Dr Samia Hoque

Working projects: 

I am currently working on the following research projects: 

In 2022, I received MMU’s Research Development Grant for studying the coping strategies of Bangladeshi third sector organisations during and after pandemic.  

In 2020, I receivedUKRI International Collaborative Fund as a Co-I to study social value creation by Bangladeshi sport organisations, which showed the potential for collaboration between private corporations, public institutions, and sport organisations in creating impactful societal outcome through sport in Bangladesh.

My teaching highlight at Manchester Metropolitan University  involves 

• Unit Leader and lecturer, Sustainability and Sustainable Development, Level 7 core unit (2022-present)

• Unit Leader and lecturer, Responsible Business for People and Planet, Level 6 BAM Top-up core unit (2020-present) 

• Unit Leader and Lecturer, Business and Entrepreneurship in Global South, Level 6 optional unit (2023-present)

• Unit Leader and lecturer, Investigating Responsible Enterprise in a Global Context, Level 5 core unit (2020-present)

• Unit Leader and lecturer, Global Concerns in Sustainable Development, Level 4 core unit  (2020-2022)

• MSc Dissertation Supervision (2019-present)

• PhD Supervision (Second supervisor) (2020-present): 

PhD Thesis Title: Management of exploration and exploitation across modes of operation in West African pharmaceutical firms: Leveraging social ties and equity ties for exploration and exploitation

I am interested to supervise PhD students studying corporate social responsibility, sustainable innovation, sustainable supply chain management, and social entrepreneurship. 

Published Academic Journal Papers

• Sinkovics, Noemi, Samia Ferdous Hoque, and Rudolf R. Sinkovics (2018), “Supplier Strategies and Routines for Capability Development: Implications for Upgrading,” Journal of International Management. (DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2018.04.005).

• Sinkovics, Noemi, Samia Ferdous Hoque, and Sinkovics Rudolf R. (2016), “Rana Plaza collapse aftermath: are CSR compliance and auditing pressures effective?,” Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 29 (4), 617-649. (DOI: doi:10.1108/AAAJ-07-2015-2141).

• Hoque, Samia Ferdous, Noemi Sinkovics, and Rudolf R. Sinkovics (2016), “Supplier strategies to compensate for knowledge asymmetries in buyer-supplier relationships: Implications for economic upgrading,” European Journal of International Management, 10 (3), 254-283. (DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2016.076292).

• Sinkovics, Noemi, Rudolf R Sinkovics, Samia Hoque, and Laszlo Czaban (2015), “A reconceptualization of social value creation as social constraint alleviation,” Critical Perspectives on International Business, 11 (3/4), 340-363. (DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-06-2014-0036).

• Henderson, Stephen and Samia Ferdous Hoque (2010), “The ethnicity impact on attitudes toward country of origin for products with different involvement levels,” Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 22 (3), 271-291. (DOI: 10.1080/08961531003751173).

• Faruq, Abdullah Al and Samia Ferdous Hoque (2009), “Anti-piracy strategies adopted by companies in china: A comparison between multinational corporation and small and medium-sized enterprise,” Skyline Business Journal, 2, 34-40.

Published Book chapters

• Randles, S., Wadham, H., Skritsovali, K., Hart, C., Hoque, S., Kettleborough, H., Klapper, R., Marron, R., Taylor, D. and Walley, L., ( 2023) “Transformative learning, community and leadership for sustainability action”, in ‘The International Bloomsbury Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education: An agenda for Transformational Change’, Purcell, W. M., & Haddock-Fraser, J. (Eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing.

• Hoque, Samia, Sinkovics, Noemi and Sinkovics, Rudolf (2021) “Learning on your own – Bricolage and the quest for relevance in the squeezed Bangladeshi garment supply chain”, in Upgrading the global garment industry: Internationalization, capabilities and sustainability, Mohammad Bakhtiar Rana and Matthew Allen (Eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar publishing.

• Sinkovics, Rudolf R, Noemi Sinkovics, Samia Ferdous Hoque, and Matthew Alford (2018), ” The use of global value chain/global production network related literature in international business research: investigating the nature and degree of integration” in The Routledge companion to international business and economic geography, Gary Cook, Jonathan Beaverstock, Jennifer Johns, Frank McDonald, and Naresh Pandit (Eds.). London: Routledge.

• Ott, Ursula, Rudolf R Sinkovics, and Samia Ferdous Hoque (2018), “Advances in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Application of fuzzy set in business and management research,” in The sage handbook of qualitative business and management research methods, Catherine Cassell, Ann L Cunliffe, and Gina Grandy (Eds.). London: Sage Publications.

• Hoque, Samia Ferdous and Abdullah Al Faruq (2010), “Exploitation of labour in Bangladeshi ready-made garment sector: Who is responsible?,” in Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia, Kyoko Fukukawa (Ed.). London: Routledge, 121-140.

Research papers in publication pipeline:

• Hoque, Samia and Faruq, Abdullah, “Management Of Social Enterprise Tensions Within Institutional Plurality: A Resource Based View”, presented in Academy of Management Conference 2020, R&R in Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

• Hoque, Samia and Faruq, Abdullah “Understanding the challenges and coping strategies of social sector organisations in Bangladesh in the current and post-pandemic era”, undergoing first review in Business and Society

• Faruq, Abdullah, and Hoque, Samia, “Social value creation by Bangladeshi sport organisations: The potential for collaboration between private corporations, public institutions, and sport organisations.” undergoing first review in Long Range Planning