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Kelantan and Terengganu have the highest number of hardcore poors in Malaysia. Over the years entrepreneurship is one of the means that has been propagated by the government to address this inherent problem. While women hitherto involve in usual business activities, recently more and more women in the said states dare to jump into a new domain of businesses which usually monopolized by men - recycling. This phenomenon warrants empirical research to unearth pertinent questions of the inroad of female entrepreneurs in a new territory of business which overwhelmingly dominated by male entrepreneurs. Yet at present not many researchers and relevant government agencies look into recycling as an alternative business but for men entrepreneurs, not women. This paper is a part of a larger study that investigated entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in recycling business in the both states. Results of the study found that women entrepreneurs in this business are matured, married, and received full support from their families – husband and children. In terms of education majority of them only study until secondary school. Highlighting women entrepreneurs' profiles is deemed important because interested parties including future ntrepreneurs, researchers as well as relevant government agencies gain some understanding of characteristics of women entrepreneurs have made a dent in the socalled male dominant business.

PurposeThis paper aims to problematise the notions of both "corporate social responsibility" and "stakeholder theory". In particular, it seeks to challenge the promises it claims to hold regarding social responsibility and community engagement.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a discussion of indigenous stakeholders' activism in Sarawak, Malaysia.FindingsIt is shown that despite the rhetoric of corporate social responsibility and stakeholderism, there is a clear failure of the state government and corporations to actively involve local affected communities. In so doing, both the state and corporations have rendered the local indigenous peoples, a significant and legitimate stakeholder, powerless, redundant and inevitably compromised both the development and management process. The paper also suggests that community engagement can be problematic for indigenous peoples and for it and stakeholderism to be efficacious, they need to involve the discourse of rights and activism within Sarawak and Malaysia.Originality/valueThe paper offers insight into the indigenous peoples at Sarawak resistance against the state Government and corporations, Focusing on stakeholder activism.

This study examines the direct effects of firm�s characteristics such as board structure and capital structure on divided per share as a proxy of firm�s performance and interaction between board structure and capital structure on dividend. The fixed effect regression uses a sample of 361 non-financial Malaysian listed firms over the period of 2002 to 2007. The decision made by the board of directors with duality role of Chairman cum Chief Executive Officer and larger board size to pay dividend demonstrates that duality role of chairman cum chief executive officer have negative effect on dividend payment but not outside independent director(s). The interaction between board structure namely duality, independent directors, board size and capital structure namely debt ratio reveals that duality weakens the negative effect of debt ratio on dividend while independent directors strengthens the negative effect of debt ratio on dividend payment. Overall, the results of this study may be summarized to suggest that distributable income to shareholders increases through a balanced financing decision between capital structure choice and dividend payment made by the board of directors that possessed duality role.

Legendary stories are historical tales about figures and places among the local community in the past. This study was conducted because the average society today is not aware of the existence of legendary stories which are rich in values and become a symbol of historical splendour among the community in Kelantan. Society also considers legendary stories as mere entertainment, untrue, imaginary and fantasy. This study aims to identify and analyse the values in legendary stories in the Lembangan Sungai Pengkalan Datu, Kelantan. This study is qualitative in nature, involving library methods, interviews and study analysis. In addition, the spiritual concepts approach contained in the National Education Philosophy is used as a deductive study to ensure a more robust analysis of the study. The findings of this study can be proven through the discovery of legendary stories that are rich in positive values such as kind-heartedness, humility, respect and love among humankind, all of which can be used as a guide for life among the local community. Thus, these positive values can be internalised as practices and lessons to form a civilised society.