AKM Shahidullah

AKM Shahidullah

Associate Professor

Program: Business Administration

Phone: (709) 639-2704

Email: ashahidullah@mun.ca

Office: AS 2024

 

Credentials

BSc (Hons), MBA (Dhaka University), MNRM, PhD (Manitoba)

 

Research Interests

I do research on community-based entrepreneurship. My research focuses on socially responsible and ecologically sustainable aspects of community-based enterprises (CBEs). Most research works seek to answer why micro, small, and medium enterprises are crucial to community-level sustainability, and suggest how to practice them in the Anthropocene. For my research, I worked with communities in Canada, India, and Bangladesh. I am also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), UK, in the Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries program. I am open to supervising doctoral research (in the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy) of aspirant scholars.

 

Teaching

I teach in the area of Entrepreneurship and Strategy. Frequently taught courses are: Strategic Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Development, Innovation Management, and International Business.

 

Representative scholarly contributions

Selected Publications (past 5 year):

Journal Article

  1. Choudhury, M., Wu, H., & Shahidullah, A. K. M. (2024). Improving the feedback loop between community‐and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh. Sustainable Development, 32(2), 1508-1524. DOI: 10.1002/sd.2686
  2. Shahidullah, A. K. M. (2023). ‘Community-based adaptive entrepreneurship’ addressing climate and ecosystem changes: evidence from a riparian area in Bangladesh. Climate Risk Management, 41, 100543.
  3. Shahidullah, A. K. M., Islam, A. & Rahman, M. (2023). Knowledge, attitude, and practice of pesticide use by vegetable growers in Bangladesh: a health literacy perspective in relation to non-communicable diseases. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems,7, 1199871.

 

Book Chapter

  1. Shahidullah, AKM, Mahbuba-Noor, E, & Esha Husain (2024). Gender and Family Health: The Role of Women in the Production and Consumption of Vegetables, Healthy Dietary Practices, and NCD Risk Reduction. In Haque, C.E., Ahsan, G.U., and Anisul Islam (Eds) Red Alert! Non-Communicable Diseases, Dietary Habits and Lifestyle in Bangladesh (pp107-123). Dhaka: Universal Press Limited 
  2. Shahidullah, AKM, Islam, A, & Emdad Haque (2024). Designing and Implementing a Transdisciplinary Research Methodology: The Case of an International Collaborative Project on Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Risk Factors in Bangladesh. In Haque, C.E., Ahsan, G.U., and Anisul Islam (Eds) Red Alert! Non-Communicable Diseases, Dietary Habits and Lifestyle in Bangladesh (pp 27-49). Dhaka: Universal Press Limited 

 

Current research projects and grants

1. Project Title and Role: Economic Resilience of Fishing Community: Potentials of NGO-Cooperative Collaboration and Value Chain Intervention; PI

Funding Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)/ Insights Development Grants

Amount and Duration: C$ 57,790; 2025-2028

 

2. Project Title and Role: Two-Eyed Seeing for climate-related disaster risk reduction, decolonizing science, and strengthening community resilience; Collaborator

Funding Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)/ Insights Grants

Amount and Duration: C$ 337,068; 2023-2027

  

3. Title and Role: President Choice Investment Fund; Supervisor/Co-Applicant

Funding Source: Memorial University of Newfoundland

Amount and Duration: 30,500; 2024-2027

 

Memberships and affiliations

  • Member, Community-Based Resource Management Network, Brussels, 2014-
  • Member, Social Entrepreneurship Research Network, Brussels, 2013-
  • Member, Ecosystem Services Partnerships, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012-
  • Member, Bangladesh Network for Environmental Governance (BNEG), 2010-
  • Member, MBA Association of Bangladesh, 1998-present

 

Honours, graduate and post-graduate supervision

1. R. Pervez,    Masters; Topic: Community economic resilience, 2024-  

2. S. Karketta,  PhD; Sustainable agricultural financing, 2023-

3. C. Akomaye, PhD; Circular Economy into Green Hydrogen Sector, 2024-

4. G. O. Baah,  PhD; Consumer perspective towards organic agriculture, 2023-24

5. M. C Ghani, Masters; Municipal Waste Management,

2021-22

6. D. Nakib,     PhD ; Immigrant Entrepreneurship, 2019-21

7. N. Joshi,       MSc;  Eco-Tourism in Nepal: Towards a sustainable model,  2019-20  

8. C. Hedge, MSc; Healthcare Management Services in New South Wales, 2020-21