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Full Name, Affiliation and short biographies of main authors

Full name: Mohammad Masukujjaman
Affiliation: Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Business Administration, Northern
University Bangladesh,
Short Biographies:
Dr. Mohammad Masukujjaman received his Ph.D. on Environment and Development at the
Institute for Environment and Development, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (The National
University of Malaysia). He also received an MBA in Finance from the University of Rajshahi,
Bangladesh by securing the topmost position. He was the recipient of a “Research University
Fellowship (Zamalah)” at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He also worked as a Graduate
Research Assistant (GRA) in the same institute.
Currently, Masukujjaman is an Assistant Professor (Finance) in the Department of Business
Administration, Northern University Bangladesh (NUB). He has been serving the University as a Head
of the Department of Business administration. Additionally, he was appointed as the executive editor
in the Journal of Business and Technology, Dhaka operated under the same University. He began his
career as a lecturer at Southern University Bangladesh. In addition to his teaching and supervision of
students at NUB, he operated different clubs and standing events of the university as a convener or so.
His research interests’ center on Social Business, Energy Poverty, Renewable Energy Technology and
Sustainability, Sustainable Livelihoods, Green Banking, and Behavioral aspects of Banking and non-
banking. He has published numerous articles on related matters in many referred national and
international journals.
Email: masuknub@gmail.com

2. Full Name, Affiliation and short biographies of Corresponding Authors

DR. SYED SHAH ALAM
Affiliation: Research fellow
Phone: + 603-8921 5582
Email: shahalam@ukm.edu.my
Short Biography:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Syed Shah ALAM is a Research Fellow and Associate Professor at Graduate
School of Business (UKM-GSB), The National University of Malaysia. He s started his teaching
career in Malaysia in January 2005 and until now he taught Marketing Research, Global
Marketing, Business Research Methods, Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior, Sales
Management, Services Marketing, Consumer Behavior at postgraduate level, and International
Marketing, E-Commerce, Product Innovation and Branding, Product Marketing and
Management and Business Communication subjects at undergraduate level. Prior to joining to
the National University of Malaysia, he taught at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
and Multimedia University Malaysia (MMU). Dr Alam is the recipient of an “Excellent Service
Award” at the National University of Malaysia in 2011. Beside teaching he is actively involved
with research. Syed has published (109 journal articles) in leading international journals,
including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Renewable
Energy, The Service Industries Journal, Journal of Tourism Futures, and has co-authored four
textbook; Product Management & Strategy published by McGraw-Hill, Principles of E-
Commerce, Essentials of Internet Marketing published by Pearson Education. His primary
research interests focus on technology driven marketing, consumer behavior, technology
innovation adoption and green marketing. He is familiar with SmartPLS, AMOS and SPSS. He
has been listed in the Stanford University list of Top 2% Scientist in the world in 2020 as being
the most cited scientist in a large range of disciplines. This list, which was created by analysing a
group of over 150,000 scientist classified via 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields features.
Currently his Google Scholar citation is 6854 and h-index 38 and also my Scopus citation is
1410, h-index 16. He has served as the secretary for “First International Research Conference on
Social Business’ 2013” held in The National University of Malaysia. Supervising postgraduate
students and co-authoring with emerging researchers, new colleagues and postgraduate students
are focus of my academic career.

3. Name and Affiliations of all the co-authors.

Emeritus Prof. Chamhuri Siwar
Principal Fellow, Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. E-mail:
csiwar@ukm.edu.my; Telephone: (+603) 89214148
4. Name and Affiliations of all the co-authors.
Sharina Abdul Halim
Fellow, Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Cell: (+603) 89217649, sharinahalim@ukm.edu.my