Guru Prabhakar
Senior Lecturer - FBL
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
University of West of England
United Kingdom
Biography
Guru has coined the term and has authored the concept of 'Switch Leadership' in projects and organizations. During his Ph.D. studies at École supérieure de commerce (ESC), Grande École (France) in the field of Project Management, he was the winner of the Student Paper of the Year Award 2005 at PMI's Congress in Toronto, Canada and also received the 1st Prize for the best student research paper in 'pmdays 2004' at Vienna, Austria. As a student, Guru won the Director's Gold Medal for best academic achievement in the undergraduate studies. Dr. Prabhakar is currently the Module Leader of the final year undergrad Project Management Module. He specialises in supervising Master's level dissertations in Management.​ Ph.D., École Supérieure de commerce (ESC), Lille and Paris.
Research Interest
Project Management Operations Management Information Management
Publications
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Yang J, Nisar T, Prabhakar GP. Critical success factors for build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects in China. Irish Journal of Management. 2017.
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Al-Ghamdi D, Nisar T, Prabhakar G. Crowdsourcing, co-creation and crowdfunding in the video-game industry.
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Nisar TM, Prabhakar G. What factors determine e-satisfaction and consumer spending in e-commerce retailing?. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 2017 Nov 1;39:135-44.
