Management and Business Academy

Our vision is to create a prestigious and internationally recognised community where we can inspire, recognise and support researchers who contribute to practice by creating new theoretical frameworks. The Management and Business Academy supports the advancement of theory and practice in Organisational Studies and the Social Sciences. We welcome and encourage interdisciplinary researchers, scientists and research students from universities all around world to present their current research activities, and hence to foster research relations between universities and industry. This institute takes a lead in facilitating international collaboration, providing an independent and authoritative source of advice, and contributing to academic debate and research.

Associate Editor

Dr Seyedeh A H TabaghdehiS. Asieh Tabaghdehi is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Finance at Regents University London. She has a PhD in Economics and Finance from Brunel University London, UK.
Dr Tabaghdehi has developed a wide range of research interests including wealth and asset management, cooperate finance, financial risk management, stock market analysis, financial modelling, arbitrage and market disequilibrium, pricing analysis and regime-switching model using a market efficiency approach, market structure and competition analysis, time-series modelling, stationarity and cointegration properties with exceptional passion about collaborating academic research to a policy audience and corporate decision makers.

She has strong background in data analysis with strong quantitative skills and a willingness to work with large and complex data sets. She is also reviewer of International Journal of Business Performance Management, and Journal of Energy Policy.

Associate Editor

Hany Elbardan has a wide research interests range from Accounting, Corporate Governance and Auditing, through to Information Systems and Social Sciences. He has been studying through a chain of related disciplines. He has gained research experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods across different research areas. He got his PhD in Management Studies at Brunel University in London, UK.  His PhD. thesis is to qualitatively investigate the impact of Information Systems introduction within business organisations on developing a comprehensive internal auditing model to achieve better corporate governance process.

His Masters degree, in Managerial Accounting, quantitatively applied the theory of constraint concepts to improve the cost accounting practices and pricing decisions through focusing on the best use of bottlenecks and the rare resources. His current research interest is to use his mixed research background in business management to enhance different accounting functions within organizations locally and globally. He is interested in looking at behavioural, organisational, and managerial aspects of different accounting functions within various types of organizations.

Associate Editor

David Luigi FUSCHI

I am a system engineer by training a project manager by profession and an educator by passion. In time I have acquired several professional certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, CDPM, CMgr, and CEng). I am also active member of a few professional bodies (IEEE and ACM, PMI, IET, INCOSE, ISTE, ISSS, RSA, IIA), several management and advisory boards for charities and corporate as well as STEM Ambassador.

In my career as a project manager and a researcher I have been working on over 100 projects successfully completed (>300 million Euro), rescued 12 projects (>30 million Euro), acquired over 20 projects (>62 million Euro), and assessed over 350 projects for over 12 International/National Research Programs since 1994.

Currently I am Lecturer in Project Management at Coventry University, Deputy Director of Management and Business Academy London, Director at BRIDGING Consulting Ltd and I also have some visiting academic positions in Europe, Asia and South America.

I am delighted to have been able to support the Chartered Management Institute’s mentoring programme for a couple of years now, helping to create some successful mentoring relationships and I hope to be able to do more especially now that I am involved for Coventry University in a CMI accredited module.

 

Editorial Board

Ehsan ZaeriEhsan Zaeri holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and he is currently studying master of entrepreneurship management at the University of Tehran, Faculty of entrepreneurship. He has published several articles in different economics’ newspapers and magazines, and he has established himself as a columnist. Furthermore, he has conducted several research papers about destination branding, religious tourism, and the impact of different leadership styles in cross-cultural studies.

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Amir Reza AfrouziAmir Reza Afrouzi is a master student at Tehran University, and he is studying entrepreneurship management. He was part of the Top 1% Rank of Participants in the University Entrance Exam in 2019 for MSc of Management.
His research interest includes tourism and hospitality, organizational behaviour, leadership, sustainable innovation, technological innovation, emerging technology and adoption of technologies is organizations. He has committed to several papers about organizational behaviour and sustainable innovation. He Cooperated as consulter in five Report and Strategy Plan about Iranian Companies' Situation During the Pandemic.
He has done some projects about:

  • Adopting of R&D Outsourcing in Organizations
  • Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Recognition
  • Comparing the Internet of Things in Iran and other Countries
  • Methods of Financing – Seed Accelerators
  • Different types of Emerging Technologies and their impact on organizations (unemployment, techno-stress, and efficiency)
  • Analyzing and comparing four countries from the aspects of culture, economy, politics, and society (Indonesia, Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabiya)

He knows English, Farsi, Azari, and Turkish languages very well. His computer skills include Office, SPSS, AMOS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Python (Beginner).

Associate Editor

Peter Atkinson graduated from Leeds University with a BA (Hons) in English, from Liverpool University with an MA also in English and with an MBA from London University in International Management.

At present he is a teaching assistant and PhD student at Brunel Business School where he is researching how discourse creates organisation.He has over twenty years’ experience as a lecturer in business, management and information technology subjects and also as a trainer in a number of organisations including UK Parliament and Computacenter Plc. Mr Atkinson has been a member of BAM (British Academy of Management) since 2011.

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Behrouz Behzadan received his MA in Entrepreneurial Management with Merit from European Business School – London in 2008. He, then, joined University College London (UCL) as a visiting researcher for 12 months. Mr Behzadan is currently undertaking his doctoral research on family business succession at Brunel University in London, UK. His doctoral thesis focuses on process of intergenerational succession among Iranian manufacturing family businesses, and identifying the impact of influential factors on process of succession for such family firms.

The main academic interests of Mr Behzadan are as follow: entrepreneurship, family businesses, innovation, spin-offs, corporate venturing, and technology transfer & commercialisation. Furthermore, he has robust background on qualitative and qualitative approaches; although, his current researches are based on qualitative approach. At the present, Mr Behzadan is interested in looking at the gender and cultural differences in family businesses across the world, particularly in the Middle East and developing countries.

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