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Peer-reviewed research on marketing strategy, consumer behavior, and business transformation. Academic insights translated into executive action.
Book Chapter
Sustainable Leadership for Institutional Environmental Stewardship: A Behavioral and Systems Approach for Transforming Organizations
Asif, S., Minz, N. K., & Mathur, A. · IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2026
Environmental sustainability has become a strategic priority for organizations, yet a persistent gap remains between the sustainability commitments companies state and the environmental outcomes they actually deliver. This chapter proposes Sustainable Stewardship…
Book Chapter
Reimagining Organizational Behavior Through AI-Human Synergy: Trust, Motivation, and Adaptive Leadership in Intelligent Workplaces
Asif, S., Mathur, A., & Minz, N. K. · IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2026
AI is no longer just an automation tool sitting in the background; it has become a cognitive collaborator that reshapes how teams decide, lead, and feel about their work. This chapter asks the question that algorithms alone cannot answer: how…
Conference
Bridging the Human-AI Readiness Gap in Marketing: Introducing the HACR Framework
Asif, S., & Lalwani, S. · Market Research Society of India (MRSI), 2025
As artificial intelligence spreads through marketing, the hardest obstacle is turning out to be the team, not the technology. Despite heavy investment in advanced platforms, many organisations still struggle to weave AI into everyday decisions and workflows, and…
Book Chapter
The Social Media Effect on Luxury Consumption: Redefining Consumer Behavior in the Digital Age
Asif, S. · IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2025
Luxury has always sold itself on scarcity and distance, the sense that not everyone can have it. Social media works the opposite way, putting high-end brands in front of vast audiences every day. This chapter asks what that constant visibility…
Book
Sustainability, Resilience and Enterprise: Creating an Equitable Social Ecosystem
Kaushik, T., Girotra, R., Singh, S., Asif, S., & Yadav, S. · Bloomsbury Publishing India, 2023
The United Nations’ seventeen Sustainable Development Goals set a clear destination, but reaching them inside real businesses and communities is far harder than naming them. This edited book takes that implementation gap as its starting point, asking how…
Working Paper
Study of Internet Banking Usage: Elderly vs Youth
Asif, S. · Zenodo, 2021
Internet banking has spread rapidly, but how differently do younger and older customers actually take it up, and which group finds it more useful in practice? This study addresses a gap in the research, which has rarely examined the determinants…
Book Chapter
The Role of Digital Food Marketing in Shaping Consumer Behavior and Sustainability in Emerging Economies
Asif, S. · IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2025
In emerging economies, where smartphones and online platforms are spreading quickly, food brands have gained a powerful new lever over what people eat, not only which products they buy but whether they lean towards healthier and more sustainable choices. This…
Book Chapter
AI in Strategic Talent Acquisition
Asif, S., Mathur, A., & Minz, N. K. · IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2026
Recruitment is being rebuilt around artificial intelligence, but the same systems that promise faster, fairer hiring can also entrench the very biases they are meant to remove. This chapter asks how AI can be steered to widen diversity, deepen inclusion,…
Registered Design
IoT-enabled Customer Feedback System
Bhardwaj, I., Mathur, A., Chaudhary, S., Asif, S., Virk, N. K., & Bharti, V. · Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, 2025
This entry records a registered industrial design rather than a research paper or a functional patent, and that distinction shapes how it should be read. Design registration protects the visual form of a product, its configuration, pattern, or interface…
Book
Innovate to Dominate: AI and Sustainability in Business
Asif, S., & Minz, N. K. · Book Rivers, 2025
Two forces now press on business at once: the rapid spread of artificial intelligence and allied technologies, and an urgent demand for sustainability in the face of climate change and social inequality. This edited volume sits deliberately at their intersection,…
Book Chapter
Leveraging Big Data and Predictive Analytics in Marketing Strategies
Asif, S. · Book Rivers, 2025
Marketers have never had more data about their customers, yet much of it sits unused while campaigns still run largely on intuition. This chapter asks whether predictive analytics, applied to big data, can turn that raw information into marketing decisions…
Journal
A Study of Consumer Buying Behavior for Branded Apparels in Gurgaon City
Asif, S., & Kaushik, T. · Global Journal of Advanced Research, 2017
What shapes the way people in Gurgaon buy branded clothing, and how much do promotional offers sway that decision? This study sets out to understand the buying behaviour of regular purchasers of branded apparel in the city, looking closely at…
Book Publication
Herd Consumption Behaviour of Indian Youth Towards Luxury Fashion Brands: The Mediating Role of FoMO
Indian youth are known to spend heavily on luxury branded products, often well beyond what they strictly need. This study asks why that collective splurging happens,…
Book Publication
Energy Audit Report of G.D. Goenka University
Institutional and commercial buildings consume large amounts of energy, much of it lost in ways that stay invisible without systematic measurement. Where exactly do those losses…
Book Publication
Relationship Between Personality Trait, Emotional Intelligence, and Academic Performance of University Students
Personality, emotional intelligence, and academic performance are often studied separately, but this research asks how they relate to one another, and to gender, among university students…
Book Publication
Impact of Internet of Things (IoT) on Supply Chain Management and Its Benefits in Tourism Industry
Connected devices are reshaping how industries link physical objects to digital systems, and tourism is no exception. This paper examines what the Internet of Things means…
Book Publication
Teenagers’ Attitude Towards Luxury Apparel: Gender Perspective
Do teenage boys and girls really shop differently for branded clothing, or do we simply assume that they do? This study tests that assumption directly, examining…
Book Publication
Analyzing the Role of Digital Marketing, Green Marketing, and CSR Policy in Brand Development: A Study of Retail Companies in India
How much do green marketing, corporate social responsibility, and digital marketing actually contribute to building a retail brand in India? This study takes up that question…
Book Publication
The Influence of Online Marketing on Start-ups
Plenty of research shows that online marketing shapes how startups grow, but almost all of it looks through the eyes of the companies. This study deliberately…
Book Publication
Analysis of Marketing Strategies Adopted by Travel Agencies to Promote Community-Based Tourism: A Case Study of Garhwal Region, Uttarakhand
Tourism is a major social and economic activity, but the rural communities that host much of it are social-ecological systems under growing strain from global environmental…
Book Publication
Unveiling the Dynamics of Startup Ecosystems: Key Drivers of Entrepreneurial Success
Why do some startup ecosystems consistently produce successful ventures while others struggle to gain momentum? This study tackles that question by mapping the forces that shape…
Book Publication
Exploring Trust and Security Concerns in Digital FMCG Purchases: Evidence from Indian Millennials
Online grocery and everyday-goods shopping is booming in India, yet many millennials still weigh each purchase against nagging worries about trust and security. This qualitative study…
Book Publication
Waste to Wealth: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Sustainable Waste Management
Waste is usually treated as a cost to be disposed of, yet it can also become raw material for new ventures. This paper takes that reframing…
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