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Rajah Rasiah is affiliated with the University of Malaya in Malaysia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans various subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Marketing, Political Science and International Relations, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Rajah Rasiah's research include:

  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Global trade and economics
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Innovation Policy and R&D

Rajah Rasiah has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

  • "Technology adoption in the apparel industry: insight from literature review and research directions," 2021, Research Journal of Textile and Apparel
  • "An empirical study on the dark side of service employees' AI awareness: Behavioral responses, emotional mechanisms, and mitigating factors," 2024, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • "Critical determinants and firm performance of sustainable technology adoption in the apparel industry: the stakeholder approach," 2022, Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management
  • "Implications of COVID-19 pandemic for energy-use and energy saving household electrical appliances consumption behaviour in Malaysia," 2021, Energy Strategy Reviews
  • "The economic impact of water supply disruption from the Selangor River, Malaysia," 2023, Blue-Green Systems

Frequent co-authors in Rajah Rasiah's work include:

  • Fumitaka Furuoka (with 15 joint publications)
  • Kee Cheok Cheong (9 joint publications)
  • Santha Chenayah (5 joint publications)
  • Cheng Zhang (5 joint publications)
  • Md Aynul Hoque (4 joint publications)

The publications of Rajah Rasiah are often found in these venues:

  • Sustainability (7 publications)
  • Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies (5 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)
  • Research Journal of Textile and Apparel (2 publications)
  • World Electric Vehicle Journal (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Rajah Rasiah has published books through Springer Nature, including:

  • "Malaysia's Leap Into the Future," 2022
  • "Governing Enterprises in China," 2021

Best Publications

  • Foreign capital and industrialization in Malaysia

    Rajah Rasiah

  • Home government policies for outward FDI from emerging economies: lessons from Asia

    Rajah Rasiah;Peter Gammeltoft;Yang Jiang

  • Flexible production systems and local machine-tool subcontracting: electronics components transnationals in Malaysia

    Rajah Rasiah

  • Market, government and Malaysia's new economic policy

    Rajah Rasiah;Ishak Shari

  • A hard slog, not a leap frog: Globalization and sustainability transitions in developing Asia

    Michael Rock;James T. Murphy;Rajah Rasiah;Paul van Seters

  • Foreign ownership, technology and electronics exports from Malaysia and Thailand

    Rajah Rasiah

  • The semiconductor industry in Penang: Implications for the new international division of labour theories

    Rajah Rasiah

  • Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery

    K.S. Jomo;Rajah Rasiah;Natasha Hamilton-Hart

  • Free Trade Zones and Industrial Development in Malaysia

    Rajah A L Rasiah

  • Foreign Firms, Technological Capabilities And Economic Performance: Evidence From Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Rajah Rasiah;Geoffrey G. Gachino

  • The clean energy-growth nexus with co2 emissions and technological innovation in Norway and New Zealand

    Qin Fei;Rajah Rasiah;Leow Jia Shen

  • Are electronics firms in Malaysia catching up in the technology ladder

    Rajah A L Rasiah

  • Labour and industrialization in Malaysia

    Rajah Rasiah

  • Are Foreign Firms More Productive and Export- and Technology-intensive than Local Firms in Kenyan Manufacturing?

    Rajah Rasiah;Geoffrey Gachino

  • Is Malaysia Facing Negative Deindustrialization

    Rajah A L Rasiah

  • Malaysia's national innovation system

    Rajah A L Rasiah

  • Prospects for introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Malaysia

    Angelina F. Ambrose;Abul Quasem Al-Amin;Rajah Rasiah;R. Saidur

  • The systemic quad: technological capabilities and economic performance of computer and component firms in Penang and Johor, Malaysia

    Rajah Rasiah

  • Technological intensities in East and Southeast Asian electronics firms: Does network strength matter?

    Rajah Rasiah

  • Institutional support, innovation capabilities and exports: Evidence from the semiconductor industry in Taiwan

    Rajah Rasiah;Rafat Beigpoor Shahrivar;Xiao-Shan Yap

  • Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia : Industry and Firm Studies

    Greg Felker;K. S. Jomo;Rajah Rasiah

  • Corporate Tax Avoidance and Performance: Evidence from China’s Listed Companies

    Chen Zhang;Kee Cheok Cheong;Rajah Rasiah

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunsuke Managi
Shunsuke Managi Kyushu University
Walter Leal Filho
Walter Leal Filho Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Geoffrey C. Williams
Geoffrey C. Williams University of Rochester
Carlo Pietrobelli
Carlo Pietrobelli Roma Tre University
Keun Lee
Keun Lee Chung-Ang University
Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh University of Birmingham
Nowshad Amin
Nowshad Amin Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Rahman Saidur
Rahman Saidur Sunway University
Jane Klobas
Jane Klobas Murdoch University
Peter Oosterveer
Peter Oosterveer Wageningen University & Research

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