Dr Bishnu Sharma
BScEng(Chem) BIT Sindri, PostDipIndMgt ResInstitMgtSc, MEngProdMgt Cran.IT, PhD Technol.Syd.
Position: Senior Lecturer, Management
Office: K2.15
Tel: +61 7 5430 2854
Email: bsharma@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Managing the Organisation
- Strategic Management
- Applied Research Methods
Research areas
- strategy
- total quality management
- performance management
- small business management
- social marketing
- organisational learning
- tourism management
Student research projects
- strategic planning
- learning organisation
Profile
Dr Bishnu Sharma is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Bishnu received his PhD in management from the University of Technology, Sydney. He holds a masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Production Management from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK and postgraduate diploma from the Research Institute for Management Science (RVB), Holland.
Bishnu is a co-author of a management textbook published by McGraw Hill. He has published several research articles in international journals and case studies in management books. Bishnu's research interests are in the areas of strategy, quality management, small business management, performance management, social marketing, organisational learning and tourism management. He has also edited the special issue of International Journal of Business Performance Management published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd as a guest editor. Bishnu has presented in national and international conferences in Australia, France, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, India, Philippines, and Hong Kong. Bishnu has also won the best paper award for the paper that he co-authored with Professor Andy Hede in the stream of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at ANZAM 2004 Conference held in New Zealand. Bishnu has also received the Citation of Excellence Emerald Award for the paper that he co-authored with Professor David Gadenne in 2001.
Bishnu has taught introductory management, strategic management, international management, operations management, applied research methods and business statistics / quantitative methods for business, in Australian universities since 1993. Bishnu has also worked for several years in Nepal as a strategic planning and development consultant.
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Doctoral, masters or honours theses supervision and examination
Supervision ‘Principal’
- PhD Candidate ‘Richard Croome’ – Online buying behaviour (completed)
- DBA Candidate
- ‘Imo Sagoa’ – Organisational learning (current)
Supervision ‘Co-supervisor’
- PhD Completion ‘Paul Corcoran’ – Organisational commitment (completed)
- DBA Candidate ‘Yogesh Karan’ – Total Quality Management (current)
Thesis Examination
- DBA thesis - University of Newcastle, Australia, 2007
- DBA thesis - Curtin University of Technology, 2006
- Master of Business thesis - University of Technology, Sydney, 2006
- Honours thesis - Griffith University, 2002
Membership in the journal’s editorial board
- The TQM Magazine Journal - Member of the Editorial Advisory Board
Publications
Many of Dr Bishnu Sharma's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Research grants
- Internal Research Grant (A$5,000) in 2004
- Rotary Grant (A$10,000) in 2002
- Internal Research Grant (A$3,705) in 1998
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