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Nurwati A. Ahmad-Zaluki is based at the Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur Campus), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Institute of Sustainable Growth and Urban Development (ISGUD), Universiti Utara Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur Campus), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a Professor in Accounting and Finance at the Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) and a Distinguished Research Fellow at Institute of Sustainable Growth and Urban Development (ISGUD). She has published in leading accounting and finance journals. She won the Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award 2011 for an article published in Asian Review of Accounting.

Bazeet Olayemi Badru is based at the School of Economics, Finance and Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia. He is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). His research interests include initial public offerings, corporate governance and investment. He has published in the Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Management Decision, International Journal of Management Practice, Asian Review of Accounting, International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics and International Journal of Managerial Finance.

Narentheren Kaliappen is based at the Institute for Management and Business Research (IMBRe), Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Management and Business Research (IMBRe), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). He has published in several Scopus indexed journals with Emerald, Inderscience and Sage publishers. He received the 2016 Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence. His teaching case entitled “Tastiway’s Export Strategy” was published in Case Centre, UK, under Strategy and General Management category.