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প্রমাণের ভাষা

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Forthcoming, Date to be announced. KM Rakibul Islam and Md Rezaul Karim Shohag

Research articles

  • Against Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium: The Jurisprudence of Rights Without RemedyKM Rakibul Islam
  • The Algorithmic Refugee: Automated Decision-Making in Refugee Status Determination and the Structural Erosion of Procedural Justice under International LawKM Rakibul Islam
  • The Atmosphere as Border: Somatic Governance, Spectral Geographies, and the Environmental Violence of Far-Right Space in PortugalKM Rakibul Islam
  • Clean Hands, Dirty Outcomes: Proxy Immunity and the Algorithmic Racialisation of Migration Governance in EU LawKM Rakibul Islam
  • Conjugal Immobility: Biographical Suspension, Ornamental Migration, and the Architecture of Dependent Personhood among Bangladeshi Women in PortugalKM Rakibul Islam
  • Corridor or Room: Infrastructural Belonging, Strategic Transience, and the Habitation System as Determinants of South Asian Migrant Emplacement in Sweden and PortugalKM Rakibul Islam
  • Deportable Yet Indispensable: South Asian Labour and the Politics of Racialised Precarity in Southern European AgricultureKM Rakibul Islam
  • Disposable Bodies, Indispensable LabourKM Rakibul Islam
  • Expendable Citizens, Indispensable RemittancesKM Rakibul Islam
  • From Margin to Opposition: Chega and the Discursive Production of Migrant Exploitability in Portugal, 2019 to 2025KM Rakibul Islam
  • Governing Through Uncertainty: Psychological Governance, Legal Precarity, and Migrant Experiences in the Netherlands During the Restrictive Turn of 2024 to 2026KM Rakibul Islam
  • High Risk, No Remedy: Why the EU AI Act Cannot Protect the People It Was Written ForKM Rakibul Islam
  • Legislative Rupture and Racialised Precarity: The Termination of Portugal's Regularisation Pathway and the Intensification of Labour Exploitation among South Asian Agricultural MigrantsKM Rakibul Islam
  • No Remedy at the Gate: The Double Deficit of Algorithmic Migration GovernanceKM Rakibul Islam
  • Producing the PipelineKM Rakibul Islam
  • Psychic Governance as Sub-Threshold Coercion: The Structural Blindness of International Human Rights Law and the Doctrine of Legal ViolenceKM Rakibul Islam
  • Racialised Agricultural Labour and the Limits of Northern Migration Theory: A Decolonial Framework for Southern EuropeKM Rakibul Islam
  • Sovereign Disavowal: Border Externalisation, European-African Migration Governance Arrangements, and the Postcolonial Architecture of Non-Refoulement Evasion under International Refugee LawKM Rakibul Islam
  • The Statistical Refugee: Probabilistic Personhood and the Algorithmic Destruction of Individual Rights in EU Migration GovernanceKM Rakibul Islam
  • Tell Me Your Story AgainKM Rakibul Islam
  • Testimonial Sovereignty: Credibility, Epistemic Injustice, and the Jurisprudence of Legally Invisible HarmKM Rakibul Islam
  • They Are Like Footballs, Everyone Kicks: Lateral Predation, Exhaustion Governance, and the Nested Housing Exploitation of South Asian Migrants in Five European Capital CitiesKM Rakibul Islam
  • They Saw. They Did Not Come: FRONTEX, Drone Surveillance, and the Legal Architecture of Mediterranean Non-RescueKM Rakibul Islam
  • Uniformed Exploitation: Psychological Governance and Police-Protected Labor Trafficking in Portuguese AgricultureKM Rakibul Islam
  • Uprooted by Law, Rooted in Illegality: Aspirational Capture and the Convergence of Restrictive and Liberal Migration Regimes in EuropeKM Rakibul Islam
  • Visibility as Verdict: Gendered Violence, Administered Forgetting, and the Rationing of Justice in BangladeshKM Rakibul Islam

Each article is listed with the name of its author, whose work it is.

Publications by ASCEND’s leadership

Journal articles, chapters and papers by members of ASCEND’s Board of Trustees and Directorate, written in their own academic posts and listed under each author’s name.

Professor Dr KM Zahidul Islam

Chairman, Board of Trustees. 76 publications. From his CV, November 2026. Google Scholar profile

International journals (36)
  1. Islam, K. M. Z., et al. (2026). Unveiling Complex Seasonality in Stock Price Forecasting Using a Seasonal-Adjusted Hybrid Machine Learning Approach. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Forthcoming.
  2. Jemi, M. K. F., Islam, K. Z., Kabir, M. Z., & Hossain, M. A. (2026). Knowledge Management and Organizational Performance: A Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Leadership. Knowledge and Process Management.
  3. Hosain, M. Z., Islam, K. Z., & Uddin, M. P. (2026). Ownership structure and dividend payout of listed firms in Bangladesh: An application of the Tobit model. Asian Journal of Economic Modelling, 14(1), 74-91.
  4. Sultana, N., Zeya, F., Islam, K. M. Z., & Rodriguez, A. J. (2025). The role of total assets in financial performance: Evaluating econometrics and machine learning approaches. Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, 37(1), 204-215.
  5. Karim, S. M. F., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2025). Understanding entrepreneurial aspirations among female undergraduates in Bangladesh. Asian Journal of Business and Accounting, 18(2), 39-75.
  6. Chaity, N., Islam, K. M. Z., Masud, A., Islam, M., Rahman, M., & Kabir, S. (2025). Sustainable Pathways to Circular Economy Adoption: Insights From the RMG Sector of Bangladesh. Bus Strat Env, 34, 5857-5868. doi:10.1002/bse.4277
  7. Ali, S. R., Hossain, M. A., Islam, K. M. Z., & Shafiul Alam, S. M. (2024). Weaving a greener future: The impact of green human resources management and green supply chain management on sustainable performance in Bangladesh’s textile industry. Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 100143.
  8. Hossain, M. S., Hossain, M. A., Masud, A. A., Islam, K. M. Z., Mostafa, M. G., & Hossain, M. T. (2023). The integrated power of gastronomic experience quality and accommodation experience to build tourists’ satisfaction, revisit intention, and word-of-mouth intention. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 1-27.
  9. Sultana, N., Rahman, M. M., Khanam, R., Islam, K. Z., & Rayhan, M. R. I. (2023). Investigating the prospect of cleaner production in informal enterprises: A scientific assessment of environmental burdens and economic efficiency. Heliyon, 9(3).
  10. Hossain, M. M., Islam, K. Z., Al Masud, A., Hossain, M. A., & Jahan, N. (2023). Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Disclosure in Subjective Well-Being: A Facebook Case With a Social Support Mediator. SAGE Open, 13(2), 21582440231179925.
  11. Ahmed, S. F., Mohsin, A. K. M., Islam, K. Z., & Hossain, S. F. A. (2023). Relationship between greenfield investment and economic growth: Evidence from Bangladesh. Heliyon, 9(7).
  12. Alam, M. N., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2022). Profitability Determinants of Non-bank Financial Institutions under Basel Regulations: Evidence from a Frontier Market. Global Business Review, 1-17. doi:10.1177/09721509221101102.
  13. Khatun, M., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2022). Beta with Size Premium an Augmented Approach in the Frontier Equity Market: Evidence from Dhaka Stock Exchange. Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, 12(1), 111-123.
  14. Alam, S. M. S., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2021). Examining adoption of Electronic Human Resource Management from the perspective of Technology Organization Environment Framework. IEEE Engineering Management Review.
  15. Alam, S. M. S., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2021). Examining the Role of Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility in Building Green Corporate Image and Green Competitive Advantage. International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 6(8), 1-16.
  16. Chaiti, N. S., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2021). Bank efficiency and practice of earnings management: a study on listed commercial banks of Bangladesh. Asian Journal of Accounting Research. doi:10.1108/AJAR-09-2020-0080.
  17. Chaiti, N. S., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2021). Uncovering opportunistic earning management practices by the listed private commercial banks of Bangladesh. South Asian Journal of Management, 28(2).
  18. Alam, S. M. S., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2020). Understanding the interplay of behavioral aspects of firm competitiveness: a case of apparel industry of Bangladesh. Int. J. Sustainable Strategic Management, 8(2), 181-217.
  19. Islam, K. M. Z., Akter, Y., & Alam, N. (2020). Macroeconomic variables and stock returns in Bangladesh: an empirical analysis in the presence of structural breaks. Journal of Economic Development, 45(2), 115-141.
  20. Islam, K. M. Z., & Alam, N. (2020). Macroeconomic variables and Dhaka stock exchange returns: An application of autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development, 40(4), 55-87.
  21. Islam, K. M. Z., Alam, B. A., & Hossain, M. M. H. (2019). Impact of Credit Risk Management on Bank Performance: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh. South Asian Journal of Management, 26(2), Forthcoming.
  22. Alam, S. M. S., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2019). Examining Organizational Learning Intentions: An Illustration of Theory of Planned Behavior in the Apparel Sector of Bangladesh. Pacific Business Review International, 12(3), 9-20.
  23. Alam, S. M. S., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2017). Addressing the impact of population pressure on carbon dioxide emissions: From the perspective of the interplay among output, population, and carbon emission. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 5(2), 183-200.
  24. Repon, M. A. H., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2016). Competition and Concentration in Bangladeshi Banking Sector: An Application of Panzar-Rosse Model. Finance and Banking Studies, 5(1), 16-29.
  25. Hossain, M., Islam, K. M. Z., & Sayeed, M. A. (2016). A Comprehensive Literature Reviews on Open Innovation. Journal of Technology Management and Policy, 7(1), 2-25.
  26. Kibria, C. G., Islam, K. M. Z., & Chowdhury, T. (2016). Comparative Analysis of Loyalty of 2G and 3G Mobile Technology Customers in Dhaka City. Jaipura International Journal of Management Research, 2(2), 32-42.
  27. Hossain, M., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2015). Generating Ideas on Online Platforms: A Case Study of “My Starbucks Idea.” Arab Economic and Business Journal, 10, 102-111.
  28. Hossain, M., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2015). Ideation through Online Open Innovation Platform: Dell Idea Storm. Journal of Knowledge Economy, 6(3), 611-624.
  29. Hoque, S., Islam, K. M. Z., & Ripon, M. A. H. (2014). Data Envelopment Analysis for Evaluating Banks’ Efficiency in Maximizing Shareholders’ Wealth: Evidence from Selected Bangladeshi Commercial Banks. South Asian Journal of Management, 21(4), 145-165.
  30. Sievänen, R., Sumelius, J., Islam, K. M. Z., & Sell, M. (2013). From the struggle in responsible investment to the potential to improve global environmental governance through UN PRI. Int Environ Agreements, 2(3), 197-217.
  31. Islam, K. M. Z., Sumelius, J., & Bäckman, S. (2012). Do Differences in Technical Efficiency Explain the Adoption rate of HYV RICE? Evidence from Bangladesh. Agricultural Economics Review, 13(1), 93-110.
  32. Bäckman, S., Islam, K. M. Z., & Sumelius, J. (2011). Determinants of Technical Efficiency of Rice Farms in North-Central and North-Western Regions in Bangladesh. The Journal of Developing Areas, 1(1), 73-94.
  33. Islam, K. M. Z., Bäckman, S., & Sumelius, J. (2011). Technical, economic and allocative efficiency of microfinance borrowers and non-borrowers: Evidence from Bangladesh. European Journal of Social Sciences, 18(3), 361-377.
  34. Islam, K. M. Z., Sipiläinen, T., & Sumelius, J. (2011). Access to microfinance: Does it matter for profit efficiency among small scale rice farmers in Bangladesh. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 9(3), 311-323.
  35. Islam, K. M. Z., Sipiläinen, T., & Sumelius, J. (2011). Influence of credit constraints on technical, allocative and cost efficiency in peasant farming in Bangladesh. European Journal of Scientific Research, 56(2), 229-243.
  36. Hossain, M. M., Heinonen, V., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2008). Consumption of foods and food stuffs processed with hazardous chemicals: A case of Bangladesh. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 32(6), 588-595.
Journals in Bangladesh (33)
  1. Hasan, M. K., Islam, K. M., & Rois, R. R. (2025). Enhancing Forecast Accuracy for Damped Trend and Multiplicative Seasonality: A Hybrid Time-Series Framework with Simulation Study. Jahangirnagar University Journal of Science, Forthcoming.
  2. Hossain, M. Z., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2021). The Impact of Ownership Structure on Dividend Payout Policy: A Study of Listed Companies of Dhaka Exchange Limited in Bangladesh. The Comilla University Journal of Business Studies, 8(1), 113-140.
  3. Hossain, M. Z., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2021). The Impact of Dividend Policy on Stock Price Volatility: A Study on Listed Financial Companies of DSE in Bangladesh. Jahangirnagar University Journal of Business Research, 22, 11-30.
  4. Hossain, M. Z., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2021). Managerial and Institutional Ownership Impact on Dividend Payout Policy: A Study of Listed Non-Financial Companies of Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh. Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, BUBT Journal, 2021.
  5. Hossain, M. Z., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2020). Individual and managerial Ownership Impact on Dividend Payout Policy in the Listed Companies of Dhaka Exchange Limited in Bangladesh. Prime University Journal, 14(2), 8-31.
  6. Islam, K. M. Z., Belayet, S. B., & Kibria, C. G. (2019). Technical, Allocative and Economic Efficiency of Commercial Banks of Bangladesh: A DEA-based Non-Parametric Approach. The Jahangirnagar Review, XLIII, Forthcoming.
  7. Saha, R. K., Alam, M. B., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2019). Determinants of Liquidity of Commercial Banks in Bangladesh: A panel Cointegration Approach. The Jahangirnagar Journal of Business Studies, 8(1), 137-150.
  8. Islam, K. M. Z., Rumi, A. F., & Hoque, M. N. (2017). Bank Specific Determinants of Commercial bank Profitability in Bangladesh. North South Business Review, 7(2), 42-59.
  9. Islam, K. M. Z., Sharif, M. I., & Hoque, M. N. (2016; printed in 2018). Firm-specific and Macroeconomic Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Industry in Bangladesh. Business Review, Khulna University, Bangladesh, 11(1 & 2), 43-57.
  10. Islam, K. M. Z., Saha, R. K., & Haque, N. (2016). Determinants of Liquidity of Commercial Bank: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh. The Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 27, 147-165.
  11. Ahmed, S. F., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2016). Determinants of Inflation in Bangladesh: An Econometric Analysis using ARDL Bound Test Approach. The Jahangirnagar Business Research Review, 18(17), 1-23.
  12. Kibria, C. G., Kabir, M., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2016). Theory of Change in Development. BIISS Journal, 37(1), 67-84.
  13. Islam, K. M. Z., Sharif, M. I., & Ahmed, M. (2015). Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Evidence from Selected Firms Listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange. Daffodil International University Journal of Business and Economics, 9(2), 10-25.
  14. Islam, K. M. Z., Hoque, M. N., & Ahmed, S. M. A. M. (2015). Dynamic Relationships Between Stock Market Indices and Macroeconomic Aggregates: A Time Series Evidence from Bangladesh Economy. The Jahangirnagar Journal of Finance & Banking, 3, 113-131.
  15. Hoque, M. N., Islam, K. M. Z., & Munim, K. M. A. (2015). Validity of Twin Deficit Hypothesis: Evidence from Developing Countries using Panel data. North South Business Review, 17, 1-26.
  16. Hoque, M. N., Islam, K. M. Z., & Munim, K. M. A. (2015). Bangladesh and India Trade Deficit and Exchange Rate Dynamics: A Time Series Analysis. The Jahangirnagar Business Research Review, 17, 1-24.
  17. Reza, M. R., Islam, K. M. Z., Hossain, M. M., & Bhuiyan, M. N. H. (2015). Relative Inefficiency in the Market Pricing for Companies Listed under the Book-building Process and Subsequent Free-Fall. The Jahangirnagar Journal of Finance & Banking, 3, 1-16.
  18. Hossain, M. M., Islam, K. M. Z., & Rahman, M. A. (2015). Consumer Style Index Inventory. Jahangirnagar University Journal of Marketing, 2, 73-83.
  19. Ahmed, S. F., Islam, K. M. Z., & Khan, M. R. (2015). Relationship between inflation & stock market returns: Evidence from Bangladesh. Daffodil International Journal of Business and Economics, 9(1), 1-12.
  20. Kashem, M. A., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2011; printed in 2015). Macroeconomic Determinants of Bank Profitability: A time series investigation on Bangladesh. The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II, Social Sciences, 35, 1-12.
  21. Islam, K. M. Z., & Saha, T. K. (2014). An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Dividend Policy: Evidence from Bangladesh Commercial Banks. Jahangirnagar University Journal of Marketing, 2, 73-83.
  22. Islam, K. M. Z., & Sakib, R. N. (2014). The efficiency of Non-Bank Financial Institutions: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh. The Jahangirnagar Journal of Finance & Banking, 2, 1-23.
  23. Islam, K. M. Z., & Hoque, M. N. (2014). Application of Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis on the Measurement of Farming Efficiencies in Bangladesh. North South Business Review, 5(1), 47-68.
  24. Hoque, S., Islam, K. M. Z., & Saha, R. K. (2014). Factors Affecting the Solvency of Commercial Banks of Bangladesh: An Empirical Evidence. Daffodil International University Journal of Business and Economics, 8(1), 19-34.
  25. Islam, K. M. Z., & Ahmed, S. F. (2014). Investigating the Stock Market Volatility: Evidence from Dhaka Stock Exchange. The Jahangirnagar Faculty of Business & Economics, 4(1), 121-138.
  26. Islam, K. M. Z., & Uddin, R. (2006). Access to Finance: Factoring to mitigate working capital crunch of SMEs in Bangladesh. The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II, Social Science, 29, 219-228.
  27. Al Hasan, M. R., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2008). Social Safety Net for Poverty Alleviation and Expectations: The Bangladesh Perspective. Social Science Review, The Dhaka University Studies, Part-D, 24(2), 33-45.
  28. Al Hasan, M. R., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2008). Bridging the Gap between Microfinance and SME Financing in Bangladesh: Unlocking the Potentials. Daffodil International University Journal of Business and Economics, 3(1), 43-57.
  29. Islam, K. M. Z., Siddique, M. M., & Rahman, I. M. (2006). Book Building System: Will it really help to build the market. Journal of Business Research, 8, 63-76.
  30. Al Hasan, M. R., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2006). Managing Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Efficiently: Measuring Performance and Sustainability. The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II, Social Science, 29, 229-243.
  31. Siddique, M. M., Islam, K. M. Z., & Rahman, I. M. (2006). Revisiting SME Financing in Bangladesh. Daffodil International University Journal of Business and Economics, 1(1), 71-86.
  32. Siddique, M. M., Hossain, M. M., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2006). Asset Securitization in Bangladesh: Practices and Impediments. The Cost and Management, 34(2), 19-38.
  33. Mohammad, F., Siddique, M. M., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2006). Effect of New IPO Issuance on the Secondary: Evidence from Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 17(1), 1-16.
Notes, book chapter and conference paper (3)
  1. Islam, K. M. Z., & Ahmed, S. F. (2015). Stock Market Crash and Stock Return Volatility: Empirical Evidence From Dhaka Stock Exchange. Bangladesh Development Studies, XXXVIII(3), 25-34.
  2. Sumelius, J., & Islam, K. M. Z. (2012). Policies and Strategies. In Towards an Environmental Society? Concepts, Policies, Outcomes. Prague: Charles University, pp. 95-105.
  3. Sultana, N., Rahman, K. S., Islam, K. M. Z., & Ahmad, S. (2023). An exploration of bancassurance: standpoints of banks, insurance companies and customers in Bangladesh. 4th International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET), 1-7.
Discussion papers, University of Helsinki (4)
  1. Islam, K. M. Z., & Shimelles, T. (2009). Rural financial services and effects of microfinance on agricultural productivity and on poverty. Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki.
  2. Newton, N., Tuulikki, P., Islam, K. M. Z., & Bäckman, S. (2009). Investigation of the effects of increases in agricultural productivity with regard to food security, employment and rural development in general. Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki.
  3. Rose, A. I., Islam, K. M. Z., & Hossain, M. M. (2009). Analysis of the relation between rural poverty, malnutrition and hunger, and the interlinks with agricultural production growth and productivity growth with special reference to Mozambique and Bangladesh. Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki.
  4. Shimelles, T., Islam, K. M. Z., & Tuulikki, P. (2009). Effects of land tenure and property rights on agricultural productivity in Ethiopia, Namibia and Bangladesh. Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki.

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