Professor Dr. Falahat

Bio

Falahat holds a Doctorate in International Entrepreneurship from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and MBA in Technology Management from Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia. He has 10 years of industry experience prior entering academia. He was the director of Efficient Edge and Drywall Collection.

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Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Marketing and Management (SoMM), Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU), Malaysia. Previously, he was Chairperson of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Sustainability (CENTS) and Centre for Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility in Business (CSDCSR) at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) for 10 years. He received a certificate award for “Faculty Development in International Entrepreneurship Program” from the University of Colorado Denver, USA and he is a certified train the trainer, endorsed by Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad (PSMB), Malaysia. He has experience in conducting training for postgraduate students, academic staff, and the general public on Data analytics, Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), Research methodology, and Entrepreneurship. He has secured FRGS, TRGS from the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), and research projects from Private Pension Administrator Malaysia (PPA), MASA Policy Development Programme (MPDP), MCA Belt and Road Centre and Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) to name a few.

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Besides that, he received USM Gold Medal Award for the best Doctor of Business Administration degree in conjunction with the 45th university convocation. He is also currently supervising Ph.D. and master's students. His area of expertise/research interest includes International Business, International Entrepreneurship, Business Strategies, SMEs performance / Internationalization, Marketing Management, Born Globals, Education Management, and Data Analysis in SEM-PLS. He has published in high-impact journals such as Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (SSCI: 8.74), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (SSCI:5.8), Journal of International Management (SSCI:3.8), and International Marketing Review (SSCI: 2.9) to name a few.

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Associate Editor of RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas (Journal of Business Management), Indexed in SSCI and Scopus.

publisher: FGV´s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration
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Guest Editor:

Special Issue "Emerging Market Firm Internationalization", Sustainability. indexed in Web of Science (SSCI- Impact Factor 3.89, Scopus).

Publisher: MDPI

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Editorial board member of Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration indexed in Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus and Australia Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List

Publisher: Emerald Publishing

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Editorial board member of Middle East Journal of Management indexed in Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Publisher: INDERSCIENCE Publishers

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Editorial board member of Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review) indexed in in Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus and Australia Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List

Publisher: Carleton University

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Editorial board member of Journal for Global Business Advancement indexed in Scopus(Elsevier)

Publisher: INDERSCIENCE Publishers

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Editorial board member of Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, indexed in ESCI, Scopus (Elsevier)

Publisher: INDERSCIENCE Publishers