Dr Mir Dost

Biography

Dr Mir Dost is Senior lecturer in Innovation and Strategic Management and programme lead for the MBA. He has a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management from the School of Management of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand.

Previously, he was an assistant professor of entrepreneurship and management at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. He was also a visiting faculty member at Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. Before that, he worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Business, Sohar University, Oman. He also served as an Assistant Prof. at the Department of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA University. Dr Dost also served as director of the Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization and head of the Department of Management Sciences at Lasbela University, Pakistan.

Dr Dost is a consultant with Internation WAQF, United Kingdom, a Country Director of Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Thailand and a consultant to the International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal. He is a Professional trainer for Pearson’s Business and Technology Education Council on ‘Enterprise and Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Business Decision Making’, atrainer with IBA Karachi on USAID’s project “Entrepreneurship Development”, a consultant at National Business Development and Promotion, Pakistan, and a resource person and consultant for SMEDA, Pakistan. He is the founder of two startups, Bolan Consultancy® and ILM Academy (social).

Dr Dost teaches Entrepreneurship Skills; Innovation Management; Managing Technology & Innovation; Principles of Responsible Management; Business Research Methods; Managing and Assessing the Growth and Constraints of Small Businesses

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)