A Novel Methodology for Empirical Research in Operations Management: An Application in Water Management Innovation” by Dr. Arash Azadegan, Associate Professor, Rutgers Business School, NJ, U.S.A.

The Faculty of Business Administration (FBA), AIUB has organized an Online Research Training Session in response to the call of the Honorable Vice Chancellor of American International University-Bangladesh, Dr. Carmen Z. Lamagna named as ‘Socially Distanced; Intellectually Engaged’. The resource speaker was Dr. Arash Azadegan, Associate Professor and Director, Supply Chain Management MBA Concentration and Supply Chain Disruption Research Laboratory, Rutgers Business School, NJ, USA. The session was entitled “Qualitative Comparative Analysis – A Novel Methodology for Empirical Research in Operations Management: An Application in Water Management Innovation” on Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 11:00 am. His research focuses on Supply Chain Disruptions, and the Effect of Inter-organizational Response and Recovery Effort to mitigate them. Dr. Azadegan’s works is published in several top Operation/Supply Chain Management journals including the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management Journal, and the Decision Sciences Journal among others. The session was participated by FBA  faculty members of FBA and also joined by the Prof. Dr. Charles C. Villanueva, Vice President (Academics), and Dean, FBA, and Prof. Dr. Nisar Ahmed, Director, MBA Program, who shared their Vote of Encouragement to the resource speaker, participants and the organizers of the session. The session was coordinated and hosted by Mr. Mohammad Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, FBA. This faculty development program is conceptualized and structured by Dr. Rezbin Nahar, Associate Professor, and Ms. Anisa Sultana, Senior Assistant Professor from the Department of Management and HRM, FBA. The technical support is provided by Mr. Mehzabul Hoque Nahid, Assistant Professor, Department of Management Information System (MIS), FBA, AIUB.