
Pushkar Jha
Professor of Strategic Management
Professor
Department of Strategy and Leadership , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law
Pushkar is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law. He joined the RDSBL with a mandate to support the strong momentum towards becoming a research-led institution. His research spans areas of strategic learning, innovation, sustainable development, employee ownership and management of projects.
Qualifications
- PhD (Strategic Management) City University of London, UK
- MPhil (Data Modelling) Newcastle University, UK
- PGDRM (eq. MBA) IRMA, India
OVERVIEW
With a PhD from Cass (now Bayes) Business School in 2007, he has since published in Research Policy, R&D Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, World Development Perspectives, European Management Review, European Business Review, and in the International Journal of Project Management, among others. His co-authored paper, published in the prestigious Academy of Management Perspectives, won the top award at the annual Academy of Management meeting. He has also received the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) award for the 2nd best paper of five winning articles. His research, conducted with the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and John Lewis Partnerships, was instrumental in shaping the UK government's policy to promote employee-owned businesses. Pushkar’s portfolio of prior business engagement and policy-influencing research includes studies for the International Chambers of Commerce and EMI. Pushkar remains keen to expand his engagement with sustainability initiatives and research that can inform and orient policy in practice in this direction. He has coordinated, designed and delivered project studies for initiatives of the World Bank and the UNFPA in the past and continues to deploy this domain in informing his research w
Until early 2024 he was the faculty director of Postgraduate Research at Northumbria University and the Northumbria Principal Investigator / University Lead for the UKRI- OfS funded BAME project. In his time at Northumbria, Pushkar was the director of learning and teaching, research and innovation champion, and subject group leader. Over the years, he led the development and execution of several successful initiatives directed at research and teaching capability enhancements, including a redesign of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes. With several doctoral completions as principal supervisor, he is actively seeking suitable candidates for projects that bring together innovation, strategy, and sustainable development.
External Engagements
- External Examiner: Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School – Global MBA Programme. Also, several universities (Sheffield, UK, Manipal India) as external on doctoral examinations.
- Visiting/ Guest faculty positions over 2018-2023: Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School; Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak India.
- Academic Scholar: Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT)– 2017 – till date. Consortium of researchers and policymakers drawn from Asia, the Gulf, Africa, the US, Europe, Australia, and the Caribbean. Focusing specifically on issues related to migration, diaspora, and transnationalism.
TEACHING
Teaching and Supervision areas:
- Strategic Management
- Leadership
- Project Management
- Innovation, and
- Poverty Alleviation contexts
Publications
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Full publications list
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- Advising elite performers: the role of intuition, trust and expertise Management Decision. p. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-11-2023-2076
- Development Disparity & Attainment Discrepancy: A Return Migration Context Academic Journal of Politics and Public Administration. 1 (1), pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.19080/ACJPP.2024.25.555552
- Odd couple collaborations and making them tick! European Business Review. 33 (2), pp. 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1108/EBR-08-2018-0138
- Embeddedness of Inter‐firm Ties and Knowledge Creation European Management Review. 18 (3), pp. 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12455
- Evolving willingness and ability interfaces: An innovation led transformation journey International Journal of Innovation Studies. 4 (3), pp. 69-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijis.2020.06.001
- A Perspective on Migration and Community Engagement in Smart Cities in: Ahmed, S., Abbas, S. and Zia, H. (ed.) Smart Cities - Opportunities and Challenges: Select Proceedings of ICSC 2019. Springer, pp.521-526
- Life of a PAI: Mediation by willingness and ability for beneficiary community engagement World Development Perspectives. 9, pp. 27-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2018.04.004