期刊名称：International Journal of Business and Management
印刷版ISSN：1833-3850
电子版ISSN：1833-8119
出版年度：2014
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：63
DOI：10.5539/ijbm.v9n1p63
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：This study aims to examine whether there are association between IT related trainings and IT investments in theMalaysian technology-based companies. This study uses two types of IT related trainings namely intermediate ITtrainings, and advanced IT trainings which have never been tested with IT investments in previous studies. Thedata were collected via annual reports in 2010 from 104 technology-based companies listed in Bursa Malaysia.Results from univariate test show that IT-based companies are actively involved in IT investments compared toengineering based companies. Result for intermediate IT trainings from linear regression shows, non-significantbut result for advanced IT trainings are significant but with a weak association. Thus, result for second hypothesisis partially supported, but weak association with IT investments. From the same regression, result for thirdhypothesis also can be concluded that advanced IT trainings are significant but weak association with ITinvestments.
