Professor Pushkar Jha profile

Pushkar Jha

Professor of Strategic Management

Professor

Department of Innovation and Management , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law

Pushkar is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law. He joined the RDSBL with a mandate to support the strong momentum towards becoming a research-led institution. His research spans areas of strategic learning, innovation, sustainable development, employee ownership and management of projects.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Strategic Management) City University of London, UK
  • MPhil (Data Modelling) Newcastle University, UK
  • PGDRM (eq. MBA) IRMA, India
Professor Pushkar Jha profile

OVERVIEW

With a PhD from Cass (now Bayes) Business School in 2007, he has since published in Research Policy, R&D Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, World Development Perspectives, European Management Review, European Business Review, and in the International Journal of Project Management, among others. His co-authored paper in the Academy of Management Perspectives was recognised at one of the highest platforms in the field, winning the best-published paper award at the Academy of Management annual meeting. He has also received the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) award for the 2nd best paper of five winning articles. His research with the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and for John Lewis Partnerships has been widely recognised as the drivers behind the UK national government policy to promote employee-owned businesses. Pushkar’s portfolio of prior business engagement and policy-influencing research includes studies for the International Chambers of Commerce and EMI. Pushkar remains keen to expand his engagement with sustainability initiatives and research that can inform and orient policy in practice in this direction. He has coordinated, designed and delivered project studies for initiatives of the World Bank and the UNFPA in the past and continues to deploy this domain in informing his research work.

Till early 2024, while at Northumbria University as the faculty director of Post Graduate Research, he was also the Northumbria Principal Investigator / University Lead for the UKRI- OfS funded BAME project. In his tenure at Northumbria, Pushkar has carried out crucial prior roles such as the director of learning and teaching, research and innovation champion, and subject group leader. Over the years, he has led the development and execution of several successful initiatives directed at research and teaching capability enhancements, including a redesign of UG and PG teaching programmes in the past. With several doctoral completions as principal supervisor, he is actively seeking suitable candidates for projects that bring together innovation, strategy, and sustainable development.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Selected Research Outputs

  • Jha, P.P. (forthcoming 2024) Development Disparity & Attainment Discrepancy: A return Migration Context (Accepted/In press). In: Academic Journal of Politics and Public Administration.
  • Jha, P.P. & Banerjee A. (2023) "Contextual applications of AI: getting it right for managing programmes". International conference on business management and social innovation. 26 November.
  • Jha, P.P. & Cottam, E. (2021) Embeddedness of Inter-Firm Ties and Knowledge Creation. European Management Review 18(3): 215-227.
  • Grant, D., Jha, P.P, Wanjiru, R. & Bhalla, A. (2020) Evolving willingness and ability interfaces: An innovation led transformation journey. International Journal of Innovation Studies 4(3): 69-75.
  • Jha, P.P. & Lorraine, J. (2020). Odd Couple Collaborations and Making them Tick! European Business Review.  DOI (10.1108/EBR-08-2018-0138).
  • Jha, P.P. & Bhalla A. (2018). Life of a PAI: Mediation by willingness and ability for beneficiary community engagement. World Development-Perspectives 9: 27-34.
  • Lampel, J. & Jha, P. P. (2017). Inertia, aspirations, and response to attainment discrepancy in design contests. R&D Management 47(4): 557-569.
  • Dosanjh, N. & Jha, P. P. (2016). Shaping solutions from learnings in PAIs: a blueprint. The Learning Organization 23(6): 387-397.
  • Jha P.P.& Lampel J. (2014) Performance Feedback, Competitive Repertoire Simplicity, and Technological Evolution in a Design Contest, Research Policy  43 (2): 403-413.
  • Lampel J., Bhalla A. & Jha P.P. (2014). Does Governance Confer Organisational Resilience? Evidence from UK Employee-Owned Businesses. European Management Journal 32(1): 66-72.
  • Jha, P. P. (2014). Ingenuity and Systematic Innovation in Poverty Alleviation Initiatives. JJBR, SAGE Publications 2(1): 59-65.
  • Lampel J. & Jha P.P. & Bhalla A. (2012). Test driving the Future. How Design Competitions are Changing Innovation. Academy of Management Perspectives 26 (2): 71-85.  [Best paper Academy of Management Perspectives, AOM 2013; CMI 2013/2014, Best Articles of the year, 2nd position].
  • Genus A. & Jha P.P. (2012). The Role of Inertia in Explanations of Project Performance: A Framework and Evidence from Project-Based Organizations. International Journal of Project Management 30 (1): 117-126.
  • Lampel J. Bhalla A. & Jha P.P. (2012). The Employee-Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does It Hold Up? European Business Review July- August: 20-23.
  • Jha, P.P. Montague, G., Glassey, J., & Mohan, P. (2003). Product Cost Management Structures: a review and neural network modelling. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 11(1).
  • 2014:   Are employee-owned firms more resilient in the long-term? Inter-institutional Policy Research in collaboration with Cass Business School. http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/208010/Cass-EOB-research-Press-Release-2014.pdf The study was released on January 14, 2014, at a symposium looking at Employee ownership in 21st century. The symposium was organised in partnership with the EOA, and RT Hon Danny Alexander MP, UK Treasury Secretary, delivered the keynote speech.
  • 2012:  The Employee Ownership Advantage: Benefits and Consequences, London: UK Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
  • 2010: Model Growth: Do employee-owned businesses deliver sustainable performance? (Also, on Times Online) http://www.employeeownership.co.uk/press-item.asp?nID=20. Launched at the House of Commons, policy symposium and quoted by the Deputy PM in EO policy launch – fundamental basis for the Nutall Review that saw the UK government pump over £150m in promoting Employee Ownership, and deliver a policy shift of tax relief and process simplification for transforming to EO form of business.
  • 2008: Intellectual Property Rights and Industry Evolution: The Case of the Recorded Music Industry (DIME) https://www.dime-eu.org/files/active/0/Lampel-Bhalla-Jha-%20AB.pdf
  • 2007: BASCAP Counterfeiting & Piracy Index, International Chambers of Commerce (ICC), Paris; keywords: Intellectual Property. The results of this survey were disseminated globally in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other international and national publications.
  • 2006: Back to the Digital Future: The Role of Copyrights in Sustaining Creativity and Diversity in the Music Industry, Response to Lord Gowers Review (by invitation), London; sponsored by: EMI Music; keywords: Intellectual Property.
  • 2020: A perspective on migration and community engagement in Smart Cities. In Smart Cities—Opportunities and Challenges Springer, Singapore, pp.521-526.
  • 2008: Knowledge Integration and Resource Selection in the UK Film Industry. In: Scarborough, H, ed. The Evolution of Business Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.137-160.
  • 2006: De nouvelles figures du projet en management Collection. In: Olivier GERMAIN, ed. Gestion en liberté.
  • 2004: Models of Project Orientation in Multi-Project Organizations. In: Pinto, JK; Morris, PWG, ed. The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects. New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons, pp.223-236.
  • Jha PP  (with Iqbal MA) "Communities and Smart Cities". In: Smart Cities, Opportunities and Challenges International Conference on Migration, Diaspora and Nation Building: Opportunities and Challenges Organized by UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, JMI, New Delhi UK 7-8  March 2018.
  • Jha PP (Chair, Panellist, Presenter) "Urban Regeneration under the Smart Cities Mission (Programme) & implications for diffusion of migration flows. Migration and Diasporas Emerging Diversities and Development Challenges". International Migration: Policy Challenges 22-24 March 2017.
  • Jha PP (Panelist, Presenter) "Return Migration: revisiting logics and Consequences". GFRDT: International conference on Global Migration: Rethinking Skills Knowledge and Culture, 24-26 November 2016.
  • Jha PP (with J. Lampel and A. Banerjee): Accepted for full presentation (double blind review). To Innovate You Must Anticipate: Performance and Design Change in Winner-take-all Tournaments” (347) From Science to Society: Innovation and Value Creation Cambridge: 3 – 6 July 2016.
  • Jha PP (with Dosanjh N): Accepted for publishing in proceedings (double blind review) Poverty Alleviation Intervention (PAIs): A Solution to Inclusiveness through 'SOLVER' Portal National Conference on Changing Organizations through Strategic, Technological, Structural and Behavioral Interventions '(Under UGC SAP DRS I)', New Delhi, Feb-March 2016.
  • Jha PP (Panelist) Organizational ingenuity or systematic innovation: What is relevant in the present Indian economic context? Indian Academy of Management at IIM Ahmedabad [December 2013].
  • Lampel J., Jha PP Performance Feedback aspirations and inertia Performance Feedback, Aspirations, and Inertia in Team Based Learning. 2012, Academy of Management Meeting, Boston.
  • Jha PP.  Improvisation in conditions of Impoverishment:  Playing ‘catch up’ with Ingenuity in the Voluntary Sector. Conference: Organizational Ingenuity under Institutional Constraints'. 2011,  McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business, Burlington Ontario, Canada.
  • Lampel J., Bhalla A., Jha PP. Show and Play: Trade Fairs and Challenge Competitions. The 3rd Annual Copenhagen Conference on Partnerships. 2009, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
  • Jha PP., Lampel J., Bhalla A. Intellectual Property Rights and Industry Evolution: The Case of the Recorded Music Industry. The Creative Industries and Intellectual Property: DIME International Conference. 2008, London, UK.
  • Jha PP., Lampel J. Strategic Learning in Technology Design Contests. BPS track at the Academy of Management Meeting. 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Jha PP., Lampel J. Strategic Learning. European Group for Organisation Studies (EGOS). 2005, Berlin, Germany.
  • Lampel J., Jha PP. To Talk the Talk You Must Walk the Walk, Linguistic Communities in Post-merger Integration, in: Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities (OKLC). 2004, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Lampel J., Morris PWG., Jha PP., Loch I. Projects & the Organization: A Strategic Learning Interface. OKLC. 2003, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Jha PP., Glassey J., Montague G., Mohan P. Product Cost Modelling Review of Process Issues & Potentials in application of Data Modelling Techniques. International ICSC-NAISO Congress on Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications. 2001, Bangor, Wales, UK.

External Engagements

  • External Examiner: Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School – Global MBA Programme. Also, with several Universities (Sheffield, UK, Manipal India)  as external on doctoral examinations.
  • Visiting/ Guest faculty positions over 2018-2023:  Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School; Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak India.
  • Academic Scholar:  Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism  (GRFDT)– 2017 – till date. Consortium of researchers and policymakers drawn from Asia, Gulf, Africa, US, Europe, Australia, and the Caribbean. Focusing specifically on issues related to migration, diaspora, and transnationalism.

TEACHING

Teaching and Supervision areas:

  • Strategic Management
  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Innovation, and
  • Poverty Alleviation contexts

Publications

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