Dr Md Imtiaz Mostafiz

Dr Md Imtiaz Mostafiz is the Deputy Associate Dean of Research Excellence and Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business at the University of Leicester School of Business, University of Leicester, UK. Before joining ULSB, he was a Reader in Business and the Founding Director of the Centre for Global Business and Enterprise, and the Lead for UoA -17 (knowledge and understanding) – REF 2029 at Greater Manchester Business School, University of Bolton, UK. He was also a Senior Lecturer of International Business and Strategy at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. He also served at Taylor's Business School, Taylor's University, Malaysia, as a Lecturer in International Business.  He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. 

Dr Imtiaz received the Global Talent Award from the British Academy. He Chairs the Entrepreneurship Track at the British Academy of Management. He is also a Peer Review College member of the British Academy of Management, as well as Economics and Social Research Council in the UK Research and Innovation. He won several best paper awards from the Academy of International Business Conference, British Academy of Management Conference and others. He also delivers several paper development workshops and act as session chairs in top conferences. He serves as an Ambassador in the International Entrepreneurship Scholar's Association representing Bangladesh and South-East Asia.

His scholarly works published in top journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, etc. among others. He also serves several Editorial Review Boards, such as Entrepreneurship Research Journal, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Business Strategy and Development, and Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economy. He also acted as a Chief Guest Editor in Special Issues at leading journals, such as Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, Canadian Journal of Administrative Science, etc. He won the Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of World Business in 2023.  

Dr Imtiaz's research expertise lies in International Business and Strategy and their intersection with Entrepreneurship and Management. He primarily focuses on early internationalization, strategic and dynamic capabilities (firm and individual level), open and dynamic innovation, international entrepreneurial behaviour in international business, IT, SMEs and family business context. He specialises in quantitative methods, such as structural equation modelling, deep-learning artificial intelligence analysis, fsQCA, neural networks, and necessary component analysis.

 

Editorial Roles

1. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behavior and Research (Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue and Editorial Review Board)  
2. Industrial Marketing Management (Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue)  
3. Canadian Journal of Administrative Science (Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue)
4. Information Systems Frontiers (Guest Editor of Special Issue)
5. International Marketing Review (Editorial Review Board)
6. Entrepreneurship Research Journal (Associate Editorial Board)
7. Asia Pacific Journal of Business Administration (Editorial Advisory Board)
8. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (Editorial Review Board)
9. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economy (Editorial Review Board)

International Business and Management

1. Mostafiz, M. I., Gali, N., Hughes, M., De Massis, A., & Rahman, P. N. A. (2024). International entrepreneurial culture of born global and non-born global family firms: a configurational approach. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 30(11), 360-393.

2. Mostafiz, M. I., Ahmed, F. U., Tardios, J., Hughes, P., & Tarba, S. Y. (2024). Configuring international entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic internationalisation capability to predict international performance. International Business Review, 102275.

3. Mostafiz, M. I., Ahmed, F. U., Ibrahim, F., & Tarba, S. Y. (2024). Innovation and commercialisation: the role of the international dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian international entrepreneurial firms. International Marketing Review, 41(1), 199-236.

4. Mostafiz, M. I., Hughes, M., Gali, N., & Sambasivan, M. (2023). The context sensitivity of international entrepreneurial orientation and the role of process and product innovation capabilities. British Journal of Management, 34(4), 2015-2035.

5. Mostafiz, M. I., Musteen, M., Saiyed, A., & Ahsan, M. (2022). COVID-19 and the global value chain: Immediate dynamics and long-term restructuring in the garment industry. Journal of Business Research, 139, 1588-1603.

6. Ahsan, R., & Mostafiz, M.I. (2023). Business relatedness and parent international performance: is accumulated Knowledge stock the missing link? European Journal of International Management. (in press).

7. Faroque, A. R., Kuivalainen, O., Ahmed, J. U., Rahman, M., Roy, H., Ali, M. Y., & Mostafiz, M. I. (2021). Performance implications of export assistance: the mediating role of export entrepreneurship. International Marketing Review, 38(6), 1370-1399.

8. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., Goh, S. -K., & Shakil, M. H. (2021). The Mediating Role of Innovation Capabilities in the Relationship between Dynamic Managerial Capability and Performance of Export-manufacturing Firms. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 19(2), 169-200.

9. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., & Goh, S. K. (2021). Antecedents and consequences of market orientation in international B2B market: role of export assistance as a moderator. Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 36(6), 1058-1075.

10. Mostafiz, M.I. (2022). The contest for value in global value chains-correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry. Thunderbird International Business Review, 64 (4), 349-350

11. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., & Goh, S. K. (2021). The performance of export manufacturing firms: roles of international entrepreneurial capability and international opportunity recognition. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 16(8), 1813-1839.

12. Faroque, A. R., Mostafiz, M. I., Kuivalainen, O., & Sundqvist, S. (2020). Prior Experience and Export Performance: The Missing Link of Global Vision. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 18(1), 73-98.

13. Faroque, A. R., Mostafiz, M. I., Faruq, M. O., & Bashar, M. F. B. (2021). Revisiting entrepreneurial capabilities and export market orientation: a multi-scale investigation in an emerging economy. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 16(3), 556-579.

14. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., Goh, S. K., & Ahmad, P. (2023). Configuring foreign market knowledge and opportunity recognition capabilities to predict the performance of export-manufacturing firms. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 21(2), 316-330.

15. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., & Goh, S. K. (2023). Foreign market knowledge, international opportunity recognition and the performance of export manufacturing firms. Strategic Change, 31 (1), 179-191

16. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., & Goh, S. K. (2019). Impacts of dynamic managerial capability and international opportunity identification on firm performance. Multinational Business Review, 27(4), 339-363.

17. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., & Goh, S. K. (2019). The antecedents and the outcomes of foreign market knowledge accumulation – the dynamic managerial capability perspective. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 34(4), 902-920.

18. Mostafiz, M. I., Sambasivan, M., & Goh, S. K. (2023). Born global phenomenon: A critical review and avenues for future research. European Journal of International Management, 20(3), 444-474.

Strategy and General Management

19. Mostafiz, M. I., Gali, N., Ahmed, F. U., and Hughes, M. (2025). A Betrayal in the Family: An Inhibitor or Stimulus for Business Model Innovation? Journal of Product Innovation Management, online first.

20. Mostafiz, M. I., Ahmed, F. U., Ahammad, M. F., & Rahman, P. N. A. (2025). Entrepreneurial cognition and artificial intelligence adoption–contingency role of innovation ecosystem resource mobilization and entrepreneurial bricolage. R&D Management.

21. Xavier, J. A., Mostafiz, M. I., Selvachandran, G., & Quek, S. G. (2024). Resource orchestration in Indian ethnic entrepreneurial enterprises through generation change in Malaysia. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 198, 122996.

22. Mostafiz, M. I., Ahmed, F. U., & Hughes, P. (2022). Open innovation pathway to firm performance – the role of dynamic marketing capability. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behavior & Research. 31(2/3), 673-701.

23. Mostafiz, M. I., Hughes, M., Simeonova, B., & Sambasivan, M. (2023). Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: Comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research. 29(5), 1099-1132.

24. Mostafiz, M. I., Hughes, M., & Sambasivan, M. (2021). Entrepreneurial Orientation, Competitive Advantage and Strategic Knowledge Management Capability in Malaysian Family Firms. Journal of Knowledge Management. 26(2), 423-458.

25. Sahoo, A., Xechung, N.L., Mostafiz, M.I., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2022). Perceived risk and sensitivity and their influence on expatriate performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Business and Organizational Excellence, 41 (4), 68-84.

26. Mostafiz, M. I. (2020). The antecedents and the outcomes of firm’s dominant logic – the dynamic managerial capability perspective. Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, 12(2/3), 142-155.

27. Goh, S. -K., Jayaraman, K., Mostafiz, M. I., & Leow, Y. M. (2020). The Effect of Organisational Climate on Employees’ Creative Performance through Knowledge Sharing Behaviour. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 18(1), 1-14.

28. Mostafiz, M. D. I., Sambasivan, M., & Goh, S. K. (2019). Psychometric evaluation of Dynamic Managerial Capability scale in the context of early internationalizing firms from an emerging economy. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration. 11(4), 371-386.

Book

1. Omrane, A., Kassmi, K., Akram, M. W., Khanna, A., & Mostafiz, M. I. (Eds.) (2020). Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy-Based Projects, and Digitalization (First Edition ed.). CRC Taylor and Francis Group. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/

Book Chapter

1. Mostafiz, I., Yeasmin, N., and SP., Sharif. (2019). Partial Least Squares in Asian Tourism research: A Critical Systematic Review. In quantitative tourism research in Asia, 207-221. Springer, Singapore.

I welcome receiving PhD research proposal with a supporting resumé from enthusiastic and capable students interested in my research areas, and within the strategic management, international business, entrepreneurship (including international entrepreneurship) and innovation fields.

I have successfully supervised multiple doctoral students (PhD and DBA) through to completion to date, whom have gone on to earn appointments in academia and business.

Chairs, Keynotes, Trainings and Talks

1)    Quantitative Research for Qualitative Researcher, University of Hull, July 2025

2)    Career After PhD, June 2025, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

3)    Training: Write it Right: The HOW of an outstanding PhD Proposal, June 2025, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

4)    Keynote: “Mastering the Art of Publication” – June 2025, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

5)    Keynote: International Research Seminar Crafting Research for High-Impact Publishing, May 14-15, 2025 - Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management, France.

6)    Conference Chair: The British Academy of Management ENTR SIG Conference 2024 at University of Leicester, UK.

7)    Conference Track Member: The California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference - San Diego State University, USA.

8)    Conference Session Chairs: The British Academy of Management Annual Conference 2024 at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

9)    Conference Session Chairs: The British Academy of Management Annual Conference 2023 at University of Sussex, UK.

10) Keynote: Innovation in Technology at International Research Conference Xplore 2024, May 10-11, 2024, University of Lahore, Pakistan.

11) Paper development workshop: publishing in top tier journal at International Research Conference Xplore 2024, May 10-11, 2024. University of Lahore, Pakistan.

12) Keynote: Research Opportunities and Career in the UK. In 1st International Online Research Methodology Workshop in Humanities and Social Sciences. India: Parul University.

13) FsQCA in Management Research. (2020), Business, Law and Management at the Post-Pandemic Era: An International e-Conference, 10^th – 11^th July, 2020, Taylor’s Business School, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xL2VOGfdI&t=33s

14) Keynote: Configurations of entrepreneurial orientation, knowledge management, and positional advantage: comparing native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms, 25^th of March, 2021, Vocational Training Council, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

1. Global Talent - The British Academy

2. Best Paper Awards - The Academy of International Business and The British Academy of Management 

1)    Mostafiz, M. I., Ahmed, F. U., Tardios, J., Hughes, P., & Rose, E. (2025). Resource Mobilisation and Strategic Renewal: Is Data Analytics Capability the Missing Link? in the Academy of Management Conference 2025 at Copenhagen, Denmark.

2)    Musteen, M. & Mostafiz, I. M. (2025), ‘Host-Country Attributes and Asset-Light Entries of Young Knowledge-Intensive Firms: Automated Machine Learning Approach’, in the Academy of International Business 2025 at Louisville, USA.

3)    Mostafiz, M. I., & Simeonova, B. (2025). ‘Configuration of Entrepreneurial Cognition and Emotion for Delivering Sustainable Development Goals’ in the British Academy of Management Conference 2025 at University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

4)    Mostafiz, M. I., Musteen, M. & Fernhaber, S. (2024). ‘Causal versus Effectual Decision-making – an Artificial Intelligence Perspective’ in the British Academy of Management Conference 2024 at the Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.

5)    Mostafiz, M. I., Adomako, S., Ahsan, M., Mallon, M. & Cowden, B. (2024). ‘Cognitive flexibility, entrepreneurial imaginativeness and opportunity recognition’ in the Academy of Management Conference 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

6)    Ahmed, F. U., Mostafiz, M. I., Rahman, N. M., Evers, N., Lee, J., Uddin, J. (2024). ‘Is it a man’s world?: Performance consequences of gender-diverse top management team’ in the Academy of Management Conference 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

7)    Mostafiz, M. I., Adomako, S., Ahsan, M., Mallon, M. & Cowden, B. (2024). Cognitive Dynamics in Entrepreneurship: The Interplay of Flexibility, Imaginativeness, and Opportunity Recognition in EURAM 2024 Conference, 25-28 June 2024 at the University of Bath School of Management, Bath, UK.

8)    Mostafiz, M. I., Ahmed, F. U., Tardios, J., Hughes, P., & Rose, E. (2023). Resource mobilisation and strategic renewal: Is data analytics capability the missing link? In The British Academy of Management Conference. The University of Sussex, Sussex, UK, 4-5 September, 2023.

9)    Mostafiz, M. I., Ahmed, F. U., Tardios, J., Hughes, P., & Tarba, S. Y. (2023, July 5). A longitudinal analysis of international entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic internationalisation capability: configurational theorising. In The Academy of International Business 2023. Warsaw, Poland.

10) Mostafiz, M. I., Hughes, M., Simeonova, B., & Sambasivan, M. (2023). Towards a configurational analysis of entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: evidence from native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms. In The Academy of International Business UK & Ireland. The University of Glasgow, 15-16 April, 2023.

11) Mostafiz, M. I., Hughes, M., Ahsan, M. (2022). The origin of International Entrepreneurial Orientation – The role of Dynamic Managerial Capability. Academy of International Business Conference - UK&I Chapter, Reading, UK, April 8-9, 2022.

12) Najaf, K., Schinckus, C., Mostafiz, M. I., & Najaf, R. (2020). Conceptualising cybersecurity risk of fintech firms and banks sustainability. In The International Conference on Business and Technology. Istanbul, Turkey: Springer Nature.

13) Mostafiz, I.M., Sambasivan, M., Hughes, M., (2020) The Configurational Analysis of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Knowledge Management, and Positional Advantage: a comparative analysis between Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurial Firms, The British Academy of Management, 2^nd – 4th September, 2020, The Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK.

14) Mostafiz, I. and Sambasivan, M. (2020), The Configurational Analysis of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Knowledge Management, and Positional Advantage: a comparative analysis between Native and Immigrant Entrepreneurial Firms. The Academy of International Business Western USA, 1^st – 3^th February, 2020, Flower School of Business, San Diego State University, California, USA.

15) Mostafiz, I., Sambasivan, M., and Goh, S. K., (2018), The role of Dynamic Managerial Capability in International Opportunity Identification: An Empirical Investigation in Emerging Economy. The Academy of International Business Western USA, 17^th – 19^th October, 2018, The University of Denver, Colorado. (Best Paper Award).

16) Mostafiz, I., Goh, S. K., (2017), International Women Entrepreneurs and International Opportunity Recognition Skill for Start-up Venture. Present at 2017 Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, 9^th – Dec, 2017. Chiang Mai, Thailand.

17) SP., Sharif and Mostafiz, I., (2016), Structural Equation Modeling in Nursing Research: A Brief Guide and Review. Presented at AASUG 20^th User Conference, 6^th – Dec. 2016. Innovative applications of Statistics, Predictive Analytics & Big Data Analytics. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

18) Jayaraman, K., Mostafiz, I. (2019), Challenges of Human Resources Leaders: A conceptualised research model. Presented at 19^th International Business Summit & Research Conference, 20^th – 22^nd February 2019, Amity University, India. (Best Paper Award).