Afzalur Rashid
This study examines whether board independence influences firms’ economic performance among listed firms in Bangladesh. By using data from 135 listed firms on Dhaka Stock Exchange and by using accounting and market performance measures, this study uses simultaneous equation approach to control the p...
Fadzlan Sufian, Muzafar Shah Habibullah
This study seeks to examine the performance of 37 Bangladeshi commercial banks between 1997 and 2004. The empirical findings of this study suggest that bank specific characteristics, in particular loans intensity, credit risk, and cost have positive and significant impacts on bank performance, while...
Asif Dowla
Omar Al Farooque, Tony van Zijl, Keitha Dunstan, Akm Waresul Karim
This paper investigates empirically the effect of board ownership on firm performance in Bangladesh. By estimating single equation and simultaneous equation models on an unbalanced pooled sample of listed firms, it offers some new insight into the ownership‐performance link in Bangladesh. Building o...
B. Lynne Milgram, Aminur Rahman
As Rahman notes in his introduction, microcredit has become the paradigm for thinking about economic (p. 1). Since the limits of welfare-oriented approaches are now well recognized, an ever-growing wave of microlending initiatives are cloning Bangladesh's Bank model in efforts to alleviate poverty a...
Mohamed Albaity, Ray Saadaoui Mallek, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman
This paper investigates the impact of competition on bank stability using data from 276 banks across eighteen MENA countries between 2006–2015. We controlled for financial inclusion, productivity, and macroeconomic instability in addition to several different control variables, including bank size, ...
Afzalur Rashid, Anura De Zoysa, Sudhir Lodh, Kathy Rudkin
This study examines the influence of corporate board composition in the form of representation of outside independent directors on firm economic performance in Bangladesh. Two hypotheses are developed to examine the relationship among composition of board memberships including independent directors ...
Sayema Sultana, Norhayah Zulkifli, Dalilawati Zainal
As a key facet of sustainable development, environmental, social and governance (ESG) discretion on stock market investment decision is gaining prevalence following the global financial crisis. ESG considers the sustainable return, risk reduction, and accountability aspects of investments. This stud...
Serena Aktar
This study seeks to examine the relationship between rewards and employee performance as well as to identify the relationship between extrinsic and intrinsic rewards. The study explored factors determining extrinsic and intrinsic rewards and their impact on employee performance and actions to influe...
Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee
This is the fifth edition of a book that has enjoyed immense popularity for more than six decades. The author was a scholar of not just Islamic law, but very significantly of Islamic jurisprudence, as well as of Arabic and Persian-the original languages in which Islamic laws and Commentaries were wr...
Md Mehedi Hasan Emon, Tahsina Khan
The objective of this study is to examine the significant impact of cultural norms on sustainable entrepreneurship initiatives in the context of small and medium-sized firms in Bangladesh's dynamic business environment. Utilizing a rigorous research technique, this study conducts semi-structured int...
Abu Umar Faruq Ahmad, M. Kabir Hassan
Abstract This article examines current legal and regulatory issues of Islamic banking in Bangladesh. The most important issue in this context is the lack of a well‐defined regulatory and supervisory framework for Islamic banks for their effective functioning in line with the tenets of Shariah. Other...
Anselme Andriamahery, Md. Qamruzzaman
The motivation of the study is to gauge the effects of access to finance, technical know-how, and financial literacy on women's empowerment through establishing women's entrepreneurial development. A sample of 950 women-owned SMEs was considered, and structured questionnaires were sent from getting ...
Afzalur Rashid
Ataur Rahman Belal, Omneya Abdelsalam, Sardar S. Nizamee