Shaista NoorTeesside University UK · International Business School
Shaista Noor
PhD Business
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Introduction
Shaista Noor did her PhD in Business from Taylor’s University Malaysia and recipient of Taylor’s Excellence Research Award. Her research interest includes women entrepreneurship, commercialisation, leadership, management, ageing, HEIs &SDGs. She has published numerous papers in renowned journals. She is associated with World Association of Sustainable Development (WASD) United Kingdom, London as Country Coordinator (PAKISTAN). She is also an active reviewer of various renowned journals.
Additional affiliations
January 2018 - November 2021
Taylor's University Malaysia
Position
- Tutor Business School
September 2013 - September 2015
January 2012 - January 2023
Publications
Publications (58)
Approximately 72% of the global ageing population lives in
developing countries. In Malaysia, 15% of the local community is estimated
to be older adults by 2030. The estimate projects a radical change in the
demographics of developed and developing countries. This conundrum
requires relevant government bodies to investigate and address the
challeng...
The present study is a comparative qualitative exploration of challenges faced by higher education institutions (HEIs) in developed (United Kingdom) and developing (Nepal) nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. A qualitative research strategy was used, and interviews were conducted via zoom to collect data from undergraduate and graduate students of...
Purpose-The primary aim of this study is to delve into the causes of occupational stress and burnout amongst administrative staff members in Pakistani universities. It does so by employing a qualitative research strategy, offering a comprehensive understanding of the issue. Design/methodology/approach-This study uses a qualitative research strategy...
The correlation between curriculum design and a student's knowledge and skills is pivotal. As the effective application of acquired knowledge and skills directly impacts individual work readiness and employability. Inherently, the employability of graduates has always been one of the main concerns among employers. In line with this issue, a qualita...
Ageing is drastically increasing in Malaysia and will continue to grow until 2030
(MHM, 2018; Qandeel & Jehom, 2020). Consequently, senior citizens are
expected to be triple and have more mobility, health and care issues that will
affect their quality of life (Lai et al., 2019; Phua et al., 2019). The number and
demand for ageing care centres acros...
Background/purpose-The pandemic threatened education through two significant shocks: the closing of educational institutions across all levels and the financial recession. This overnight shift from face-to-face to an online mode of education became the reason for various physical, mental, and financial challenges faced by both learners and educator...
Purpose
The purpose of this study to highlight the changing living patterns in the Pakistani community from joint family to nuclear family setup which is becoming the main reason for the loss of days when family members used to be responsible for elderly care. The ageing population in Pakistan are suffering from severe health and care issues. The P...
The entire world is progressing towards an ageing population, as, until 2030, 1.4 billion population will be elderly, which leads to 2.1 billion by 2050. The changing lifestyle and the declining fertility rate are main reasons for drastic makeover of economic environment and business issues. This study aims to examine the critical issues of Human R...
Digital transformation refers to redefining the business process via digital technology. The innovation and digital revolution have remarkable effects on the global economy by affecting organisational relevancy in the marketplace. SMEs are considered as a nation’s growth engine and seriously affected due to tech-adaptation challenges that arise at...
The logistic performance is considered an important economic indicator for logistics activities and depicts the firm's resources. Hence, the organisational capabilities such as operational, marketing, management, financial, and technology play a remarkable role and affect its overall logistic performance. This paper intends to highlight the issues...
The ageing population is a growing concern all across the globe. As an example of a small developing country in South East Asia, Malaysia is a multicultural, multiracial, and multiethnic society comprising Malay, Chinese, Indians, and many other diverse ethnicities. The ageing care centre infrastructure is not up to mark in Malaysia and facing nume...
Digital transformation refers to redefining the business process via digital technology. The innovation and digital revolution have remarkable effects on the global economy by affecting organisational relevancy in the marketplace. SMEs are considered as a nation’s growth engine and seriously affected due to tech-adaptation challenges that arise at...
Women entrepreneurship is on the rise in Malaysia due to government support. However, financial, sociocultural, environmental, and individual factors handicap women's entrepreneurial success in Malaysia. Even though women's personality attributes such as tenderness, empathy, patience, and care fit with the need of the aged care industry, their invo...
Pakistan is a developing country with a population exceeding 200 million in 2021. Women comprise half of the population and are facing various social, economic, and cultural challenges in Pakistani society. Recent estimates show that more than three-fourths of employed women in urban areas are in non-governmental employment. Hence, the representati...
Pakistan is a developing country with a population exceeding 200 million in 2021. Women comprise half of the population and facing various social, economic and cultural challenges in Pakistani society. Recent estimates show that more than three-fourth of employed women in urban areas are in non-governmental employment. Hence, the representation of...
COVID-19 has shut down all educational institutions worldwide and drastically changed learning to a Digital platform. Digital-Learning is a new model for many students. Generally, technological platforms are used for communication and recreation. But, now, it is vastly used for educational purposes. Thus, this study investigated the student percept...
Malaysian businesses are experiencing one of the most significant challenges to remain fit to compete successfully in the market after Tun Dr Mahathir's new government ruled the country beginning on May 22, 2018. Subsequently, one of the major challenges for Malaysians is the dwindling value of the Ringgit Malaysia (RM). The lowest level of the Mal...
Purpose
Over these recent years, increasing studies have found a higher propensity of firms founded by entrepreneurial teams (ETs) for continuous operation and high performance, compared to firms single-handedly created by an entrepreneur. In spite of the emerging significance of ETs, the number of related studies remains inadequately low, particul...
PURPOSE: Women's entrepreneurship is a topic of significant concern, and a detailed review of the literature related to the success model of women entrepreneurs, particularly in developing Asian countries, is lacking. In this regard, eight women's entrepreneurial success models (Malaysia, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) betwee...
Purpose
The ageing population is a rising issue worldwide, including in Malaysia, which leads to an increase in older people compared to children. Malaysia is a relatively “younger” country compared to its Asian counterparts such as Japan and China. The demographic projections by the Department of Statistics of Malaysia state that by 2035 approxima...
The rich tradition of dignified ageing is exceedingly wearied away in developing
countries, including Malaysia. The present study describes stories of the elderly
associated with their physical, psychological and social experiences regarding
immediate surroundings, friends, family and the society residing in the Noble Care
Malaysia, established wel...
Ageing is a normal biotic process, which ultimately reaches to every human being. The transitioning of young adult to older people may result as reduction of social, physiological and psychological capacities that bring social and health threats for the older population. The rich tradition of dignified ageing is exceedingly wearied away in developi...
Malaysia is experiencing the rise in the ageing population as it is a more significant challenge for developing and developed countries. Therefore, across the globe, it is imperative for countries to anticipate effectively against the rising issue of the ageing population. In Malaysia, ageing care centres are mostly managed by three sectors: public...
Construction industries are confronting a wide variety of risks such as finances, designing which influence directly on overall performance and fulfilment of the desired goals. Thus, for project managers, risk management is considered as a proactive approach for effective risk minimisation and management as most of the Malaysian construction indust...
Women entrepreneur plays a catalytic role in economic development, as women constitute half of Malaysia's population. The contribution of women entrepreneurs in the country's economy is significant and may not ignore. Malaysia is a multicultural and multiethnic society comprised of Malays, Chinese, Indian and other local ethnics. The present study...
Women entrepreneur has gained utmost importance in the past few decades in Malaysia due to their significant contribution to the country's economic development. However, few business challenges create a constant obstruction for many women entrepreneurs such as lack of ICT knowledge, time constraint to learn ICT, lack of technological expertise, etc...
Women entrepreneur has gained utmost importance in the past few decades in Malaysia due to their significant contribution to the country's economic development. However, few business challenges create a constant obstruction for many women entrepreneurs such as lack of ICT knowledge, time constraint to learn ICT, lack of technological expertise, etc...
Purpose
Malaysia is considered to be a relatively young country as compared to other older countries such as Japan, China and Australia in terms of the ageing population. However, until 2035, Malaysia will be in the ageing group countries as 15% of the entire population will be above 60 years of age. This situation is quite alarming as more and mor...
Ageing is a growing concern all around the world and also one of the biggest
challenges for developing and developed countries. Malaysia is a country where
ageing care centres are actively running under the government, NGOs, the public
sector, and recently a few of the religious centres and entrepreneurs are working in
this regard. The facilities i...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a remarkable economic impact worldwide, including
in Pakistan, and was soon declared an international public health issue. The education
sector in Pakistan, specifically school (K-12) education, has seen a staggering impact
due to obstacles in delivering alternative forms of education during the pandemic.
Educational i...
The aging population has become a significant concern in many countries, including Malaysia. As a developing country, Malaysia is still struggling to provide better care for the elderly segment, which is increasing in number and demands distinctive attention, care, and treatment from both family and society. This study aims to examine the relations...
Women empowerment is considered as the women decision-making power, easy access to information, and resource control. Women entrepreneurship is in the initial stage in Pakistan. The present study primarily focused on overcoming the challenge of women empowerment through entrepreneurship in Pakistan. A structured questionnaire is used to collect dat...
Education is considered as a driving force to accomplish the work efficiently. In this regard, business studies play an essential role in increasing the capabilities and skills of the individual as entrepreneurial orientation increase employment opportunities and act as a driving force to boost up the country’s economy. Higher Education Institution...
Malaysia is a developing country and a drastic increase in the elderly population is recorded from the year 2005, ageing population age 60 and above recorded as 7 %, which is predicted to be doubled to 14 % until the year 2028. Thus, the ageing care industry in Malaysia needs to grow for healthy ageing. The growth of the ageing care industry will h...
Women entrepreneurship is considered as a leading building block of economy as it plays an important role in job creation, self-development and pay back as economic progress of country. Pakistan being a developing country is in initial phase of entrepreneurship and female participation in economic activities is low. A report by the Global Economy (...
Ageing is a normal biotic process, which ultimately reaches to every human being. The transitioning of young adult to older people may result as reduction of social, physiological and psychological capacities that bring social and health threats for the older population. The rich tradition of dignified ageing is exceedingly wearied away in developi...
The ageing population is increasing all across the globe tremendously, whereas 72% of the entire world elderly population is residing in developing countries. Malaysia is facing the biggest challenge of the ageing population, as until 2030, 15% of the entire community will be elderly. The estimate shows that the ageing population will bring remarka...
The primary purpose of this paper is to test a theoretical model based on the resource-based view (RBV)
theory and investigate the determinant factors influencing the logistics performance among 412 leading
logistic companies in Ningxia region, China. The study addresses the two research questions (1) To what
extent intra-firm resources, inter-firm...
: Globalisation and technological developments demand employees
be highly skilled. The graduates of Higher Education Institutions are facing
problems in getting jobs due to lack of employability skills. Curriculum
designing plays an essential role in preparing the student to meet the challenges
of employment. The purpose of this paper is to underst...
The Chinese logistic industry has shown remarkable potential for expansion and growth. The logistics performance should be further improved to attract new businesses from the neighboring countries. Various logistic literature demonstrated the impact of logistics service capability on logistics performance from the marketing perspective. However, th...
Globalisation and technological developments demand employees
be highly skilled. The graduates of Higher Education Institutions are facing
problems in getting jobs due to lack of employability skills. Curriculum
designing plays an essential role in preparing the student to meet the challenges
of employment. The purpose of this paper is to understan...
Women entrepreneurship is considered as a leading building block
of economy as it plays an important role in job creation, self-development and
pay back as economic progress of country. Pakistan being a developing country
is in initial phase of entrepreneurship and female participation in economic
activities is low. A report by the Global Economy (...
An ageing population is a global problem, and it affects all aspects of life. Globally, a drastic increase in the elderly population has been recorded, which is almost three times from the year 1980 (259 million) to 2025 (761 million). Similar trend also takes place in Malaysia, even though Malaysia is categorized as a developing country. Its popul...
A conceptual approach and introduction to the field of marketing research, written with an emphasis on the practical application of marketing research methods, Marketing Research teaches the basic fundamental statistical techniques needed to analyze market data. The 9th Edition has been updated to offer the most current insights on forces shaping m...
Ageing population is increasing all across the globe, including Malaysia, due to better nutrition and healthy living, which ultimately result as an increase in life expectancy and rise of the elderly population. The most important concern is about health and care facilities along with living arrangements of the ageing population. Currently, in Mala...
Universities are responsible for providing education to large pool of societal members. However, beside education and research, academic research commercialization is another task assigned to universities. It mainly aims towards creation of an entrepreneurial platform to bridge the gap between industry and academia. Universities in developing count...
Knowledge management (KM) needs a systematic approach to develop capabilities that accelerate
the evolution of knowledge as a key organizational resource. The purpose of this study was to investigate the
impact of knowledge creating capabilities on academic entrepreneurial motivation in universities and mediating
effect of self-esteem in this relat...
Universities are complex and diversified institutions. Besides education and
research, universities have now been assigned a new role of academic research
commercialisation. Universities are pressurised to act as a bridge for transferring of
knowledge to industries and generate resources. Commercialisation of academic
research is still a new phenom...
Technological innovations are altering the business operations and structural framework of industries across the globe. In this regard, academia-industry linkage has played a significant role in strengthening the industrial sector in west. Observing the success of west based on academic commercialization, there is extensive emphasis on academia-ind...
Knowledge management (KM) needs a systematic approach to develop capabilities that accelerate the evolution of knowledge as a key organizational resource. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of knowledge creating capabilities on academic entrepreneurial motivation in universities and mediating effect of self-esteem in this relat...
Commercialization of academic research is considered as main tool of trade and industry growth in developed and developing countries. The growth of third mission activities in higher education institutions mainly aims at commercialization of academic research and entrepreneurial platform creation, in order to bridge the gaps between industry and ac...