholars paving way towards empirical examining of SMEs' sustainable performance and its drivers.

The current issue on inter-firm technology transfer (TT) is centered on the efficiency and effectiveness of the transfer process by the multinationals (MNCs) where the success is strongly associated with degree of technology transferred to local partners. Based on the underlying knowledge-based view (KBV) and organizational learning (OL) perspectives, the main objective of this paper is to empirically examine the effects of four critical technology transfer characteristics: knowledge, technology recipient, technology supplier, and relationship characteristics on two distinct dimensions of degree of technology transfer: degree of tacit and explicit knowledge. Using the quantitative analytical approach, the theoretical model and hypotheses in this study were tested based on empirical data gathered from 128 joint venture companies registered with the Registrar of Companies of Malaysia (ROC). Data obtained from the survey questionnaires were analyzed using the correlation coefficients and multiple linear regression analyses. The results revealed that relationship characteristics have the strongest significant effects on both degrees of tacit and explicit knowledge followed by technology supplier and recipient characteristics. Contrary to the study's prediction, but still consistent with the recent development in literature, knowledge characteristics have only significantly affected degree of explicit knowledge not degree of tacit knowledge. The study has bridged the literature gaps by providing empirical evidence on the effects of four critical technology transfer characteristics: knowledge, technology recipient, technology supplier, and relationship characteristics on two distinct dimensions of degree of inter-firm technology transfer: degree of tacit and explicit knowledge in IJVs in a single model.