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Prof. Rakesh Belwal
Biography
Professor Rakesh Belwal has been working in the Faculty of Business for the past 15 years. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the UQ Business School of the University of Queensland, Australia. He is specialized in Marketing and Electronic Business and has earned Prince2® and ITIL® 4 Professional certifications. Professor Rakesh has wide experience in teaching and training at different universities in India, Ethiopia, and Oman and has served the faculty as Acting Dean. He has published widely in journals and has won highly competitive research grants and consultancy projects. His research experience of conducting large-scale surveys in Oman concerning people’s perception of public transport, hypermarkets, fishermen’s training needs analysis, and perception of working women towards work-life balance has given impetus to research in the local context.
Qualification
- Ph.D. in E-Commerce, Kumaun University, India, 2004.
- Masters in Economics, Kumaun University, India, 2001.
- PGDBA (Mktg. & MIS), Jaipuria Institute of Management, India 1998.
- Bachelors in Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Kumaun University, India, 1993.
Teaching Interest
- Marketing Management
- Public Relations
- Research Methods
- Operations Research
- Electronic Business
- Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
Research Interest
- Electronic business
- Consumer behaviour
- Services Marketing
- Retail Marketing
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business
- Women in Business
- Tourism & Hospitality
Publications
- Belwal, R., Hoque, S. M. S., & Belwal, S. (2022). Mobile phone usage behavior: A longitudnal study of university students in Oman. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, e12219.
- Nautiyal, N., Belwal S., and Belwal R. (2022), “Assessment, Interaction and the Transmission Process of Twin Deficit Hypothesis: Fresh Evidence from India,” Business Perspectives and Research, pp. 1–18. DOI: 10.1177/22785337211070378.
- Jain, N., Le Sante, D., Viswesvaran, C. and Belwal, R. (2021), “Incongruent influences: joint effects on the job attitudes of employees with psychological contract breach in the MENA region”, Review of International Business and Strategy, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.
- Belwal, R., Al Shibli, R. and Belwal, S. (2021), “Consumer protection and electronic commerce in the Sultanate of Oman”, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 38-60.
- Belwal, S., Belwal, R., Chhetri, A. (2020), Entrepreneurial intention and its antecedents: A study of undergraduate students in the Uttarakhand state of India, accepted for publication in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience.
- Belwal, R., Belwal, S., Sufian, A.B. and Al Badi, A. (2020), “Project-based learning (PBL): outcomes of students’ engagement in an external consultancy project in Oman”, Education + Training, Vol. 63 No. 3, pp. 336-359.
- Belwal S., Belwal, R., and Hashemi, S., (2019). Family-Friendly Policies and the Omani Labour Law: What it entails for women employees in Oman, Employee Relations, Pre-print available at https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ER-09-2018-0245/full/html
- Belwal, R. and Amireh, M. (2018). Service Quality and Attitudinal Loyalty: Consumers’ perception of two major telecommunication companies in Oman, Arab Economic & Business Journal, 13(2), 197-208. www.elsevier.com/locate/aebj ISSN: 2214-4625.
- Belwal, R. and Maqbali A. (2018). A study of customers’ perception of Islamic banking in Oman, Journal of Islamic Marketing, 10(1), 150-167. DOI: 10.1108/JIMA-02-2016-0008.
- Kumar, S., Belwal, R., Raina, K. (2019). Decision-Making Styles of Young Indian Consumers in the Context of Online Shopping, International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising, 13(3), 253-270. DOI: 10.1504/IJIMA.2019.10023439