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Efficiency of Maize production in Bangladesh: a stochastic frontier approach
(Independent University, Bangladesh, 2020-03-01)In the recent years, maize has emerged as an economically viable crop to the farmers of Bangladesh. This study estimates the technical efficiency of maize production under two different cropping patterns. For this purpose, ... -
Factors Affecting internal Branding on Private Service Holders in Bangladesh
(Independent University, Bangladesh, 2020-03-01)Internal branding is a crucial factor to ensure that employees are adequately motivated to play an effective role in revenge generation. A strong internal branding effort strengthens the company's effort and gives employees ... -
EMPLOYEE ACCEPTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN BANGLADESH: INTEGRATING UTAUT AND KMS DIFFUSION MODEL
(Independent University, Bangladesh, 2020-02-22)Knowledge management system practice and implementation in an organization gradually growing in the global economy. Although wide ranging acceptance of KMS by users in the western companies for facilitating knowledge sharing ... -
Convergent Effect of Work Family Conflict on Job Satisfaction of commercial Banks Employees in Bangladesh: does gender role moderate the effect?
(2020-02-19)Work and family are two domains of extraordinary importance in the lives of the most men and women in our society. Today's highly demanding nature of work and family has given rise to conflicting relations. The present ... -
Cognitive Intelligence and Spiritual Management for Effective Managerial Decision Making
(Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), 2020-02-19)Cognitive Intelligence and spritual intelligence as a philosophy of company's management, is shifting the intention and significance of conducting business. Basic foundation of human thinking in a large extent is entirely ... -
Mobile Banking Services Adoption: insight from brand name perspectives based on UTAUT2 model
(Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), 2020-02-19)Mobile banking services give the opportunity to the customers to operate banking services through their mobile phones, tabs, and notepad. To attract the new customer and retain the existing customer's mobile banking can ... -
Leadership Skills and Competencies of Global Business
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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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
BOQK REVIEW: Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bageho! Guide to Economics and Business Journalism, Terri Thompson, ed., NY: Columbia University Press, 2001, xxvi-422 pages.
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2010-07-01)Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics and Business Journalism, Terri Thompson, ed., NY: Columbia University Press, 2001, xxv+422 pages. Terri Thompson, director of the Knight-Bagehot ... -
Rural-Urban Migration in Bangladesh: The Need for Diverting Rural Migrants to Secondary Cities
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2010-07-01)Bangladesh has been experiencing a rapid urbanization since independence in 1971, but the distribution of urban population is highly skewed and the capital city receives a disproportionate urban population. The other ... -
Financial and Management Accounting Practices in Small Business: An Exploratory Study in India
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2010-07-01)Small Business promotion has continued to remain an important and integral part of Indian development strategy since her independence. The concentrated policy emphasis upon small firms as a vital vehicle of progress draws ... -
Role of Thin Commodity Futures Markets in Physical Market Price Making: An Analysis of Wheat Futures in India in the Post-Ban Era
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2010-07-01)There is a belief that even thin futures markets can act as a forum for reference pricing and create more volatility in the physical market prices. This article tests that hypothesis, given a few problems aflecting the ... -
Bangladesh Law and Order Situation: Clustering-Based Discriminant Analysis
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2010-07-01)In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze people ’s perception about law and order situation and law enforcing bodies in Bangladesh in the framework of Clustering-based Discriminant analysis in addition to descriptive ...
