Research Projects with Fellowships / Grants

Transforming Business for the Post-Pandemic Society: Japan Foundation Grant Program for Intellectual Exchange Conferences (2021) - Applied as a collaborator with Dr. Faith Hatani, Project Director and Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Others included as collaborators were Dr. Will Baber, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Japan, Dr. Nobutaka Odake, Executive Director, Humanware Network Initiative, Regional Industry Policy Research Center, Japan. GOAL - to host a conference in Kyoto in 2022. Application date: November 2020. Amount: Danish Krone DDK 100,000-120,000. [April 2021 / Application successful]

Electric cars: Driver perceptions and policy options (Lead Researcher - Professor Paul D. Larson): Insight Grants - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) [Application made in October 2015 / unsuccessful]

Electric cars in Canada: Consumer perceptions and policy options for increasing adoption (Lead Researcher - Professor Paul D. Larson): Insight Grants - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) [Application made in October 2014] - withdrawn as fall in oil prices meant revisions had to be made.

The Status of Environmental Sustainability Amongst German Automobile Manufacturers: Strategies, Initiatives, Reporting and the Future: With Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung as Humboldt Research Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany [Term: November 2007 to January 2008]

Environmental Manufacturing as a Strategic Issue in International Markets of the Future: With Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung as Humboldt Research Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany [Term: March 1998 to January 2000]

Just In Time Approach to Managing Inventories in Japanese Industry - Some Theoretical & Practical Issues: With Japanese Government as Monbusho Scholar at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. [Term: October 1995 to March 1997]

Adaptation of Just in Time Philosophy in Indian Firms: With University Grants Commission at University of Allahabad, India. [Term: 1996-1998]

Success Strategies for Public Enterprises: With University Grants Commission at University of Allahabad, India. [Term: 1991-1996]

Discipline in Air India: Submitted to Air India (1985); completed at the Regional Office of Air India in New Delhi, India.