Masud Ibn Rahman

Job Satisfaction Among Public and Private College Teachers of Dhaka City: A Comparative Analysis

This paper aims to focus on the influential factors contributing to the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of the public and private college teachers of Bangladesh. Based on a survey, it attempts to gain insights into the job satisfaction levels from the perspective of the college teachers. It has been found that there are significant differences between public and private college teachers regarding job satisfaction. Analysis shows gender disparity exists among their responses. This suggests us how to handle the dissatisfaction of the college teachers.

Entrepreneurial Motivation and Social Enterprises: An Empirical Analysis on Founders of Social Ventures in Bangladesh

Abstract Success of market based entrepreneurial projects embedded with a social mission contributed to growing interest to social entrepreneurship in existing entrepreneurship literature. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the widely accepted motivational factors influencing entrepreneurial process have similar influence on social entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. Based on the seminal work of Shane et al. (2003) on entrepreneurial motivation, a survey was conducted among the social entrepreneurs in Bangladesh and collected data was analyzed. A regression analysis shows that some of widely accepted factors have significant influence while others have less or non-significant influence on Bangladeshi social entrepreneurs. This empirical paper contributes to better understanding of behavioral aspect of social entrepreneurship in Bangladesh where a high number of worlds leading social ventures were formed and expanded world-wide.

Conceptualizing Consumer Ethnocentrism in a Developing Country: Validity and Applicability of CETSCALE in Bangladesh

This article argues that the traditional belief that “consumer ethnocentrism is a phenomenon of the developed countries only” is no longer true. To establish this argument, this study assesses the applicability of the Consumer Ethnocentric Tendencies Scale (CETSCALE) to a developing country Bangladesh. The methodology is based on 788 samples collected from 27 districts of Bangladesh. Results show that for three chosen sociodemographic groups namely, students, job holders, and businessmen, the CETSCALE is to a much extent applicable as the groups have shown positive attitudes in retaining 12 to 14 items out of the 17 items of the original scale.

Motivational Factors Influencing Social Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh

Growing interest has been observed regarding social entrepreneurs in existing literature. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the widely accepted motivational factors have influence on entrepreneurial process of social entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. It concludes that some of those factors have significant influence while others has less or non-significant influence on Bangladeshi social entrepreneurs. This paper also complements the lack of empirical investigation in the behavioral aspect of social entrepreneurship in Bangladesh.

Second Order Bias and Mean Squared Errors of Some Estimators Using Single Auxiliary Variable

The ratio, product, chain ratio, chain product, chain regression and ratio-cum product estimators have been considered by Chand (1975), Kiregyera (1980, 1984), Upadhyaya et. al. (1990, 1992), Srivastava et. al. (1990), Prasad et. al. (1992), Sahoo and Sahoo (1993), Singh (1993). Most of them discussed these estimators along with their first order bias and mean square error. In this paper, we have tried to fond out the second order biases and mean square errors of these estimators based on simple random sampling. Finally, we have compared the performance of these estimators with some numerical illustration.

Prospects of Super Shop Concept in Dhaka City

With over twenty super markets that follow the theme of arranging all kinds of products under one roof for the consumers operating in full swing, the shopping style of city dwellers has changed dramatically. These super markets are also expanding the market for local products, encouraging new entrepreneurs and also catering for a variety of imported products. The numbers of super shops that have sprouted at different locations of Dhaka over the last two years are showing an upward trend in business and they have further implications for entrepreneurs.

Estimating the Cointegrating Relationship Between Agricultural Wage and Rice Price in Bangladesh

In this study, attempts have been made to present a critical/empirical investigation on the Agricultural Wage and Rice Price of Bangladesh from 1973 to 2005 on various aspects of stationary and cointegrating regressions. Analysis followed by Dickey Fuller tests indicated that both the variables are integrated of order (0) and cointegrated. So, there exits a long run relationship between those variables.