Dr. Salem Al Abri - University of Nizwa

| April 20, 2025

Dr. Salem Al Abri
Dean, Assistant Professor
Department of Management.
College of Economics, Management and Information Systems

Telephone: (+968)(+968) 25446504

Extension: 504

eMail: salemalabri@unizwa.edu.om

Office Location: 11-H-1..

Fax: (+968)(+968) 25446485

Time at UoN: Since 2023

Marital Status: .........

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Academic Qualifications

PhD in Business, The Australian National University, Australia, 2011
Master in Organization Development, Bowling Green State University, USA, 2002
B.Sc. in Business Management, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2000

Teaching Activities

Effective Leadership
Human Resource Management
Project Management
Organizational Behavior
Business Environment
Organization Theory
Principles of Management
Introduction to Business

Research Activities

- Research Interests

Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Cross-Cultural Management

- Conference Presentations

Internationalization Speed, Geographic diversity, added cultural distance, and regularity of added cultural distance of emerging market firm, . Academy of International Business Annual Meeting 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 24-27, 2019
Evidence-based public policy making process in Oman: The case of unemployment, The 2nd MENAPAR Conference: Role of Citizens and Organizations in Co-constructing Public Action in the MENA Region, Tunisia, October 6-9, 2015
An examination of psychological ownership as a mediator between delegation and work outcomes, The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Motreal, Canada, August 6-10, 2010
Directive leadership and work outcomes: A mediated-moderated model, The European Congress of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, July 5-8, 2011
Dallah Albaraka Group: Evolution of an Arab Family Business and its Visionary Leadership, Family Business in the Arab World Conference, Sharjah, UAE, November 4-5, 2020.
Innovation Culture of SMEs in Oman: Current Practices and Future Movements, British Academy of Management Conference , UK, Aug 31 - Sept. 3, 2022
How Islamic values shape negotiator’s behavior: Empirical evidence from Oman , International Conference on Organization and Management (ICOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 22-23, 2015
Balancing exploratory and exploitative innovations: A conceptual framework for SMEs performance., British Academy of Management Conference, UK, September 2-4, 2020
Investcorp after Nemir Kirdar: Leadership succession and transformation at one of the best-known Arab investment banks, 48th International Business Research Conference, Sydney Australia, November 19-21, 2018
Making the transformation from entrepreneurial to professional management at Nafath Renewable Energy, 49th International Business Research Conference, Tokyo, Japan, December 17-18, 2018

- Publications

Article:

1. 2023 Individual and psychological factors influencing hotel employee’s work engagement: The contingent role of self-efficacy, Cogent Business & Management
2. 2023 Ethical leadership and employees’ ethical behavior: modeling the contingent role of moral identity, Business and Professional Ethics Journal
3. 2023 Mediation effect of organisational leadership on internal business environment and organisational commitment: insights from Oman. , Middle East Journal of Management
4. 2022 Inclusion and Employee engagement of non-family employees in family firms: Moderating influence of procedural justice, Journal of Family Business Management, 12(4) pp. 708-728
5. 2022 Does entrepreneurial intention for innovation at firm-level matter to achieve performance? , The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
6. 2022 Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation and Operational Performance: Influence of Informal Social Relations in Environmental Competitiveness, Quantity and Quality, 56, pp. 1223–1244
7. 2021 Game theory: Historical overview and synthesizing critique., International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies, 13(1).

Faculty Administrative Experience

2023 - Present: Acting Dean - College of Economics, Management, and Information Systems, University of Nizwa
2023 - 2023: Head of Management Department - College of Economics, Management, and Information Systems, University of Nizwa
2021 - 2022: Acting Dean - College of Business Administration, A’Sharqiyah University
2019 - 2021: Assistant Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research - College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University
2015 - 2018: Head of Management Department - College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University

Membership in Professional Bodies

2016-Present: Omani Society for Human Resource Management
2016-2019: Mixed Methods International Research Association
2013-Present: British Academy of Management
2010-2013: Academy of Management

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