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Dr Milan Gyanwali

Job: Senior Lecturer in Business Management

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: School of Leadership, Management and Marketing

Address: De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 366 4603

E: milan.gyanwali@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Dr Milan Gyanwali is the Subject Lead for Business Management (UG). He joined 51³Ô¹Ïapp in 2019 as a Lecturer in Business and Management. Before joining 51³Ô¹Ïapp, he worked at Solent University and the University of Leicester, where he taught a wide range of subjects, including business strategy, management, business ethics, organisational behaviour, marketing and human resource management. He also designed dozens of training programmes and delivered them to owner-managers, entrepreneurs and social workers. 

Milan completed his PhD in business management at the University of Leicester in 2018. He studied successful businesses during the recession of 2008-09 and investigated growth phenomena. Milan’s main research focuses on small and medium enterprises, business start-ups, business performance, business strategies and entrepreneurial behaviour.

He led to establishing and running a number of businesses, including Rajanee Industrial Service, Human Resource Training Centre, Hamro Multipurpose Cooperatives Limited, Barahi Saving and Credit Cooperatives Limited, Samadhan National Daily and Everest Times. He is also a promoter of a commercial bank.

Publications and outputs

Gyanwali, M (2024), An Interdependent Business Model for SME Performance, In B K Shrestha (ed), Abako Bato, Kathmandu: Shikha Publications

Gyanwali, M (2023), Running a Business in Post-Covid Era, In K Agnihotri and S Chhabra (eds), Rethinking Business Post Covid – Being Future Ready, Karnataka: Blue Ink Publishing House

Gyanwali, M and Gyanwali, S (2023), Challenges in Conducting Online Assessments: Experiences of Management Faculty Members in Nepal Higher Education, In MD Jamil and DA Morley (eds), Agile Learning Environments amid Disruption: Evaluating Academic Innovations in Higher Education during COVID-19, London: Palgrave.

Gyanwali, S, Gyanwali, M and Yadav, US (2022), Assessment of 4D SME Entrepreneurial Marketing Model: The Perspective of Nepalese MSMEs. In Vasant, P et al. (eds), Intelligent Computing & Optimization: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization 2022 (ICO2022), Cham: Springer.

Ayo-Adejuyigbe, M and Gyanwali, M (2022) The Significance of Occupants Satisfaction on the Maintenance Planning Process, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1101062040, DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1101/6/062040.

Gyanwali, M (2021), Understanding Contemporary Business Environment, In RC Gupta and S Chhabra (eds), Anveshak – Demystifying Contemporary Business Scenarios, Kolkata: Asian Press.

Gyanwali, M (2020), SME Growth in a Recession: What does a growing business tell? Open Journal of Business and Management, 8(1), pp. 208-230.

Gyanwali, M (2019), Educating the Enterprise: SME Learning in Collaboration, In: Enterprising Education in UK Higher Education: Challenges for Theory and Practice, Editors: Gary Mulholland and Jason Turner, London: Routledge.

Key research outputs

  • SME Growth in a Recession – investigated management strategies and their impact on business performance during the recession of 2008-09.
  • Problems and Prospects of Industrial Development in Pokhara Sub-Metropolitan City – looked at internal and external barriers of industrial enterprises and identified feasible industries in the study area.

Research interests/expertise

Milan is interested in researching business performance which includes SME dynamics, growth strategies and customer focus strategies.

Areas of teaching

  • Business and Management
  • Business Strategies
  • Business Ethics
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Human Resource Management
  • Research/Dissertation

Qualifications

  • PhD in Management – University of Leicester
  • MA in Geography – Tribhuvan University
  • PGDip in HRM – University of Surrey / Farnborough College of Technology
  • PGCert in Learning and Teaching in HE – Solent University
  • BA in Geography and Math – Tribhuvan University

Courses taught

Postgraduate

  • DBA/PhD: Introduction to Action Research.
  • MBA: Strategy of Management and Organisational Change.
  • SLMDA: Strategy of Management and Organisational Change.
  • SLA: Change Management.

Undergraduate

  • CMDA: Human Resource Management.
  • Level 6: Contemporary Business Issues; Global Strategic Management; Business Start-up; Human Resource Management; Strategy for Management and Marketing; Business Strategy; Business Ethics.
  • Level 5: Management and Strategy; Contemporary Management; Strategy for Business and Management; Business Research and Analytics; Organisational Behaviour.
  • Level 4: Global Business Issues; Global Business and Finance; Global Organisation and Resource Management; Marketing for Products and Services.

Honours and awards

  • The Outstanding Contribution to the Academic BAL Community Award, Faculty of Business and Law, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 2023
  • Trouble Shooter of the Year, Faculty of Business and Law, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 2022
  • Best Paper Presentation Award, IIM Conference, 2022
  • Hampshire Business School (HBS) Award for Significant Progression in HRM, 2012
  • Outstanding Manager in the Area, Martin McColl, 2007

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • LCS Level 1b – Lean Competency in Thinking Knowledge and Practice
  • CMBE – Certified Management & Business Educator
  • SFHEA – Advanced HE (Higher Education Academy)
  • FCIM – The Chartered Institute of Marketing (2019 - 2022)
  • MCMI – Chartered Management Institute
  • Graduate Member / Assoc CIPD – Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  • ISBE Member – Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Professional licences and certificates

  • LCS Level 1b
  • TTL - Transition to Leadership

Conference attendance

Gyanwali, M, Nepal, P, Pyakurel, P, Gyanwali, S (2024), Aligning graduate attributes with market-led employability skills, Learning and Teaching Conference, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 19 September, Leicester UK

Gyanwali, M, Gyanwali, S, Arslan E, Boye, D. and Nepal, P (2024), Teaching in Blocks: Learning in Steps, Learning and Teaching Conference, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 07 February, Leicester UK

Gyanwali, M (2022), Research-Based Education: Creating Knowledge for Enterprises, paper presented to Idyllic Institute of Management on National Education Policy 2020: A Global Perspective of Transforming Higher Education, 28-29 June 2022, India

Gyanwali, M (2022), Where does sustainability lie in cooperatives? Paper presented to International Multidisciplinary Conference on Future Vision for India at 100 in 2047, 28-29 January 2022, DCBS/RFI

Gyanwali, M, Gyanwali, S, Emambocus, W and Chai, F (2021), A Sustainable Business Model: An Examination of HAMCOL, paper presented to the 43rd ISBE Conference, Cardiff

Gyanwali, S., Yadav, U. S. & Gyanwali, M. (2021), Owner-manager Perception on Entrepreneurial Marketing: A study of MSMEs in the Western Region of Nepal, Paper presented at Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship, 25-27 February 2021, EDII, Gandhinagar, India

Gyanwali, M and Pyakurel, P (2019), A Cooperative Business Model: Achieving Economic and Social Sustainability, paper presented at the ESU2019 Conference, Naples

Gyanwali, M (2018), SME growth in a recession: Contextualised customer focus strategy, paper presented to the 41st ISBE Conference, Birmingham

Gyanwali, M (2017), SME Restructuring in a Recession: A Desire for Growth, paper presented at the 40th ISBE Conference, Belfast, 8-9 November 2017, Borders’, Prosperity and Entrepreneurial Responses

Gyanwali, M (2016), SME Learning in a Recession: In Search of Growth, paper presented at the 39thISBE Conference, Paris, 26-27 October 2016 – Institutional Voids, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development.

Gyanwali, M (2016), SME Growth in a Recession: Lesson Learned, paper presented at the 8thInternational Conference on Global Business Environment (ICGBE), Shinawatra University, Bangkok, 23-24 July 2016

Gyanwali, M (2016), SME Learning in a Recession: For What? paper presented at the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development, 1st Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Loughborough University London, London, 24-25 May 2016

Gyanwali, M (2015), SME Growth in a Recession: Glimmers in the Dark, paper, presented at the 38thISBE Conference, Glasgow, 11-12 November 2015 – Internationalisation, Innovation and Leadership

Current research students

  • Constance Ehiozee
  • Rajneet Kaur Chahal

ORCID number

0000-0002-5252-3722

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