Independent Business Review: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Does Grameen Phone Need to Rethink Promoting Its Value Added Services for Users of Sylhet in Bangladesh?
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2015-07-01)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 ... -
Corporate Governance Environment in South Asia: A comparative analysis of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2015-07-01)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 ... -
An Exploratory Study on Bangladesh’s Emerging Credit Rating Industry
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2015-07-01)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 ... -
Key Factors in Guests’ Perception of Hotel Atmosphere: A Case on Kakarvitta, Nepal
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2015-07-01)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 ... -
Evaluating the Visitor Experienceat Nandan Park: An Empirical Investigation of Key Attributes
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2015-07-01)The goal of this research is to identify key attributes that can be used to evaluate Nandan park from the visitors’ perspective. One hundred and seventy eight respondents were selected by simple random sampling procedure ... -
Development of Financial Markets and Financial Stability in Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2015-07-01)The main objective of this paper is to analyze the financial market development of Bangladesh during 2010-2015. Although having crisis triggered by capital market failure and ailing performance of SCBs, the progress ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives and Disclosure by Indian Central Public Sector Enterprises – Evidence from Navratna Companies
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2015-07-01)Ethics, responsibility and social responsiveness have become significant themes in research and the public domain. They are discussed under labels such as the ethical economy, sustainability, fair trade, corporate ... -
Moral Conduct and its Impact on Employees’ Job Satisfaction
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2013-01-01)The Purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between top management support for moral conduct and association between moral conduct and occupational achievement and job satisfaction. Several hypotheses are ... -
Has Financial Reporting Become More Conservative? An Update
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2012-07-01)Givoly and Hayn (2000) (GH) examine time series properties of earnings, cash flows, and accruals over a 48-year period from 1950 to 1998 and find that financial reporting has become more conservative. We replicate GH hold ... -
Role of Social Capital in Governance of Gram Committee: The Case of Participatory Rural Development Project (PRDP) In Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2011-01-01)The Study was undertaken with the objective of identifying the institutional mechanisms for promoting transparency, accountability and villagers' participation in GC activities under PRDP link model that emanated from ... -
Post MFA Effects on Women’s Jobs in Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2010-07-01)Bangladesh Enjoyed a tariff free multi-fiber agreement with the US which was supposed to expire in December 2004 and there was a prediction that many garment workers would be jobless and join informal sex workers such as ... -
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 ... -
Private Colleges – Boon, Curse or Both? The Work of the British Accreditation Council
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2016-01-01)Private Colleges are a sector of the economy unknown to many, except maybe some members of the committee of validating Universities who have entered into collaborations, and so the colleges offer their qualifications. ....... -
Environmental Influences on Business Practices
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2014-01)The Iranian Business People are typically, considered skillful bargainers, savvy and successful. It is interesting to examine their business practices and their roots. Iran has been influenced by multitude of environmental ...
