Staff Profile
I joined Newcastle business school in 2021. My research is focused on decolonial theory and the impact of technology on improving business-society relations.
I have been involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses including research methods, business analytics and digital business strategy etc.
Education:
- Postdoctoral (research) from HEC Liege, Belgium
- PhD (Organizational Behavior) from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
- MBA from Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany
- BE (Electronics) from National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan
I am interested in the following research areas:
- Decolonizing management and organization knowledge, especially from an Islamic perspective
- Potential and problems of workplace spirituality
- Impact of new digital technologies on the relationship between businesses & society
BUS2018 - Research methods
BUS3062 - Corporate communication & social media
NBS8045 - International business environment
NBS8268 - Quantitative methods for business research
NBS8289 - Research methods
NBS8327 - Research methods for international business management
- Abid M, Bothello J, Ul-Haq S, Ahmadsimab A. The morality of informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets. Organization Studies 2022, Epub ahead of print.
- Jammulamadaka N, Ul-Haq S, ed. Managing the Post-Colony: Ways of Managing, Organising and Living: Focus on South Asia. Singapore: Springer, 2022.
- Ul-Haq S, Lone RA, Ashraf N. A theory of capitalist co-optation of radical alternatives: The case of Islamic banking industry. Organization 2022, 29(1), 129-154.
- Ul-Haq S. Reversing the colonial warp in education: A decolonial encounter with Muhammad Iqbal. Higher Education 2022, 84, 399-414.
- Butt I, Ul-Haq S, Shareef MA, Chowdhury AH, Ahmed JU. Ethical reputation and retail bank selection: A sequential exploratory mixed-methods study in an emerging economy. International Journal of Bank Marketing 2022, Epub ahead of print.
- Ul-Haq Shoaib. Emancipation as submission: Muhammad Iqbal, storytelling, and critical theory. In: Alakavuklar, Ozan Barros, Amon Peredo, Ana Maria, ed. Business Storytelling and Postcolonialism. London: World Scientific Publishing, 2021. Submitted.
- Ul-Haq Shoaib, Westwood Robert. The politics of knowledge, epistemological occlusion and Islamic management and organization knowledge. Organization 2012, 19(2), 229-257.
- Ul-Haq S, Khan FR. A sufi view of human transformation and its organizational implications. In: Neal, Judith A, ed. Handbook of Personal and Organizational Transformation. Cham: Springer, 2018, pp.833-865.
- Bashir Mohsin, Ul-Haq S. Why madrassah education reforms don’t work in Pakistan. Third World Quarterly 2019, 40(3), 595-611.
- Ashraf N, Pinkse J, Ahmadsimab A, Ul-Haq S, Badar K. Divide and rule: The effects of diversity and network structure on a firm's sustainability performance. Long Range Planning 2019, 52(6), 101880.
- Ul-Haq S. Is the spirit 'missing' in the discourse of management, spirituality and religion?. In: Smith, Jaye Goosby, ed. Blessed are Those Who Ask the Questions: What Should we be Asking About Management, Leadership, Spirituality, and Religion in Organizations?. Information Age Publishing, 2021.
- Ul-Haq Shoaib. Spiritual development and meaningful work: A Habermasian critique. Human Resource Development International 2020, 23(2), 125-154.