Khalid Hafeez

De Montfort University | DMU · Department of Strategic Management and Marketing

This paper responds to several calls for a cross-national comparative study of immigrant entrepreneurship throughout the longstanding discourse of this phenomenon. This study aims to comparatively analyze the nature of immigrant enclave entrepreneurship among one immigrant community across three different jurisdictional contexts (UK, Denmark, and N...

This paper makes a seminal contribution to the ethnic entrepreneurship literature by analyzing the journeys of a single migrant community across three ethnic enclaves in three host-nation contexts. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 52 immigrant Punjabi-Pakistani entrepreneurs who started businesses in immigrant enclaves in the UK, Denmark,...

Purpose This paper proposes a multi-layer hybrid decision-making approach to evaluate the capability alternatives for developing a collaborative network to operate in the international market. Design/methodology/approach The present study is contextualised in the Iranian pistachio export industry. An extensive review of the state-of-the-art litera...

Purpose This paper investigates how entrepreneurs in an emerging economy in Latin America bundle resources to develop capabilities related to entering new markets whilst creating value for their firms. In particular, the paper explores how individual resources (experiential knowledge and social networks) impact on entrepreneurs' capabilities to exp...

This chapter introduces a study exploring the impact of pedagogy utilising the computerised business simulation on psychological empower-ment of students in a Higher Education institution. A survey-based instrument was designed and administered to the students undertaking different business modules, followed by factor analysis. Subsequently, semi-s...

This paper introduces a study exploring the impact of computerised business simulations on student’s perceptions about their psychological empowerment. The research is focused on undergraduate business students in a Higher Ed-ucation institution in the UK. Psychological empowerment is an acknowledged determinant of student engagement in the learnin...

Purpose This paper analyses the voice of customers (VoCs) using a hybrid clustering multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. The proposed method serves as an efficient tool for how to approach multiple decision-making involving a large set of countrywide customer complaints in the Iranian automotive sector. Design/methodology/approach The c...

The researchers, environmental scientists and policymakers around the world are exerting substantial efforts to mitigate the growth of CO2 emissions to save the planet. A number of measures and initiatives, such as, energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies and emission‐control are proposed in order to reduce CO2 emissions. This study examin...

This paper provides a mathematical model to analyse the impact of a negative corporate social responsibility (CSR) parameter that for ‘forced labour’, on supply chain profitability based on coordination contracts. Four types of supply chain coordination contract are developed and benchmarked against set performance indices employing sensitivity ana...

Purpose Business Process Management is a systematic way to design, implement and manage business critical processes at different organizational levels to ensure business sustainability. In this paper, we conduct a business process re‐engineering exercise for KBK Securities Co., a small size security company operating in Iranian stock and mercantile...

Crowdfunding has become an important source of funds for entrepreneurs. In this paper, we add a novel dimension to the literature examining how narrative styles affect the performance of such funding campaigns, by employing the lens of effectuation theory. Using data from a popular non-equity crowdfunding platform from 2009 to 2019 and examining th...

Despite the increasing popularity of enterprise and entrepreneurship programmes in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide, there has been a growing concern about how academics should deliver enterprise and entrepreneurship education effectively to learners using an experiential learning approach. Consequentially, the rise of technology-base...