Seong Mi Bae, Md. Abdul Kaium Masud, Jong Dae Kim
There is a dearth of research on corporate governance and total sustainability disclosure (economic, environmental, and social) in developing, particularly South Asian, countries. This is unique cross-country research on South Asian countries’ corporate governance elements and total sustainability d...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Mark Stevenson, Marta Zorzini
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate why developing country suppliers are adopting socially sustainable practices and how the implementation process is both impeded and enabled. Design/methodology/approach – A multi-case study approach is adopted based on four ready made garment (RM...
Ida E. Berger, Peggy Cunningham, Minette E. Drumwright
This article investigates what it means for corporate social responsibility (CSR) to be mainstreamed in a company. Rather than a single ' best practice/narratives provided by managers revealed that mainstreaming can be understood in terms of three distinct CSR orientations: the business-case model, ...
Md Ileas Pramanik, Raymond Y.K. Lau, Haluk Demirkan, Md. Abul Kalam Azad
Md. Nekmahmud, Mária Fekete‐Farkas
Consumers are paying close attention to green products to reduce the environmental impact on health issues. As the scope of this research, this current study focuses on determining consumers’ purchase decisions regarding green products using a survey conducted in a fast-growing developing country. T...
Mohammad Muzahid Akbar, Noorjahan Parvez
This research has proposed a conceptual framework to investigate the effects of customers’ perceived service quality, trust, and customer satisfaction on customer loyalty. To test the conceptual framework, structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used to analyze the data collected from 304 custom...
Jingfeng Yuan, Alex Yajun Zeng, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, Qiming Li
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been applied widely in the global construction market. During the life cycle of PPP projects, their performance could be affected by a number of factors and their interactions, which might cause the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the projects. Previous re...
Khan Md. Raziuddin Taufique, Andrea Vocino, Michael Jay Polonsky
Consumers are increasingly concerned about the negative environmental implications of purchasing goods, which in turn shape their behaviour. Yet, there are indications that consumers do not always act on these concerns, causing an attitude–behaviour gap. For consumers to make ecologically responsibl...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Ilma Nur Chowdhury, Robert D. Klassen
Abstract For sustainability, research in operations and supply chain management historically emphasized the development of environmental rather than social capabilities. However, factory disasters in Bangladesh, an emerging market and the second largest clothing exporter in the world, revealed enorm...
David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinott
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Targeting of Transfers in Developing CountriesReview of Lessons and ExperienceAuthors/Editors: David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John HoddinottDavid Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinotthttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5769-7SectionsAboutPDF (1.2 MB) ToolsAdd...
Gary Gereffi, Stacey Frederick
This paper examines the impact of two crises on the global apparel value chain: the World Trade Organization phase-out of the quota system for textiles and apparel in 2005, which provided access for many poor and small export-oriented economies to the markets of industrialized countries, and the cur...
Mohammed Hossain, M. Masrur Reaz
Abstract This study reports the results of an empirical investigation of the extent of voluntary disclosure by 38 listed banking companies in India. It also reports the results of the association between company specific characteristics and voluntary disclosure of the sample companies. The study rev...
Md. Aminul Islam, Mohammad Aktaruzzaman Khan, Abu Zafar Muhammad Obaidullah, Monjurul Alam
This study examines the effect of characteristics of entrepreneur and characteristics of the firm on the businesssuccess of Small and Medium Enterprises in Bangladesh. The study is based on survey methodology through aquestionnaire administered on the owners and employees of small firms. Data are an...
Kimberly Eddleston, Franz W. Kellermanns, Thomas Zellweger
Drawing from stewardship theory, we investigated corporate entrepreneurship in family firms. We argued that stewardship culture determinants––comprehensive strategic decision making, participative governance, long–term orientation, and human capital––differentiate the most entrepreneurial family fir...
Jean‐François Hennart
The distinguishing characteristic of international new ventures/born globals (INVs/BGs) is that they have foreign sales from the outset, or very quickly afterward. I argue that this is due to their business model. INVs/BGs sell to spatially dispersed customers distinctive niche products that incur l...