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Contribution of NGOs for Socio-Economic Development in Bangladesh
Ishita Roy,
Tanzil Al Raquib,
Amit Kumar Sarker
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2017
Pages:
1-8
Received:
19 October 2016
Accepted:
28 November 2016
Published:
12 January 2017
Abstract: Nowadays Non-Governmental Organizations or NGOs have become an extensively discussed theme in the third world countries as well vastly in social business world. Bangladesh is no exception. The NGOs have appeared as the savior of countless number of people without food, cloth, education and basic health facilities. Bangladesh is one of the top thirteen underprivileged countries. With the record of being the most densely populated country on earth and feeble manpower competency, Bangladesh is facing massive challenge to meet up the demand of her ever- increasing population. Hence NGOs in Bangladesh can continue playing the role of catalyst in the attainment of sustainable economic growth and development provided, an endurable, warm and dependable relationship is there between the Government and NGOs where both are working for the benefit of the people with numerable activities. Their main tasks are to organize these people, create awareness in them and make them development oriented. These organizations are working based on the assessed need and demand of the grass root level farmers and women. By involving the beneficiaries directly, they are working within the context of overall national planning for development.
Abstract: Nowadays Non-Governmental Organizations or NGOs have become an extensively discussed theme in the third world countries as well vastly in social business world. Bangladesh is no exception. The NGOs have appeared as the savior of countless number of people without food, cloth, education and basic health facilities. Bangladesh is one of the top thirt...
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Five Competitive Forces Model and the Implementation of Porter’s Generic Strategies to Gain Firm Performances
Sirajuddin Omsa,
Ibrahim H. Abdullah,
Hisnol Jamali
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2017
Pages:
9-16
Received:
29 December 2016
Accepted:
9 January 2017
Published:
26 January 2017
Abstract: Five competitive forces that comprise bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new entrants, threat of substitute products or services, and intensity of rivalries have been studied by many researchers for several years. However, linking them with Porter’s generic strategy in order to gain financial and market performance in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) context is very rare. The main purpose of this study is to analyze how those five competitive forces affect generic strategies developed by Porter and how the generic strategies affect firm performances. Questionnaire, survey and deep interview were conducted to figure out the implemented generic strategies by the owners of MSMEs of wooden furniture in East Java, Indonesia. Smart partial least square (PLS) was used to analyse the data. The results show that power of buyers (PoB) significantly affects only differentiation strategy (DS), power of supplies (PoS) significantly affects cost leadership strategy (CLS) and focus strategy (FS) but does not significantly affect differentiation strategy (DS), and threat of rivalries (ToR) significantly affects differentiation strategy (DS) and focus strategy (FC). In regards to the relationship between generic strategies and firm performances (FP), the results of this study show that both DS and FS significantly affect FP, while CLS does not significantly affect FP. Based on these findings, it is suggested that the owners of MSMEs wooden furniture in East Java (Indonesia) consider PoB, PoS, and ToR before performing DS and FS to gain much greater firm performances in the future.
Abstract: Five competitive forces that comprise bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new entrants, threat of substitute products or services, and intensity of rivalries have been studied by many researchers for several years. However, linking them with Porter’s generic strategy in order to gain financial and market performance...
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Culture Impact on Consumers Decision: The Fashionable Adoption Influence on Social Stigmatization and Role of Perceived Innovation
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2017
Pages:
17-26
Received:
24 November 2016
Accepted:
13 December 2016
Published:
3 February 2017
Abstract: Fashionable product choices can lead to social stigmatization. Embracing a religious ideology may affect the way we evaluate our religious practices (e.g., veil). In this paper, we argue that some of our own religious practices can be stigmatized. The paper examines the psychological keystones of fashionableness adoption and levels of stigmatization. Salafi ideology is presented as a context that may play a role in clarifying the relationship between fashionableness adoption and social stigmatization. The study’s findings present main effect of fashionable adoption on social stigmatizing. Moreover, findings show that perceived innovation mediates the relationship between fashionableness adoption and social stigmatization.
Abstract: Fashionable product choices can lead to social stigmatization. Embracing a religious ideology may affect the way we evaluate our religious practices (e.g., veil). In this paper, we argue that some of our own religious practices can be stigmatized. The paper examines the psychological keystones of fashionableness adoption and levels of stigmatizatio...
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Retail Attribute’s Effect on Shopping Motivation and Customer Loyalty: Age as a Moderating Variable
Agung Yuniarinto,
Armanu Thoyib,
Solimun Solimun,
Andi Sularso
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2017
Pages:
27-36
Received:
27 January 2017
Accepted:
14 February 2017
Published:
25 February 2017
Abstract: The study was based on the Stimulus Organism Response (SOR) theory stated by Mehrabian-Russel which aimed to analyze the effect of retail attribute on utilitarian, hedonic shopping motivation and customer loyalty. This study also aimed to test the age as the moderation variable effect of the retail attribute on the utilitarian, hedonic shopping motivation and customer loyalty. The respondents of study were 150 people. Sampling was done by convenience sampling. Collecting data used personal questionnaire through face to face interviews. Questionnaires were distributed to customers who visited the shopping mall. Data were analyzed by Partial Least Square (PLS). The results showed that the retail attributes had positive and significant effects on the utilitarian, hedonic shopping motivation, and customer loyalty. The age was the moderating variable effect of the retail attribute on utilitarian shopping motivation. The practical implications of this research was to develop segmentation, customization and innovation of retail attributes as an important strategy to overcome the differences in store attribute effects on the values of shopping and customer loyalty.
Abstract: The study was based on the Stimulus Organism Response (SOR) theory stated by Mehrabian-Russel which aimed to analyze the effect of retail attribute on utilitarian, hedonic shopping motivation and customer loyalty. This study also aimed to test the age as the moderation variable effect of the retail attribute on the utilitarian, hedonic shopping mot...
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Monitoring Key Points Analysis of Livestock Products Safety Regulation
Wang Keshan,
Wang Meng,
Liu Xiudong
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2017
Pages:
37-44
Received:
12 December 2016
Accepted:
28 December 2016
Published:
2 March 2017
Abstract: As the improvement of people's living standard, livestock products including meat, eggs, milk and other animal foods have become the main source of public nutrition intake, and the proportion in food consumption is more and more high. Livestock products consumption is regarded as one of important signs of a country’s or region's economic development and the progress of society. As a kind of fresh products, livestock products have natural characteristics of putrescibility and not easy to save (Li Yang, An Yufa, Gu Chuan 2013) [1], therefore it is prone to problems in the sectors of production, processing, transportation, storage, consumption. Besides, the quality problems of livestock products have been common such as “Water-injected meat”, “quick chicken” and “magdala red” eggs and even some large food enterprises have serious quality problems of products. Therefore, ensuring food safety of livestock products should become the focus of the work of food safety and the research field of Chinese food safety. Wang Panpan (2010) defines the food supply chain for the order of link and operation from primary production to consumers, involving production, processing, distribution, storage and consumption of food and accessories. She thinks there are risk of food safety problems in the link of source, processing, distribution and consumption of food supply chain and should strengthen supervision on the key control points in above links [2]. M. F. Stringer (2007) divided the food supply chain into 27 unit steps and found out 21 essential reasons causing food safety problems, and based on which M. F. Stringer defined the key control points of food safety problems [3]. Bian Linlin (2010) studied game relation among supermarkets, suppliers, consumers and regulators with game theory and got the result that supermarkets play a role in promoting the establishment and development of China's food quality control system and supermarkets should strengthen the supervision and control on supplier and internal staff [4]. Through the researches of agricultural leading enterprises in Hunan Province, combined with the principle of the HACCP, Xie Jingwen (2012) proposed that we should position the key points of supply chain, which is helpful to the whole process monitoring of food supply chain and the establishment of the traceability system for monitoring food [5]. Liu Chang (2012) constructed the food quality and safety SC-RC discriminant and location matrix based on 1460 food safety cases, and analysed the weak links and key control points of food safety in our country with empirical analysis [6]. In summary, domestic and foreign scholars have been carried out on the key control points of food safety and made a lot of research results. But most studies take all food as research object, but location of different food the key control points should also be different and this study intends to analyze the livestock products.
Abstract: As the improvement of people's living standard, livestock products including meat, eggs, milk and other animal foods have become the main source of public nutrition intake, and the proportion in food consumption is more and more high. Livestock products consumption is regarded as one of important signs of a country’s or region's economic developmen...
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