Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Social responsibility is incumbent in the foundation of corporate governance of Islamic banks (IBs) and positioned as one of the bank's objective world widely. This research uses stakeholder and agency theories in search of empirical evide

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- IIUM Summary: With the advent of low rate wireless personal area networks (LR-PAN) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the standard ZigBee / IEEE 802.15.4 has been developed. Having been designed with power consumption as one of its main challenges to a

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Advanced Engineering and Innvation Centre -- IIUM Summary: Substantial evidence suggests that practices associated with Japanese Manufacturing Management (JMM) can yield a superior competitive advantage in terms of productivity, quality and provide overall successful business performance. With most of the

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization -- IIUM Summary: This study demonstrates where moderation and balance stand in the religion of Islam and how Malaysia, with her plural society, has since independence placed itself as an exemplary moderate Islamic nation. The work highlights the f

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Communication -- IIUM Summary: Political information seeking, a popular concept in the field of mass communication, examines why people seek information on politics from traditional and new media. People seek information on politics for different motives. The current study explores the determ

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Agarwood is the most valuable non-timber forest product originating from the Aquilaria species associated with traditional religious and medicinal purposes. Interestingly, agarwood has been reported to be used to treat inflammatory related diseases w

Subject(s): Africa, North -- History | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of History and Civilization -- IIUM Summary: This research examines local factors that helped the rise of the Fatimids in North Africa in 296 A.H./909 C.E. The socio-religious, political and economic conditions of the region provided fertile ground for the Isma'ili

Subject(s): Religious institutions -- Accounting | Nonprofit organizations -- Accounting | Mosques -- Indonesia | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Accounting -- IIUM Summary: There has been evidence of embezzlement and mismanagement of public charities funds in non-profit and religious organisations based on the Marquet Report, 2012. It

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This study analyzes intermedia agenda-setting during the 2010 Sudanese presidential elections to determine the intermedia agenda-setting role of socio-political blogs, mainstream news media and citizen journalism. The purpose of th

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Curriculum and Instructional -- IIUM Summary: This case study was conducted to investigate the extent of Internet plagiarism among Form Five Chemistry students at a selected secondary school in Gombak. The case study looked into the amount and extent of Internet plagiarism and sought to estab