Management & Social Sciences Center of Research (MSSCR)

Introduction

The world is changing rapidly, and so is the business across the globe. The department aims to offer strategies in order to keep business firms compatible with the changing supply and demand in the market. The research agenda of our department covers various issues including organizational behavior and human resource management, marketing, project management and financial management. Furthermore, our research covers various social-economic issues such as globalization, technological change, environmental concerns, social and political upheaval, and the financial crisis of the end of last decade, which are affecting the dynamic of contemporary business world.

Objective

  • To produce research related to business ranging from small, medium to large firms.
  • To produce research related to contemporary issues of national and global economy
  • To encourage inter-disciplinary research lying on nexus of management, engineering, IT and other disciplines

Research Groups

1- Strategic Management and Decision Making

Introduction

Strategic Management is a diverse topic which can be a challenge for managers themselves and for academics who study the topic. However, the topic's insights are far-reaching and very widely transferable. Strategies exist at the corporate level, at the business level and at operating levels. They have economic dimensions to them, social dimensions, ethical dimensions and the practical concerns of both developing and implementing those strategies. Strategy is not easily confined to a single perspective or to a single discipline.

Objective

The Research Group has a primary focus upon strategy as practice (SaP) as a lens for understanding strategic management. SaP is concerned with the practices of strategizing in order to understand how they deliver strategic outcomes. It looks at strategy as something people do.

Research Interest/Research Areas

The Strategic Management Research Group carries out research in a number of areas:

  • international mergers and acquisitions
  • international mergers and acquisitions
  • strategy communications
  • strategy actors
  • restructuring
  • strategic space
  • strategy process and organizational change
  • strategy implementation and capability development
  • corporate social responsibility/li>
  • public sector strategy
  • corporate center transformation

Members

Research Group Leader, Specialization in Management

Focal Person, Specialization in Management

  • Dr. Muhammad Nazim
  • Dr. Abid Hussain Nadeem
2- International Trade and Economic Research Group

Introduction

Economic development and growth lies at the core of policy-making process as it has a direct impact on the economic, political and social conditions prevailing in a country. In this context, trade is an important policy instrument as export led economic development is invariably evident in literature. Given this, this research group focuses on the area of international trade and economic development. Specifically speaking, the research group aims to covers policy issues related to WTO regulations about tariffs and regional trade agreements on international trade as well as the impact of private voluntary standards such as ISO and Global GAP certification on international trade flows.

Objective

The research group aims to analyze the impact of governance, infrastructure development and other macroeconomic indicators on economic growth and development.

Research Interest/Research Areas

  • WTO regulations and Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs)
  • Private voluntary standards
  • Economic growth and development

Members

  • Dr. Amjad Masood

           Research Group Leader, Specialization in International Trade

  • Dr. Muhammad Umer Farooq

           Focal Person, Specialization in Accounting & Finance