Quamrul Alam
Biographic Data
| ID | 180507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Quamrul Alam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Quamrul |
| FAMILY NAME | Alam |
| SIGNATURE | ALAM Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4167-9200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Parasitic Enterprises
How does corruption take root inside organizations that are outwardly legitimate and explicitly “zero tolerance?” Drawing on 9 years of co-constructed autoethnographic research from within an international NGO operating in coastal Bangladesh, we examine how entrepreneurial competencies can be redeployed for corrupt ends through the exploitation—and active production—of institutional and organizational voids. We extend Cavotta and Phillips’ model …
How Tourism, Globalization, and Education Drive Women’s Employment in Service Sectors? Evidence From the Indo-Pacific Countries
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the significance of tourism, globalization, foreign direct investment (FDI), exports, and education on women's employment in the service sectors in selected Indo-Pacific countries. This study uses balanced panel data from 1991 to 2022 in its methodology. To achieve the results, the fixed and random effect models were applied as a baseline model, and the GLS model was used to check for robustness. Th…
Nested Feminisms
This paper investigates the interplay between institutional frameworks and women's political participation through a comparative study of local government in Australia and Bangladesh. While Australia exemplifies professionalized inclusion through female quotas, formal mentoring programs, and bureaucratic processes, Bangladesh illustrates how grassroots movements navigate entrenched patriarchal exclusion. The study demonstrates that radical resist…
Empowering women in politics through institutional engagement
The transforming influence of women's development forums (WDFs) in promoting women's political empowerment and involvement in local government in Bangladesh is investigated in this article. Using qualitative and quantitative data, the study investigates how WDFs encourage knowledge, agency, and collaborative action among elected women representatives based on feminist theory and gender mainstreaming frameworks. Studies show that WDFs enable women…
Exercising bureaucratic discretion through selective bridging
We attempt to reconcile top‐down and bottom‐up perspectives on bureaucratic discretion to understand how actors ‘caught in the middle’, such as middle level public managers, negotiate conflicting demands to exercise discretion in the Bangladesh public administration. To do this, we employ the institutional logics framework, a theoretical lens that conceptualises how regulative, cultural forces bear down on actors, and also acknowledges actor agen…
Why Disability Mainstreaming is Good for Business
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform
We situate public sector leaders as actors who deal with competing institutional demands, and examine how public sector leaders can facilitate reform implementation in the face of institutional inertia in a transitional setting, Bangladesh public administration. Based on 32 interviews with current and former Bangladeshi civil servants and local public administration experts supported by secondary analysis of government documents, our evidence sho…
Accountability and transparency in emerging countries
Accountability and transparency are evolving challenges to governance and public administration in a highly complex global governance system. It is a difficult challenge in the emerging economies due to a significant deficit in democratic policy and institutional effectiveness. Few will discount the seemingly insurmountable challenges emerging economies face, whether these be economic, social inequality or social transformation. In light of these…
Choose Your Own Adventure
The public sector comparator (PSC) is the key test for determining value for money in public–private partnership (PPP) proposals. Central to the use of the PSC is the discount rate adopted to develop a net present cost for the comparison of privately financed versus traditional delivery options. Several major theories exist informing what the discount rate should be; however, scholarly debate has been inconclusive about which theory is most suita…
Democratic Culture and Participatory Local Governance in Bangladesh
The government of Bangladesh has introduced several initiatives seeking to develop participatory governance at the local level in order to maximise the outcomes of aid-assisted development projects. This article examines the impact of these initiatives and demonstrates that participatory local governance faces a number of challenges in Bangladesh, in particular, absence of democratic culture and tradition and disengagement of citizens, asymmetric…
Managing Infrastructure Projects in Australia
Public private partnerships (PPPs) have evolved as a strategic response to public sector resource deficits and for pooling technical, managerial, and financial resources from the private sector. In this article, we identify the key factors necessary for a collaborative management strategy and analyze the structural and operational issues of two infrastructure projects in Australia. This article explains how a PPP offers a different set of strateg…
Local wisdom‐based disaster recovery model in Indonesia
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the local wisdom‐based recovery model that has been applied in the Bantul district, Yogyakarta, Indonesia following the 2006 earthquake. This recovery model might appropriately be implemented in any type of local government in developing countries which have strong local culture characteristics. Design/methodology/approach This research is an exploratory case study which concentrates on the Bantul d…
Does unilateral liberalization promote WTO Gats commitment? Cross-country evidence from the telecommunications sector
This paper addresses two questions: (1) does unilateral liberalization in the telecommunications sector promote a country's commitments in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and (2) what are the possible reasons for a disconnection between unilateral liberalized measures and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments? On the basis of interviews with trade and WTO experts and a closer comparison between the GATS commitments and actu…
Resource capability for local government in managing disaster
Purpose The paper aims to flesh out the capability requirements of local government institutions in pre‐, during, and post‐disaster activities which can act as a useful guide for researchers, bureaucrats, and independent agencies in managing natural disasters. Design/methodology/approach The role of local government and the capability requirement for this institution have been major concerns in disaster discourse, since local government plays the…
The Mobile Phone Market in Bangladesh
This article examines the role of regulation, competition and market structure on the success of mobile phone sector liberalization. The findings of the study suggest that deregulation of the telecommunications sector has generated competition and changed the market structure which has had a significant influence on mobile phone service pricing. However, limited liberalization, a concentrated market and a weak regulatory regime during 1997-2004 a…
The New Public Management reforms in Asia
It has been recognized that there is a need for a cross-country analysis that can be used to identify the factors that contribute to the problems of state incapacity in South and Southeast Asian nations. In taking up this challenge, we explore selected initiatives of new public management (NPM) in the region to analyse cross-country variations. For this purpose we have chosen four South and Southeast Asian countries, namely: Singapore, Malaysia, …
Ownership, competition and regulation under privatization policy
In response to the global shift from command-based economies to market economies, Sri Lanka liberalized its economy in 1977. Liberalization includes three main components, i.e. institutional reforms, removal of barriers to market entry, and creation of proper regulatory regimes. Privatization as one of the strategies under liberalization, however, became the prominent policy adopted in the second wave of liberalization that took place in Sri Lank…
The New Public Management reforms in Asia
It has been recognized that there is a need for a cross-country analysis that can be used to identify the factors that contribute to the problems of state incapacity in South and Southeast Asian nations. In taking up this challenge, we explore selected initiatives of new public management (NPM) in the region to analyse cross-country variations. For this purpose we have chosen four South and Southeast Asian countries, namely: Singapore, Malaysia, …
Democratic Culture and Participatory Local Governance in Bangladesh
The government of Bangladesh has introduced several initiatives seeking to develop participatory governance at the local level in order to maximise the outcomes of aid-assisted development projects. This article examines the impact of these initiatives and demonstrates that participatory local governance faces a number of challenges in Bangladesh, in particular, absence of democratic culture and tradition and disengagement of citizens, asymmetric…
Choose Your Own Adventure
The public sector comparator (PSC) is the key test for determining value for money in public–private partnership (PPP) proposals. Central to the use of the PSC is the discount rate adopted to develop a net present cost for the comparison of privately financed versus traditional delivery options. Several major theories exist informing what the discount rate should be; however, scholarly debate has been inconclusive about which theory is most suita…
Managing Infrastructure Projects in Australia
Public private partnerships (PPPs) have evolved as a strategic response to public sector resource deficits and for pooling technical, managerial, and financial resources from the private sector. In this article, we identify the key factors necessary for a collaborative management strategy and analyze the structural and operational issues of two infrastructure projects in Australia. This article explains how a PPP offers a different set of strateg…
The Mobile Phone Market in Bangladesh
This article examines the role of regulation, competition and market structure on the success of mobile phone sector liberalization. The findings of the study suggest that deregulation of the telecommunications sector has generated competition and changed the market structure which has had a significant influence on mobile phone service pricing. However, limited liberalization, a concentrated market and a weak regulatory regime during 1997-2004 a…
Ownership, competition and regulation under privatization policy
In response to the global shift from command-based economies to market economies, Sri Lanka liberalized its economy in 1977. Liberalization includes three main components, i.e. institutional reforms, removal of barriers to market entry, and creation of proper regulatory regimes. Privatization as one of the strategies under liberalization, however, became the prominent policy adopted in the second wave of liberalization that took place in Sri Lank…
The New Public Management reforms in Asia
It has been recognized that there is a need for a cross-country analysis that can be used to identify the factors that contribute to the problems of state incapacity in South and Southeast Asian nations. In taking up this challenge, we explore selected initiatives of new public management (NPM) in the region to analyse cross-country variations. For this purpose we have chosen four South and Southeast Asian countries, namely: Singapore, Malaysia, …
Resource capability for local government in managing disaster
Purpose The paper aims to flesh out the capability requirements of local government institutions in pre‐, during, and post‐disaster activities which can act as a useful guide for researchers, bureaucrats, and independent agencies in managing natural disasters. Design/methodology/approach The role of local government and the capability requirement for this institution have been major concerns in disaster discourse, since local government plays the…
The Mobile Phone Market in Bangladesh
This article examines the role of regulation, competition and market structure on the success of mobile phone sector liberalization. The findings of the study suggest that deregulation of the telecommunications sector has generated competition and changed the market structure which has had a significant influence on mobile phone service pricing. However, limited liberalization, a concentrated market and a weak regulatory regime during 1997-2004 a…
Does unilateral liberalization promote WTO Gats commitment? Cross-country evidence from the telecommunications sector
This paper addresses two questions: (1) does unilateral liberalization in the telecommunications sector promote a country's commitments in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and (2) what are the possible reasons for a disconnection between unilateral liberalized measures and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments? On the basis of interviews with trade and WTO experts and a closer comparison between the GATS commitments and actu…
Local wisdom‐based disaster recovery model in Indonesia
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the local wisdom‐based recovery model that has been applied in the Bantul district, Yogyakarta, Indonesia following the 2006 earthquake. This recovery model might appropriately be implemented in any type of local government in developing countries which have strong local culture characteristics. Design/methodology/approach This research is an exploratory case study which concentrates on the Bantul d…
Managing Infrastructure Projects in Australia
Public private partnerships (PPPs) have evolved as a strategic response to public sector resource deficits and for pooling technical, managerial, and financial resources from the private sector. In this article, we identify the key factors necessary for a collaborative management strategy and analyze the structural and operational issues of two infrastructure projects in Australia. This article explains how a PPP offers a different set of strateg…
Democratic Culture and Participatory Local Governance in Bangladesh
The government of Bangladesh has introduced several initiatives seeking to develop participatory governance at the local level in order to maximise the outcomes of aid-assisted development projects. This article examines the impact of these initiatives and demonstrates that participatory local governance faces a number of challenges in Bangladesh, in particular, absence of democratic culture and tradition and disengagement of citizens, asymmetric…
Choose Your Own Adventure
The public sector comparator (PSC) is the key test for determining value for money in public–private partnership (PPP) proposals. Central to the use of the PSC is the discount rate adopted to develop a net present cost for the comparison of privately financed versus traditional delivery options. Several major theories exist informing what the discount rate should be; however, scholarly debate has been inconclusive about which theory is most suita…
Accountability and transparency in emerging countries
Accountability and transparency are evolving challenges to governance and public administration in a highly complex global governance system. It is a difficult challenge in the emerging economies due to a significant deficit in democratic policy and institutional effectiveness. Few will discount the seemingly insurmountable challenges emerging economies face, whether these be economic, social inequality or social transformation. In light of these…
Why Disability Mainstreaming is Good for Business
Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform
We situate public sector leaders as actors who deal with competing institutional demands, and examine how public sector leaders can facilitate reform implementation in the face of institutional inertia in a transitional setting, Bangladesh public administration. Based on 32 interviews with current and former Bangladeshi civil servants and local public administration experts supported by secondary analysis of government documents, our evidence sho…
Exercising bureaucratic discretion through selective bridging
We attempt to reconcile top‐down and bottom‐up perspectives on bureaucratic discretion to understand how actors ‘caught in the middle’, such as middle level public managers, negotiate conflicting demands to exercise discretion in the Bangladesh public administration. To do this, we employ the institutional logics framework, a theoretical lens that conceptualises how regulative, cultural forces bear down on actors, and also acknowledges actor agen…
How Tourism, Globalization, and Education Drive Women’s Employment in Service Sectors? Evidence From the Indo-Pacific Countries
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the significance of tourism, globalization, foreign direct investment (FDI), exports, and education on women's employment in the service sectors in selected Indo-Pacific countries. This study uses balanced panel data from 1991 to 2022 in its methodology. To achieve the results, the fixed and random effect models were applied as a baseline model, and the GLS model was used to check for robustness. Th…
Nested Feminisms
This paper investigates the interplay between institutional frameworks and women's political participation through a comparative study of local government in Australia and Bangladesh. While Australia exemplifies professionalized inclusion through female quotas, formal mentoring programs, and bureaucratic processes, Bangladesh illustrates how grassroots movements navigate entrenched patriarchal exclusion. The study demonstrates that radical resist…
Empowering women in politics through institutional engagement
The transforming influence of women's development forums (WDFs) in promoting women's political empowerment and involvement in local government in Bangladesh is investigated in this article. Using qualitative and quantitative data, the study investigates how WDFs encourage knowledge, agency, and collaborative action among elected women representatives based on feminist theory and gender mainstreaming frameworks. Studies show that WDFs enable women…
Parasitic Enterprises
How does corruption take root inside organizations that are outwardly legitimate and explicitly “zero tolerance?” Drawing on 9 years of co-constructed autoethnographic research from within an international NGO operating in coastal Bangladesh, we examine how entrepreneurial competencies can be redeployed for corrupt ends through the exploitation—and active production—of institutional and organizational voids. We extend Cavotta and Phillips’ model …
Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public sector (5 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works) · Market economy (4 works)