ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON BRAND AWARENESS IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES OF BANGLADESH

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Social media is considered to be a powerful platform for communication. This platform is very effective and strong network among the people. This platform is not only used for communication but also used to share and exchange knowledge and information among the people. This study aims at investigating the role of social media on the brand awareness of private universities in Bangladesh. Social media was investigated in context of different factors interaction, trendiness, relevant content, consistency, and accessible in multiple devices. The population for this study was students of different private universities. A self-administered questionnaire survey of 476 students using convenience sampling approach was employed to collect data. Quantitative research approach namely factor analysis and multiple regression method were used in the study. The data were analyzed in SPSS 22. The findings reveal social media as significant tool in raising brand awareness among students since all of the social media factors were found to be significant predictors of brand awareness. Among all the factors, accessible in multiple device is found to have the largest role while consistency has the lowest role. Implications of the research were delineated and limitations and future research scope were presented.

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ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON BRAND AWARENESS IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES
OF BANGLADESH
BIKASH BARUA
1
& SAYAKA ZAMAN
2
1
Associate Professor, Department of Business Studies, State University of Bangladesh, Bangladesh
2
Lecturer, Department of Business Studies, State University of Bangladesh, Bangladesh
ABSTRACT
Social media is considered to be a powerful platform for communication. This platform is very effective and strong
network among the people. This platform is not only used for communication but also used to share and exchange
knowledge and information among the people. This study aims at investigating the role of social media on the brand
awareness of private universities in Bangladesh. Social media was investigated in context of different factors interaction,
trendiness, relevant content, consistency, and accessible in multiple devices. The population for this study was students of
different private universities. A self-administered questionnaire survey of 476 students using convenience sampling
approach was employed to collect data. Quantitative research approach namely factor analysis and multiple regression
method were used in the study. The data were analyzed in SPSS 22. The findings reveal social media as significant tool in
raising brand awareness among students since all of the social media factors were found to be significant predictors of
brand awareness. Among all the factors, accessible in multiple device is found to have the largest role while consistency
has the lowest role. Implications of the research were delineated and limitations and future research scope were
presented.
KEYWORDS: Social Media Marketing, Social Media Branding & Brand Awareness.
Received: Sep 13, 2019; Accepted: Oct 03, 2019; Published: Oct 31, 2019; Paper Id.: IJBMRDEC20191
INTRODUCTION
Social Media is one of the biggest platforms for the universities to connect with the students as well as
academicians. At the present day, every university is embracing it for their branding. To gain a maximum benefit,
social media is playing a major role for university’s branding. Today, social media offers the chance to hold close
the community at large. Social media helps universities to create top of mind awareness which is crucial for
branding. Young people as well as educators are using different social media tools to get their required information.
Now, universities are doing branding through social media because it can connect more relevant people besides,
universities are putting their activities like workshop, seminars, and students’ achievements and so on, on the face
book, twitter, instagram for their branding so that they can reach easily to their desired customers. All the
universities are utilizing social media to engage all the public. Meanwhile branding is the extension of universities’
social media to sustain in the competition, since it is a new voice of branding. A large number of studies has been
conducted on branding through social media for commercial organizations but there is a dearth of research in
academic setting. Therefore, it is worth conducting research on social media branding for universities.
Private universities in Bangladesh have grown up to a large number during last one decade. There are 104
private universities in the country right now. Even though a large number of students every year is entering into
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higher education, due to this intense competition private universities are facing challenge to attract a large pool of these
students. Thus, marketing to these students about the university specially the means of communication becomes a major
issue now a day. According to Singh and Sinha (2017), marketing through traditional media’s for organizational branding
is no longer becoming useful. Furthermore, Murtiningsih and Murad (2016), mentioned that traditional marketing suffers
from several drawbacks as people have the opportunity to block the information. Also, traditional marketing through
television or newspaper, for example, facilitates one-way communication between sender and receiver. In this digital era,
technology is playing a vital role for marketing. Many organizations including universities are utilizing technology for
marketing purpose. In this connection, social media’s have widespread effect on shaping consumer behavior in terms of
information dissemination, exchanging thoughts and outlooks for gathering understanding and awareness, and envisage
behavior after purchasing behavior (Tatar and Erdoğmuş, 2016). Moreover, organizations can create their brand profiles
and presenting online customer service, product information and special offerings in simple, cost effective way, and
continuously utilizing social media marketing (Breitsohl et al., 2015). Additionally, enlightening consumers in cost
effective manner is very much functional with respect to acquaintance and awareness of the brand of the organizations in
social media since large number of customers are logging in all the time (O'Flynn, 2017). Hence, social medias can be used
as a key marketing activity for branding of the universities. In light of above considerations, the objective of this study is to
identify the role of social media in raising brand awareness of the students about the universities. Also, the study attempts
to examine the usage pattern of social media of the students.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Social Media Marketing Activities
At present, social media has become an essential part of daily life for sharing information, content, and communication
(Khalid 2016). It has created a new horizon in the personal and company level for interaction, participation, collaboration,
and cooperation (Bruhn, Schoenmueller & Schafer 2012). Users create all contents in social media, where users can
communicate with the "many-to-many" method instead of the customary "one-to-many" communication method (Prahalad
& Ramaswamy 2004). Through the use of social media tools, businesses are getting the opportunity to offer their products
and brand promotion, promotion and advertising at low cost and also get feedback from there (Hanna et al., 2011).
Tsimonis and Dimitriadis (2014) have found in their research that social media has reached the center point of business
strategy at present by its popularity and budget-saving measures, and competitors' marketing strategies in social media
encourage other marketers to do social media marketing. There are two critical aspects of using the internet and mobile
technology-based online communication platforms for business marketing actions. The first is the impact of customers on
their products and brand and the effect of their opinions on other customers (Sigala and Dimosthenis, 2009; Chen et. al.,
2011). Secondly, the businesses use social media as their direct marketing platform. In that sense, social media is
expanding the time and space of interaction of the business with potential consumers and promoting the feelings more
intensively (Mersey et al., 2010).
Social media can be defined in such a way that a bunch of online applications that have created on the ideological
and technical basis of Web 2.0 by which users can create and exchange their contents (Kaplan Andreas, M; Haenlein, M.,
2010). Social media marketing is used directly or indirectly for the personal, product or institutional branding, awareness
building or recognition, which is performed using social web tools (Gunelius, S., 2011).

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Kim and Ko (2012) classified social media marketing actions for deluxe brands through entertainment,
collaboration, trends, customization, and word of mouth communication. Koivulehto (2017) augmented the buying
intention to these components. Seo and Park (2018) defined social media marketing acts in the airline industry through
entertainment, collaboration, trends, customization and apparent risks. Sano (2014) defined social media marketing in
insurance facilities through collaboration, trends, customization and apparent risk. Jo (2013) mentions marketing activities
as events, information and social media advertising. Yadav and Rahman (2017) referred to social media marketing as
collaboration, trends, evidence, customization and word of mouth communication. Based on this research, social media
marketing activities have been defined as entertainment, evidence, information, collaboration, trends, advertising and
customization. Bilgin (2018) identified entertainment, interaction, trendiness, advertisement, and customization as social
media marketing activities. While, Laksamana (2018) mentioned entertainment, interaction, trendiness, customization, and
e-wom as the social media marketing activities. Murtiningsih and Murad (2016) in their study used campaign that benefits
& frequency refurbished, relevant content, popular content, varied platform and application in social media as social media
marketing activities. Tung et al. (2017) developed advertising campaign relevant contents, updated contents, popular
contents, appears on various devices as social media marketing activities.
Brand Awareness
Brand awareness means the intensity of customer satisfaction, recognition and brand recall (Percy and Rossiter, 1992;
Perreault et al., 2013). According to Aaker (1991) brand awareness is a potential buyer's ability to identify or recall a brand
as a member of a particular product division. Keller (2009) said that brand awareness refers to the capability to identify or
recall a brand in a customer's brain in different situations. Aaker (1996) referred to brand awareness by the capacity of a
customer to recognize, detect and recall of a brand in various circumstances. Additionally, Hoeffler and Keller (2002)
recognized that brand awareness can be demonstrated by two factors; depth and width. Depth explains how customers can
easily remember and identify the brand. And the width refers to when customers buy a commodity, how the specific brand
name comes immediately to their minds. If a product has depth and width concurrently, it means a buyer will consider a
specific brand while purchasing a commodity. Finally, it is said that brand awareness of that certain product is high.
Brand awareness cuts the time and risk that consumers spend for exploring the commodity while they buy it
(Verbeke et. al., 2005). In this case, customers are expected to buy the brand that they know. Homburg et al. (2010) claim
that brand awareness tells us about this commodity. Pikturnienė (2009) states that brand awareness (remembrance,
imagination, decision-making) is an essential condition for choice. Černikovaite (2011) said that brand awareness can be a
precondition for buying the product. The high-quality products or services encourage buyers to purchase products through
which additional profits are made. Urbanskienė et al. (2006) claimed that brand awareness indicates whether a particular
brand gets priority from a particular category in a consumer's mind and whether it occurs rapidly. This is one of the major
aspects of the value of the brand. Eventually, consumers cannot evaluate a brand if they do not know the entire brand
analysis. So, the brand's new target is well-known, but it keeps a high level of awareness of the market. During the brand
analysis, consumer’s perception of a brand can be analyzed through associations. Perhaps the most important part of the
company's tactical plan is to create new customers and keep them loyal to the brand. Loyal customers upsurge the
company's revenue. Increasing the awareness of the company is one of the most effective tools to increase customer
loyalty. Increasing awareness among the youth is predominantly essential for every company for the successful expansion
of business in the future. If young customers are not created, the number of loyal consumers will be reduced in the future

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(Roesler, 2015). A lot of messages come to us daily. Different manufacturers want to tell us about their service or product.
Their main purpose is to obtain the advertised service or product and also improve the company's visibility. Hsiao (2011)
references some authors’ opinions; this is the ability of a buyer to identify and differentiate a specific brand so that the
shopper can recognize the brand instantly after seeing the trademark.
Development of Research Model
According to Vukasovic (2013), social networks, as a means of marketing, provides substantial scopes to develop a
relationship between customer and brand. Recently, social media is found to be an utmost tool for many businesses for
effectively connecting and endowing consumers in crafting brand identity distinctively and augmenting communications
between customer and brand (So et al., 2017). Hartzel et al. (2011) mentioned that shared marketing approaches through
social media’s like Facebook and Twitter have significant positive effect on creating an image of a brand and generates a
leveraging effect on brand–customer relationship. The widespread usage of social media has an effective role in discussing
and knowing about a brand thereby promoting the brand among its users (Kumar et. al., 2007). Tsimonis and Dimitriadis
(2014) demonstrated that marketing through social media has one of the foremost consequences in raising brand awareness
for business organizations. Fanion (2011) also concluded in favour of social media as a marketing tool in creating and
raising brand awareness. Seo and Park (2018) demonstrated the positive effect of marketing through social media on brand
awareness and brand image in the airline industry.
Tsimonis and Dimitriadis (2014) asserts that marketing in social media has the eventual objective in securing new
customers, enhancing sales, reinforcing word of mouth communication, and generating loyal customer. Tatar and
Erdoğmuş (2016) revealed the effect of marketing activities via social media on brand awareness, purchasing intentions
and brand loyalty in hospitality business. Bilgin (2018) found that social media marketing activities are noteworthy means
of raising brand awareness for reminiscing customers and rooting into their minds. Social media marketing activities
enhances brand awareness through increasing customers’ knowledge that ultimately making them more familiars and more
responsive towards brand (Xu, B. J et. al., 2010). Shojaee and Azman (2013) confirmed that social media has positive
effect on brand awareness in terms of e-WOM, brand exposure and customer engagement. Išoraitė (2016) concluded that
brands awareness could be raised through internet marketing tools, which notify, remind, and convince customers about
their brands, products, or services. Akbar and Özgül (2018) found that social media enhances the social integration and
emotional connection and integration into social routines of customers that ultimately increase brand awareness of
consumers.
Organizations use social media for building or enhancing brand awareness through building online presence and
adding to their circle of influence (ElAydi, 2018). Other benefits revealed by the author include obtaining high brand reach,
enabling individuals to join in brand discussions and increases traffic or number of followers and the feedback that they
deliver. All of these lead to increase in sales revenue in future. Social media affects customers’ feeling of trust and
purchase intention further than enabling communications among customers (Hajli, 2014). This means that social media acts
as an efficient approach to communicate with an organization’s present and prospective customers and establishing a
positive brand image (Fortezza and Pencarelli, 2015). Duffett (2017) identified that communicating through social media is
an effective way of framing customer outlooks. İsmail (2017) determined that social media marketing positively affects
brand awareness and brand loyalty. Kim and Ko (2012) also identified the positive impact of social media on customers.
Based on the above discussions, the research model has been formulated and is presented in figure 1.

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Figure 1: Research Model.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The survey was a single cross-sectional and field survey. The unit of analysis was an individual. The respondents were
selected from undergraduate and graduate level students of different private universities. The convenience sampling
method was used to collect data from the respondents. The data was collected through self-administered questionnaire
survey.
The questionnaire was divided into two sections. The first section asked general characteristics of respondents
such as gender, age, study level, and social media usage pattern. The second part asked questions related to different
facilitating factors that of usefulness of social media on raising awareness of the brand. The measurements for social media
marketing activities and brand awareness are developed from Bilgin (2018), Laksamana (2018), Murtiningsih and Murad
(2016), Tung et al. (2017), and Lorenz (2017). All the constructs were developed using multiple item method and were
measured using five point Likert scale with ‘1’ represents ‘strongly disagree’ and ‘5’ represents ‘strongly agree’ to provide
the advantage of standardizing and quantifying relative effects.
In total, 500 questionnaires were received. Out of the returned questionnaires 476 was considered for analysis
with. Data were tested for reliability by using Cronbach Alpha method. All the four validities; face validity, content
validity, construct validity, and criterion validity was tested to confirm the validity of the data obtained. Descriptive
statistics and linear regression method were adopted to analyze the data. The data were then analyzed in SPSS version 22.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
Demographic Profile
Demographic characteristics of the respondents participated in the study have been examined first. It is found that there are
309 males and 167 are female constituting 64.9% and 35.1% of the total respondents respectively. Also, 398 students are
studying at undergraduate level representing 83.6 % and 78 are studying at graduate level comprising of 16.4% of the total
respondents. Moreover, it is observed that 40 students have less than 50 friends in the social media, 60 students have 51–
100 friends, 76 students have 101–150 friends, 81 students have 151–200 friends, and 219 students have more than 200
friends constituting 8.4%, 12.6%, 16%,17%, and 46%, respectively.

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Social Media Usage Pattern
Social media usage pattern of the respondents has been analyzed then. It is found that 5.1% students never follow a brand
in social media referred by friends. While 32.1% is found to follow it less than half of the time, 21.4% is found to follow it
half of the time, 24.4% is found to follow for more most of the time, and 17% is found to follow it all the time. Also, it is
found that 21.7% students spend 1–2 hrs daily in social media while 30.4% spend 3–4 hrs, 23.2% spend 5–6 hrs, 12.7%
spend 7–8 hrs, and 12% spend more than 8 hrs. In contrast, the study reveals that 58.5% students spend 1–2 hrs daily in
social media while 20% spend 3–4 hrs, 10.5% spend 5–6 hrs, 4.7% spend 7–8 hrs, and 6.2% spend more than 8 hrs.
The result of the research shows that 40% of the students prefer to learn about their university through social
media while 38.2% prefer to learn it from their siblings, friends, relatives, or acquainted person. Only 21.8% students
prefer to learn through traditional media such as newspaper or TV advertisement, brochure, leaflet, poster of the university.
Furthermore, 64.1% of the students prefer to inform about their university through social media. Whereas, 20.7% prefer to
inform through traditional media. Only, 15.2% prefer to inform through siblings, friends, relatives, or acquainted person.
Lastly, the study attempted to know the frequency of usage of different social medias while communnicating with others.
The findings reveal that mostly preferred social media by the students to communicate about their unviersity is Facebook
as 45.5% of the students mentioned it as most favourred media. Followed by Facebook other media are YouTube (23.5%)
and Instagram (20.9%).
Reliability and Validity
Table 2 presents the reliability and validity of the variables. From Table 2, it is found that Cronbach’s alpha value of all the
research variables is above the cut-off level of 0.7. This indicates a high level of internal consistency in the reliability of the
variables.
Table 2 also presents convergent validity and discriminant validity of the research variables. Convergent validity
was measured by using item-to-total correlation. Items with item-to-total correlation above cut-off level (0.4) were
considered for further analysis. Factor analysis with varimox was used to check the discriminant validity of the items.
Items with loading factors below 0.5 were not considered. Factor analysis was used not only to measure the validity of the
items but also it serves as a tool for authenticating the unidimensionality of the items of the research variables. There are
several approaches to select the number of factors. In this research, factors were determined based on Eigen value. Those
factors which had Eigen values more than 1 were retained for further analysis.
Table 1: Reliability and Validity of the Variables
Variable Questionnaire
Items
Factor
Loading
Item-to-total
Correlation
% of Variance
Explained
Cronbach's
Alpha
Interaction
I1
I2
I3
I4
.735
.574
.806
.766
.488
.445
.574
.514
52.674% .894
Trendiness
T1
T2
T3
T4
.702
.818
.763
.627
.451
.592
.528
.491
53.435% .800
Relevant Content R1
R2
R3
.784
.825
.732
.492
.550
.437 60.983% .879
Accessible in D1 .757 .480 63.230% .809

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Multiple Devices D2
D3 .835
.792 .582
.521
Consistency
C1
C2
C3
C4
.642
.772
.808
.712
.413
.538
.595
.474
58.697% .816
Awareness
A1
A2
A3
A4
.711
.833
.791
.724
.496
.660
.589
.508
63.139% .862
Regression Result
Table 3 presents the regression result of the variables for brand awareness as dependent variable and social media
marketing activities interaction, trendiness, relevant content, accessible in multiple devices, and consistency as independent
variable. The overall regression model is significant with R
2
value of .512 and F value of 55.714. Also, Table 3 depicts that
there is no multicolinearity is found to be present among the independent variables since the tolerance value of each of the
variables is above 0.2 and corresponding VIF value is less than 5.
Regression result of Table 3 reveals that each of the social media marketing activities has significant positive
impact on brand awareness. This means that each of the social media marketing activities has role in increasing brand
awareness among students. However, this role is not same for all variables. It is found that accessible in multiple devices
has highest effect as the β value for this variable is .247 (t = 4.171). This is followed by interaction (β = .193, t = 3.228),
trendiness (β = .179, t = 2.771), relevant content (β = .158, t = 2.577), and consistency (β = .106, t = 1.985) with decreasing
order of effect.
Table 2: Result of Multiple Regression
Variable Beta t Sig. Tolerance VIF
Interaction .193 3.228 .001 .516 1.938
Trendiness .179 2.711 .007 .422 2.370
Relevant Content .158 2.577 .011 .487 2.051
Accessible in Multiple Devices .247 4.171 .000 .524 1.910
Consistency .106 1.985 .048 .645 1.551
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
This research is a kind of study attempted to conduct in order for developing ideas about the social media usage pattern of
the students of private universities in Bangladesh. Also, the study focused on gaining knowledge on how social media
increase brand awareness of the students. From the research findings, it is revealed that at least for half or more of the
instances students follow a brand in social media referred by their friends. Also, the findings, affirm that almost half of the
students spend at least 5–6 hrs daily in social media whereas it is quite low for traditional media. Moreover, the result of
the research shows that student wants to use social media along with buzz marketing approaches to know about university.
In contrast, they prefer to rely mostly on social media while informing about their university. Lastly, the study evealed that
the most preferred soail media for students for marketing is Facebook followed by Instagram nad Youtube.
Also, the study validated that each of the social media marketing activities interaction, trendiness, relevant
content, accessible in multiple devices, and consistency has significant positive impact on improving brand awareness of
the students. Among these accessible in multiple devices has highest effect followed by interaction, trendiness, relevant
content, and consistency with decreasing order of effect.

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The rising trend in number and involvement of users, social media has become a large online community in
Bangladesh. Organizations have found this media to be an alluring in achieving economic benefits (Salah Uddin et. al.,
2017). Social media is a great source of acquiring information from a large community. It has become a modern and
current source of information for customers (Hamid et al., 2016). It has the vast potentiality of sharing new and vast
information instantaneously. Social media alleviates interaction among users and sharing new and up-to-date information
beyond usual networking (Wang, 2012). Universities can rip the benefit of interactive communication with students and
parents through adopting social media in branding (Vukasovic, 2013). Hence, universities can get immediate feedback and
suggestions about their different programs.
Users can easily read, understand, and evoke numerous information if the universities create a concise and lucid
message. Websites overburdened with information poses problems for users to access the appropriate information hence
make the users obscure of extracting the information and memorizing those. Thus, it is necessary to have relevant
information on the websites and have those information being easily read and perceived by the users. Universities also
need to have consistent information in the website in order to minimize the risks of adverse publicity.
This study has theoretical as well as practical contribution. The study integrates the model that incorporates a full
range of stimulus and individual level variables along with multiple outcomes in social media marketing in private
universities. This model affirms the necessity of branding through social media for private universities while elucidating
the extent of the role different variables play in branding. Also, incorporation of a new dimension consistency in the model
makes it more robust in terms of explaining the relationship among the variables. From managerial point of view, the
findings are useful in identifying better strategy for social media marketing efforts, enhancing the impact for purchase
intention and brand loyalty in the private universities. Thus, this study provides a useful guideline to the university policy
makers in formulating marketing mix and establishing appropriate promotional tools and activities.
LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH SCOPE
In spite of multifarious contributions, this research is not without limitations which need to be addressed in for offering
viewpoint for future research. First, this study was a cross sectional survey that was conducted only on time. In order for
having better understanding longitudinal study can be conducted in future.
Second, other factors of social media marketing that might have influence on brand awareness can be included to
refine the model and develop more understanding about the effect of social media marketing on brand awareness. Third,
this study included only brand awareness. Other factors of branding can be considered to gain further understanding about
social media branding.
Fourth, this study concentrated only on universities in Bangladesh. It is thus necessary to include other sectors to
have larger sample to get more probability in generalizing the conclusions. Finally, only social media users from
Bangladesh were used as the population for the study. A study on cross cultural comparison with respect to brand
awareness through social media marketing is commendable in future.
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AUTHORS PROFILE
Dr. Bikash Barua is serving as Associate Professor and Coordinator, BBA program in the department of
Business Studies at State University of Bangladesh. He earned his PhD degree from Bangladesh University of
Professionals. His PhD dissertation was sculpted around developing a total quality based knowledge creation model for
improving organizational performance for developing countries like Bangladesh. He obtained Master of Business

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Administration (MBA) degree from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He completed Bachelor of Science in
Engineering (BSc. Engg.) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh. Prior to
joining at State University of Bangladesh, Dr. Bikash has served at American International University-Bangladesh and
Premier University of Chittagong. He also worked as Assistant Engineer at Bashundhara Steel Mills Ltd.
Blend with diversified knowledge and skills, Dr. Bikash has wide experience on Quality Assurance and
Accreditation process of academic institutions as he worked in a project for Institutional Capacity Building for internal and
external quality assurance under HEQEP project funded by World Bank. He is also involved in consultancy works. He has
undergone several training programs and participated in several conference programs at home and abroad. Being an
academician and researcher, Dr. Bikash has several refereed and non-refereed publications in his credit in different national
and international journals. His areas of research interest involve knowledge management, quality management, technology
management, and organizational performance.
Sayaka Zaman is a lecturer at the Department of Business Studies. She has completed her Bachelor of Business
Administration from East West University Dhaka in 2003 with major in International Business with CGPA 3.94 out of
4.00. Achieved Summa Cum Laude Distinction Academic Award from American International University in the 2016
Convocation for earning the perfect score (4 out of 4) in MBA. Prior her joining, she served as an adjunct faculty at the
Department of Business Studies, SUB. Her publications are Impact of Implementation of Knowledge Management Tools
on Organizational Performance in the Organizations of Bangladesh and Statistical Process Control (SPC) As a Tool for
Measuring Customer Dissatisfaction Level and Service Process Improvement respectively with Barua, Bikash and
Muhammed Zakir Hossain which are published in 2019. She has research interest in Brand management, Human resource
management as well as in Service marketing.