An Exploratory Analysis of Educational Management for the Universities

This exploratory research addresses educational management model for the universities. Its applicability was successfully verified and validated through survey data from leading tertiary educational institutions around the world. The proposed model was developed based on the analysis of literature, past theoretical frameworks, interviews with stakeholders. Model constructs were identified and confirmed by 493 respondents, representing university administrators, faculty and staffs, employers, and graduates. The resulting model was subsequently evaluated for accuracy and validity by multiple linear regression (MLR) analysis and the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. The study revealed education development, education assessment, research development, and research assessment as four main activities in educational management. Four aspects of each activity, namely programs establishment, university culture, faculty capabilities, and facilities were investigated at strategic, planning, and operating levels. The conceptual model for the universities provides a novel approach for prospective investors or current university administrators to review and appraise their performance toward fulfillment of ultimate goals, i.e. producing high‐caliber graduates and high‐impact research outcomes for the betterment of the society. The research model represents two contributions to the society including human resource contribution and research contribution

Book Review: Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management

This handbook where each chapter was written by the people most qualified and the overall handbookis edited by a team was the best approach. In keeping with the global theme andthe goal of a handbook, the editors tried, in as many chapters as possible, tohave international scholars and practitioners involved. The editors hope theresult is a handbook that addresses, for each topic, the global extent theoryneeded by scholars who teach and research in this area and the specifies neededby practitioners. The editors hope this book brings clarity and comprehensiveinsight to the phenomenon of global supply chains and their management. Forstudents, this handbook aids in understanding the scope and specifies. Forpractitioners, this handbook provides additional insights into the nuances ofmanaging global supply chains. For researchers, this book generates additionalquestions, the answers to which will continue to enrich our understanding ofand ability to manage global supply chains

Supply Chain Management of Textile Industry: A Case Study on Bangladesh

This study addresses a descriptive study on the current scenario of Textile industry in Bangladesh. This paper demonstrates above mentioned scenario in terms of supply chain management (SCM). The textile industry, an important segment in Bangladeshs manufacturing industry, play a critical role in its economic development. The textile sector fulfils almost cent percent domestic demand apart from the fulfilling the external demand of clothing and apparels to a large extent in Bangladesh. The Textile industry is a long chain including raw materials production, complement production, clothing production and so on. SCM concept is made possible as a conventional management tool for all manufactures are to strive to improve their product quality, to reduce their product and service cost and to shorten their product delivery and response time in a highly competitive market. This research developed based on the secondary data, including online databases, journals, review papers, etc. The effective SCM of textile industry include lower inventories, lower costs, higher productivity, greater productivity, greater agility shorter lead times, higher profits and greater customer loyalty. This paper encompasses the constraints of textile industry in Bangladesh, including ineffective communication, invisibility of SCM, long lead time, etc. which would unlock further research to develop this sector

Book Review: Exploring the Supply Chain: Theory and Practice

This book looks at the basic concepts of Supply Chain Management and provides a comprehensive coverage of the methodology and key strategies drivers in the different processes involved in operating and designing a Supply Chain. It describes the behavioral differences and explains the different tools that have been designed for effective supply chain management. This book is not an academic treatise, though it provides the most comprehensive coverage of the different facets of supply chain management. The authors have made sure that all chapters begin with a small case study that illustrates the specific concepts that are illustrated within the chapter. The book explains the evolution of Supply Chain Management, its concept and philosophy. It also looks at the different elements that go into the design of the Supply Chain and the purchasing functions from the supply chain perspective. The book not only deals with the planning function of SCM, it also covers the fundamentals concepts of forecasting and demand management, planning and control, including the aggregate plan, the different types of inventory models and their classification, work-in-progress and finished goods inventory and quality as a new and major component of Supply Chain Management

A Study on Rural Retailer and Consumer Decision Making - A Literature Review

Abstract— The aim of this study is to explore the role of rural retailers and examine how they influence rural consumer’s purchase behaviour. Also, how as a part of unorganized retailing, the rural retailer represents his unique characteristics was investigated. The parameters of their merchandising, their advantages of social capital, vulnerability and drawbacks of rural retailer’s remoteness was revisited too. This article took a consolidative literature review method where secondary information and data were collected. Numerous journals, research article, publications written on rural retailers were collected, analysed and evaluated. Renowned database and search engines like Google scholar, Elsevier, Emerald, and JSTOR were reviewed for collecting relevant journal articles and research papers. This study later presented a synthesized discussion on how as a vital link of the urban to rural supply chain, rural retailers act as a ‘lifeline’ of daily necessities. The realities that contributes to their success and failures are discussed as well. Subsequently, as the rural retailers have a very important role to play in the developing economy, the unmistakable need of further, in-depth research on them became very evident