Purpose: The purpose of this study primarily is to investigate the heterogeneous effect of leverage on performance of the listed nonfinancial joint stock companies in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach: A large panel sample of 165 listed nonfinancial firms under different industries of...

The paper mainly focuses on the prospects of tourism sector in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a country of enriched heritage and culture from thousands of years ago. The economy of Bangladesh has much potentiality to earn foreign currency creating more attraction and disseminating the information...

This present study seeks to determine how customers assess trustworthiness when they shop in online. The study is based on primary data. For gathering primary data for the study, survey method has been used and a semi-structured questionnaire has been developed to investigate the online...

It is proposed in this paper to examine the relationship between decentralised governance and people’s participation from empirical evidence. The present paper considers people’s participation as an important condition internal to decentralised governance. The study reveals that block...

Decentralisation is a dominant debate in development. The enormous and growing discussions on Decentralisation are well underway all over the world by prominent scholars and policy makers. Further, Decentralisation is not a new concept, but a well-formulated and structured view of an old idea....

In recent years, the use of plant fibers has increased tremendously due to the remarkable variations in chemical and physical properties. Plants require light, water, and nutrients for growth, reproduction and efficient crop production. Plant nutrients are mostly absorbed by plant roots from...

This article argues that, although men’s sexual health has been presented in classical ayurvedic texts as associated with semen, physiology and reproduction, ayurvedic companies in modern India relate men’s sexual health to the ‘power of masculinity’ with an emphasis...