North South Business Review (NSBR)

Browse

Now showing 1 - 20 of 69

Keeping Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer:Investigating Firm Incentives to Participate in Strategic CoCSR
(North South University, 2016-06) Mohammad Mahboob Rahman; Narmin Tartila Banu; Parisa Shakur; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
We investigate firm incentives for engaging in collaborative corporate social responsibility (CoCSR) tasks. Our investigation continues in the vein of earlier theoretical research that established the branding role of strategic CSR. We first consider the case of strategic partners collaborating on CSR tasks. We demonstrate that CoCSR will not always be sustainable as it will be subject to free-riding. We then consider the case of competing firms collaborating on CSR tasks. We demonstrate that firms will be more likely to engage in CoCSR with their closest competitors than with indirect competitors or even firms selling complementary goods
Structuring Tourists’ Intention on Local Food Purchase: Testing Mediating Effect of Satisfaction
(North South University, 2016-06) Muhammad Sabbir Rahman; Mehdi Hussain; Md. Aftab Anwar; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
This study aims to examine the factors influencing the tourists’ purchase intention of local food by testing the mediating effect of satisfaction. The research employed a self-administered questionnaire of 250 foreign tourists from the major cities in Malaysia. The resulting data were analysed with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques. The result of the data analysis revealed that the mediation effect of tourists' satisfaction plays a partial mediation role in between service quality and purchase intention of the local foods. Interestingly, all the direct relationships were also accepted. The results from this study can be used for looking in-depth nature of service quality, customer satisfaction and their purchase intention under the perspective on food tourism. Thus, the findings of this research may assist the ministry of tourism, higher education scholar and professional bodies to understand in details about the issues of service quality and customer satisfaction under the context of tourists’ purchase intention of local foods.
Factors influencing positive work environment: a study on female workers of rmg sector in bangladesh
(North South University, 2016-06) Kazi Nazmul Huda; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
Positive Work Environment (PWE) is a momentous issue for all kinds of organizations to ensure a quality workplace that adds essential value to the manufacturing organizations such as Ready Made Garments (RMG). The primary purpose of this study is to explore the determining factors of PWE and their role in ensuring a supportive workplace for the female workers in RMG factories. The current study is based on primary data collected through structured questionnaire from 100 female workers working in RMG factories outside Chittagong Export Processing Zone, Bangladesh. Results found five significant factors namely Effective Work System Factor, Job Security Factor, Emotional Support factor, Workplace learning factor, and Work life balance factor that are able to explain 80.81% of variation to understand the concepts of positive work environment. The study also identified two variables namely Counseling and Grievance Management, which are the most influencing variables in ensuring PWE. The study also offered few managerial implications of applying and ensuring PWE in RMG sector to contribute more to national income
In Light of the New Code Does Corporate Governance Impact Performance of Bangladeshi Firms?
(North South University, 2016-06) Mabel D’Costa; Kamrul Huda Talukdar; Adnan Habib; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
This paper primarily addresses the gap in existing literature and strives to find a causal relationship between good governance and firm performance after the implementation of the new code in 2012 in Bangladesh market. The purpose of this study is to find out if firm performance, both accounting-based and market-based, is affected by the corporate governance factors in Bangladeshi public limited companies. Ordinary Least Square regression was applied to 106 companies listed in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) with Price/Earnings ratio, Return on Asset, and Return on Equity as the dependent performance variables and Board Size, Board Composition, Audit Committee Size, Composition and Grade as the independent governance variables. It was found out that good governance does not have any effect on the market performance of the companies. While for accounting-based performance the audit committee size and composition has significant impact on companies other than banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs). Performances of banks and NBFIs had no significant impact due to governance variables
Time-Varying Volatility Dynamics of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Using GARCH-Type Models
(North South University, 2016-06) Ahmend Ameya Prapan; Paromita Rakhi; Adnan Gazi; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
Our study in this paper examines the changes in volatility dynamics of Bangladesh stock market, due to stock market crash back in 2010 using Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models. Both symmetric and asymmetric GARCH models were used to estimate the conditional volatility in daily returns of the main stock exchange of Bangladesh namely as the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Using the closing values of DSE General (DGEN) and DSE broad (DSEX) indices, we conduct our analysis by keeping the crash period of 2010 in focus and dividing the data series into three sub-periods namely as crash, pre-crash and post-crash periods. The data series exhibit evidences of skewness, kurtosis and deviations from normality as expected from Finance literature. The unit root test concludes that the data series is not stationary at level but become stationary when we take returns of the series into consideration. The conditional variance is found to be highly persistent with leverage and asymmetric effects. Our results also indicate that asymmetric GARCH models are better fitted to model volatility dynamics than the symmetric GARCH model for all sub-periods. Lastly, the comparison among various model parameters in different sub-periods in our study also exhibit significant change in volatility patterns of DSE from pre-crash to post-crash period as indicated by ARCH, GARCH, Leverage and Power coefficients.
Constructing tacit knowledge sharing Behaviour among the Non-academic Member of Institutions Higher Learning
(North South University, 2016-12) Muhammad Sabbir Rahman; Hasliza Hassan; Nazrul Islam; Mahmud Habib Zaman; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
The purpose of this research is to explain the critical success factors of tacit knowledge sharing behavior among the non-academic staff of higher learning institutions. This research applied cross-sectional research design where the researchers used survey questionnaires for data collection. The data analysis used 150 non-academic staff of Malaysian higher learning institutions. This research applied confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to assess the measurement model. The result from CFA analysis shows four-factor model supported the data which proved all the fit indices suggested by the previous researchers. The four-factor model was comprised of the underlying factors: 1) Big-Five personality traits 2) Motivation, 3) Self-efficacy, and 4) Mutual trust. The implication emanating from this study is that the higher learning institutions require those factors to facilitate the tacit knowledge sharing behavior among the non-academic staff of higher learning institutions.
An Assessment of current web enterprises of 3 Industries in Bangladesh from E-SCM perspective
(North South University, 2016-12) MM Nawaz Ameen; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
Processes and management of businesses have gone through phenomenal changes as a result of technological revolutions in recent years. One invention, the Internet, has caused businesses to look at their way of doing business again and again to make things more efficient and effective. One of the areas affected by Internet is Supply Chain Management (SCM). Therefore Electronic Supply Chain Management (E-SCM) has become an increasingly important topic to businesses. Business entities are able to interact real-time with the World Wide Web (WWW) service in the Internet and exchange information transparently. This allows trading partners a very improved way of communications resulting quicker diagnosis, feedback, and solutions to inventory and customer service problems. Hence E-SCM is born. This paper investigates the current web initiatives of three different industries, Transportation, Pharmaceuticals, and Banking, in Bangladesh and attempts to find out how successful these industries are using the internet to integrate their supply chain. This research uses a qualitative experimental design approach by comparing across a variety of factors affecting E-SCM for a group of selected companies from each industry mentioned above.
Purchase Intention of Organic Food in Bangladesh: Role of Gender, Affordability and Health Consciousness
(North South University, 2016-12) Sheikh Mohammed Rafiul Huque; Mohammad Baktiar Rana; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
Food adulteration is a very common practice among channel members in Bangladesh. The new market segment, which is urban consumers, is searching for healthy and safer sources of food and they could believe that organic foods are a solution to it. This study emphasizes on role of gender, affordability and health consciousness as driving forces in determining organic food buying intention. The hypothesized model of the study was tested employing partial least square method (PLS-SEM) using SMART-PLS software on collected samples from urban consumers in Dhaka city. The study found that health consciousness, affordability and gender all together explains 84.90 percent of the variance in buying intention. Health consciousness, affordability and gender constructs separately have a direct and significant impact on buying intentions too. Moreover, health consciousness mediates the relationship between gender and buying intention. Outer model loading found that consumers’ prefer organic food due to the chemical and pesticide free criterion and affordability negatively affects the buying intention. The study stresses that the organic marketers need to address these issues while developing promotional campaigns and setting the price of organic food. The study suggests that the value chain mechanism will be improved after the organic producers in Bangladesh adopt the participatory guarantee system.
Usage and Sustainability of Solar Home System in Dhaka City
(North South University, 2016-12) Muslima Zahan; Md. Al-Amin; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
In Bangladesh, sustainable energy has been a hot topic since the country is facing long-standing electricity crisis. The government is trying to mitigate the problem through the sustainable use of the solar panel, yet there is no research directly linking sustainability and solar panel usage in the context of Bangladesh. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify whether solar panels will be a sustainable source of energy in Bangladesh. The study was conducted with 75 solar panel users living in Bashundhara Residential Area, Dhaka. The researchers deliberately chose this area because a regulation from the authority involves binding the inhabitants to install solar home system. The findings of this study indicate that the usage of solar panel will not be sustainable in the long-run.
Continuing relevance of participatory rural appraisal: Manageral implications and strategic importance for democracy
(North South University, 2016-12) Ahmedul Kabir; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), as a tool of development research since the 1970s, has been successful in its pursuit of social justice, poverty alleviation and democratisation, and has continuing relevance. The impetus is not on the spread of PRA, but on participatory approaches, behaviour, attitudes, and mindset. PRA has the flexibility to adapt and synthesise with other development tools. Therefore, it has the ability to meet immediate social demands through improvisation, and turn itself into a movement. This democratic PRA entered the development mainstream in the early 1990s in a definitive move from the controversial, top down bureaucratic project planning methodologies like that of survey questionnaires, coinciding with the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Long before PRA was conceptualized, its basic principles were in practical use in informal ways in many parts of the world. Participation has numerous managerial implications in terms of quality decisions, ownership of decisions, leadership, economies of scale, higher levels of productivity, and effective utilization of available resources. The concept of participation is increasingly seen in the context of citizenship and local governance. The transformative notion of participation endows people with the right to participate in politics, democracy, and development.
Constructing Perceived Intention to Use Smart Phones at Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) Market
(North South University, 2017-12) Mahmud Habib Zaman; Zarjina Tarana Khalil; Muhammad Sabbir Rahman; Sheikh Morshed Jahan; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
This research investigates the factors contributing to the perceived intention to use smart phones by customers at the Bottom of the pyramid (BOP) market. Although proliferation literature exists on mobile adoption, studies centered at the BOP market are limited. The scales i f this study were adapted from previous research, namely, Technology Acceptance model (TAM). To identifr and prioritize factors affecting perceived intention to use smart phones, a sample size of 100 respondents 09-om the BOP segment) participated in this study; exploratory factor analysis (EM) was later conducted. The results of this study confirms that BOP consumers' intention(s) to use smart phones is positive and significantly associated with attitude to use smart phones. The Findings of this study may contribute to phone manufacturers and other indusby players (i.e. Telecom Companies) to devise strategies (i.e. communication) and target this potentially vast, yet untapped market.
Factors Influencing the Usage of 30 Mobile Services: An Empirical Study on Bangladeshi Young Citizens
(North South University, 2017-12) Md. Afnan Hossain; Rashedul Hasan; Md. Golam Kibria; Md. Fahami Ahsan Mazmum; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
The purpose of this research is to explain the critical factors that are influencing the usage of 3G mobile services among the young citizens of Bangladesh. This study applied cross-sectional research design where the researchers used survey questionnaires for data collection. A total of 200 responses were collected from students of Bangladesh higher learning institutions. The data was analyzed through exploratory factor analysis (EM) and regression. The results indicated two constructs (perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use) of technology acceptance model (TAM) along with personal innovativeness have positive and significant effect whereas perceived price has a negative impact and image factors failed to prove any significance on 3G mobile service usage intentions of young citizens. The repercussion originated from this study will help the policymakers of the mobile service operators to provide better service and to make this young consumer group more satisfied.
Managing Change in Projects: A Case Study on Bangladesh
(North South University, 2017-12) Md. Fazla Mohiuddin; Mahafuz Mannan; Iftekhar Amin Chowdhury; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
Abstract: Project management is a rapidly growing focus discipline with most businesses and organizations and understanding project management as a field of study encompasses large area to cover. Both primary and secondary sources were used to get a comprehensive view of how project organizations run in real life and how many types of projects are run by today's organizations. We chose 'Social Marketing Company (SMC), Bangladesh as the subject of our case study and conducted an extensive interview with the project manager to understand the optimal way of operating and managing projects in a dynamic business environment. After analysis the whole issue, we concluded that SMC is successfully achieving its goal and objective in this area. However, some unexpected obstacles do and will always come at the beginning of the project or even in the lifespan of a project but with proper decisions and planning that can be dealt successfully. The project managers just need to pay more attention to ensure effective communication with stakeholders, monitor the measurement of changes, learn from previous experience, change management plans as per requirement and negotiate if needed while doing a project in the future.
A Theoretical Model of Political Marketing Mix in Developing Countries: Case of Bangladesh
(North South University, 2017-12) Tamgid Ahmed Chowdhury; Shahneela Naheed; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
This paper as a pioneer attempt offers indicators of the political marketing mix for developing countries. In order to identify influential political marketing mix components, 2357 primary data were collected from general voters through a survey. The paper offers 43 important indicators of the political mix, grouped under eight dimensions namely product, party, price, place, promotion, persuasion, people, and physical evidence. Based on the findings of the quantitative study, a number of recommendations have been made which can be useful to political parties, candidates, and political marketing consultants.
Antecedents of Customer Satisfaction Towards Shopping Malls: From the Perspective of Less Developed Countries
(North South University, 2017-12) Mahafuz Mannan; Riasat Muhammad Amir; Ehfaz Nowman; Mohammad Baktiar Rana; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
The purpose of this study is to identify and develop measurement scales for antecedents of customer satisfaction towards shopping mall for less developed countries taking Bangladesh as a unit of analysis. This study also established three important outcomes of customer satisfaction - patronage intentions, word of mouth and trust - in that respect to strengthening existing literature on these relationships. The antecedents and items of their corresponding constructs were identified with the help of an expert panel and extensive literature review. The proposed model was tested using PLS-SEM with a sample size of 400 respondents collect from eight shopping malls around Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Identified antecedents of customer satisfaction towards shopping malls are convenience, atmosphere, security, food facilities and shop variety, and they were found to have significant positive effects customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction was found to have significant positive effects on patronage intentions, word of mouth and trust. This research aims to contribute to the scarcity of research regarding shopping malls in perspective of less developed countries. The developed scales of antecedents of customer satisfaction were formative, which regards to shopping malls is a pioneer.
Examining Students' Adoption and Usage Behavior in line with UTAUT constructs: Evidence from the tertiary level education in Bangladesh
(North South University, 2018-06) Md. Khaled Amin; Mahmud Habib Zaman; Afrina Amin; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
The study aims to apply the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUD model to understand both adoption and usage behavior of various Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enabled products and services among the students of Higher Education Institutions (HEls) in Bangladesh. The study was carried out at the tertiary level education institute, consisting of 210 respondents drawn from three departments (Le., science, business and engineering) of a leading private university in Bangladesh. The model confirmed a good fit with the data, and explained 47% of the variance for Behavioral Intention (BI) and 35% for Usage Behavior (UB). Results of the study confirmed the significant direct effect of the variables, i.e., Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort Expectancy (EE) and Social Influence (SI) on Behavioral Intention (BI) to use ICTs at the tertiary level education. The study's findings may contribute to both academia and policy makers to devise program to understand and enhance various Information and Communication Technologies (IC7k) based platforms in higher educational institutions (HEIs) of Bangladesh.
Impact Of Environmental Collaboration, Organizational Collaboration And Green Supply Chain Management In Sustainability Performance
(North South University, 2018-06) ZerinTasnim; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
Nowadays the concept of green supply chain management is a receiving increased attention to the whole world and this concern make the ground of writing this paper. As Bangladesh is a developing countty, many manufacturing industries are growing and also many multinationals are opening their manufacturing subsidiaries in our country. These factories wastage as harmful gases of carbon and sulfur, plastic wastes, black fumes from vehicles and from factories are causing pollution in the ail; water as well as land. So green supply chain management is important to maintain the overall internal environment of an organization as well as how it impacts the mother nature. The purpose of this paper is to review various kinds of literature on the relationship between green supply chain management, inter-organizational collaboration pattern, environmental collaboration and sustainability performance in the context of Bangladeshi manufacturing companies. These research findings will be particularly important for manufacturing companies in developing a relation among organizational collaboration, environmental collaboration and sustainability performance.
Financial Statement Comparability and Harmonization of Accounting Standards
(North South University, 2018-06) Muinuddin Ahmed; Muhammad Nasiruddin; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
This paper examines whether accounting standard harmonization increases financial information comparability across countries. Firstly comparability is defined and linked statistically to firm value within two companies' sequential information sharing framework. Afterwards, the prediction that a company that has not announced earnings responds strongly to the announcement of earnings ofa foreign company when the two report under similar rather than separate accounting standards is tested empirically. The evaluation of abnormal volume and price responses for a worldwide sample of companies complements this prediction.
Impact of social media usage on academic performance of business students studying at ACBSP accredited private business schools in Bangladesh
(North South University, 2018-06) Raihan Sharif; Kabid Md Surid; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of Facebook and YouTube usage on academic performance of business students studying at ACBSP accredited private business schools of Bangladesh. Structured questionnaire containingfifteen questions has been used to collect response from the respondents. The respondents are undergraduate level students and their age range is between nineteen to twenty four years. The survey was conducted at ACBSP accredited private business schools in Bangladesh and number ofrespondent was 300. Regression model was used for data analysis. There are two ACBSP accredited private business school in Bangladesh. Our study focused on studentsfivm both business schools. We found that Facebook and YouTube have almost similar impact on academic performance of the students from both school which is 13.4% for the students from North South University and 17.2% for the students front Independent University, Bangladesh. Respondents from both universities believe that YouTube is more helpful than Facebook for study purpose. This paper helps to understand perception of students studying business disciplines at ACBSP accredited private business schools in Bangladesh about impact of Facebook and YouTube usage on their academic performance.
Labour Market Returns to Education: Evidences from Bangladesh
(North South University, 2018-06) Salma Begum; Tasmia Nahreen Jahangir; Mohammad Mahboob Rahman
This study estimates the rate of returns to education (RORE) in Bangladesh at the individual level. Adopting the Mincer earningsfitnction, the study attempts to obtain robust and unbiased estimates of RORE by applying both IV 2SLS and Heckman two step procedures. Parents' and spouse's education have been used as IV in two separate models and am,found to be strongly related to schooling of individuals. Significant selection and endogeneity bias exists in the OLS estimation. Results indicate RORE is considerably low in Bangladesh.