The paper aims to ascertain the relationship between social media uses and academic performance of undergraduate accounting students in Bangladesh. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study is based on empirical data gathered from a survey of 154 undergraduate accounting students in Bangladesh. Structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis is applied to make sense of the results of the research questions. Research findings: The analysis disclosed that five factors are categorised as the reasons for using social media for academic purposes of which online sharing and academic comprehension have a significant positive impact on academic performance (CGPA), whereas the completion of course tasks have a significant negative impact on CGPA or the academic performance. Academic involvement and personal tutorial support do not associate significantly with academic performance (CGPA). Theoretical contribution/ Originality: Most of the studies on social media focus on the relationship between social media use and educational outcome in general, not concentrating on a particular subject. As regards the subject specificity, the interest and satisfaction of learning accounting course was measured through the use of social media. In Bangladesh, the study of social media use is limited. This analysis concentrates particularly on accounting discipline learning perspective. Practitioner/ Policy implication: This study identifies different academic uses of social media and defines policies and procedures that will modify the use of social media as learning tools of undergraduate students.Research limitation: This study considered only 154 undergraduate students in Bangladesh, mainly from the capital city Dhaka. The investigation is limited to the data collected from the survey questionnaire administered to the sampled students.

Purpose The closure of educational institutions in the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global teaching and learning landscape. Face-to-face classroom activity has been shifted to online classroom activity. This study aims to investigate the effect of social media-based education on students’ academic performance during the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes the perceptions of 302 university-going students of Bangladesh using structural equation modeling. Findings Results show that Facebook features, perceived usefulness and personal tutorial have a positive and significant relationship with the use of social media (USM). Furthermore, the USM has a positive and significant relationship with the academic performance of the university-going students of Bangladesh during the pandemic. Research limitations/implications This research has considered the social media usage of university students during the pandemic for academic purposes. This study has not considered income group, technical literacy and device availability of the students. Therefore, the findings may not be generalized to all classes of society. Practical implications This study validates that the USM can ensure good academic performance by engaging students through collaboration and attention. Originality/value Diffusion of knowledge and interactive face-to-face learning procedures have faced a massive loss because of this COVID-19 pandemic. Easiness in the mode of teaching technique can be a precondition for its acceptance among the students. As the impact of social media on academic performance in this pandemic context has remained unexplained, this study is designed to focus on this emerging issue.

PurposeThe aim of the study has been performed to investigate the relationship between sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices and the cost performance of manufacturing firms in Bangladesh. Moreover, this paper highlights the key environment-friendly approaches and their association with financial performance in Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approachThe paper empirically assesses sustainable supply chain performance using four major supply chain practices, including sustainable procurement, sustainable production, sustainable distribution and investment recovery, and compares it with the cost performance. Twenty-four variables were identified through different literature and distributed as a structured questionnaire among the managers appointed in different manufacturing firms in Bangladesh. An empirical study was conducted using the Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique to examine the hypothesized relationships.FindingsThe results find a positive relationship in two variables of sustainable supply chain practices, including sustainable procurement and investment recovery, while sustainable distribution negatively impacted cost performance. In addition, sustainable production found no effect on cost performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper emphasizes the financial perspective of a sustainable supply chain without explicit consideration of sustainability's environmental and social dimensions.Practical implicationsThis study has implications for the literature on the SSCM approaches of manufacturing firms in the least developed economies. In addition, this study could work as a guideline for some manufacturing industries that prefer a policy or standard to alter their traditional supply chain management system to a sustainable supply chain.Originality/valueThe paper provides a comprehensive framework for evaluating the coordinated effect of SSCM practices on cost performance where variables of four specific activities of SSCM and cost performance are adopted from different studies. Further studies could be initiated, including some other eco-friendly supply chain variables, and the effect could be evaluated from an environmental perspective.