https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/308 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:05:58 GMT 2026-04-16T01:05:58Z http://ar.iub.edu.bd:80/bitstream/id/d507e753-2938-4459-81d0-cc517c5c5983/ https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/308 https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/315 Does Grameen Phone Need to Rethink Promoting Its Value Added Services for Users of Sylhet in Bangladesh? Ahmed, S. M. Saief Uddin; Chowdhuri, Abu Sayef Md Muntaquimul Bari Bangladesh has one of the fastest growing consumers in mobile communication sector and Grameen Phone Ltd. is standing in top position. Value-added services (VAS) help mobile phone operators go beyond typical voice services to earn more revenue. This paper identifies 69.3 percent Grameen Phone (GP) users belong to 21-30 age group, 57 percent users are student, 58 percent is using smart phone while almost 48 percent is using Nokia aspreferred cell phone brand. 44 percent users are using GP more than six years while 38 percent users spent Tk. 501 – 1000 per month. Almost 47 percent users got informed about VAS via GP’s bulk SMS and 21.2 percent via newspaper. From plenty of VAS, SMS (33 percent) and call waiting/hold (52 percent) are used a great deal by the users. The study depicts significant and strong positive association with users’ age and usage (Tk.) per month, and users’ profession and call conference and opera mini. In Bangladesh, value-added services (VAS) were basically introduced by the short message service (SMS). But now a day, VAS has spread and people can even get emergency help from the telecom operators.VAS helps operators go beyond typical voice services to earn more revenue. According to government data, about 90 percent of total internet use in the country is through the mobile network. Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/315 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/314 Corporate Governance Environment in South Asia: A comparative analysis of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Mamun, Syed A.; Noor, Mohammad Fahad; Musa, S. M. Corporate governance environment refers tovarious country level factors affect the firm level governance practices. The main objective of this paper is to explore the corporate governance environment of two South Asian countries namely Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Findings of the study represents that both of the countries take various initiatives to develop their corporate governance environment in the line of international standard. The current paper extends the scarce literature on corporate governance environment which, in turn, assists policy makers and corporate decision makers to understand the phenomena in a better way. Corporate governance environment is the composition of country level factors which affect the corporate governance practise of firms operated in a particular economy. Jensen and Meckling (1976) explained a firm as a nexus of contracts among its stakeholders i.e. managers, employees, shareholders, creditors, suppliers, customers, community, markets, politics, culture etc. Similarly, based on the stakeholder perspective, Gillan (2006) defined corporate governance environment as the composition of law and regulation, capital markets, market for corporate control, labour markets, product markets, providers of capital market information, accounting, auditing, finance and legal service providers external to the firm, the media and external lawsuits. Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/314 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/313 An Exploratory Study on Bangladesh’s Emerging Credit Rating Industry Shil, Shubhankar A key dilemma for credit rating agencies (CRAs) is how they act during the time of rating (whether neutrally or not) as their principal sources of revenue come from whose products they are rating (client/issuers). The severe competitions among the CRAs infuse them to grab the clienteles and retain them even by giving favorable rating. This very issue elicits the possibility of existence of conflict of interest among the CRAs and the issuers. This further ignites the unhealthy competition among CRAs , particularly in a very small country like Bangladesh where the number of CRA is not paucity in numbers ( specifically eight CRAs in Bangladesh whereas in USA, the biggest corporate space of the world has only three major CRAs and only the two- Moody’s and S&P are dominant). The ratings provided by CRAs are now challenged very frequently and they are vehemently commented. The very common observation about the rating is that CRAs are more relaxed during the boom years and vice versa. And the paradox of competition among CRAs reduces the efficiency and quality of ratings since it facilitates ratings shopping for the clients/issuers and results in excessively high reported ratings. Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/313 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/312 Key Factors in Guests’ Perception of Hotel Atmosphere: A Case on Kakarvitta, Nepal Mahmud, Aditi Mansur; Habib, Wahidul; Sabery, Mohammed Badar Uddin The goal of this research is to identify key variables that can be used to evaluate guest house services from the guests’ perspective. One hundred thirty five guests were selected by judgement sampling procedure for the study. A multivariate analysis technique like “Factor Analysis” was used to identify the factors. The results shows that amenities and transport services, attached bathroom and bar services and food and discount facilities have emerged important factors for selecting guest houses. Kakarvitta is a neighbourhood in Mechinagar Municipality in Jhapa District of Mechi zone, Southeastern Nepal. Kakarvitta is the eastern terminus of Nepal’s east west Mahendra Highway at the country’s eastern border with Darjeeling District, West Bengal State, India. The Panitanki neighbourhood of Naxalbari is on the other side. There is a border checkpoint for third country nationals. Indian and Nepalese nationals cross without restriction(Wikipedia, 2016). Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/312 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z