Scaling social impact in women-led social enterprises in developing countries: a knowledge-based perspective Available to Purchase

Nusrat Hafiz is a PhD candidate at Putra Business School, Universiti Putra Malaysia (AACSB-Accredited), Malaysia. She is serving as a lecturer at BRAC Business School, BRAC University, Bangladesh. She is also the facilitator of the women entrepreneurship program “Venture Maestras”. She has been a former Advisor to IABC Club. She served top multinational companies such as Standard Chartered Bank and Robi Axiata Ltd prior her teaching career. She obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from North South University, Bangladesh. Her publications are published or accepted in prestigious journals that are indexed in Scopus, ISI and ABDC. She has presented numerous papers at international conferences and awarded various research grants. She appeared as the Session Chair at a recent international conference too. Her research interest includes organizational sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship in emerging nations, strategic management, socioeconomic development for minorities.

Md. Fazla Mohiuddin is a PhD candidate at Putra Business School, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also a lecturer at BRAC Business School, BRAC University, Bangladesh. He obtained his MSc Business Administration from Linkoping University, Sweden, in Strategic Management in International Organization. His publications appear in journals such as Marketing Theory and Practice, South Asian Journal of Business Studies, Law and Development Review among others. His research interest includes service marketing, strategic management, third sector marketing, and innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainable poverty reduction.

Ts. Dr Ahmad Shaharudin Abdul Latiff is a senior lecturer at the Putra Business School, where he teaches postgraduate students. He holds a PhD degree in Information Technology and is a professional technologist registered with the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT). His area of research includes information technology, entrepreneurship and knowledge management. Before his academic career, he worked as CEO/Executive Director and financial controller for many years in the banking, corporate sectors and the ICT industry.

Ida Md Yasin is a senior lecturer at Putra Business School, Malaysia. Her current research publications are on social enterprises, micro-finance, cross-cultural management and behavioral economics. Ida obtained her doctoral degree in quality and productivity improvement, and her master's degree and bachelor's degree in economics. Prior to joining academia, she served the Malaysian government, particularly Malaysia Productivity Corporation for 24 years, and she was a registered country expert with the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) in Tokyo.

Dr Sazali Abd Wahab serving as a Professor of Management and Organizational Sustainability at Putra Business School (PBS). He has written more than 100 academic publications, including 18 academic books and various book chapters, mainly focusing on organizational sustainability, sustainable organization performance, inter-firm technology transfer, international joint ventures, supply-chain management and microcredit. As an avid social researcher, his works have been regularly published in reputable, cited, and indexed international and local journals.

Dr Ahmed Razman Abdul Latiff is the Associate Professor and Manager of Business Development of Putra Business School (PBS), Malaysia. He holds a Bachelor Degree of Accounting and Finance (Honours) from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, a Master Degree of Accounting from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Master Research Degree in Accounting and Financial Management from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He also holds a PhD in Corporate Governance from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. He has presented and published numerous papers at various conferences and journals as well as been awarded various research grants. He has successfully supervised more than 90 students of PhD, MSc and MBA. He is also an Associate Member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants. Since 2012, he has been appointed as one of the Intellectual Properties Evaluation Panel for Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), which involves in identifying the potential commercialization of UPM inventions. He is currently in the board of directors of a startup specializing in technological products in healthcare. Since 2012 until now, he is one of the Nominating Committee Member representing Malaysia for the Asian Entrepreneurship Award based in Japan.