45 research outputs found
Supplier’s Capabilities and Performance Improvement in Buyer-Supplier Relationships:A Study of the Garment Industry of Bangladesh
No full textImranul Hoque is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at Jagannath University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He holds a master’s degree in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from Aalborg University, Denmark. Prior to that, he completed his MBA and BBA with a major in marketing from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been teaching marketing for more than twelve years at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His main research focus is international business, the global value chain, operations management, and sustainability. His research has appeared in the Management Review Quarterly, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, South Asian Journal of Management, and more. He has experience working on various national and international projects. In his leisure time, Imranul enjoys playing cricket, listening to music, and travelling
sj-pptx-1-aat-10.1177_24723444221119845 – Supplemental material for Knitted Denim Fabrics: Fabrication Process and Fibrous Influence on Several Properties of the Fabric
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pptx-1-aat-10.1177_24723444221119845 for Knitted Denim Fabrics: Fabrication Process and Fibrous Influence on Several Properties of the Fabric by Md. Saiful Hoque, Md. Imranul Shahid, Abdullah Al Parvez, Md. Jakir Hossain and Sheenrina Miyan Sheen in AATCC Journal of Research</p
Social Network-Aware Disk Management
No full textDisk access patterns of social networking applications are different from those of traditional applications. However, today's disk layout techniques are not adapted to social networking workloads and thus suffer in performance. In this paper, we first present disk layout techniques that leverage community structure in the social graph to make placement decisions. Second, we build a layout manager called the Bondhu system that incorporates our techniques. We integrate Bondhu into the popular Neo4j graph database engine. Our trace driven experimental results show that the Bondhu system improves the median response time by as much as 48%. While taking the community structure into account yields clear benefits, our results indicate that models with more complexity beyond the social graph may yield low additional benefit.is peer reviewedSubmitted by Imranul Hoque ([email protected]) on 2010-12-03T23:45:00Z
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sj-pdf-1-aat-10.1177_24723444221119845 – Supplemental material for Knitted Denim Fabrics: Fabrication Process and Fibrous Influence on Several Properties of the Fabric
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aat-10.1177_24723444221119845 for Knitted Denim Fabrics: Fabrication Process and Fibrous Influence on Several Properties of the Fabric by Md. Saiful Hoque, Md. Imranul Shahid, Abdullah Al Parvez, Md. Jakir Hossain and Sheenrina Miyan Sheen in AATCC Journal of Research</p
Role of multinational buyers in ensuring worker voice through social dialogue : an exploratory study of the export oriented garment industry
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This study aims to explore how multinational lead buyers can play an active role in ensuring worker voices in garment supplier factories where workers have limited space to raise their voices, and how buyers’ involvement increases the possibilities of worker voices mitigating barriers to social dialogues and enhancing mutual interests of buyers and workers in garment factories.
Design/methodology/approach
Using a qualitative research approach and multiple embedded case study method, this study considered buyer−supplier dyads as the unit of analysis, i.e. two multinational lead buyers and their four corresponding suppliers in the garment industry of Bangladesh. Focus group discussion and key informant in-depth interviews were techniques applied to collect factory-level data, and within and cross-case analysis techniques were applied to develop an overall understanding.
Findings
The results of this study reveal that the opportunities for workers to voice their concerns through social dialogue in garment supplier factories are limited due to various obstacles. Similarly, the role of multinational lead buyers in addressing these issues is found to be less than ideal. This study also shows that buyers can take short-term and long-term initiatives to ensure social dialogues. Moreover, this study presents how social dialogues can meet the expectations of multinational buyers and their garment suppliers.
Research limitations/implications
While this study focuses exclusively on the garment industry, similar scenarios also exist across a multitude of other industries. Thus, future research could extend this study’s scope to various sectors, providing a more comprehensive understanding of the general state of worker voices in Bangladesh. This study stands to make significant contributions to literature in the fields of global value chains, human relations and international business. It will pose critical perspectives on how upstream value chain suppliers can fortify worker rights through social dialogue, and elucidate the means and motives for lead buyers to play a more active role in this endeavour.
Originality/value
This study is distinct in its approach, integrating buyer−supplier roles to pave the way for enhanced worker voice opportunities through social dialogue in garment supplier factories.© Anisur R. Faroque, Imranul Hoque and Mohammad Osman Gani. Published by Emerald
Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcodefi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed
Storage and processing systems for power-law graphs
Full text linkLarge graphs abound around us - online social networks, Web graphs, the Internet, citation networks, protein interaction networks, telephone call graphs, peer-to-peer overlay networks, electric power grid networks, etc. Many real- life graphs are power-law graphs. A fundamental challenge in today’s Big Data world is storage and processing of these large-scale power-law graphs.
In this thesis, we show that graph processing can be made faster and graph storage can be made more efficient by using techniques that leverage the structure of the underlying power-law graphs. To this end, we present two systems. First, we present LFGraph, which is a fast, distributed, in- memory graph analytics platform. LFGraph leverages the structure and characteristics of power-law graphs in order to reduce communication overhead, and to balance communication and computation load. This makes analytics faster on power-law graphs. Next, we present Bondhu, which is a disk layout manager for graph databases. Bondhu exploits the fact that most real-life power-law graphs are also small-world and these exhibit strong com- munity structure. Bondhu utilizes this community structure in order to make layout decisions. This improves the query response time of graph databases. Our systems are evaluated on real clusters using real-world graphs.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2013-09-04T22:01:07Z
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How systematic quality control affects suppliers socioeconomic sustainability and the stability of the buyersupplier relationship: a case of the garment industry in Bangladesh
No full textSustainable buyer-supplier relationship through Quality Control in Supplier’s Factory:A Comparative Case Study in Bangladeshi Garment Industry
No full textAlthough extant literature addresses tensions in buyer-supplier relationship, limited attention has been paid to understand how quality control practices can reduce tensions and maintain a sustainable buyer-supplier relationship. Drawing on this gap, this paper aims to investigate how buyer’s intervention in supplier firms improves product quality performance. Using a root-cause analysis tool, this paper explores how buyer’s quality control initiative influences product quality performance that leads to economic and social sustainability in supplier firms. Following a qualitative research approach, data has been collected from one Danish buyer and four garment suppliers in Bangladesh. Out of four suppliers, two factories are controlled where the buyer firm has intervened the quality control practice while the other two factories are out of intervention initiative. The findings from the two groups are compared and developed propositions. This paper presents a new understanding of how quality control practices contribute to ensure relationship between buyer and supplier, while enhancing economic returns for supplier firm by reducing defects and saving time, and increasing incentive for workers through production target achievement. Thus, quality control intervention eventually leads to supplier firms social and economic sustainability. This study contributes to new insights on the strategies of quality control and sustainability for buyer and supplier in ready-made garments
Task performance and occupational health and safety management systems in the garment industry of Bangladesh
No full textPurpose: This study investigates the relationship between individual task performance of garment workers and occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) in the garment industry of Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach: Following a quantitative research approach and using a four-stage cluster sampling technique, data collected from 610 workers of twelve garments supplier factories using a structured questionnaire. Mean, standard deviation, correlation and stepwise multiple regressions performed to understand the relationship between task performance and OHSMS. Findings: The study results demonstrate that occupational health and safety (OHS) policy, benchmarking, worker participation, OHS training, communication, emergency response, preventive and protective action, monitoring and review are the significant predictors of individual task performance of garment workers; and OHS policy contributes most substantially to the variance of task performance in the garment industry of Bangladesh. Research limitations/implications: This study’s findings contribute to operations management, human resources management and the health and safety management literature by demonstrating a link between operational performance, human resources management and OHSMS. Practical implications: This study could be beneficial for garment suppliers to understand how effective OHSMS can reduce production costs by increasing worker efficiency. Originality/value: This is a unique research attempt as it considers the task performance dimension of an individual garment worker from the OHS management perspective.<br/
