Respondents’ characteristics
Seventeen (44.7 percent) of the respondent firms have adopted the BSC. The earliest
adopter of the BSC did so in 2000. More than eighty percent of the adopters did so after
2001. Table I provides data on when the BSC was adopted by the respondents.
An examination of the mean sales of the adopters of the BSC shows that they have a
mean of RM819 million. The non-adopters have a lower mean sales of RM371 million.
This indicates that the BSC adopters tend to be larger companies, as measured by 2004
sales