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Sexism and corporations: whose social responsibility is it anyway? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The concept of corporate social responsibility has grown significantly over the last two decades with its impact on various disciplines including competitive advantage, innovation and charities marketing. While it is a well-researched area, questions... Read More about Sexism and corporations: whose social responsibility is it anyway?.

Exploring generation Z consumers’ purchase intention towards green products during the COVID-19 pandemic in China (2024)
Journal Article

China's Generation Z consumers are gradually developing an awareness of environmental issues and a willingness to purchase green products. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected various traditional industries worldwide. This study aims to expl... Read More about Exploring generation Z consumers’ purchase intention towards green products during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

Determining the impacting factors on performance of inventory management in the large-scale apparel manufacturing industry in Sri Lanka (2024)
Journal Article

The Sri Lankan economy depends heavily on the labour-intensive garment sector; thus, supply chain management plays a crucial role in its operation. Inventory management is an important activity when comparing supply chain management in the garment se... Read More about Determining the impacting factors on performance of inventory management in the large-scale apparel manufacturing industry in Sri Lanka.

Proposal to map critical factors of PMBoK to CyBOK Knowledge Areas (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The proposed objective of this research is to map critical factors of CYBOK’s knowledgebase under Human, Organisational & Regulatory Aspects (Risk Management & Governance, Law & Regulation, Human Factors, Privacy & Online Rights) with the knowledge a... Read More about Proposal to map critical factors of PMBoK to CyBOK Knowledge Areas.

Usage of online food delivery in food waste generation in China during the crisis of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

This study connects food waste (FW) with online food delivery (OFD) service and aims to explore the impacts of the usage of OFD service on FW generation in China during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Through responses from 123 consumers of OFD service... Read More about Usage of online food delivery in food waste generation in China during the crisis of COVID-19.

How technostress may affect employee performance in educational work environments (2023)
Journal Article

Despite there being a proliferation of research into the relationship between educators and work-related stress, there appears to be a lack of research on how institutions respond to this problem. The development of information and communications tec... Read More about How technostress may affect employee performance in educational work environments.

Innovative approaches to solving environmental issues in the context of the green deal (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article discusses the place of the Green Deal in the National Development Plan of Latvia. Low-carbon, resource-efficient and climate-sustainable development enables Latvia to achieve national goals in climate change mitigation, energy, air and w... Read More about Innovative approaches to solving environmental issues in the context of the green deal.

Approaches leading to a successful project: A special reference to construction industry in China (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper analyses the approaches that lead to the success of projects in Chinese construction industry. The research data analysis reveals that the project manager is the crucial success factor for projects in the Chinese construction industry. R... Read More about Approaches leading to a successful project: A special reference to construction industry in China.

Entrepreneurial storytelling: Using a consistent story to create and sustain a business: Case studies of two migrant entrepreneurs (2023)
Journal Article

This qualitative research uses case studies of two migrant entrepreneurs – Karan Bilimoria and Levi Roots – to explore the use of storytelling as a tool for establishing and sustaining a business. It proposes a conceptual framework which shows how s... Read More about Entrepreneurial storytelling: Using a consistent story to create and sustain a business: Case studies of two migrant entrepreneurs.

Career development in project-based organizations: Problems and prospects (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether project managers could become senior executives, to identify gaps in the skill sets of project managers and CEOs, and to determine how project managers could better design their career path to re... Read More about Career development in project-based organizations: Problems and prospects.

ISBE 2022 - Heritage Entrepreneurship (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Poster presented at the44th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference in York, October 2022. The poster outlines Helen Rana's PhD research and won the award of 'Best Poster for the ISBE Doctoral Day 2022'

Risk in active sport tourism projects: Narratives from managers in the Chinese event industry (2022)
Journal Article

The purpose of this study is to identify risk issues in managing active sport tourism event projects in China from the perspective of event managers. A qualitative method was utilized, with 12 semi-structured interviews being conducted in China in or... Read More about Risk in active sport tourism projects: Narratives from managers in the Chinese event industry.

Unravelling influential individual level factors during a crowdfunding campaign: Insights from the ALS ice bucket challenge (2021)
Journal Article

This study aims to identify the factors that drive sharing and donating in a viral crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding is a method of raising finance that allows founders of both for-profit and nonprofit social and cultural projects to request fundin... Read More about Unravelling influential individual level factors during a crowdfunding campaign: Insights from the ALS ice bucket challenge.

Customer satisfaction and loyalty in Malaysian resort hotels: The role of empathy, reliability and tangible dimensions of service quality (2020)
Journal Article

This paper applies the SERVQUAL model for the purpose of examining the impacts of the five dimensions of service quality on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in the hotel industry in Malaysia, and to investigate which factors among said dim... Read More about Customer satisfaction and loyalty in Malaysian resort hotels: The role of empathy, reliability and tangible dimensions of service quality.

Crowdfunding innovations in emerging economies: Risk and credit control in peer-to-peer lending network platforms (2020)
Journal Article

Peer‐to‐peer (P2P) lending has emerged as a network form of crowdfunding that facilitates the loan originations outside the traditional banking model. In China, the combination of imperfect financial development and Internet technology has led to the... Read More about Crowdfunding innovations in emerging economies: Risk and credit control in peer-to-peer lending network platforms.

An exploration of differences between professional advancement of project managers based on their gender in operations-driven and project-driven organizations (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses results of an exploratory study conducted on project and operations managers. The study aims to investigate the difference between the professional advancement of project and operations managers based on their gender. It also att... Read More about An exploration of differences between professional advancement of project managers based on their gender in operations-driven and project-driven organizations.

A qualitative review of the contribution of military leadership to the humanitarian supply chain operations (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The humanitarian operations arena and the Humanitarian Supply Chain (HSC) in response to crises or disasters are times where the need for leadership is paramount. Similar challenges to those of the HSC are encountered by the military in operations,... Read More about A qualitative review of the contribution of military leadership to the humanitarian supply chain operations.

Effect of best management practices on the performance and productivity of small firms (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Recent research on productivity finds that best management practices are a crucial but neglected element in explaining firm productivity. This stream of research also focuses on... Read More about Effect of best management practices on the performance and productivity of small firms.

Sharing economy and the lodging websites: Antecedents and mediators of accommodation purchase intentions (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the main determinants that affect accommodation purchase intentions through lodging websites in sharing economy context. This industry differs from the hotel indu... Read More about Sharing economy and the lodging websites: Antecedents and mediators of accommodation purchase intentions.

Facebook usage and mental health: An empirical study of role of non-directional social comparisons in the UK (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The present paper explores the relationship between nature of Facebook usage, non-directional comparisons and depressive syndromes. The extant research on linkage between social media usage and mental health is inconclusive. The p... Read More about Facebook usage and mental health: An empirical study of role of non-directional social comparisons in the UK.

Up the ante: Electronic word of mouth and its effects on firm reputation and performance (2019)
Journal Article

Prior management research on firm reputation has acknowledged the importance of word of mouth (WOM) in influencing key choices made by businesses, as well as by individuals. In recent developments, Internet-based WOM forums aggregate vast amounts of... Read More about Up the ante: Electronic word of mouth and its effects on firm reputation and performance.

Sports clubs’ use of social media to increase spectator interest (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This research aims to give an insight into social media as an online marketing medium used by sports clubs. The research intention is to understand how social media is used to increase customer interactivity and spectator interest... Read More about Sports clubs’ use of social media to increase spectator interest.

Social media information benefits, knowledge management and smart organizations (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Social technologies can provide a potent means for organizations to manage their information flows and thus induce changes in their knowledge management (KM) systems, which can then be linked to performance improvements. This pap... Read More about Social media information benefits, knowledge management and smart organizations.

Trains and Twitter: Firm generated content, consumer relationship management and message framing (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In this paper, we examine the impact of Twitter content on users’ train journeys and how train providers’ message framing moderates these relationships. Framing regards the way in which messages are worded concerning a particular... Read More about Trains and Twitter: Firm generated content, consumer relationship management and message framing.

Crowdsourcing, co-creation and crowdfunding in the video-game industry (2018)
Book Chapter

Crowdsourcing, co-creation and crowdfunding in the video-game industry

Whistleblowing: When do employees act to ‘blow the whistle’? (2018)
Journal Article

The importance of eliminating fraud, illegal activities and generally unethical practices has always been of paramount significance in the corporate world. Thus, whistleblowing has become ever more important. Over the past years, organizations have a... Read More about Whistleblowing: When do employees act to ‘blow the whistle’?.

Understanding customer satisfaction in the UK quick service restaurant industry: The influence of the tangible attributes of perceived service quality (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the five dimensions of service quality on customer satisfaction in the UK fast food market and to indicate which factors among the five dimensions have... Read More about Understanding customer satisfaction in the UK quick service restaurant industry: The influence of the tangible attributes of perceived service quality.

Critical success factors for build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects in China (2017)
Journal Article

This study aims to create a list of CSFs for China’s BOT projects to help organizations achieve project success. We first describe the role of CSFs in terms of three broad categories of whether BOT projects adopt strategies for risk transfer, the deg... Read More about Critical success factors for build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects in China.

Sustainable animal farming and food security: Exploring the interplay of Hakuna Matata and Ubuntu with Guanxi and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This work presents a Case Study on Donkeys. In Kenya, Donkeys are facing extinction and this white paper attempts highlight their plight and possible solutions to resolving this issue.

Exploring the key drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking services (2017)
Journal Article

This research examines the main drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking, a concept that has revolutionized the day-to-day activities of humans. A review of relevant literature on the topic, leads us toward testing the following key hypotheses:... Read More about Exploring the key drivers behind the adoption of mobile banking services.

What factors determine e-satisfaction and consumer spending in e-commerce retailing? (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Evidently, the Internet has resulted in a fundamental shift in retailing practice, creating a shift in both consumer and business behavior, which has been compared to that of the Industrial Revolution. The purpose of this paper is... Read More about What factors determine e-satisfaction and consumer spending in e-commerce retailing?.

The influences of cleanliness and employee attributes on perceived service quality in restaurants in a developing country (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the service quality of full-service restaurants in Vietnam to explore possible factors that may impact customer perception, which subsequently influences custo... Read More about The influences of cleanliness and employee attributes on perceived service quality in restaurants in a developing country.

Risk factors for project success in the Chinese construction industry (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose – To achieve project success, an effective project risk management procedure is inevitable. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of risk factors on project success in the Chinese construction industry context. Design/meth... Read More about Risk factors for project success in the Chinese construction industry.

Click and Collect (C&C): : measuring the effects of an online multi-channel sales strategy (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Click and collect (C&C) has become a staple of a successful multi-channel retail strategy in recent years. Consequently, this paper aims to explore and assess the impacts of C&C within a large chain store retailer. We compare how firms have had to ad... Read More about Click and Collect (C&C): : measuring the effects of an online multi-channel sales strategy.

Exploring the opportunity to improve SCM in farmer-supplier relationships in emerging economies (2016)
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This paper explores the possibility to provide a platform or a framework to the small and medium producers and often times less organized agricultural farmers’ in developing nations which can help them choose the most appropriate buyer for their prod... Read More about Exploring the opportunity to improve SCM in farmer-supplier relationships in emerging economies.

Electronic word of mouth and its effects on firm reputation and performance (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Prior research on firm reputation has acknowledged the importance of word of mouth (WoM) in influencing the choices made by businesses, as well as by individuals. In recent developments, Internet-based WoM systems aggregate vast amounts of informatio... Read More about Electronic word of mouth and its effects on firm reputation and performance.

Innovation, energy efficiency, & sustainable development: A strategic shift from linear to non-linear models of development (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We need to realise that developing/emerging economies don’t have to copy the models/ routes adopted and proposed by the developed countries. Existing models may have become redundant, obsolete and inapplicable to the new world economies.

Made in India: An interview with Mr Vimal Mahendru, CEO, Indo-Asian Fusegear Ltd. (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This br... Read More about Made in India: An interview with Mr Vimal Mahendru, CEO, Indo-Asian Fusegear Ltd..

Role of experience and luck in management success: An interview with R.V. Kanoria, Managing Director of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd. (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This br... Read More about Role of experience and luck in management success: An interview with R.V. Kanoria, Managing Director of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd..

A family business perspective on emergence and potential of mass retail industry in India (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This brie... Read More about A family business perspective on emergence and potential of mass retail industry in India.

Leadership insights from the top: Exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India (2015)
Journal Article

This paper highlights the corporate and non-corporate leadership practices in India, the effect of culture on such practices and how these drive management philosophies. Semi structured interviews were conducted with CEOs from India. The findings pro... Read More about Leadership insights from the top: Exploring leadership through the narratives of CEOs in India.

IT, outsourcing, real estate, and China: An old economy business leader’s take on boom sectors in India (2015)
Journal Article

This article features an interview with Gaurav Dalmia, Chairman of Landmark Holdings. He is a third generation tycoon from the Dalmia group, an Indian business conglomerate. Today the family-owned business powerhouse has interests in cement, industri... Read More about IT, outsourcing, real estate, and China: An old economy business leader’s take on boom sectors in India.

Small scale industry, decision-making, and value system: An Indian civil servant’s perspective (2015)
Journal Article

The Indian business leader: An exploration of religious and cultural impact on organisational dynamics (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years a number of very public scandals involving the leadership of large international organisations and the ethical and moral stance adopted by business leaders have attracted media frenzy. Collins (2001) suggests that successful leaders a... Read More about The Indian business leader: An exploration of religious and cultural impact on organisational dynamics.

Sustainability, NGOs, and commerce: An interview with R.M.S. Liberhan, Executive Director of India Habitat Centre (2014)
Journal Article

Sustainability, India, India habitat centre

Restructuring, organizational change and leadership: A European multinational in India (2014)
Journal Article

Indian business leaders’ perceptions of trade competition from China (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Emerging as forces that could potentially re-set the global economic compass, China and India represent an important bilateral force against a climate of recession. This paper considers the perceptions of this growing economic relationship from an un... Read More about Indian business leaders’ perceptions of trade competition from China.

Leadership, vision, strategy, and the art of publishing in India: An interview with the legendary Tejeshwar Singh of Sage Publications (India) (2013)
Journal Article

This work highlights the experiences of the founder of a well-known publishing company and the revelations he had in this journey with the specific context of India, challenges he faced, his vision, business model, and his philosophy of management. T... Read More about Leadership, vision, strategy, and the art of publishing in India: An interview with the legendary Tejeshwar Singh of Sage Publications (India).

Organizational change, restructuring, innovation, modeling, and industrial linkages: A pioneering engineering institute in India (2013)
Journal Article

Leadership, WTO, commerce, and new strategies for corporatization of government institutions: A top Indian bureaucrat's take (2012)
Book Chapter

To provide a select perspective from India in terms of its Civil Services, leadership, and its unique challenges

CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This work highlights the corporate and non-corporate leadership practices in India, the effect of culture and religion on such practices and how these drive innovation. Many qualities of a good leader, as defined by Indian CEOs were derived from the... Read More about CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation.

Business leadership in India: An example from print media (2012)
Journal Article

Historically, India has been the seat of civilization either in the form of Indus Valley Civilization or for setting up of highly advanced educational systems offered by the ancient universities of Nalanda, Patliputra, Takshashila and others. Leaders... Read More about Business leadership in India: An example from print media.

Philosophy, SBUs, nationalization (2012)
Journal Article

The confluence of leadership and culture in the melting pot of India (2012)
Journal Article

Global warming, climate change, sustainable and renewable sources of energy, bio fuels, bio technology and similar terms have gained unparallel importance across the globe these days. There is an increasing need to engage in undertaking the basic res... Read More about The confluence of leadership and culture in the melting pot of India.

An interview with former CSIR Director General Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (2011)
Journal Article

For 11 years, Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is a premier industrial R&D organization in India. He has been bestowed with Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards by the governme... Read More about An interview with former CSIR Director General Raghunath Anant Mashelkar.

Leading Indian Railways: corporatization initiatives and challenges (2011)
Journal Article

Indian Railways operate around 15,000 trains everyday and carry 18 million passengers everyday which is equivalent to transporting people of 46 countries with minimum population from one place to another. It is a tremendous operation. Indian Railways... Read More about Leading Indian Railways: corporatization initiatives and challenges.

Economic sustainability challenges facing the poor women of India: Leadership example from a not-for-profit public sector (2011)
Journal Article

Modern day India is largely portrayed as an economic powerhouse but a vast majority of the billion-plus population is still deprived of the gains of economic prosperity. In view of this National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) was set u... Read More about Economic sustainability challenges facing the poor women of India: Leadership example from a not-for-profit public sector.

Project managers as senior executives, Volume 2: How the research was conducted: Methodology, detailed findings and analyses (2011)
Book

Can project managers actually become senior executives? If not, what can be done to allow them to climb the ladder? What are the odds? How can a project manager better design his or her career development to take advantage of these opportunities? The... Read More about Project managers as senior executives, Volume 2: How the research was conducted: Methodology, detailed findings and analyses.

Project managers as senior executives, Volume I: Research results, advancement model and action proposals (2011)
Book

Can project managers actually become senior executives? If not, what can be done to allow them to climb the ladder? What are the odds? How can a project manager better design his or her career development to take advantage of these opportunities? The... Read More about Project managers as senior executives, Volume I: Research results, advancement model and action proposals.

When in India do as the...: An insight into an Italian automotive company's experiences in India (2010)
Journal Article

Purpose: The emergence of India as an economic power over recent years has created a need to understand the way in which business is carried out in that part of the world. It is also important to realize how businesses are founded and structured in I... Read More about When in India do as the...: An insight into an Italian automotive company's experiences in India.

Profiling an entrepreneurial family in the UK (2010)
Journal Article

The purpose of this investigation is to profile a family in the U.K. whose members display entrepreneurial characteristics but are not engaged in a typical family-owned business. Of the 46 family members that are over the age of 18, 27 of them (59%)... Read More about Profiling an entrepreneurial family in the UK.

Talking heads: An interview with Ratan Jalan (2010)
Journal Article

Project managers as senior executives (2009)
Report

Over the past five decades in the evolution of modern project management there has been little research regarding the career paths of persons working in this field: project planning and control specialists, project managers, program managers, and exe... Read More about Project managers as senior executives.

Project managers’ career paths (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Several apparent similarities exist between the roles and responsibilities of top level executives of large organizations of various kinds, and those of large, complex program and project managers of various program and project categories. But little... Read More about Project managers’ career paths.

Re-discovery of India: An interview on Italian entrepreneurial strides in India (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This work is based on an interview with Pietro Valfre'di Bonzo, Chief corporate representative of Fiat International in India, conducted under the aegis of the GLOBE project (Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness Research Progr... Read More about Re-discovery of India: An interview on Italian entrepreneurial strides in India.

Dr. R. K. Pachauri and his experiments with the energy and resources institute: An interview on Indian research entrepreneurship (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Global warming, climate change, sustainable and renewable sources of energy, bio fuels, bio technology and similar terms have gained unparallel importance across the globe these days. There is an increasing need to engage in undertaking the basic res... Read More about Dr. R. K. Pachauri and his experiments with the energy and resources institute: An interview on Indian research entrepreneurship.

Re-discovery of India (2009)
Book Chapter

Multicultural project teams and their management (2009)
Journal Article

Organisations are becoming more and more diverse due to the increasing globalisation of business operations. Multicultural project teams can potentially assist in better decision making and bring in greater creativity and innovation. Additionally, th... Read More about Multicultural project teams and their management.

Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Western companies are opening up their factories and offices in India in an unprecedented manner and thus creating a need to study the organization and management of their Indian counterparts. The emergence of India as an economic power over the rece... Read More about Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts.

The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections (2008)
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This is an inter-disciplinary systemic research work. This work is not an inter-religion comparison and attempts to establish a relationship between the disciplines of project management and spirituality. In doing so the literature review was conduct... Read More about The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections.

Adoption and use of E-commerce by small businesses in the UK tourism industry (2008)
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This paper presents a quantitative study of 90 small tourism businesses in the South West of the United Kingdom. It examines the factors that influence the adoption and use of e-commerce and the types of e-business that these organisations undertake.... Read More about Adoption and use of E-commerce by small businesses in the UK tourism industry.

The impact of computers and associated technology on the teaching and learning of business statistics at the university level (2008)
Journal Article

This article explains how recent changes in the teaching & learning business statistics are influenced by the increased use of computer and its associated technology. This paper also attempts to illustrate on how the pedagogy associated has also un... Read More about The impact of computers and associated technology on the teaching and learning of business statistics at the university level.

A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company (2008)
Journal Article

The present work represents a post mortem evaluation of an SAP-IT project. It focuses on critical success factors (CSF) in order to establish an appropriate guideline for the project evaluation. A review of contemporary project management literatur... Read More about A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company.

Culture and conflict management style of international project managers (2008)
Journal Article

The management of culture has become increasingly important to many organisations and business disciplines, particularly multicultural and international project management. Cultural differences often result in varying degrees of conflict and require... Read More about Culture and conflict management style of international project managers.

Haldiram’s: India’s entrepreneurial answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts (2008)
Journal Article

Western companies are opening up their factories and offices in India in an unprecedented manner and thus creating a need to study the organization and management of their Indian counterparts. The emergence of India as an economic power over the rec... Read More about Haldiram’s: India’s entrepreneurial answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts.

Projects and their management: A literature review (2008)
Journal Article

Over the years and more importantly in the recent past projects have been used as a delivery mechanism to do business and accomplish objectives. No wonder it has become one of the fastest growing professions in the world. Although the understanding... Read More about Projects and their management: A literature review.

Stats for the terrified: Impact of different teaching and learning approaches in the study of business statistics (2008)
Journal Article

Many students have a fear of studying Statistics & Mathematics. The objective of this study is to highlight the methods that could help students to improve the learning of Business Statistics. This paper could also provide a useful input for teachers... Read More about Stats for the terrified: Impact of different teaching and learning approaches in the study of business statistics.

Teams and Projects: A Literature Review (2008)
Journal Article

Teams and their constituents are clearly one of the critical success factors in a project. Symbiosis among team members is a must, but it does not necessarily mean that they need to agree on every point. This paper attempts to highlight the constitue... Read More about Teams and Projects: A Literature Review.

What is project success: A literature review (2008)
Journal Article

Most of the projects we hear of in media are either over budget, late or are simply not good enough and still different lobbies of people claim that those projects have been successful. Neither the practitioners nor the academicians seem to agree o... Read More about What is project success: A literature review.

Scope creep in software development (2008)
Journal Article

This article clarifies the role and effects of scope creep in software development projects. It discusses how scope can be effectively managed to avoid it from “creeping” and reducing chances of project success. By reviewing a range of literary works... Read More about Scope creep in software development.

A comparison of barcoding and RFID technologies in practice (2007)
Journal Article

This research paper highlights inconsistencies in the way Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is compared to existing barcoding technology and the lack of empirical evidence to support one’s superiority over the other. Reference is drawn to the way... Read More about A comparison of barcoding and RFID technologies in practice.

The impact of transformational leadership on project success: An empirical study using structural equation modeling across twenty-eight nations (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper documents an empirical analysis of leadership study on project management practices, one that examines 153 projects across 28 nations through a two-phase research study. During phase one, I studied 46 projects involving 14 nations; during... Read More about The impact of transformational leadership on project success: An empirical study using structural equation modeling across twenty-eight nations.

Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability (2006)
Journal Article

“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”, Mahatma Gandhi. When project team members of diverse cultures act and react together... Read More about Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability.

Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations (2005)
Journal Article

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi This paper documents an empirical analysis of leadership in project management practices on 153 projects across 28 nations. This is a two-phase research st... Read More about Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations.

Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability. Achieving optimal performance when leading a multicultural project team (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Our research helps to judge ‘maturity’ as an asset to projects and heightens awareness of situational leadership, using intercultural team maturity levels as a tool for optimal project leadership success. This study focuses on exactly how to analy... Read More about Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability. Achieving optimal performance when leading a multicultural project team.

Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper documents an empirical analysis of leadership in project management practices on 153 projects across 28 nations. This is a two-phase research study for which 46 projects were studied in phase 1 representing 14 nations and 107 projects were... Read More about Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations.

A switch will induce a better pitch (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The research in the field of project management has already highlighted leadership styles with respect to group and task needs in the project and individual performance levels. This paper is based on the assumptions that leadership challenges are far... Read More about A switch will induce a better pitch.

A switch in time saves nine (2004)
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Switch Leadership® is the conscious ability to manoeuvre from one leadership approach to another to enhance performance on a project. We focus on how a project manager makes the decision to apply existing leadership styles by studying practices in th... Read More about A switch in time saves nine.

The impact of switch leadership on project success (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The research in the field of project management has already highlighted leadership styles with respect to group and task needs in the project, individual performance levels, this paper is based on the assumptions that leadership challenges are far mo... Read More about The impact of switch leadership on project success.

A switch in time saves nine (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper suggests that adaptive changes in the situational leadership style adopted by the project manager toward his team during different sub-phases within the implementation phase in a project life cycle could enhance overall project performance... Read More about A switch in time saves nine.