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CIU Journal
ISSN (Print): 2664-0457
ISSN (Online): 2664-0465
CIU Journal (Chittagong Independent University Journal), a double blind peer-reviewed journal, is published in hard and soft forms in December every year. However, a submission is welcomed any time of the year. CIU journal promises to an esteemed outlet for showcasing high-quality research related to all branches of contemporary knowledge – natural sciences, social sciences, liberal arts, engineering, business and law.
The CIU journal is destined to advance the contemporary theoretical and empirical knowledge through publication and dissemination of innovative research articles to the scholarly community with special emphasis on Bangladesh and other emerging economies of the world. Thus, the CIU Journal is multidisciplinary in scope and is open to all research methods including qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches. The CIU Journal publishes empirical papers, conceptual papers, review papers, case studies, research notes, practitioners’ perspectives and book reviews.
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Item Book Review: G. Tyler Miller and Scott E. Spoolman, Environmental Science 14th Edition. Brooks/Cole: Cengage Learning, 2013, 459 pp., ISBN: 13:978 1 133 10439 1.(CIU Journal, 2018-12-01) Book Reviewed by Rahat Bari Tooheen, Aminul Islam ChowdhuryItem Does Foreign Direct Investment Stimulate Economic Progress of a Developing Country? Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh(CIU Journal, 2018-12-01) Emon Kalyan Chowdhury¹This study attempts to throw light on the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the Economic Growth (EG) of Bangladesh. Augmented Dickey Fuller unit root test is applied to test the data stationarity of time series data from 1975 to 2015. Johansen Cointegration Model shows that both FDI and economic growth are co-integrated. Vector Error Correction Model indicates that economic growth depends on FDI in the long-run, whereas no short-run causality is found through Wald test. Granger Causality test suggests that FDI and EG have bidirectional relation and cause each other.Item Facing Critical Governance Challenges in Bangladesh: An Overview(CIU Journal, 2018-12-01) Mohammad Mohabbat KhanThis paper is a reflection of author's research and writing over last three decades in the area of governance. This paper looks at and analyzes governance challenges faced by Bangladesh. The paper proposes for adoption of a few policy actions that may go a long way to improve the present situation in this country, such as creation of a meaningful partnership between three sectors-public, private and third; creation of jobs for unemployed and educated youth; revamping the education sector by emphasizing on moral and technical education; right-sizing the public service; reducing corruption by further strengthening of ACC; filling the three sectors on the basis of merit and merit only; encouraging bright, young and civic-minded individuals to actively participate in politics.Item Firm growth in BRICS: What really matters?(CIU Journal, 2018-12-01) Syed Manzur Quader, Mohammad Nayeem Abdullah and Kamruddin ParvezThe article examines a number of constraints in terms of access to finance, corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition, and performance measures etc. hindering firm growth in BRICS countries using the comprehensive company-level data from the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). Starting with a total of 37 factors impeding the operation and growth of businesses, the article regroups them into 8 using factor analysis. The article then applied Multilevel Mixed-Effects Linear Regression controlling for country random effects to estimate a model to assess the significance and extent of these factors on firm growth after controlling for other country and firm level effects. The results demonstrate that with the exception of two factors (Moral Hazard & Adverse Selection, Government Subsidies), all other factors namely Law and Order, Export-Import, Financial, Macroeconomic, Environmental & Regulatory Constraint, Tax and service regulation play a statistically significant role on the firms' operation and growth and such findings are found to be robust in terms of alternative model specifications and estimation techniques.Item Understanding Comparative and International HRM: A Review of Three Main Theoretical Perspectives(CIU Journal, 2018-12-01) Monowar Mahmood1, Mir Mohammed Nurul Absar2, Md. Aftab Uddin3The paper aims to provide an overview of three main theoretical perspectives, i.e., the universalists, the culturalists, and the institutionalists of comparative and international HRM practices. It critically assessed the philosophical positions, main assumptions and empirical evidence of those theoretical proponents. The Universalists believe that organizational HRM practices are determined by the micro and the macro level contingencies such as organizational size, age, products and services as well as level of industrialization and factor endowments of the countries. The culturalists believe that cultural factors such as collective mental mapping of the people, norms, values and rituals of the countries influence the HRM practices. In contrast, the institutionalists argue that national institutional system forms the bases of organizational HRM practices in any given society or country. It is expected that the review will help HRM researchers to understand HRM practices from a comparative perspective and conduct future HRM research with a solid theoretical foundation.Item Dynamics and Structural Breaks in Tourist Arrivals in Australia(CIU Journal, 2018-12-01) Khorshed Chowdhury !This paper analyses the effects of the real exchange rate and world income on aggregate international tourism in Australia. This study uses Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) modelling to develop a dynamic structure of tourism demand. Using monthly post-float data from 1984:01 to 2015:01, it has been found that a 1 % real appreciation of the Australian dollar reduces tourist arriv-als by 1.23 % while a 1 % rise in world income increases tourist arrivals by 2.26 % in the long-run. The deviation from the long-run equilibrium is correct-ed by nearly 9 % over a month. One of the endogenously determined structural break dates was negative and statistically significant indicating non-linearity in the Australian aggregate tourist demand function.Item Book Review: Anita Shreve, The Stars Are Fire. London: Little, Brown, 2017, 322 pp., ISBN: 978 0 349 12358 5.(CIU Journal, 2019-12-01) Ummey Haney PinkeyItem Book Review: Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist. London: Penguin Random House, 2017, 373 pp., ISBN: 978 1 847 94139 8.(CIU Journal, 2019-12-01) Iffat Ishrat KhanItem Race and Identity Crisis in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain(CIU Journal, 2019-12-01) Leema Sen Gupta 1The Human Stain is the story of a passing Jew who struggles all his life to escape the humiliation of being a “colored” man. The protagonist wants to find solution in passing and ultimately gets trapped in his own scheme. The identity he wants to throw away into oblivion, ironically, always lives in the depth of his heart. Coleman Silk is the product of racism in this novel. In his whole life, he wants to slip the punch of racism which results in his decision of passing as a Jew. The characters in the novel take passing or identity change as potential emancipation from social humiliation or a kind of way out which lets them enjoy the privileges and comfort of society. However, that decision of identity change creates a dilemma, an identity crisis in their mind which eventually proves fatal for them.Item Investigating the Relationship between Store Environment and Store Loyalty in the Context of Supermarkets of Bangladesh(CIU Journal, 2019-12-01) Robaka Shamsher 1Bangladesh retail market has drastically changed with the inception of standard and disciplined practice of supermarkets in the urban parts of the country. Compared to the developed countries, the retailing industry in Bangladesh is fragmented and undeveloped, which has received a breakthrough with the massive expansion of supermarket culture. From a socio economic perspective, the Bangladeshi consumers are getting exposed to outside tastes, which is reasonably creating some preference towards supermarkets culture. The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between “Store Environment” and “Store Loyalty” of supermarkets in Bangladesh. The study was implemented in Chattogram Metropolitan city – the commercial capital of the country. Multiple regression has been applied to test the hypotheses. The results of the study show that store cleanliness, followed by sales persons’ behaviour and store interior influence store loyalty. In contrast, store display, background music, pleasant scent and store lighting have no effect in determining store loyalty. At the end of the paper, a few recommendations along with some agenda for future research studies have been proposed.