Workshop on ‘Publishing Qualitative Research and Engaged Scholarship in Major Management Journals’
Venue
Campus-Goa Institute of Management, Goa, India
Event Date and Time
Friday, 2nd January 2026
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Upcoming workshop on ‘Publishing Qualitative Research and Engaged Scholarship in Major Management Journals’ that will take place at the Goa Institute of Management, Goa, India on Friday, 2nd January 2026. The workshop is being funded by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, UK. The key resource persons for this workshop are: Professors Dulini Fernando, Mehdi Boussebaa and Monder Ram.
The sessions will focus on developing technical writing skills, identifying theoretical gaps, engaging in scholarly collaboration, and navigating the publication process in top-tier management journals—while maintaining contextual relevance and scholarly rigour.
Doctoral students and early-career researchers working in HRM, Organisational Studies, International Management, or small business issues via qualitative methods and/or engaged scholarship approaches are encouraged to apply and attend.
Limited bursaries for travel and/or accommodation are available, with priority given to scholars with special needs.
Objectives
• To develop technical writing skills by integrating theoretical sophistication with pragmatic approaches, enabling participants to engage in publication processes without compromising contextual relevance or theoretical innovation.
• To nurture critical scholarly capabilities
• To develop capability to craft articles that identify genuine theoretical gaps rather than replicating established agendas
• To develop engaged scholarship approaches through stakeholder collaboration
• To harmonise structured learning with collaborative exploration, developing both technical publication skills and critical perspectives on knowledge production.
• To understand how researchers can maintain scholarly rigour while co-creating knowledge with organisations and the community via engaged scholarship.
• Benefit from the speaker’s’ specialist expertise, including research areas directly relevant to the South Asian context.
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Speaker
Professor Dulini Fernando
Professor, Leadership and Management, Aston Business School, College of Business and Social Sciences
- example@gmail.com
- +91 0000000000
Dulini Fernando (BSc Lancaster, BSc LSE, MSc LSE and PhD Loughborough) is Professor of Work and Organisation at Aston Business School. She researches on highly skilled careers, diversity and inclusion,workplace mistreatment and work in multinational organizations. Dulini’s research as single authorand first author has been published in an array of journals such as Academy of Management Learningand Education, Academy of Management Discoveries, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and the Journal of World Business, and funded by UKERC, UKRI ESRC, British Academy, Midland Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada and GCRF. In 2021, Dulini was chosen as a British Academy Mid Career Fellow to examine intersectionality in the careers of skilled refugees. Dulini’s research has influenced government policy and organizational practice and is cited in international media
Speaker
Professor Mehdi Boussebaa
Professor of International Management , Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
- Mehdi.Boussebaa@glasgow.ac.uk
- 0141 330 4579
Mehdi Boussebaa is a Professor of International Management at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on multinationals and the politics of management knowledge production in the context of global North-South relations, challenging conventional perspectives and advocating for more inclusive approaches. He has published in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Organization Studies. He serves on the editorial boards of top-tier journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Organization Studies and is Co-EiC of Critical Perspectives on International Business. Mehdi’s research has received funding from the ESRC and the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.
Speaker
Professor Monder Ram
Professor Aston Business School, Centre Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), Aston University
- m.ram1@aston.ac.uk
- 44+ (0) 121 204 5298
Monder Ram is Professor of Small Business and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) at Aston University. His research examines entrepreneurial processes in marginalised communities, developing theoretical frameworks that challenge conventional understandings while generating practical impact. His work exemplifies engaged scholarship through sustained partnerships with policy bodies, business support agencies, and community organizations. He is a two-times winner of the ESRC Impact Prize for Business (2017 and 2021). Professor Ram has secured substantial research funding from sources including ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, British Academy, and numerous government departments. He has published extensively in leading journals including British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies
Discussant
Sebastian Morris
Senior Professor, General Management & Public Policy & Chair, Centre for Public Policy & Governance
- morris@gim.ac.in; chaircppg@gim.ac.in
- +91 9824232121; +91 832 2366733
Prof. Sebastian Morris is Senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at the Goa Institute of Management. He retired from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after over 25 years of teaching, research and consultation. His principal interests are the Indian economy, infrastructure development and regulation, the public sector and governance, international trade and investments, macroeconomics, and small industry. His recent books have been: Macroeconomic Policy in India since the Global Financial Crisis – Trends, Policies and Challenges in Economic Revival Post COVID (Springer Nature, 2022); (ed.) The Difficulty of Being Gajendra Haldea – Reflections on His Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and (ed.) The India Infrastructure Report 2023 – Urban Planning and Development (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Discussant
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar
Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management
- kingshuk@gim.ac.in
- 91 832 2366942
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar is Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management. He had earlier served as labour administrator for more than two decades with the Govt. of West Bengal. His interests include labour & industrial economics, development economics, business economics, labour administration and labour laws, plantation economics and labour, labour laws and labour administration, employment relations and informal labour. In the past, he has worked as a faculty at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida specializing in labour laws and labour administration. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, in connection with works related to BPL Census 2011.
Schedule
9.00 to 9.15 am– Registration
9.15 to 9.30 am – Welcome
9.30 to 10.30 am – Positioning and motivating papers for publication – Mehdi Boussebaa (with a focus on challenging west-centrism in management scholarship)
10.30 to 11.30 am – Crafting empirical research findings for publication in high profile journals– Dulini Fernando
(with a focus on highly skilled work, cross border movement of labour and EDI scholarship)
11.30 to 11.45 am – Break
11.45 to 12.45 pm – Crafting engaged scholarship for publication and developing a research agenda via successful collaboration, co-construction and partnerships -Monder Ram (with a focus on small business and enterprise)
12.45 to 2.00 pm – Lunch
2.00 to 3.15 pm – Parallel groups (3 groups, each headed by one of the speakers for participants to engage in idea development, conceptualisation of research questions, etc.)
3.15 to 3.30 pm – Break
3.30 to 3.45 pm – Developing an academic career alongside out of work responsibilities Dulini Fernando
3.45 to 4.15 pm – Insights into editorial decision making and peer review – Mehdi Boussebaa
4.15 to 5.00 pm -Parallel groups
5.00 to 5.15 pm – Close
Contact Persons
For any queries kindly contact:
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Associate Professor, and Member, CPPG, GIM
Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in
Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942
Ms. Bernice de Souza, Senior Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: bernice@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 9923693329
Ms. Nandini Tank, Research Associate, CPPG, GIM
Email: nandini.tank@gim.ac.in
Mb: +91 8780235541