Dr Mir Dost

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Business and Digital Technologies

Mir.Dost@winchester.ac.uk

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Biography

I am Mir Dost, and I have a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand. I am a senior lecturer in Innovation and Strategic Management and the program lead for an MBA at the University of Winchester, United Kingdom. Before that, I worked as an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education in Dundee, Scotland, UK. Honorary Assistant Professor at Abertay University Dundee, Scotland. Before this, I held Assistant Professor positions at Sohar University in Oman and Sukkur IBA University in Pakistan. I also served as the Director for the Office of Research, Innovation, and Commercialization and Head of the Department of Management Sciences at Lasbela University.

I have extensive experience in teaching, utilising Bloom's Taxonomy pedagogical methods to develop course profiles, set clear course learning outcomes (CLOs), and align them with program learning outcomes (PLOs). I create tutorials that allow students to apply theoretical knowledge to practical, real-world problems. These tutorials often incorporate business case studies from reputable publishers such as Harvard and Ivy.

My research focuses on the influence of different types of knowledge, including human, social, and organisational capital, on process innovation generation and adoption in the Chemical Industry for sustainable product development. I hold an MBA in entrepreneurship from AIT-Thailand, and my master's research thesis examined the enablers and barriers of green entrepreneurship, particularly to organic agriculture practices in Pakistan. I have also served as an external PhD examiner for Portsmouth University in the UK, evaluating a thesis on analysing the new product development process of frugal products in Pakistani SMEs.

I have published numerous research papers in prestigious international journals and presented my findings at top-tier conferences in the field of management sciences. Some of my published papers include knowledge spillover and innovation, best management practices in green product development, and the impact of social and intellectual capital on innovation. I also have articles currently under review in reputable academic journals.

In addition, I have actively participated in conferences such as the International Society of Professional Innovation Managers (ISPIM), the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, and the British Academy of Management (BAM) conference. I have served as a country director, speaker, and mentor for the Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. Furthermore, the Government of Egypt has invited me to contribute as a panellist to discuss entrepreneurship enablement.

As a resource person and international consultant, I have worked with organisations such as the International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), delivering sessions and submitting reports on entrepreneurship development. I have also been recognised as an individual trainer/consultant for the National Business Development Program for SMEs (NBDP) in Pakistan, providing training and guidance on business management and operations to SMEs.

Publications

Selected Publications (find more by searching for Mir Dost on Google Scholar)

· Ngah, R., & Dost, M. (Under review) Enhancing performance through intellectual capital, knowledge sharing and innovation. Management Decision.

· Dost, M., Lee, M., & Umrani, W. A. (2024). Implementing circular economy through bricolage, frugal innovation and technological turbulence. Sustainable Development.
· Dost, M., & Umrani, W. A. (2024). Managerial Proactiveness, Frugal Innovation and Firm Performance. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 09713557241256212.
· Ansari, S., Saleem, M. R., Tariq, A., Raziq, M. M., & Dost, M. (2024). Revolutionizing Pharmaceutical Traceability: Exploring the Role of Innovative Leadership in a New Venture Digital Traceability Deployment. In: Human Perspectives of Industry 4.0 Organizations (pp. 1-16). CRC Press.
· Shehzad, M. U., Zhang, J., Dost, M., Ahmad, M. S., & Alam, S. (2024). Knowledge management enablers and knowledge management processes: a direct and configurational approach to stimulate green innovation. European Journal of Innovation Management, 27(1), 123-152.
· Dost, M., & Al-Qatiti, K. (2023). Leadership, stress, and politics: Influences on creativity and innovation in emerging markets. Management Decision.
· Usman, S., & Dost, M. (2022). Linking green intellectual capital, ambidextrous green innovation and firms’ green performance. Journal of Intellectual Capital.
· Arshad, M., & Dost. M. (2022). Enhancing employee work engagement through organizational identification, gender, and leader social dominance orientation. Gender in Management: an International Journal.
· Dost, M., Shah, S. M. M., & Saleem, I. (2021). Mentor expectations and entrepreneurial venture creation: mediating role of the sense of nothing to lose and entrepreneurial resilience. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies.
· Mustafa, M. B., Saleem, I., & Dost, M. (2021). A strategic entrepreneurship framework for an emerging economy: Reconciling dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies.
· Dost, M., & Khan, M. S. (2021). Influence of risk-taking and proactivity behaviours on frugal innovation: The moderating role of external sources of knowledge. International Journal of Innovation Management, 2150087.
· Dost, M., Badir, Y. F., & Murali, S. (2020). Open-and-closed process innovation generation and adoption: Analysing the effects of sources of knowledge. Technology in Society, 62(C).
· Dost, M., Pahi, M. H., Magsi, H. B., & Umrani, W. A. (2019). Influence of the best practices of environmental management on green product development. Journal of Environmental Management, 241, 219-225.
· Dost, M., Pahi, M. H., Magsi, H. B., & Umrani, W. A. (2019). Effects of sources of knowledge on frugal innovation: Moderating role of environmental turbulence. Journal of Knowledge Management, 23(7), 1245-1259.
· Dost, M., & Badir, Y. F. (2018). Generation or adoption? The role of social capital. Management Decision, 57(7), 1457-1471.
· Dost, M., Arshad, M., & Afsar, B. (2018). The influence of entrepreneurial orientation on types of process innovation capabilities and moderating role of social capital. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 8(4).
· Dost, M., Badir, Y. F., Ali, Z., & Tariq, A. (2016). The impact of intellectual capital on innovation generation and adoption. Journal of Intellectual Capital,17(4).
· Ali, Z., Badir, Y. F., & Dost, M. (2016). Sustainable new product development and internal social sustainability: The impact of stakeholders' support. Sustainability: The Journal of Record.
· Ali, Z., Badir, Y. F., Dost, M., & Afsar, B. (2016). The dynamics of expert and team intuition in NPD projects: The role of environmental turbulence and expert power. Journal of High Technology Management Research, 27(1), 10-20.
· Afsar, B., Safdar, U., Dost, M., & Ali, Z. (2017). Flight attendant's knowledge sharing, innovative work behaviour, and new service development. International Journal of Work Innovation, 2(2-3), 193-215.
· Jadoon, B., Ali, Z., Dost, M & Safdar, U. (2017). Linking error management practices with call center employees’ helping behaviors and service recovery performance. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 11 (1)

Books

Technology Management in Higher Education. Amazon (2018)

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Research interests

Hybrid Entrepreneurship / Frugal Innovation / Circular Economy Projects

I have been actively teaching, researching, and publishing on entrepreneurship, innovation management, frugal innovation, open innovation, human capital, and the circular economy. My research interests include exploring how entrepreneurs and hybrid entrepreneurs grow their ventures, determining the right time for hybrid entrepreneurs to leave their wage jobs to commit to entrepreneurship fully, and identifying when they should consider abandoning their ventures. I am also focused on the frugal social service development process in communities within the United Kingdom.

To achieve these goals, I have engaged in several activities:

Research the similarities and differences between entrepreneurs and hybrid entrepreneurs and their strategies to start and grow their ventures. The findings are expected to contribute to theory, practice, and methodology.
Investigating when hybrid entrepreneurs should decide to leave their wage jobs and when they should abandon their ventures. This intriguing research area has garnered attention as a special issue called for by the Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP). This qualitative study will likely yield exciting themes and theories to understand the transition between traditional jobs and entrepreneurship, along with boundary conditions, effectuation theory, practice, and policy.
Exploring how community-led enterprises can develop new frugal services. The aim is to understand how these enterprises leverage their expertise to create valuable, cost-effective solutions for their communities. This model could serve as a guideline for others to utilise and benefit from the results.
Conducting a project currently halfway through its completion, which investigates how connecting upstream manufacturing with downstream SMEs can facilitate Oman’s circular economy business model.