Dr. B.K. Mukhopadhyay's scientific contributions

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The daily role of HR has now become more difficult not only because of the exponential growth and acceptance of remote work in response to the chaos of the past two years, but also to be the face of guidance for companies and employees through the transition to hybrid and distributed work environments. At the same time, the HR managers had to remai...
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“A disciplined and defined set of tasks and steps that describe the normal means by which a company repetitively converts embryonic ideas into saleable products or services.” New Product Development (NPD) is perceived as a comprehensive set of multi-disciplinary processes that transform a market opportunity into a marketable new product to satisfy...
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An entrepreneurial architecture understands how the overlapping components of a firm such as strategies, leadership, culture, structures, and systems could work together. Therefore, innovative and entrepreneurial firms capture the institutional, communicative, coordinating and cultural elements oriented towards innovation. In essence, this concept...
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While no crisis (business, personal or otherwise) happens in isolation and they tend to be systemic, yet the solutions are often short-term oriented rather than building resilience to avoid similar challenges in the future. To cut to the purpose of this write-up which looks at different types of business crisis and how to ensure making a continuity...
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Mukhopadhyay, B.K. and Mukhopadhyay, B. (2020). Mapping North-East India’s Banking Targets, Post COVID-19. Tripura Times, Post-Editorial, 7th May
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Mukhopadhyay, B. and Mukhopadhyay, B.K. (2020). COVID-19 and ‘zoom’ for Remote teaching: Enhancing Student Engagement. The Sentinel, Post-Editorial, 5th May
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The South Asian experience with Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs, hereafter) and dissemination of the same to poor rural households along with building solar energy-based entrepreneurship generating energy-based enterprises have been highly successful. Initially, it was the success story of Bangladesh, claiming the title of ‘solar nation’ due to...
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A decade ago, energy and ‘green’ talks highlighted examples of Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is the greenest destination in New York city, or Solar Power Towers of California or planning for renewable energy ‘supergrid’ in Europe or US Navy’s plans for Green Fleet, or Los Angeles’ centrally planned mechanism to stop using coal by 2020; a buzzword tha...
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“Agri-business is the sum total of all operations involved in the manufacture and distribution of farm supplies, production activities on the farm, storage, processing and distribution of farm commodities and items made from them”. This is relatively a new sub-discipline that has been captured and defined comprehensively. John H. Davis from Harvard...
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Find the gap, and fill it – A business may have been just all about that, yesterday, but not today. Most sectors are swimming now in ‘Red Ocean’, from Airlines, Finance to Higher Education. Developing and sustaining a niche is also equally tricky. Success takes many shapes and sizes today, it could mean a long term phenomenon – continual market sca...
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"Ingredients sourced locally" or "banking with care" or "our supply chain is green" don't tend to create much buzz as it did in the early 2000s. Essentially, it all comes down to trust. People tend to trust and judge what others have to say, which means when they hear about something from a friend or previous consumer, they're more likely to buy. T...
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Water use has been increasing globally by about 1% every year since the 1980s, contributed by population growth, socio-economic development and changing consumption patterns. Global water demand has been set to continue rising at a similar pace until 2050, accounting for an increase of 20-30% above the current level of water use, with an increased...
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"Ingredients sourced locally" or "banking with care" or "our supply chain is green" don't tend to create much buzz as it did in the early 2000s. Essentially, it all comes down to trust. People tend to trust and judge what others have to say, which means when they hear about something from a friend or previous consumer, they're more likely to buy. T...
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There is a growing body of evidence on the instrumental role that entrepreneurs and small businesses play in driving local and national economies. The structure of rural economies is essential composed of small enterprises that are responsible for most of the job growth and emerging innovation (including both product and process innovation). This a...
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There is a growing body of evidence on the instrumental role that entrepreneurs and small businesses play in driving local and national economies. The structure of rural economies is essential composed of small enterprises that are responsible for most of the job growth and emerging innovation (including both product and process innovation). This a...

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... According to Mukhopadhyay (2020), there are two types of online learning: synchronous and asynchronous. For the most part, built environment students relied heavily on synchronous and lived online activities as the information often involved practical application. ...
... In the second round, as shown in Table 4, the analysis generated the result of an 8-factor structure. And 26 items were presented 14 with factor loadings ranging from 0.559 to 0.848. These identified 8 factors combine to explain 76.9% (KMO) of the 26 items, which is higher than that from the previous round and proved to be more durable. ...
... More established enterprises mean the creation of new jobs, enhanced access to resources, building of social capital, and efficiency in the supply-demand chain. Moreover, women entrepreneurs diversify the business activities in rural areas and bring interest to key sub-sectors of the economy, which should further benefit society (Mukhopadhyay & Mukhopadhyay, 2018). What requires further studying is which social factors may affect them and also how significant the changes will be. ...
... Therefore, solar or green entrepreneurs may be visualized as agents of rural development as well as the caretaker of ecological sustainability. However, such systems are still under-researched and the transition to such systems may be complex requiring multilevel perspective analysis (Mukhopadhyay and Mukhopadhyay, 2018). ...