Advances in Urban Regional Development and Planning(AURDP)

Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Presidency University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Publications

• Review Article   
  Exploring the Reasons for Autocratic Leadership in Bangladesh’s Underdeveloped Humanitarian NGOs
  Author(s): Md. Ibrahim Hossain*
  
  This qualitative study delves deeply into the underlying reasons for the widespread occurrence of autocratic leadership within underdeveloped humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Bangladesh. By utilizing semi-structured interviews conducted with a total of 15 participants, including NGO leaders and staff members from various small-scale organizations, the research meticulously identifies and analyzes several critical factors. These include severe resource constraints that limit operational flexibility, intense political pressures stemming from the country’s governance environment, founder- centric organizational structures that prioritize individual control, and deeply ingrained cultural norms that traditionally support centralized forms of decision-making. The findings of this study illuminate how autocratic leadership styles, while providing the adva.. Read More»
  

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