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Top Business Schools in Asia and South Asia
Based on QS International Rankings for 2017, here is an account of top business schools in Asia: China has the largest number of top business schools in the region with 11, including three in the top 50: Peking University (=36th), Tsinghua University (=40th) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (46th). South Korea is another strong performing country,…
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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…
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7th Asian Management Research and Case Conference – AMRC 2018
7th Asian Management Research and Case Conference (AMRC) Theme: CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE: EMERGING TRENDS IN MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND CASES IN ASIA Sub Theme: China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative: Implications for Management & Organizations in Asia Knowledge Partners: South Asian Academy of Management (SAAM), Sage Publishing. Detail: Lahore University of…
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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…
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AOM 2016 PDW: Gender, Generations and Leadership: Insights from South Asia
Abstract Scholars have described the global leadership literature as western-centric (Arvey et al., 2015), age-blind (Spisak et al., 2014) and male-dominated (Kyriakidou, 2012; Syed & Murray, 2008). This PDW aims to address these gaps by providing an unconventional non- western perspective (Bamberger & Pratt, 2010) and incorporating intersectionality in gender…
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Call for Papers – “Gender, Generation and Leadership: Insights from South Asia”
Special issue call for papers from South Asian Journal of Global Business Research “Gender, Generation and Leadership: Insights from South Asia” Guest EditorsShaista E. KhiljiJawad SyedMary Sully De Luque Summary Global leadership has served as a hallmark topic in leadership research for the past few decades, in response to an…
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AOM 2014 PDW: Conducting research in South Asia: Thinking ahead and being different
This is an interactive PDW (in a roundtable discussion format) that presents South Asia as neglected context in international management (IM) research despite its richness and complexity. We focus upon highlighting relevance of the emerging South Asian economies in international management (IM) research, and pose two main questions, a) why…
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AOM 2014 Symposium: Working wo(men) of South Asia: Why we matter
Organisers: Edwina Pio, Jawad Syed Abstract Complexity is a key aspect of South Asia with a population of 1.649 billion. Caste, class, patriarchy, religion, agriculture, technology, terrorism and violence impact working wo(men) on an everyday basis. In constructing South Asian wo(men), we are aware of the multiplicity of socio-cultural, religious,…
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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…
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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…
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SAAM Caucus at AOM 2013
The South Asian Academy of Management (SAAM) caucus (title: “Investigating Capitalism and Management via the South Asian Academy of Management”) was held on 12 Aug 2013 at the Academy of Management Conference (Orlando, Florida). It was co-orgnized by Jawad Syed and Edwina Pio. Minutes: The Caucus participants agreed that instead…
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SAAM/SAJBS Social at AOM 2012 Boston
Shaista Khilji (Editor in Chief of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research – now SAJBS) organized a social evening to appreciate supporters of the SAJGBR and the SAAM during the Academy of Management Conference in Boston. The aim of the social was to celebrate the contributions that our…
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SAAM Breakfast and Symposium at the AOM 2011
SAAM Breakfast and Symposium at the Academy of Management Conference: 16 August 2011 Participants of AOM Conference 2011 at San Antonio, Texas Scholars originating from South Asia or if their research concerned management and organizations in countries in South Asia or related to South Asian diaspora in other countries, attended…
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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)…
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AOM 2011 Symposium: East Meets West: A South Asian Perspective on Management Theories and Practices
Call for Papers for a Scholarly Symposium at the Academy of Management 2011 East Meets West: A South Asian Perspective on Management Theories and Practices San Antonio, Texas (August 12-16, 2011) Symposium organizers: Jawad Syed, University of Kent, UK, j.syed@kent.ac.uk Naresh Khatri, University of Missouri, USA, khatrin@health.missouri.edu Shaista E. Khilji,…
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Entrepreneurship Education in Bangladesh – by Lee C. Nehrt
Source Publication: Journal of Small Business ManagementDate: Thursday, January 1 1987 During the 1970s the population of Bangladesh grew at an annual rate of nearly 3 percent while its food supply grew at an annual rate of only 1 to 2 percent. The country kept getting poorer and poorer as…
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Quality Education Management at Private Universities in Bangladesh
Jurnal Pendidik dan Pendidikan, Jil. 24, 17–32, 2009 Source Mohammad A. Ashraf and Yusnidah Ibrahim College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010, UUM Sintok, Kedah E-mail: mashraf@monisys.ca, yibrahim@uum.edu.my Mohd. H. R. Joarder School of Business, United International University, 80-8A Dhanmandi R/A, Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh E-mail: joarder@uiu.ac.bd Abstract: An exploratory survey…
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Business Education in Pakistan – by M.K. Areola
Source: Pakistan and Gulf Economist, Oct 26 – Nov 01, 1998 Supply and demand need to be managed to ensure quality education It has been over five years now that the influx of foreign private investment into the country created the demand of trained professionals in business administration, which has…
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Dimensions of Current Management Research in India – by M H Bala Subrahmanya
Source: South Asian Journal of Management, Apr-Jun 2005 Management research has been steadily gaining increased prominence as a ‘field of study’ in management institutions across India. This could be due to more and more ‘career avenues’ emerging not only in the steadily increasing management institutions but also in the ever-growing…
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