School of Business & Entrepreneurship: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Lean Production Practices in Bangladesh: An Investigation into the Extent of Practices in the Bangladeshi Garment Companies
(School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2009-01-01)Lean Production has overcome the perception of being another management fad. An increasing number of organizations in developing countries are implementing lean production in order to generate improvements in performance ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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: ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
