Abstract
Food hubs have received attention from different groups of people who have interests related to food and agriculture. These include the food manufacturers, suppliers, and also small and medium enterprises. Malaysia as a member of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has aspirations to be the Halal Food Hub for the OIC member countries. This article aims to understand the determinants that influence the OIC food manufacturers' intention to accept Malaysia as a global Halal Hub. Three hundred manufacturers were interviewed and the data were analyzed descriptively through factor analysis. Theory of planned behavior was used to gauge the OIC manufacturers' intention to accept Malaysia as a Halal Hub. The factors affecting the food manufacturers to accept Malaysia as a Halal Hub for the OIC country members are knowledge of Malaysia's intention to become a Halal Hub, confidence in Malaysia, motivation to comply, and the market potential.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, for granting the Exploratory Research Grant Scheme to undertake the study. We are grateful to Universiti Putra Malaysia for allowing us to conduct the research on and off the campus.
Notes
Note. With the significance level of p < .000, Bartlett's test of sphericity showed the correlation matrix was at an appropriate level to perform factor analysis on the data for each scale. The desired values for the KMO test, which more than 0.5, are considered satisfactoryy for the factor analysis. Low values indicate the diffuse correlations with no substantive groupings.