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- ItemOpen AccessAn Assessment of current web enterprises of 3 Industries in Bangladesh from E-SCM perspective(North South University, 2016-12) MM Nawaz Ameen; Mohammad Mahboob RahmanProcesses 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.
- ItemOpen AccessContinuing relevance of participatory rural appraisal: Manageral implications and strategic importance for democracy(North South University, 2016-12) Ahmedul Kabir; Mohammad Mahboob RahmanParticipatory 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.
- ItemOpen AccessPurchase 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 RahmanFood 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.
- ItemOpen AccessUsage and Sustainability of Solar Home System in Dhaka City(North South University, 2016-12) Muslima Zahan; Md. Al-Amin; Mohammad Mahboob RahmanIn 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.
- ItemOpen AccessConstructing 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 RahmanThe 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.