Dr Md Imtiaz Mostafiz

I am the Deputy Associate Dean of Research Excellence and the Co-lead of the UoA-17 – REF 2029, and Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business at the University of Leicester Business School, University of Leicester, UK. I am honoured to have received the Global Talent Award from the British Academy. I am a Peer Review College Member of the Economics and Social Research Council – UK Research and Innovation. I am also the Chair of the Entrepreneurship Track at the British Academy of Management.

I have several publications in top-tier journals in international business and marketing, including the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Ethics, British Journal of Management, International Marketing Review, R&D Management, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, International Business Review, and many more. I won the ‘Best Reviewer Award’ from the Journal of World Business and the Best Conference Paper Awards from the Academy of International Business, the British Academy of Management, etc.



Editorial Roles

1. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behavior and Research (Co-Editor)
2. International Marketing Review (Associate Editor)

Dr Imtiaz's research expertise lies in International Business and Strategy and their intersection with Entrepreneurship and Management. He primarily focuses on early internationalization, cognition, strategic capabilities (firm and individual level), innovation, entrepreneurial behaviour in international market in the international 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.
 

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Editorial Roles

1. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behavior and Research (Co Editor)  
2. International Marketing Review (Associate Editor)  
3. Canadian Journal of Administrative Science (Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue)
4. Information Systems Frontiers (Guest Editor of Special Issue)
5. Industrial Marketing Management (Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue)
6. Entrepreneurship Research Journal (Editorial Review Board)
7. Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (Editorial Review Board)

Scholarly Publications

International Business, Management, and Marketing

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.

Strategic Management

19. Mostafiz, M. I., Gali, N., Ahmed, F. U., Hughes, M. and Simeonova, B. (2026). Generative Artificial Intelligence and Ethicality in Entrepreneurs’ Creativity. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-20.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.

Current PhD Students

1. Generative Artificial Intelligence and Opportunity Biases: The Role of RICH and Heuristics – Ummul Adrita Wara
2. Entrepreneurial Activities in an Unprecedented Space – Is Mindfulness the Key to Resilience? - Brigadier General Ashraful Qader

 

 

Chairs, Keynotes, Trainings, and Talks

1) Program and Track Chair: Global Marketing Conference – Tokyo, Japan.
2) Co-Chair – British Academy of Management Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Conference - University of Leicester, July 2026.
3) Developing a Special Issue Proposal – University of Leicester, July 2026.
4) Strategic Management Masterclass – Bank University, Vietnam, May 2026
5) Keynote: “Innovation in Disruptive Times” at 6th International Conference on Business, Economics & Management (iCBEM-26), Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan, January 2026.
6) Keynote and Doctoral Co-Chair: 8th Entrepreneurship for Sustainability and Impact 2025, Qatar University, Qatar, 8th – 11th November, 2025.
7) Quantitative Research for Qualitative Researchers, University of Hull, July 2025
8) Career After PhD, June 2025, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
9) Training: Write it Right: The HOW of an outstanding PhD Proposal, June 2025, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
10) Keynote: Mastering the Art of Publication – June 2025, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
11) Keynote: International Research Seminar Crafting Research for High-Impact Publishing, May 14-15, 2025 - Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management, France.
12) Conference Chair: The British Academy of Management ENTR SIG Conference 2024 at University of Leicester, UK.
13) Conference Track Committee: The California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference - San Diego State University, USA.
14) Conference Session Chair: The British Academy of Management Annual Conference 2024 at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
15) Conference Session Chair: The British Academy of Management Annual Conference 2023 at University of Sussex, UK.
16) Keynote: Innovation in Technology at International Research Conference Xplore 2024, May 10-11, 2024, University of Lahore, Pakistan.
17) Paper development workshop: publishing in top tier journal at International Research Conference Xplore 2024, May 10-11, 2024. University of Lahore, Pakistan.
18) Keynote: Research Opportunities and Career in the UK. In 1st International Online Research Methodology Workshop in Humanities and Social Sciences. India: Parul University.
19) FsQCA in Management Research. (2020), Business, Law and Management at the Post-Pandemic Era: An International e-Conference, 10th – 11th July, 2020, Taylor’s Business School, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xL2VOGfdI&t=33s
20) Keynote: Configurations of entrepreneurial orientation, knowledge management, and positional advantage: comparing native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms, 25th 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., Musteen, M. & Fernhaber, S. (2026). ‘Artificial Intelligence and decision-making’ in the Academy of International Business Conference at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
2) Adrita, U.W., & Mostafiz, M. I. (2026). ‘Generative AI-generated Knowledge and Its Application in the Business Domain: A Literature Review’ in the British Academy of Management Conference 2025 at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
3) Mostafiz, M. I., & Ahmed, F.U. (2026). ‘Caught Between Pressure and Principle: Ethical Dilemmas in New Product Promotion’ in the British Academy of Management Conference 2025 at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
4) 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.
5) 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. (Best Paper Award – 1st runner-up)
6) 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.
7) 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.
8) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) 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 internationalization capability: configurational theorizing. In The Academy of International Business 2023. Warsaw, Poland.
13) 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.
14) 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.
15) Najaf, K., Schinckus, C., Mostafiz, M. I., & Najaf, R. (2020). Conceptualizing cybersecurity risk of fintech firms and bank sustainability. In The International Conference on Business and Technology. Istanbul, Turkey: Springer Nature.
16) 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, 2nd – 4th September, 2020, The Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK.
17) 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, 1st – 3th February, 2020, Flower School of Business, San Diego State University, California, USA.
18) 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, 17th – 19th October, 2018, The University of Denver, Colorado. (Best Student Paper Award).
19) Mostafiz, I., Goh, S. K. (2017), International Women Entrepreneurs and International Opportunity Recognition Skill for Start-up Venture. Present at the Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, 9th – Dec, 2017. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
20) SP., Sharif and Mostafiz, M. I. (2016), Structural Equation Modeling in Nursing Research: A Brief Guide and Review. Presented at AASUG 20th User Conference, 6th – Dec. 2016. Innovative applications of Statistics, Predictive Analytics & Big Data Analytics. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
21) Jayaraman, K., Mostafiz, I. (2019), Challenges of Human Resources Leaders: A conceptualized research model. Presented at 19th International Business Summit & Research Conference, 20th – 22nd February 2019, Amity University, India. (Best Paper Award).