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Dr. Syed Muhammad Salman

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance

  • PhD in Finance — Iqra University
  • MPhil in Business Management — Iqra University
  • MBA in Banking and Finance

About

Dr. Syed Muhammad Salman is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at Iqra University, Karachi. His research examines how financial systems, institutions, technological change and environmental pressures shape resilient and inclusive development in emerging economies. His work is concentrated in sustainable and green finance, climate-economy dynamics, Islamic and digital finance, SME financial inclusion, and regional economic connectivity.

His scholarly portfolio comprises more than 47 peer-reviewed outputs across international indexed and HEC-recognized journals. Recent studies address sustainable entrepreneurship, structural resilience, green energy, carbon finance, artificial intelligence, circular economy, carbon neutrality and climate-change mitigation. Across this agenda, he connects rigorous empirical analysis with questions that matter to banks, businesses, policymakers and communities in Pakistan and the wider Global South.

Dr. Salman applies panel-data and time-series econometrics, nonlinear and quantile methods, GMM, SEM and PLS-SEM, and composite-index construction to cross-country and firm-level research. At Iqra University, he contributes to graduate supervision, research mentoring, curriculum development and academic governance. He welcomes scholarly collaboration, peer-review opportunities, special-issue participation and interdisciplinary research partnerships in finance, sustainability, development economics and institutional transformation.

Research positioning: Finance, sustainability and institutional transformation in emerging and developing economies.

 

Area of Expertise

  • Dr. Salman’s research programme is progressive but grounded: it seeks to explain not only whether financial and institutional change affects development, but also how, for whom and under what conditions those effects emerge. His current work is organized around four connected streams:
    • Sustainable and green finance: green finance, carbon finance, ESG governance, sustainable innovation, energy transition, circular economy and climate-risk measurement.
    • Islamic, digital and SME finance: Islamic banking, fintech, digitally enabled supply-chain finance, financial inclusion and practical financing ecosystems for underserved enterprises.
    • Institutions, resilience and regional development: institutional quality, structural resilience, BRI and Eurasian connectivity, geopolitical economics and cross-country development.
    • Applied climate-economy modelling: composite indices, panel and time-series econometrics, nonlinear relationships, distributional methods and reproducible cross-country evidence.

Awards and Honors

Research Publications

A focused selection of recent research in sustainable finance, resilience, energy transition and institutional transformation, ordered from newest to oldest.

YEAR PUBLICATION
2026 From Risk to Resilience: How Structural Resilience, Innovation Capabilities, Supply Chain Agility, and Digitalization Shape Sustainable Entrepreneurship

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 22, Article 80

SSCI | JCR Q1 | Scopus Q1 | ABDC B | AJG 1

DOI: 10.1007/s11365-026-01201-0

2026 The Impact of Natural Resource Utilisation, Green Energy, Carbon Finance, Artificial Intelligence, and Sustainable Innovation on the Environment: Evidence from Asia

Engineering Economics, 37(2), 222-236

SSCI | JCR Q2 | ABDC B

DOI: 10.5755/j01.ee.37.2.42445

2026 Green Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 Driven Carbon Neutrality Practices in Technologically Advanced Countries: A Circular Economy Perspective

Transformations in Business & Economics, 25(1[67]), 53-72

SSCI | JCR Q2 | Scopus Q2

DOI: 10.15388/Tibe.2026.25.1.3

2025 Unraveling Asymmetric Connectedness: Board Diversity, Green Energy and Climate Change Combat: An Asymmetry in Economic Dynamics

The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 32, e00431

Scopus Q1 | ABDC B | AJG 1

DOI: 10.1016/j.jeca.2025.e00431

2025 Emerging Sustainable Energy Technologies to Combat Climate Change: Evidence Using Non-linear ARDL Estimation

Transformations in Business & Economics, 24(2[65]), 136-154

SSCI | JCR Q2 | Scopus Q2

DOI: 10.15388/Tibe.2025.24.2.6

2024 Unleashing the Mechanism in Green Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholders Wealth: Insight from Quantile GMM

Global Business Review, advance online publication

ESCI | Scopus Q1 | ABDC B | AJG 1

DOI: 10.1177/09721509241276254

 

Public Contact Links:
Institutional email: smsalman@iqra.edu.pk
ORCID: 0009-0006-7984-9024
Google Scholar:  Syed Muhammad Salman

Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.

A focused selection of recent research in sustainable finance, resilience, energy transition and institutional transformation, ordered from newest to oldest.

YEAR PUBLICATION
2026 From Risk to Resilience: How Structural Resilience, Innovation Capabilities, Supply Chain Agility, and Digitalization Shape Sustainable Entrepreneurship

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 22, Article 80

SSCI | JCR Q1 | Scopus Q1 | ABDC B | AJG 1

DOI: 10.1007/s11365-026-01201-0

2026 The Impact of Natural Resource Utilisation, Green Energy, Carbon Finance, Artificial Intelligence, and Sustainable Innovation on the Environment: Evidence from Asia

Engineering Economics, 37(2), 222-236

SSCI | JCR Q2 | ABDC B

DOI: 10.5755/j01.ee.37.2.42445

2026 Green Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 Driven Carbon Neutrality Practices in Technologically Advanced Countries: A Circular Economy Perspective

Transformations in Business & Economics, 25(1[67]), 53-72

SSCI | JCR Q2 | Scopus Q2

DOI: 10.15388/Tibe.2026.25.1.3

2025 Unraveling Asymmetric Connectedness: Board Diversity, Green Energy and Climate Change Combat: An Asymmetry in Economic Dynamics

The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 32, e00431

Scopus Q1 | ABDC B | AJG 1

DOI: 10.1016/j.jeca.2025.e00431

2025 Emerging Sustainable Energy Technologies to Combat Climate Change: Evidence Using Non-linear ARDL Estimation

Transformations in Business & Economics, 24(2[65]), 136-154

SSCI | JCR Q2 | Scopus Q2

DOI: 10.15388/Tibe.2025.24.2.6

2024 Unleashing the Mechanism in Green Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholders Wealth: Insight from Quantile GMM

Global Business Review, advance online publication

ESCI | Scopus Q1 | ABDC B | AJG 1

DOI: 10.1177/09721509241276254

 

Public Contact Links:
Institutional email: smsalman@iqra.edu.pk
ORCID: 0009-0006-7984-9024
Google Scholar:  Syed Muhammad Salman