Independent Business Review: Recent submissions
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Firm Performance and Executive Compensation in Private Commercial Banks: Evidence from a Developing Country
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2012-07-01)This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Chief Executive Compensation and firm performance amongst the private commercial banks in Bangladesh. Based on five years data for 21 private commercial banks, ice ... -
Public Disclosure by Indian Life Insurers - An Empirical Study
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2012-07-01)As the Indian insurance industry was characterized by the presence of only public sector players and with the life insurance side being a monolithic structure devoid of even little competition, information disclosure has ... -
The New Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting 2010: Some Reflective Comments
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2012-07-01)A new Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, although in an incomplete shape, has been issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in September 2010. Having a status of the constitution of a ... -
Book Review: Swadesh Ranjan Bose Edited by Jaseem Ahmed
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2013-01-01)Swadesh Ranjan Bose Edited by Jaseem Ahmed, Collected Works Volume 1, Regional Cooperation for Development in South Asia and Volume II, Essays on Economic Policies, Inequality and Problems of Development (The University ... -
Human Resource Management Practices in Private Sector Service Organizations: A Case Study of IDLC Bangladesh Ltd.
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2013-01-01)This paper examines the Human Resource Management (HRM) practice of International Development Leasing Company (IDLC). The objective is to highlight the salient HRM features of the firm that makes it different from other ... -
Does Budget Deficit Affect Stock Prices in Bangladesh?
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2013-01-01)This study examines whether there is a long term relationship between budget deficit and stock price and if there is a causal flow between the variables in Bangladesh. Actual monthly budget deficit and monthly value of DSE ... -
Empowerment of Women through Microfinance – A Study in Nilgiri District, Tamilnadu
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2013-01-01)Empowerment of women involves a holistic approach that covers social, political, psychological and economic aspects of women development. Of these, economic empowerment is of utmost significance in order to achieve a lasting ... -
The Impact of Financial Strength Rating Criteria on Operating Return on Equity of Indian Life Insurers - An Empirical Study
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2013-01-01)Credit rating for insurance companies is an independent opinion on an insurer’s financial strength and ability to meet its ongoing insurance policy and contract obligations. For this, credit rating agencies world over adopt ... -
The Impact of Compensation Schemes on Risk Attitude: A Comparison between Bangladesh and US Decision-makers
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2013-01-01)In Shis study we have examined the impact of the tie between compensation schemes and performance on the degree of risk taken by corporate decisionmakers. We have explored for the degree of tie, at which, decision-makers ... -
Mohammad Osman Gani, Foundations of Economic Science (Scholars, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2003, Hardcover), ISBN 984-32-0655-X
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2014-01-01)Dr. Mohammad Osman Gani is too humble a person and knows very well who to acknowledge in his life as they have strongly contributed towards his pursuits to do economics. He sought twenty-two years of his life from his wife ... -
Disclosure in Financial Statement on the basis of BASs: A Study on Listed Pharmaceutical Companies in Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2014-01-01)International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) has issued IASs IFRSs in order to harmonize financial information of companies & to ensure relevant, reliable, consistent and comparable information for the users. The study ... -
Dividend Payout Study of Companies in Bangladesh: A Preliminary Study
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2014-01-01)Dividend announcement is considered as a signal to convey information to the market. Many researchers have found relevance of signalling power of dividends to market. Still there are arguments among researchers whether ... -
Foreign Exchange Exposure: A Case Study of Non-financial Firms in UK
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2014-01-01)This paper examines the foreign exchange exposure of UK non-financial listed companies over the period January 2005 to December 2010 and compares to two sub periods - pre-recession period (2005-2007) and recession/post- ... -
Determinants of audit fees: an empirical study on selected listed financial Companies of Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-07-01)Audit fee is a fee that is charged for external assurance service to the client. -
The Strategic Interplay Among Work Life Balance, Age, Employee Experience and Employee Retention: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry of Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-07-01)This study takes a simplistic approach to understand the interplay between work life balance, age and employee retention while looking at the moderating effect of employees’ job experience in Bangladesh context. Quantitative ... -
The Impact of Internal Corporate Governance on Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh, Malaysia & Singapore
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-07-01)Internal Corporate governance refers to the controlling mechanism of various internal actors of a firm. The aim of the study is to explore the impact of internal corporate governance (CG) mechanism on firm performance in ... -
The role of Perceived Organizational Support in the relationship of Organizational Commitment and Employee Engagement: a conceptual model
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-07-01)Though employee engagement topic has become one of the prominent issues among academics and practitioners, unexpectedly, less attention has been paid yet to make it more explicate. Therefore, this study considers both the ... -
Challenges of Mobile Banking in Bangladesh: A Study on Dhaka City
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-07-01)The revolution of mobile money transfer (mobile banking) has become larger consumers of financial services in Bangladesh to access financial services offered by formal providers outside of traditional bank branches. Like ... -
Impact of Non-verbal Communication on Loyalty in a Social Media context: a Systematic Review
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-07-01)This paper is based on a systematic review that has explored the impact of nonverbal communication on loyalty in a social media context. This structured literature review looks at an appropriate sample of papers was collected ... -
Workplace Anger: A Solution Perspective
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-07-01)One of the main components of natural emotion for every normal person is anger. Both suppressing and venting of resentments create unhealthy relationship in the workplace. A better alternative for controlling anger is to ...
