M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund
This paper investigates the factors influencing the adoption of mobile phone technology among farmers in Bangladesh. Electronic services are one important measure for rural development and mobile phones is the dominating cellular technology; hence understanding the adoption of this technology is imp...
M. Hammadur Rahman, Kazi Naoroze
The paper investigated rural women’s empowerment through participation in aquaculture activities within a large scale demonstration project in Bangladesh. The paper is based on farm level data collected from 200 women in two districts of Bangladesh. A questionnaire was used for the purpose of data c...
Farhana Ferdousi, Parveen Mahmud
Abstract Social business is a growing phenomenon in the emerging economy due to its appeal toward reducing social problems from the society. Women’s, especially rural women’s, economic activities are mainly confined to the household chores because of the existing patriarchal norms of the society. So...
Lovely Parvin
Women entrepreneurship is a rapidly growing phenomenon in many developing countries including Bangladesh. This paper reviewed the literature on women entrepreneurship development in Bangladesh with specific focus on government and financial intermediaries supports. The article also identified major ...
Ahmed Tareq Rashid, Mizan Rahman
Multi-national corporations (MNCs) and large domestic companies have traditionally ignored a large part of the world's population with lower income levels, also known as the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). New empirical measures of the behaviour of those at the BOP and their aggregate purchasing power,...
Mohammad Kamal Uddin
Naimur Rahman Chowdhury, Mushaer Ahmed, Priom Mahmud, Sanjoy Kumar Paul et al.
This study develops a vaccine supply chain (VSC) to ensure sustainable distribution during a global crisis in a developing economy. In this study, a multi-objective mixed-integer programming (MIP) model is formulated to develop the VSC, ensuring the entire network's economic performance. This is ach...
Lovely Parvin, M. Wakilur Rahman, Jinrong Jia
The paper investigates the influencing factors of women micro-entrepreneurship development in rural Bangladesh. The analysis based on empirical investigation carried out in northern part of Bangladesh. Data were collected from 248 women micro-entrepreneurs and 132 non-entrepreneurs. Present study ad...
Catherine Dolan
In recent years, ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BoP) initiatives – from Grameen Phone Ladies and Solar Sister, to Women First and Living Goods – have captured increasing attention, not only in corporate boardrooms where the desire for untapped revenue streams looms large, but also in the arenas of develop...
Eijaz Ahmed Khan, Mohammed Naim A. Dewan, Md. Maruf Hossan Chowdhury
The sustainability concept is commonly used in many domains. However, the assessment of reflective and formative measurement has been ignored largely. As a result, sustainability factor scales are specified wrongly and this might lead to reduced scale validity. The aim of the study is find out the n...
Philip D. Harvey
The Pioneers Social Marketing: How It Works Sex, Contraception, Religion, and AIDS Players in the Game: Donors, Governments, Family Planning Associations, and Others I'm Up to Here with Experts: Selling Contraceptives in Sri Lanka Social Marketing in Bangladesh Why Brand Names? Pricing: The Cornerst...
Shahriar Akter, Nabila Jamal, Md Mahfuz Ashraf, Grace McCarthy et al.
Social business has emerged as a sustainable and innovative means to solve emerging social problems. Although it is gaining momentum, there is a paucity of studies on the drivers of social business models and its key success factors. Drawing on a systematic literature review and an in-depth analysis...
Julia Qermezi Huang
Trained by social enterprises as objects and instruments of development, Bangladesh's female “Information Agents” adopt the gendered flexibilities implied by new entrepreneurial livelihoods. Switching among multiple roles, these entrepreneurs defy social expectations and appear as ambiguous figures....
Scott Bremer, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, Arne Haugen, Matthias Kaiser
Lamia Karim
There are over twenty million women associated with microfinance activities sponsored by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and four million women in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. In both sectors, women outweigh men as economic actors and as agents of change. Women in the microfi...