Research Interests

Dr Ritu Sehgal

• Employee Involvement
• Total Quality Management

Dr Bostjan Gomiscek

• Quality management 
• Business excellence
• Sustainability
• Asset & maintenance management

Dr Ali Bhayani

• International market entry strategies and its impact on marketing mix and eventually on performance
• Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) influence on attitudes and consumer decision making
• Role of mental biases and heuristics on consumers decision making in digital environment

Dr Alison Thirlwall

• Management of workplace conflict and its implications in international settings

Dr Arijit Sikdar

• Strategic management issues related to organizational growth and performance
• Entrepreneurship & Small business 
• Supply chain strategies
• International business related to emerging markets

Dr Balan Sundarakani

• Applied research of strategic supply chain management
• Empirical and optimization focused research of operations and production management
• Empirical and applied research in Logistics management 

Dr Jawahitha Sarabdeen

• Islamic banking and finance
• Corporate ethics
• Social media marketing
• Branding
• Legal and ethical issues of information communication technology
• Adoption of e-government
• Entrepreneurial Marketing 

Dr Kathy Shen

• IT adoption and assimilation
• Knowledge management
• E-Commerce and internet marketing
• Entrepreneurship and SME
• Airport Retailing
• Virtual Collaboration and Virtual Team
• Human Computer Interaction
• Enterprise Information Systems

Dr Mohan Guruswamy

• Expert Systems (Artificial Intelligence)

Dr Mona Mustafa

• Work-life boundaries
• Shift work
• Managing expatriates
• Teleworking

Dr Okey Peter Onyia

• Services Marketing – especially in the financial and insurance service industries
• Cross-cultural and Cross-national Consumer Behaviour
• Consumer Self-service Technology Adoption
• International Marketing
• Advertising & Marketing Communications
• Higher Education (HE) Pedagogy – especially the closer involvement of HE students in peer assessments

Dr Payyazhi Jayashree

• Strategic Change/ Change Management
• Employees' integration into organisation from micro-macro perspectives

• Strategic marketing
• Services Marketing
• Marketing communications
• Digital marketing
• Consumer behaviour

Dr Swapna Koshy

• Effective assessment methods for large classes
• Indian Aesthetics
• Pedagogy
• Innovative Assessments
• Media, marketing and communication

• Service design 
• Service Quality 
• Cost of Poor Quality  

• Child poverty
• Development economics

• Banks and banking industry
• Islamic finance
• Financial markets
• Corporate finance

• Market based accounting empirical research
• Internal control systems
• Auditors' independence and Audit report

• Globalisation issues related to the MENA countries
• Stock market integration
• Stock market volatility

• Cash flows
• Accounting Ethics
• Earning management
• Developing intervention methods to change the values of accounting students

• Areas of statistics
• Microeconomics theory
• Mathematical economics

• Capital Market-Based Accounting Research (MBAR).
• Corporate Valuation. 
• Accounting Disclosure Practices.
• Earnings Management.
• Corporate Governance. 
• Accounting Education.

• Quantitative research methods
• Numerical analysis
• Econometrics

• Mobile applications
• eHealth applications
• Web services
• Distributed systems

• Information retrieval and applied natural language processing

• Computer network and computer systems
• Information assurance and security
• Intelligent systems

• Cost effective design solutions to make structures less vulnerable to earthquakes
• Strength and safety assessment for building and bridges

• Software development
• Performance analysis and scalability and their applicability to large and distributed systems

• Sensor networks
• Battery aware protocols
• Underwater communications
• Multimedia networks

• Circuit design and modelling

• Cryptography
• Software testing
• Agile programming
• E-learning tools
• Methods for learning computer science subjects

• Ethics in IT
• Community informatics
• Education and technology
• Students and environment

• Sound and Music Computing
• Audio Digital Signal Processing
• Machine Learning
• Real Time Embedded Systems
• Human Computer Interaction

• Global islamic studies (community and identity)
• Middle East culture and society (social change)