Dr. Ahmad Arslan is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Management and Marketing, Business School, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He has earlier worked at different universities in Finland and the UK. Dr Arslan holds Fellowships of Higher Education Academy of the UK (FHEA) and Commercial Education Society Australia (FCES). He has significant experience of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as of PhD supervision. Dr Arslan has also been involved in national level doctoral education in business administration (international business) planning and management in the capacity of being a board member of Finnish Graduate School of International Business (FIGSIB). Moreover, he has been involved in degree programs quality evaluation and accreditation as an external (international) evaluator.
Dr Arslan has multidisciplinary research interests within large field of management and his earlier research has been published in prestigious academic journals including British Journal of Management, European Management Journal, Human Resource Management (US), Human Resource Management Review, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Management International Review, Public Management Review, Supply Chain Management, Technovation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and The International Journal of Human Resource Management, among others. He has received several academic awards over the years including Best Reviewer award for 2024 (British Journal of Management), and several Emerald literati awards for both reviewing as well as publishing. Finally, he has been active in editorial roles including being Senior Editor, Associate Editor, Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member of different well-ranked academic journals.
Ph.D., Economics & Business Administration, University of Vaasa, Finland, 2011.
Agility & Resilience, Entrepreneurship, International Business, and Innovation & Technology Management
Forthcoming. “Knowledge management, operational resilience and export performance: moderating roles of strategic flexibility and maturity of digital transformation in emerging markets”, International Marketing Review. Emerald. Ahead of print available online at https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-10-2024-0389
2026. “The role played by trust in reverse knowledge transfer: the case of a Chinese acquisition in the UK”, Multinational Business Review, 34:1, 116-140. Emerald. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-02-2025-0051
2026. “AI for the underdogs: Navigating risk and growth in high-tech micro-firms through generative artificial intelligence”, Journal of Strategy & Innovation, 37:1, 200566. Elsevier. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsinno.2026.200566
2025. “Revalorization, frugal innovation, and circularity: A qualitative exploration of African used automotive parts business”, Technovation, 144, 103231. Elsevier. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103231
2025. “Confronting and alleviating AI resistance in the workplace: An integrative review and a process framework”. Human Resource Management Review, 35:2, 101075. Elsevier Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2024.101075
2025. “The impact of digitalization and virtualization on technology transfer in strategic collaborative partnerships”. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 50, 399-416. Springer (AJG-3), Available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10961-024-10158-7
2025. “The role of marketing agility and risk propensity in resilience and survival of Eastern European immigrant entrepreneurs in Denmark”, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 31:2/3, 498-530. Emerald https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-03-2022-0214
2025. “Leadership, knowledge management capability (KMC) and process innovation in African SMEs during and after the crisis”, Journal of Knowledge Management, 29:5, 1708-1729. Emerald. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-10-2024-1263
2025. “Understanding management educators’ perspectives on AI adoption: A qualitative study”, The International Journal of Management Education, 23:3, 101274. Elsevier. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2025.101274
Detailed list of publications is available at the Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TE-PiNgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
