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...
Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess et al.
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand‐ and supply‐side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low‐income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either vocational training (VT) or firm‐provi...
Ana M. Fernandes
The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. She obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators for output and inputs. Controlling for industry, location, and year fixed effects, she finds...
William T. Dickens, Lorenz Göette, Erica L. Groshen, Steinar Holden et al.
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Tetsushi Sonobe
The export-oriented garment industry in Bangladesh has grown rapidly for the last 3 decades and now ranks among the largest garment exporters in the world. While its early success is attributed to the initial technology transfer from South Korea, such a one-time infusion of knowledge alone is insuff...
Stephen W. Pruitt, John M. Clark, T. Bettina Cornwell
<h3>ABSTRACT</h3> This study presents the first analysis of the impact of NASCAR sponsorship announcements on the stock prices of sponsoring firms. The primary finding of the study--that NASCAR sponsorship announcements were accompanied by the largest increases in shareholder wealth ever recorded in...
Mohammed S. Chowdhury
Abstract Purpose – This study aims to investigate the constraints that entrepreneurs face in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh and suggests measures to remove the constraints to entrepreneurship development. Design/methodology/approach – Survey data were collected from 60 entrepreneu...
Micheline Goedhuys, Norbert Janz, Pierre Mohnen
Using firm-level data from five developing countries--Brazil, Ecuador, South Africa, Tanzania, and Bangladesh--and three industries--food processing, textiles, and the garments and leather products--this article examines the importance of various sources of knowledge for explaining productivity and ...
Dimitris Andriosopoulos, Meziane Lasfer
Romel Mostafa, Steven Klepper
We explore how the establishment of an industry pioneer through foreign seeding of industry knowledge can subsequently catalyze the growth of a developing country’s industry by involuntarily propagating the knowledge to subsequent entrants. As industry knowledge has tacit elements, we focus on mecha...
James H. Love, Stephen Roper
This paper extends previous analyses of the choice between internal and external R&D to consider the costs of internal R&D. The Heckman two-stage estimator is used to estimate the determinants of internal R&D unit cost (i.e. cost per product innovation) allowing for sample selection effects. Theory ...
Steven Klepper
The historical evolution of four prominent industry clusters is compared: automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, tires in Akron, Ohio, semiconductors in Silicon Valley, California, and cotton garments in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Detailed data are collected concerning the intellectual and geographic origins of ...
Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Louis Brennan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the differential effects of national export promotion policies (EPPs) on firms’ early internationalization using the institution-based view (IBV) as our theoretical foundation. Early or speedy internationalization is an important topic for academics, e...
MD. Joynal Abdin, Abhijit Sharma, Rohit H. Trivedi, Chengang Wang
Despite a growing literature, the relationship between financing constraints (FC), intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and firm innovation remains unclear within the transitional country context. Drawing on endogenous growth theory and extending the Gorodnichenko and Schnitzer (2013) frame...
Yongzheng Yang, Montfort Mlachila
This paper assesses the effects on the Bangladeshi economy of phasing out textile and clothing quotas by industrial countries. Bangladesh relies heavily on textile and clothing exports and is potentially very vulnerable to the abolition of the quotas. We used up-to-date information on quota prices f...