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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…

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Food security and the sustainable development goals: how enterprises deliver energy, health and risk outcomes.

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…

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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…

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AI readiness assessment research showing team capability rather than technology decides marketing AI adoption success

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…

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Marketing strategy consulting research on how social media reshapes luxury consumer perception and buying decisions

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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…

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Food security and the sustainable development goals: how enterprises deliver energy, health and risk outcomes.
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Book Publication

Herd Consumption Behaviour of Indian Youth Towards Luxury Fashion Brands: The Mediating Role of FoMO

Asif, S. · Zenodo, 2020

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,…

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Energy audit consulting research on institutional building efficiency and sustainability performance, Dromley

Book Publication

Energy Audit Report of G.D. Goenka University

Asif, S., Sharma, P., & Gorakhnath, I. · Central European Management Journal, 2022

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…

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Emotional intelligence coaching research: Dromley study links personality traits to university academic performance

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Relationship Between Personality Trait, Emotional Intelligence, and Academic Performance of University Students

Asif, S., Gorakhnath, I., & Sharma, P. · Elementary Education Online, 2021

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…

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