Research Interests

Research interests of academic staff in the Faculty of Business Management (FoBM) include:

• Entrepreneurship
• Service Marketing
• Digital Marketing
• Business Intelligence
• Employee Engagement 
• Islamic Banking
• Capital Structure and its Impact
• Tourism
• Social Media and its Impact

Recent presentations and publications by FoBM staff

AL-Shukri, H. K. H., & Udayanan. (2019). Factors Influencing Online Shopping Intention: A study among online shoppers in Oman. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(3), 691–709.

Veena Tewari, (2019). Seasonality in Tourism: The case of Oman. Journal of Tourism and Management Research, 4(2), 463-476.

Venkoba Rao, Najla Al Battashi (2019). E-HRM Advantage & Value Creation – An Empirical Study of SMES in Oman. Diversification of Oman Economy for Sustainable Development: Strategic Issues and Imperatives, Muscat, CBFS, 181-188.

McGee, I. (2019). The Textual Management of the Solicit Response Move in Newspaper Fundraising Advertisements. Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing. DOI:10.1080/10495142.2019.1656139

Chintha, S., 2018. Impact of Bank Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants on the Profitability of Commercial Banks-An Evidence from MSM listed Banks In the Sultanate of Oman. International Journal of Accounting Research, 3(4), pp. 13-22

Arshi, T., and Burns, P., 2018. Entrepreneurial Architecture. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 27(2), pp. 151-179

Sawant, K., 2016. A comparative study of factors affecting service quality and level of satisfaction in Local and Foreign Banks in Oman. Saudi Journal of Business and Management Studies, DOI:10.21276/SJBMS.2016.1.3.6 ISSN ONLINE- 2415-6671, ISSN PRINT -2415-6663.

Tewari, V., 2016. IT Evolution and Service Dominant Logic: Re engineering Service Ecosystems. International Journal of Knowledge and Research in Management & E-Commerce Vol.6, Issue 2, April, 2016 e-ISSN: 2231-0339 print-ISSN: 2231-203X.

Tewari, V., and Morande, S., 2016. Communication and Power Engineering, R. (Ed.) and Mathivanan (Ed.) Rajesh 2016/10, 233, De Gruyter (book chapte

Haq Ikram, Ul. (2017). Impact of oil prices on financial performance of corporate firms: A study of Omani companies. Journal of Accounting Research, 3(1): 34-41.

Available at: https://www.arabianjbmr.com/pdfs/AC_VOL_3_1/4.pdf  [Accessed 5 June 2017].

Tahseen Arshi, A. (2017). Is innovation a second-order construct? Clarifying the formative and reflective measures of innovation. Archives of Business Research, 5 (2): 1-13. Available at:  http://scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ABR/article/view/2664/1681 [Accessed 5 June 2017].

Tahseen Arshi, A. Morande, S. and Tewari, V. (2017). A modified consumer decision-making model for online shopping: A structure equation modelling approach. International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 5 (2): 56-70.

Available at: http://ijecm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/522.pdf  [Accessed 5 June 2017].

Tahseen Arshi, A. (2016). Two Case Studies in Entrepreneurship. In: P. Burns (ed., 4th edition) New venture creation: a framework for entrepreneurial start-ups. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Morande, S. (2016). Business intelligence (BI) in virtual management of cab services in the city of Pune. Paper presented at the International Management Research Conference, Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies, March 4-5, 2016, University  of Mumbai, India.

Rao, V. (2016). Innovation through employee engagement. Asia Pacific Journal of Advanced Business and Social Studies, 2(2): 337-345.

Available at: http://apiar.org.au/?journal-paper=innovation-through-employee-engagement  [Accessed 5 June 2017].