Our Vision:
The NSU Center for Business Research will create an outstanding climate of investigation and knowledge development at NSU focusing on local, regional, and global businesses and economies enabling stellar research advances.
Our Mission:
To enable our business research community achieve success, the NSU Center for Business Research has the following missions:
• To partner with the business research community to develop a culture of research excellence
• To build and continuously update reliable economic and business databases on Bangladesh
• To promote shared responsibility, ethical research, and research integrity
• To enhance business researchers’ ability to obtain and manage grants
• To invest in promising research projects.
• To create a transparent research administration, infrastructure, and streamlined process for facilitating research
• To advocate for the needs of the NSU business and economics research community
• To broaden awareness amongst stakeholders on the value of business and economic research at NSU
• To develop strong relationships with funding bodies
• To enhance international research competencies in NSU business academics
• To support interdisciplinary research at NSU
I would like to invite you all to a virtual seminar on 31st March, from 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm. Professor Sabur Mollah, Chair in Financial Management, The University of Sheffield, will give a talk on ‘The Developments of Empirical Research on Corporate Governance’.
Before joining the University of Sheffield, Professor Mollah held academic appointments at Swansea University, University of Hull, Bournemouth University, Stockholm University, University of Botswana, University of Leeds and the University of Dhaka.
Professor Sabur Mollah has published extensively on corporate governance issues, market reactions to dividend policy, market condition, and investor behaviour. His papers appeared in world-leading journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Stability.
This presentation would be beneficial for those who want to pursue a PhD in Corporate Governance areas.
The Google meet link to join: https://meet.google.com/lookup/hdrwl2zw6k
I hope to see you all at this virtual event.
Thank you,
Dr Mohammad I Azim CA, CPA, CMA
Director, NSU Center for Business Research
Professor, Accounting and Finance
North South University
We expect to undertake a number of programs, some of them are listed below:
Database Development
Capability Development
Assist non-PhD faculty members in writing PhD proposals and provide them with guidelines to seek admission in PhD programs.
Collaboration and Funding
Research Environment Development
Broader Programs
Seminars and workshops
Research Projects
Date: 5th October, 2020 11 am - 12.30 pm
Presenters:
Sharif N. Ahkam (Contact Author, Professor: Accounting and Finance)
Nazmun Nahar (Senior Lecturer: Accounting and Finance)
Shabnin Rahman Shorna(Lecturer: Management)
Program recording link:
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Date: 12th November 2.00pm to 3.30 pm
Presenter: Mr. Ifty Islam, Chairman, Asian Tiger Capital & Global Head of Business Development, Kingdom International.
Program recording link:
Passcode: 4c9%f%nr
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Date: 22th December, from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
Presenter: Dr. Habib Zaman Khan (University of Canberra), Dr. Sudipta Bose (University of Newcastle Sydney), Dr. Abu Taher Mollik (University of Canberra) and Dr. Harun Harun (University of Canberra)
Title of the paper is 'Green Washing' or 'Authentic Effort'? An Empirical Investigation of the Quality of Sustainability Reporting by Banks'. This paper is accepted for publication (in October 2020) in Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, a top ranked journal (ABDC A*/ SCOPUS Q1).
Program recording link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86746320053?pwd=WmZQRDdDNTgxeTFkcmdTQm1HS29sQT09
Meeting ID: 867 4632 0053
Passcode: 116557
While the Center will be an independent entity hosted by the SBE, the Director of the NSU CBR will report to the Vice Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor will keep the Board of Trustees apprised of the activities of the NSU CBR.
NSU CBR will interact with all the academic disciplines of the University even though the interest of the Center is mostly concentrated on business and economic issues. A continuous interactive relationship should develop between the NSU CBR and all schools, Institutes and Centers of the university. Program contents and research reports will be saved at the Center Office and recorded on the university archive and reported and advertised on Center website. The University’s technology system will provide the necessary support to facilitate the interaction between the NSU CBR and all schools. The IT department will also assist in managing a structure to disseminate the information on achievement in the research arena of NSU, highlight major activities, and provide necessary research support in terms of software, data collection, data storage, data base building and archiving. The treasurer’s office, in conjunction with the Director, Finance and Accounts, will ensure that proper policy is followed in disbursement of funds and oversee the budgets of NSU CBR. A separate account of NSU CBR within the NSU accounting system will be maintained.
The following functional organogram is descriptive of the NSU CBR (proposed).
Figure: Organogram of NSU CBR
The NSU CBR shall undertake various programs. These programs shall often be concentrated on various disciplines within business and economic research. To offer smooth operations of these programs for different research concentrations, NSU CBR will have several focused areas for research (identified as Cell in the above diagram) with designated Head of Research Cells. Few notable areas would be index development for the economy or a specific sector, Entrepreneurship development, Big Data analytics, skill development and organization competency, CSR and societal development, climate change and sustainability, consumer behavior, financial market analysis, SME development, corporate governance and ethics, and migration, poverty, and economic development. New cells may be added depending on the interest of the faculty members, students, and the general public. The Heads of Research Cells shall work with NSU CBR staff to oversee progress of various programs. The Director shall call regular meetings to discuss progress of various programs.
Please contact:
Professor Dr. Mohammad Istiaq Azim CA, CPA, CMA
Director, NSU Center for Business Research (NSU-CBR)
Room Number NAC 737North South University
Bashundhara R/A
Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh
Phone: +88 02 55668200, ext. 6310
Mobile: +88 01767688164
Fax: +88 02 55668202
Email: mohammad.azim@northsouth.edu