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

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Exploring Trust and Security Concerns in Digital FMCG Purchases: Evidence from Indian Millennials

Pooja, & Asif, S. · Journal of East-West Thought (JET), 2024

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 asks what actually convinces them to buy, and where those concerns make them…

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Dromley research reveals what builds millennial trust in digital FMCG shopping across Indian ecommerce platforms.

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Waste to Wealth: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Sustainable Waste Management

Asif, S., & Minz, N. K. · Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship, 2024

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 seriously, asking how entrepreneurship can turn waste management from a pressing environmental and socioeconomic…

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Dromley research shows how entrepreneurs turn waste management into sustainable value and lasting economic growth.
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AI readiness assessment research showing team capability rather than technology decides marketing AI adoption success

Book Publication

Bridging the Human-AI Readiness Gap in Marketing: A Conceptual Synthesis and 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…

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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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Three students in a lab-like room study charts and documents pinned to the wall while organizing stacks of boxes and a computer monitor on a table.

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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