CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.0 Chapter Overview - DSpace@UM

Out of the 108 responding firms, 53.7% were national type with business presence onlyin Malaysia and not in other countries while 46.3% indicated that they were multinationalorganizations with operations/affiliate offices in several countries. In terms of the firms’listing in Bursa Kuala Lumpur, 33.3% of the firms surveyed were listed and theremaining 66.7% were unlisted.With regards to the size of the firm, categorization of firm size as small, medium andlarge was done based on the number of full time employees employed by the firm asshown in Table 4.2.Table 4.2: Categorization Of Firm SizeSectorCategorization of firm size by no. of full time employeesSmall Medium LargeManufacturing / Services 5 to 50 51 to 150 Above 150Source: Ministry Of Domestic Trade & Consumer Affairs (2008)The firm was categorized as small if the number of full time employees employed was 5to 50 employees, medium for 51 to 150 employees and large for above 150 employees.Thus, 67.6% of the respondents were from large firms employing more than 150 people,this was followed by medium-sized firm (13.9%) employing 51 to 150 people and smallsizedfirm (18.5%) employing 5 to 50 people.51