Drivers of SME Growth and Sustainability in Emerging Markets - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sumesh S. Dadwal has 20-years of experience in teaching, academic research, eLearning, and educational quality management. Currently, he is working as Lecturer with Northumbria London campus, UK. He is also a visiting lecturer at ICON College, University of West London and University of Plymouth (London), UK. As a Programme leader of MSc Mass communication, Sumesh, leads a team of experts in teaching and research. He has also been associated with QAA, UK; as a reviewer for educational quality oversight of higher education in the UK. He has successful experience in programme development and the UK HEI quality assurance, using benchmarks from HEI, QAA, HEA, and industrial practices Sumesh is an active researcher and is also involved in PhD supervision. His core areas include International strategic marketing, consumer behaviour & misbehaviour, product launches, prosumers & experience economy, service encounters & sensational experiences, Innovation & technology in marketing, and leadership & organisational change. He has undertaken analysis of brands, markets and consumer behaviours using various qualitative and quantitative techniques. He has written various research papers, book chapters and lead research at various levels. He has successfully undertaken projects that required data mining, editing and detailed statistical analysis using qualitative and quantitative research methods using software: N-Vivo, Excel, SPSS. He is also an external examiner for PG programmes with EduQual UK, and external examiner for PhD (International Expert) with Punjab Technical University, India. He is also a member of advisory and editorial board of academics at Acme Intellects IJRM, India. Sumesh is also a reviewer at Journal of Enterprise Information Management, UK. In addition, Sumesh has hands-on industrial experience in constructions and agricultural supply chain. He is also a freelance consultant (business analysis) for emerging markets.

Pawan Kumar is working as full Professor in the Department of Marketing at Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. He has 15 years of experience in business academic research. His areas of interest in research include entrepreneurship, marketing, e-commerce, consumer behaviour, social media, technology innovation etc. He is an avid researcher. He is active in Ph.D research supervision and has good number of publications in Q1 and Q2 Journals to his credit in various research papers published Scopus indexed journals namely: The TQM Journal from Emerald, Visions: Journal of Business Perspectives from Sage, International Journal of Business and Globalization, International Journal of Business Information Systems from Inderscience and other national/international journals of repute.

Rajesh Verma is a Professor & Sr. Dean at Mittal School of Business (NIRF Ranked), Lovely Professional University (LPU), where he leads the academic and administrative functions of the business school. He has a PhD in Marketing from Himachal Pradesh University, an MBA from Utkal University, and an Executive Programme in Data Driven Product Management from IIM Lucknow. He is also a Wiley Certified Design Thinking Practitioner