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Published : 27 Oct 2025, 07:33 PM
Team “frfr” from Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has become the 1st Runner-Up in the Supply Chain Research Challenge 5.0.
According to a media statement issued by the university, the competition was organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Human Resource Management (BIHRM) on Oct 24, an autonomous professional institute under the Ministry of Commerce.
It said the event aimed to promote academic and industry-based research in supply chain management, with teams competing through several research and presentation rounds.
The IUB team comprised Mahmudul Islam Raiyan and Marjan Ferdous Tasbih from the Department of Finance, and Mubashwara Mehzabeen from the Department of Economics. They were joined by Irsa Farhad from BRAC University and Md Adnan Habib Shovon from the Institute of Business Administration, Dhaka University, it added.
The statement said that the 5th edition of the competition engaged more than 100 teams nationwide through three rounds -- abstract submission, full-length research paper development, and final presentations before a panel of industry professionals and academics.
It added that the top three teams were recognised at the 10th Supply Chain Convention.
The press note read that the team presented a paper titled “Gen-Z’s Intention to Use Crowd Logistics in Dhaka: An Integrated UTAUT–UTAUT2–SET Framework.”
The study analysed technological and behavioural factors influencing Gen-Z’s adoption of crowd logistics services in Dhaka, integrating three theoretical models: UTAUT, UTAUT2, and SET.
It added that the paper has been published in Supply Chain Insider, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2025), and is available online. The team acknowledged the guidance of Md Khaled Saifullah, assistant professor and head of the Department of Economics, IUB, who supervised their work throughout the competition.
