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The Mystic in the Rebel
(Kazi Nazrul Islam and Abbasuddin Ahmed Research & Study Centre, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2014-05-01)Though popularly labelled as the Rebel poet of Bengal, Nazrul had been digging ceaselessly into the esoteric depth of his Seif and Soul, both taken as complementary to each other in the form of individual and universal ... -
‘Khoon’ in Bengali Literature
(Kazi nazrul Islam and Abbasuddin Ahmed Research & Study Centre, Independent University, Bangladesh, 2014-05-01)Ever since Nazrul married Promila, a section of Hindu and Brahma poets and writers were up in arms against him and they became even more aggressive in the days of Bangladesh’s communal riots. Certain remarks of Rabindranath ... -
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 ... -
Determinants of Corporate Pricing Strategies: A Case from Suriname
(2008-01-01)This paper examines the possible use of pricing strategy as to achieve competitive advantage in a liberalized corporate environment. The relevant influencing factors focus on industrial products, approached from different ... -
The Future of Financial Reporting: Meeting the Changing Demands for Accounting Information
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2008-01-01)This paper discusses the effects on the accounting profession of recent and future changes in the demands for information. It also discusses potential benefits and costs for accountants as they adapt their services to ... -
BOOK REVIEW: Vane, Howard R. and Mulhearn, Chris.
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2011-01-01)Students embarking on their post-secondary education, particularly in business or social sciences, quite often take courses in introductory economics during their first year. They come across a variety of introductory ... -
Entrepreneurship: Empowerment and Development Still -far off Mark
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2011-01-01)“Khalifer Haat, a place 72 kilometers from the district town, has much potential with the Hogla (reed) industry, if properly patronized. Most of the people among the 30,000 inhabitants of the area in some way connected ... -
A Study on The Development of Entrepreneurial Task Motivation Scale
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2011-01-01)This is an outgrowth of a research Study on the development of a forced-choice scale for measuring entrepreneurial task motivation based on the task motivation theory of Miner (1985). The scale comprises 26 items in four ... -
Corporate Tax Strategy vis-a-vis Corporate Governance in Bangladesh: An Empirical Review
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2011-01-01)77n s- naner examines the tax payment behavior of a company under its tax professional public accountants. Being considered as confidential, these strategy" are kept outside public disclosure. The regulatory from iso,ko ... -
An Appraisal of the Memorable Contribution of Nobel Laureate Professor Elinor Ostroin in the Perspective of a few Case Studies in Bangladesh
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2011-01-01)The present paper is an outgrowth of a research work based on a few case studies of Bangladesh in light of the memorable contribution of Nobel Laureate Prof. Elinor Ostrom. The paper observes that the resources meant for ... -
Does the Market Drive the Animal Spirits? A Cointegration Analysis
(School of Business, Independent University,Bangladesh, 2011-01-01)This paper studies different relationships in the US between consumer sentiment and stock returns. The study adds to the existing literature by exploring the long run relationship between consumer sentiment and stock returns ...
