The present study examines the influences of mental budgeting on the financial management of SMEs, via a survey of SME owners’ practices regarding various issues in financial management. The samples of 201 SMEs were randomly selected from the city of Chittagong, Bangladesh and interviewed...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influences of consumer perceptions of labelled information and sensory attributes on consumers’ intention to buy fresh milk. Design/methodology/approach: An experiment was conducted on 117 consumers in a lab at a university. After closely...

The present study examines the influences of mental budgeting on the financial management of SMEs, via a survey of SME owners' practices regarding various issues in financial management. The samples of 201 SMEs were randomly selected from the city of Chittagong, Bangladesh and interviewed using...

This study suggests a social business format, founded on social entrepreneurship for the water sector, that appears suitable in Bangladesh. The theoretical aspect of the study examines the literature on social entrepreneurship in developing economies and in Bangladesh, as well as literature on...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute immensely to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and they have a significant influence in growth of economy. However, SMEs are constrained in their access to formal credit as financial institutions fail to grant credit due to information asymmetry. This...

The present study explains how default choices are easy when compared with the alternate and free choices based on three survey design. In doing so, the study examines the effects of the default option on people's preferences towards various issues concerning governmental and marketing policy....

This study suggests a social business format, founded on social entrepreneurship for the water sector, that appears suitable in Bangladesh. The theoretical aspect of the study examines the literature on social entrepreneurship in developing economies and in Bangladesh, as well as literature on...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute immensely to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and they have a significant influence in growth of economy. However, SMEs are constrained in their access to formal credit as financial institutions fail to grant credit due to information asymmetry. This...

The global decline in ocean fisheries stocks, including those of wild fish, has given impetus to the rapid growth of seafood produced by aquaculture, as well as of farmed fish (FF). However, continuous asymmetric information leads to consumer ambiguity and confusion regarding their knowledge of...