Mujahid Mohiuddin Babu, Bidit Lal Dey, Mizan Rahman, Sanjit Kumar Roy et al.
The formulation of strategic alliance by commercial, social and government organizations has potential to simultaneously achieve market related success and develop solution to social problems. Social innovation that leads to positive changes in society by providing solutions to social and environmen...
Bidit Lal Dey, Ameet Pandit, Mike Saren, Sanjay Bhowmick et al.
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...
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...
Bidit Lal Dey, David Newman, Renée Prendergast
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how Bangladeshi farmers interact with mobile telephony and how they negotiate the resulting difficulties. In doing so, the paper seeks to identify how farmers integrate mobile telephony into their daily lives, and what factors facilitate and limit...
Mizan Rahman, Sunny Bose, Mujahid Mohiuddin Babu, Bidit Lal Dey et al.
M. Karim Sorour, Bidit Lal Dey
Social media-led mass movements have dominated news headlines in recent times. The success stories of the Occupy movements, anti-globalisation demonstrations in the West, mass protests at Tahrir Square in Cairo and Taksim Square in Istanbul, demonstrations against sexual harassment in Delhi and the ...
Bidit Lal Dey, David Newman, Renée Prendergast
Telecentres are considered to be an important means for providing disadvantaged communities with access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled services. However, there is a limited understanding of how targeted beneficiaries perceive the roles of these telecentres. Using an ethnog...
Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Mujahid Mohiuddin Babu, Md Nafizur Rahman, Mohammad Jasim Uddin et al.
Abstract The international business environment is both dynamic and turbulent. Accordingly, a new venture’s strategic orientation (SO) and ability to undertake strategic renewal (SR) are of great importance to its survival, growth and international performance. Building on the dynamic capability per...
Bidit Lal Dey, David Newman, Renée Prendergast
It has been argued that the use of ICTs can provide disadvantaged communities with access to information and thereby enable them to enhance their quality of life. This paper attempts to analyze the use of the ICTs from the perspective of the target beneficiaries (i.e. farmers). It reports on the res...
Bidit Lal Dey
Bidit Lal Dey
This paper is based on the initial understandings gained from the first half of my doctoral research, that investigates how the mobile telephony technologies can be used and appropriated by the rural Bangladeshi farmers and what could be the potential impacts of such interaction. The research tries ...
Bidit Lal Dey, Ben Binsardi, Masoom Ahmed
It is argued that the use of mobile telephony can enhance farmers' productivity by bringing efficiency in the production and marketing of agricultural commodities. However, existing literature offers scant evidence of why and how farmers in developing countries adopt such technologies. This paper ex...
Bidit Lal Dey, David Newman, Renée Prendergast
Telecentres are considered to be an important means for providing disadvantaged communities with access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled services. However, there is a limited understanding of how targeted beneficiaries perceive the roles of these telecentres. Using an ethnog...
Bidit Lal Dey, Mujahid Mohiuddin Babu, Syed Muhammad
It is argued that information and communication technology such as smartphones can contribute to the socio-economic wellbeing of disadvantaged communities. However, there is limited research on the nature of their technology use and perceived outcome on their wellbeing in various non-standard contex...