Category: Publications

  • Work Life Balance

    Work Life Balance

    Sage video interview with Professor Jawad Syed on work life balance: What does work life balance mean to you, how do you define it? Why is the topic important for organisations? What are the key debates or questions in this field? Why is WLB important globally? What inspired you to…

  • Business Education and Engagement during COVID-19 and Beyond: Insights from Pakistan

    Business Education and Engagement during COVID-19 and Beyond: Insights from Pakistan

    This article offers a stakeholder perspective on business and management education and engagement in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by Dr. Jawad Syed (LUMS), the article is an extract from the AMDISA e-Book on COVID-19 related challenges facing management education in South Asia. Citation: Syed, J. (2021). Business…

  • Journals Related to South Asia

    Journals Related to South Asia

    The following is an incomplete list of journals and periodicals related to South Asia: South Asian Journal of Business StudiesPublished by: Emerald South Asian Journal of Business Studies (previously: South Asian Journal of Global Business Research) is the official journal of the South Asian Academy of Management. The mission of…

  • China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context

    China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context

     Call for Book Chapters  China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context: A Business and Management Perspective Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2018 Expression of interest: February 15, 2018 Year of publication: 2018 Editors Jawad SyedDean and ProfessorSuleman Dawood School of BusinessLahore University of Management SciencesLahore, PakistanEmail:…

  • Book Announcement: Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia: An Investigation into the Higher Education Sector

    Book Announcement: Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia: An Investigation into the Higher Education Sector

    Book’s title: ‘Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia: An Investigation into the Higher Education Sector’ Authors: Rodwan Fallatah and Jawad Syed Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Year: 2018 Witten by Rodwan Fallatah and Jawad Syed, this book investigates the relevance of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a theory of motivation, whilst taking into…

  • Call for Papers: Special Issue of ‘Journal of Management & Organizations’

    Call for Papers: Special Issue of ‘Journal of Management & Organizations’

    Special Issue of ‘Journal of Management & Organizations’ “Contextualizing diversity within Islam: Interpretations, understandings and implications for management and organizations” Guest editors: Jawad Syed and Edwina Pio In the mainstream academic literature as well as media, the Islamic faith and Muslims are often presented as a monolithic religion, ignoring the internal…

  • Contextualising Management and Organisations in South Asia

    Contextualising Management and Organisations in South Asia

    What if our actions were imbued with the sacred? What if activism in organisations evokes better local society and responsible global community? What if sacred activism signals the performance of a deeper understanding and mindful actions for contextualising management and organisations in South Asia? These are some of the questions…

  • Gender equality at work in South Asia – Special Issue of ‘Gender in Management’

    Gender equality at work in South Asia – Special Issue of ‘Gender in Management’

    This paper is a guest editorial piece in the Special Issue of the Gender in Management journal on “Gender equality at work in South Asia”. In this paper, the authors aim not only to introduce the papers selected for the Special Issue but also to offer an overview of the…

  • Gender and Diversity in South Asia (Special Issue of EDI Journal)

    Gender and Diversity in South Asia (Special Issue of EDI Journal)

    Call for Papers: ‘Gender and Diversity in Organizations in South Asia’ Special Issue Editors Jawad Syed, University of Kent, UK, j.syed@kent.ac.uk Edwina Pio, AUT University, New Zealand, edwina.pio@aut.ac.nz This is a call for papers for an SI titled,‘Gender and Diversity in Organizations in South Asia’ for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)…