Editor’s Note
Nastaran Taghizadeh
Editor-in-Chief,
International Journal of Business and Innovation
It is with great pleasure that we present Volume 5, Issue 1 (2025) of the International Journal of Business and Innovation. This issue features two distinguished empirical contributions that exemplify the journal’s core mission: to advance understanding of innovation in its multifaceted forms, including financial, organizational, and intellectual. These studies illuminate how institutions adapt to change, integrate diverse systems, and sustain performance through strategic and innovative practices.
The first article, “Performance, Integration, and Resilience: An Empirical Analysis of Malaysian REITs”, investigates the innovative evolution of the Malaysian Real Estate Investment Trust (M-REIT) sector within a transforming regional and global financial ecosystem. Through a rigorous empirical approach that encompasses correlation and multifactor regression analyses, the authors examine the dynamics of performance, integration, and resilience across conventional and Islamic REIT structures from 2005 to 2018. Their findings reveal that M-REITs not only outperform traditional fixed-income instruments…[To read full article, click Download PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.65194/IJBI-2025-1001
