Environmental degradation is a significant issue all over the world. In order to mitigate the environmental concerning issues, there is a need to develop policies in multidiscipline. Eco-label is one of them. The purpose of this research paper is to demonstrate the opportunities and challenges of Eco-label practices in Bangladesh for promoting environmentally conscious consumers. In order to meet the research objective, the descriptive method, in the form of observation and interview was adopted. The study identified that eco-label practices has some challenges like unawareness of customer about eco-label, lack of unified standard criteria and principles, unclear or misrepresentation of eco-label declaration, no authorized body and absence of expert for design & assessment of eco-label as well as it has create opportunities i.e. gain competitive advantage and products differentiation, create brand image and impression in national & international markets. Finally, it’s possible to educate consumers & build attitudes among them towards eco-friendly consumption.

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This study investigates the effects of influencing factors (Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Usefulness and attitudes) on adoption of SaaS, and whether these effects differ between male and female. Data were collected from employees of the different sister concern of Daffodil family, and analyzed using partial least squaresstructural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and Multi-Group Analysis (MGA). The Important-Performance Matrix Analysis (IPMA) was also conducted to gain an insightful understanding of how these factors influence an employee's intention to Adopt SaaS at the gender level. The findings showed that significant differences between male and female employees for the effect of perceived usefulness and attitudes on employee's Adoption intention of Software-as-a-Services (SaaS). Further, there is a significant difference between perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness for both gender groups on SaaS adoption. However, the IPMA results exhibit that the most essential antecedent for both male and female employees' intentions on SaaS is perceived usefulness.