**3. Method**

#### *3.1. Sampling and Data Collection*

This quantitative research surveyed a total of 460 organisations across various industries in Bangladesh identified in the Dun & Bradstreet dataset [50]. The list of organisations for the survey was prepared using the Dun & Bradstreet Hoovers database [6] on the basis of the organisations operating in Bangladesh, having more than or equal to fifty full-time employees, which resulted in a total of 460 organisations. A mail survey was administered to one middle- or higher-level executive from each of the 460 organisations. To administer the survey, this study followed (Dillman, 2011) [51] a tailored design method, and thus the sent survey instruments consisted of a cover letter, questionnaire, and self-addressed return envelope to the sampled organisations. Responses from a total of 201 organisations were received, which account for a response rate of 43.7%. Responses were received mostly from manufacturing organisations (140 organisations, which accounts for 69.65%), followed by service-oriented organisations (57 organisations, which account for 28.36%) (see Table 1). The majority of the organisations (176 organisations, or 87.6%) were domestic, while 25 organisations (12.43%) were multinational.


**Table 1.** A summary of response rates and respondents, and their organisation's demographic statistics.

#### *3.2. Measurements*
