Dr Shamsul Karim
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1702 328392
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Location
GB 3.14, Southend Campus
Profile
Biography
Research Grants: 2022-2025 Received £105,000 from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to study “Overcoming Barriers to Circular Supply Chain Management in Bangladesh and the Role of Digital Technologies” with Mohammad Sharfuddin Rashed (Award No: BDCS-2022-45). 2020-2024 Received £82,776 from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission to study “the role of entrepreneurial behaviour to develop a circular economy” With Mohammad Shahabuddin. (Award No: BDCA-2020-7) 2020-2025 Accelerating Women Enterprise (AWE) research project, Commissioned by European Regional Development Fund, €2,641,184.73, with multiple project members. 2015-2016 Received £15,000 from ESRC Impact Fund to study the poverty Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh as the principal investigator. 2010-2012 Received US $ 40,142 from USAID for conducting entrepreneurship research in Bangladesh in 2011, Grant No: DUNS No. 787552629 (worked as the Principal Investigator). 2010-2011 Received £40,000 for the Media Project commissioned by BIS with Professor Mark Hart 2011-2012 Received £40,500 for the Young Entrepreneurship Project commissioned by YBI (With Professor Mark Hart & Professor Jonathan Levie) 2012-2013 Received £50,000 from RBS for Youth & Gender Project (With Professor Mark Hart & Professor Susan Marlow)
Qualifications
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PhD Entrepreneurship Aston University, (2013)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Undergraduate Selector, Essex Business School, Southend Campus, University of Essex (2/10/2017 - 31/12/2024)
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Postgraduate Programmes Director, Essex Business School, University of Essex (2/10/2023 - present)
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PGT Personal Tutor, Essex Business School, University of Essex (2/10/2023 - present)
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UG Personal Tutor, Essex Business School, University of Essex (3/10/2016 - 30/4/2025)
Other academic
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Academic Adviser, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (20/12/2021 - present)
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Member, BAM Peer Review College, British Academy of Management (2/1/2023 - present)
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
A Resource-based Perspective On ICT Use And Firm Performance: A Meta-analysis Investigating The Role Of Cross Country ICT Infrastructure
33rd British Academy of Management Conference 2019: Building and Sustaining High Performance Organisations in Uncertain Times, Aston University, Birmingham, 3/9/2019
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Creating and Managing the Digital Entrepreneurial Organisation (BE253)
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Global Logistics Management (BE428)
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Research Project : Business Administration (BE932)
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Research Project - Marketing (BE933)
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Research Project - International Business and Entrepreneurship (BE934)
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Research Project - International Business and Finance (BE941)
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Research Project � Business Administration and Supply Chain Management (BE943)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Business Administration
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 12/2/2026
Degree subject: Entrepreneurship
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/3/2025
Degree subject: Entrepreneurship
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 28/8/2024
Degree subject: Entrepreneurship
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/4/2024
Degree subject: Entrepreneurship
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/6/2021
Degree subject: Entrepreneurship
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/3/2019
Publications
Journal articles (9)
Nahar, S., KARIM, MS. and Sena, V., (2026). How Do Unexpected Networks Help Female Entrepreneurs in the Global South Survive in Adverse Contexts? A Case Study of Bangladesh. Gender, Work & Organization. 33 (1), 132-163
Sena, V., Karim, S. and Ozdemir, S., (2025). Do Brands boost the impact of patents on innovation performance among innovation collaborators? Evidence from the UK. Industrial Marketing Management. 127, 74-87
Islam, N., Bhuiyan, F. and Karim, S., (2025). Sustainability Practices in SMEs: An Explorative Study on Ethnic Minority–Owned SMEs in the United Kingdom. Business Strategy and the Environment
Karim, S., Kwong, C., Shrivastava, M. and Tamvada, JP., (2023). My Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Like It: Resources, Social Norms, and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Women in an Emerging Economy. Small Business Economics: an international journal. 60 (2), 409-431
Afrahi, B., Blenkinsopp, J., Fernandez De Arroyabe Fernandez, JC. and Karim, MS., (2022). Work disengagement: A Review of the Literature. Human Resource Management Review. 32 (2), 100822-100822
Karim, MS., Nahar, S. and Demirbag, M., (2022). Resource-Based Perspective on ICT Use and Firm Performance: A Meta-analysis Investigating the Moderating Role of Cross-Country ICT Development Status. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 179, 121626-121626
Karim, MS., Sena, V. and Hart, M., (2022). Developing Entrepreneurial Career Intention in Entrepreneurial University: The Role of Counterfactual Thinking. Studies in Higher Education. 47 (5), 1023-1035
Brynin, M., Karim, M. and Zwysen, W., (2019). The value of self-employment to ethnic minorities. Work, Employment and Society. 33 (5), 846-864
Karim, MS., (2017). Counterfactual Thinking and Entrepreneurial Career Intention. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2017 (1), 15900-15900
Conferences (8)
Karim, M., Fernandez de Arroyabe, JC. and Afrahi, B., Work disengagement: a systematic review of the evidence
KARIM, MS., Rashed, MS. and Kumar, N., (2025). Institutional pressure and circular supply chain management: The mediating role of top management commitment
KARIM, S., Mohsen, K. and Ibrahim Albkhetan, (2025). Passing The Torch: The Influence of Financial Issues in Family Business Transition
KARIM, S., Abudllah, R. and Abdullah, N., (2022). Internationalization of Kuwaiti Entrepreneurship: Motives, Strategies, and Benefits
Karim, MS. and Nahar, S., (2019). Factors Influencing Business Performance of Women Entrepreneurs in SMEs in Bangladesh
Karim, M. and Kwong, C., (2019). Resource Availability, Social Norms, and the Development of Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst Women in Bangladesh
Karim, M., Afrahi, B. and Fernandez de Arroyabe, JC., (2018). Entrepreneurs' emotional disengagement from business
Afrahi, B., Karim, M. and Fernandez de Arroyabe, JC., (2018). Effect of entrepreneurs’ emotional disengagement on entrepreneurial exit strategies
Reports and Papers (3)
Hart, M., Levie, J. and Karim, M., (2012). Closing the Generational Start-up Gap’, RBS Inspiring the Enterprise, RBS Group, UK
Karim, M. and Hart, M., (2012). GEM Bangladesh Monitoring Report 2011
Marlow, S., Hart, M., Levie, J. and Karim, M., (2012). Women in Enterprise: A Different Perspective
Grants and funding
2022
Accelerating Women�s Enterprise
European Commission