Dr Tahir Nisar BA, MPhil, PhD
Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour and Strategy
Dr Nisar is an Associate Professor (Reader) within Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton, researching AI machine learning, governance and leadership, and entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). He is the Associate Editor for Management Decision, and on the editorial boards for a number of academic journals including European Journal of Marketing.
Tahir is listed in Stanford University's new Database of Top 2% Rankings of Scientists in the World.
His papers have been published in leading scientific journals, such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Small Business Economics, Journal of Retailing, Information Technology and People, and Computers in Human Behavior. He has written a book on ‘Smartphones and App Implementations for Improving Productivity’. His book, ‘Investor Engagement: Investors and Management Practice under Shareholder Value’, co-authored with Roderick Martin and Peter Casson (Oxford University Press, 2007), has been widely acclaimed as one of the best books written on capitalist economic systems. His research has won him numerous awards, including a Whitehall Fellowship (HM Treasury, Inland Revenues), ISPI Award of Excellence for Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace, and Highly Commended Paper Award, presented by Emerald Publishers. The Advertising Foundation USA and Journal of Advertising Research awarded his paper on ‘Attribution Modeling’ the 2018 Best Finalist Paper Award. His paper on ‘Twitter as a Tool for Forecasting Stock Market Movements: A Short-window Event Study’ is the most downloaded paper from the Journal's website.
He is a founding member of the ESRC National Center for Research Methods, and previously worked for the United Nation Economic and Social Council, New York on revised National Accounts Systems. He has led several research projects awarded by both national and international bodies, such as the ESRC, EPSRC and UK Innovation (KTP knowledge transfer partnership project). He regularly contributes to international academic conferences and workshops in areas such as governance, strategy and finance.
2016-19: Director of the Center for People and Organizations
2018-19: Interim Head of Department
2015-19: Member of the Faculty Diversity and Inclusiveness Board
2016-19: Member of the School’s Research Committee
2012-15: Member of the University’s Feedback Forum