Dr Aliakbar Jafari of the Department of Marketing was interviewed by Tose'e Mohandesi Bazaar, a top professional marketing magazine in Iran. As an expert on the subject of religion-market relationships, Dr Jafari elaborated on the fact that faith-based market activities should be geared towards enhancing social justice and morality in society at large.
He also stressed that understanding the rapidly emergent religion-related phenomena in consumer research and marketing requires researchers to adopt new critical perspectives that would go beyond superficial interpretations of religion and religiosity.
This interview followed Dr Jafari's recent publications and editorial work with Marketing Theory, Journal of Islamic Marketing, and Routledge Ltd.
There are eight Strathclyde Business School UAE student teams participating in the Management Challenge UAE which officially launched in January and runs to March and uses management simulation technology.
The Global Management Challenge (GMC) is the largest international event based on a business simulation with more than 30 countries taking part in the contest. The contest consists of a management simulation in which teams of 3-5, comprising university students and corporates, are given complete control of a hypothetical company with the objective of obtaining the highest share price on a simulated stock exchange. Competitors analyse financial and economic indicators, expand their views on corporate strategy, interact with functional areas of a company and gain an in-depth understanding of the market conditions in which their companies compete.
The UAE winning team will compete with national winners of several other countries in a challenge for the world title that will be played in April 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Global Management Challenge UAE is operated by Beaufort Associates, a management consulting and advisory services firm, based in Dubai Internet City.
This month's blog has had posts about the launch of the first SBS MOOC, a look at the UK's manufacturing sector and a look at the debate surrounding currency if Scotland becomes an independent country. Professor Robert Wright's blog on currency was picked up by The Times on February 18 and his comments appeared on the front page of the Scotland edition. You can read the blog posts by clicking on the links below.
A research proposal by Dr Pratima Sambajee (Strategy and Organisation), Professor Tom Baum (HRM) and Dr Alia Weston (Strategy and Organisation) recently won the 'highly commended winner of the 2013 Emerald African Management Research Fund Award'. The title of the research is 'From informal to small and medium enterprise sector: an analysis of management practices employed by SMEs in Mauritius’.
Professor Julia Darby (Economics) gave the opening talk at a public panel discussion on 'Insurance and adjustment in a diverse monetary union – what can the Eurozone learn from the UK?' at the London School of Economics on January 29. It was part of the LSE's European Institute public seminar series 'Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union.'
Dr Matthew Alexander and Dr Kathy Hamilton from the Marketing department delivered a presentation at the Community Rail in Scotland workshop held in Stirling on February 5. The seminar was organised by ACORP (Association for Community Rail Partnerships) and also included presentations from the five ScotRail franchise bidders. Drs Alexander and Hamilton's presentation focused on Heritage and Station Adoption in Scotland. Their exhibition from the ESRC Festival of Social Science was also on display throughout the day.
Three full time research students from the Hunter Centre have been accepted to the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC). Tobias Pret, Ekaterina Murchevia and Mark Johnson will all be presenting their papers at the conference in June.
Their papers are as follows:
Participants on the Executive Masters in Hospitality and Tourism Leadership attended Cornell University in the USA for modules on Hotel Revenue Management and Hotel Investment and Financing. They are now part-way through their Strathclyde Masters Programme and now head to Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), Switzerland for their next two modules before returning to Strathclyde.
With all the recent ranking success for the MBA at Strathclyde, there is an interesting take on rankings and accreditation from MBA News here which shows the top 25 MBA triple accredited business schools.