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Impact of Communication Effectiveness, Service Quality, and Trust on Relationship Commitment of Prepaid and Post-paid Mobile Subscribers of a Private Telecommunication Company in Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2008-01-01)A conceptual model or framework has been employed la investigate the impact of few explanatory variables like communication effectiveness, service quality (which has two comprising dimensions called technical quality and ... -
Money in Market Clearing
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2008-01-01)Market clearing is the central issue in macroeconomics, Tm centuries of debate on Say's law indicates that the issue is not yet settled. This essay proposes that double coincidence is a necessary condition for market ... -
Book Review: Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (London: The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982, pp. viii+280, Index. Hardcover£20, Paperback £7.50)
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2008-01-01)Since Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi’s above mentioned book has been wonderfully written, We could, not help checking our desire to review it once again although several expert scholars (such as Tussie, 1983; Bvres, 1984: ... -
The Future of Financial Reporting: Meeting the Changing Demands for Accounting Information
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2008-01-01)This paper discusses the effects on the accounting profession of recent and future changes in the demands for information. It also discusses potential benefits and costs for accountants as they adapt their services to ... -
Determinants of Corporate Pricing Strategies: A Case from Suriname
(2008-01-01)This paper examines the possible use of pricing strategy as to achieve competitive advantage in a liberalized corporate environment. The relevant influencing factors focus on industrial products, approached from different ... -
Towards a Model of Strategy Implementation for Organizations in Developing Economies
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2008-01-01)The essence of strategic success lies in effectiveness of strategy implementation rather than the sophistication of strategy formulation. This paper reviews existing models or frameworks of strategy implementation, comments ... -
Patterns in Forming Industry Standards for Environmental and Social Responsibility: A Comparative Analysis of Swedish and Malaysian Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Formations
(Library, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)Cashure et al. (2004) have developed a model to explain legitimacy for forest certification in c1 number of geographic regions. This paper extends the model to explain development and existence qfnan-state market-driven ... -
The Pecking Order Theory: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Indonesia
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)This paper examines the pec/dng order theory and the extent to which evidence from manufacturingfirms in Indonesia supports it. Based on this, the paper goes on to analyse the determinants of the capital struirture affirms ... -
Impact of Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Program on Socioeconomic Development of Poor Women in Bangladesh: A Case Study on SME Program of BRAC Bank
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)This paper analyzes the impact of SME program of BRAC Bank on socio economic development of poor women in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh 50% people are living below poverty line and 25% are living in absolute poverty. They are ... -
A Closer Look at the Size Effect in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)The tendency of small firms to produce more returns than large firms is often referred to as ‘size eflect“. While this eflect is evident in many research papers pursued in the context of developed markets, little attention is ... -
Factors Affecting IT Project Implementation Success in the Manufacturing Industry in Malaysia
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)Globally bi/lions of dollars are spent on information technology projects by both public and private sectors annually. Unfortunately, more than half of these projects fail to deliver the intended objectives. Thus, millions ... -
UGC Based Websites: Exploring the Business Models and their Sustainability
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)At present web content is not only flowingfroni firm to its end users but also from users to the web. Users are empowered to generate the content. Y0uTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, C)=w0rld. OhmyNews etc. are gaining millions of ... -
BOOK REVIEW: Sen, Dilip Kumar. Anatomy of Human Resource Measurement and Accounting (Dhaka: The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh), June 2008, pp.XXVI+443, Hardcover TK.365.00, US $10.00
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)Numerous challenges for the decade of 1990s still facing the industrial and economic world, where the distinctive feature of an emerging economy is the increasing emphasis on "human capital"—the knowledge, skills and ... -
Role of Information Technology in Socio-economic Development of Bangladesh: An Overview
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2008-07-01)Information Technology (IT) is a crucial source in socioeconomic development of a country. It is considered in Bangladesh as a thrust sector and its impact is very important in socio-economic development of the country. ... -
A Cross-Cultural Model of Power, Conflict, and Propensity to Leave a Job
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2009-01-01)This study tested a structural equations model of the French and Raven bases of supervisory power (coercive, reward, legitimate, expert, and referent), strategies of managing conflict with supervisor (problem solving and ... -
An Approach to Change Management in Higher Education: Developed Country Perspective
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2009-01-01)This article is an endeavour to show that organisational learning is linked to organisational performance in higher education sector. This study is the outcome of an exploratory research. It has reviewed literature related ... -
The Development of Consumer Protection Law in Bangladesh: A Critical Comparative Study
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2009-01-01)Consumer protection is a very important issue ail over the world. Specially in third world countries it is more important where the life and liberty of the people are often intruded. It deserves mention that even 35 years ... -
Book Review: Kareithi, Peter and Nixon Karethi. Untold Stories; Economics and Business Journalism in African Media, eds. (Johannesburg South Africa: Wits University Press), 2005, xii + 275 pages
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2009-01-01)The business press plays a key role in the overall development of a nation’s economy. This is evident in the widespread use of a business press in virtually all developed nations. The necessity of collecting, analyzing and ... -
Approaches to Economic Development, Growth, HDI and Bangladesh: A Methodological Shift
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2009-01-01)This paper briefly investigates the traditional approaches to economic development, growth, poverty reduction initiatives and the rank of Bangladesh within the human development index (HDI) of UNDP. The traditional approaches ... -
Social Capital and Women Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2009-01-01)On July 22, 2003, Dukhimon Begum, a 40-year old mother of four from Durgapur Upazila (an administrative unit of northern Bangladesh) of the Rajshahi district in the northern part of the country, quarreled with her ...
