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Peer-reviewed research on marketing strategy, consumer behavior, and business transformation. Academic insights translated into executive action.

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…

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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…

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Working Paper

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, proposing that the fear of missing out, or FoMO, is the underlying factor driving…

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Journal

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 occur, and which fixes return the most savings for the least capital outlay across…

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

Journal

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 drawn from different socioeconomic backgrounds. The underlying question is…

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Emotional intelligence coaching research: Dromley study links personality traits to university academic performance
Marketing strategy consulting research on how social media reshapes luxury consumer perception and buying decisions

Book Publication

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…

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

Book Publication

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…

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Best customer service in banking by age group: which benefits of online banking actually convert older customers.

Book Publication

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?…

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