Dr Mahmoud Alajaty

The Department of Strategy and International Business
Lecturer in Strategy and International Business

Contact details

Email: m.alajaty@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
Department of Strategy and International Business
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Mahmoud Alajaty is a Teaching Focused Lecturer in Strategy and International Business (Flying Faculty, Dubai) in the Department of Strategy and International Business at Birmingham Business School.

Qualifications

PhD in Management

MSc in Business Management

Bachelor of Law

Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy

Biography

Mahmoud is a Teaching Focused Lecturer in Strategy and International Business (Flying Faculty, Dubai) at Birmingham Business School. He is a Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and he has extensive professional and academic experience. He started his academic career back in 2005 in executive teaching working as a Teaching Fellow in Strategic Management at a partner of a French ‘grande école’ in the Middle East. He then completed his PhD at Hull University Business School, where he also taught International Business. Before joining Birmingham Business School, Mahmoud worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield Business School where he led the MSc International Business programmes and taught various Strategy and International Business courses in the UK as well as in Hong Kong.

Publications

Dahy, K., Alajaty, M., & McElwee (2019-fothcoming), ‘Investigation of the experience immigrants’ entrepreneurs in the UK: A case study of Syrian entrepreneurs’. In: Proceedings of The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) 2019 conference. Newcastle, Northumbria and Newcastle Universities, 14-15 November 2019.

Alajaty, M. & Anchor, J. (2018), Transition Economies in the Middle East: The Syrian Experience. Post-Communist Economies, Volume 30, Issue 3, pages: 382-394.

Alajaty, M. (2017), ‘Institutional reform and FDI decision in transition economies: A qualitative study of Syria’, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages: 164-174.

Alajaty, M. (2012), ‘Managerial Perspective Towards FDI Locational Determinants in Transition Economies, Evidence from Syria’, British Academy of Management Conference (BAM 2012), Cardiff, Cardiff University.

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