Jahan Ara Peerally, Claudia De Fuentes, Paulo N. Figueiredo
This article examines how a least developed country-based social business first creates operational capabilities (OCs) and then, over time, builds innovative capabilities (ICs) to fulfil a social need, be self-sustainable and achieve inclusive innovation. This relationship is examined in Bangladesh'...
Agnes Quisumbing, Jessica Heckert, Simone Faas, Gayathri Ramani et al.
Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing societal norms or gender-specific barriers. We use primary data collected in Asia (Bangladesh, Philippines) and A...
Mohammed S. Chowdhury, Zahurul Alam, Md. Ifttekhar Arif
In order to assess the factors that affect the success of entrepreneurs of small and medium sized enterprises of Bangladesh, survey data were collected from eighty entrepreneurs from the southern region of Bangladesh selected through random sampling technique. Success factors here refer to demograph...
Mathew Philip
The objective of this study was to identify determinants of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) business success in an underdeveloped country like Bangladesh. The intention of this study is to provide the understanding of how people should start their business by looking at all the factors affecting...
Fara Azmat, Ahmed Shahriar Ferdous, Paul Couchman
This article explores how social entrepreneurs utilize their unique circumstances and resources at a micro level to facilitate the creation of shared value at the meso level, leading to inclusive growth at a macro level in the context of subsistence marketplaces. Drawing from explanatory case studie...
Paul Van Mele
<title>Abstract</title> From 1999 to 2004 the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning by doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked government, non-government and priv...
Bidit Lal Dey, Ben Binsardi, Renée Prendergast, Mike Saren
Purpose – The paper aims to analyse bottom of the pyramid (BoP) customers’ (e.g. Bangladeshi farmers) use and appropriation of mobile telephony and to critically identify a suitable research strategy for such investigation. \n \nDesign/methodology/approach – Concentrated ethnographic immersi...
Jarrod P. Vassallo, Sourindra Banerjee, Hasanuzzaman Zaman, Jaideep Prabhu
Traits that predict whether an employee will generate promising new ideas do not necessarily predict that they will also implement those ideas. This is especially relevant within the public sector, which is typically more risk averse than the private sector, and where barriers to innovation include ...
Abu Shams Mohammad Mahmudul Hoque, Zainudin Awang
This study examines the role of gender on entrepreneurial marketing (EM) and Bangladeshi Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) performance relationship. A self-administered questionnaire was conducted. A total of 220 owners of SMEs in Bangladesh were selected randomly as respondents from the list of a...
Md Mahfuz Ashraf, Mohammed Abdur Razzaque, Siaw‐Teng Liaw, Pradeep Ray et al.
Purpose Despite its immense potentials as a sustainable and innovative means to solve specific social problems, the basic concept of the social business model (SBM) advanced by Professor Muhammad Yunus remains unclear to many. There exists no literature that objectively compares this model from empo...
Mahmuda Hoque, Yoshihito Itohara
Problem statement: Numerous micro-credit organizations have been emerged as the form of mushroom in Bangladesh in the recent times. All of them are providing micro-credit to the poor women with the view of poverty reduction and empowering the rural women. Thus, the researchers take an attempt to che...
Bidit Lal Dey, Mujahid Mohiuddin Babu, Mizan Rahman, Manoj Dora et al.
The use of various forms of ICTs (information communication technology) such as mobile telephones can foster the socio-economic progression of developing countries. Contextually appropriate design and use are needed for ICTs to deliver value to various parties within the socio-economic spheres of de...
Ian Smillie
Freedom From Want traces the evolution of BRAC from it beginnings as a small relief operation in Bangladesh into what is arguably the largest and most successful social experiment in the developing world. Ranging from distant villages in Bangladesh to New York's financial district, from war-torn Afg...
Fara Azmat
\n\t\t\t\t\tThis article adds to the ongoing debate on the relationship between poverty reduction, profits, and environmental sustainability. Drawing from the literature, it presents a conceptual model with propositions to explain how social entrepreneurs can lead to sustainable development in devel...
Golam Kabir, Ahsan Akhtar Hasin
The Internet revolution has led to significant changes in the way travel agencies interact with customers. Travel websites provide customers diverse services including travel information and products through the Internet. In practical envir onments, Internet users face a variety of travel website se...