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Business and Management
Norway
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
51
Citations
9135
World Ranking
948
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Usama Awan is affiliated with Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in Norway and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research focuses largely on sustainability and innovation within business and industrial contexts, contributing extensively to topics such as sustainable supply chain management and environmental sustainability in business.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of interdisciplinary subjects including:

  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Sustainable Industrial Ecology
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence

Their academic contributions have been published in a range of specialized journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Sustainability
  • Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Key papers authored by Usama Awan include:

  • "Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: A literature review and recommendations for future research" (2021, Business Strategy and the Environment)
  • "Big data analytics capability and decision-making: The role of data-driven insight on circular economy performance" (2021, Technological Forecasting and Social Change)
  • "Enhancing green product and process innovation: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge acquisition and environmental investment" (2020, Business Strategy and the Environment)

Frequent collaborators in their research projects include:

  • Khalid Zaman
  • Saqib Shamim
  • Robert Sroufe
  • Abdelmohsen A. Nassani
  • Amandeep Dhir

Their research contributions span several important subfields within their broader discipline, notably:

  • Strategy and Management
  • Marketing
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management Information Systems

Usama Awan's published work reflects engagement with contemporary challenges in business sustainability, innovation processes, and the integration of emerging technologies in industrial and organizational environments.

Best Publications

  • Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: A literature review and recommendations for future research

    Usama Awan;Robert Sroufe;Muhammad Shahbaz

  • Big data analytics capability and decision-making: The role of data-driven insight on circular economy performance

    Usama Awan;Saqib Shamim;Zaheer Khan;Zaheer Khan;Najam Ul Zia

  • Sustainability in the Circular Economy: Insights and Dynamics of Designing Circular Business Models

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  • Enhancing green product and process innovation: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge acquisition and environmental investment

    Usama Awan;Marlen Gabriele Arnold;Ismail Gölgeci

  • Does green transformational leadership lead to green innovation? The role of green thinking and creative process engagement

    Saira Begum;Muhammad Ashfaq;Enjun Xia;Usama Awan;Usama Awan

  • How do technological innovation and fiscal decentralization affect the environment? A story of the fourth industrial revolution and sustainable growth

    Ya Cheng;Usama Awan;Shabbir Ahmad;Zhixiong Tan

  • Factors affecting teachers’ motivation: An HRM challenge for public sector higher educational institutions of Pakistan (HEIs)

    Muhammad Imran Rasheed;Asad Afzal Humayon;Usama Awan;Affan ud Din Ahmed

  • Green inclusive leadership and green creativity in the tourism and hospitality sector: serial mediation of green psychological climate and work engagement

    Tahseen Ahmed Bhutto;Ramsha Farooq;Shalini Talwar;Usama Awan

  • Creativity enables sustainable development: Supplier engagement as a boundary condition for the positive effect on green innovation

    Usama Awan;Robert Sroufe;Andrzej Kraslawski;Andrzej Kraslawski

  • Causal links between renewable energy, environmental degradation and economic growth in selected SAARC countries: Progress towards green economy

    Raheel Zeb;Laleena Salar;Usama Awan;Khalid Zaman

  • Industry 4.0 and circular economy in an era of global value chains: What have we learned and what is still to be explored?

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  • Insights from Circular Economy Literature: A Review of Extant Definitions and Unravelling Paths to Future Research

    Omar Alhawari;Usama Awan;M. Khurrum S. Bhutta;M. Ali Ülkü

  • Achieving green product and process innovation through green leadership and creative engagement in manufacturing

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  • Designing Value Chains for Industry 4.0 and a Circular Economy: A Review of the Literature

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  • Integrating knowledge management and orientation dynamics for organization transition from eco-innovation to circular economy

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  • Environmental Sustainability through Determinism the Level of Environmental Awareness, Knowledge and Behavior among Business Graduates

    Usama Awan;Abdus Sattar Abbasi

  • Triangular relationship among energy consumption, air pollution and water resources in Pakistan

    Muhammad Mushtaq Khan;Khalid Zaman;Danish Irfan;Usama Awan

  • Exploring the effect of buyer engagement on green product innovation: Empirical evidence from manufacturers

    Usama Awan;Shazia Nauman;Robert Sroufe

  • The role of big data analytics in manufacturing agility and performance: moderation- mediation analysis of organizational creativity and of the involvement of customers as data analysts

    Usama Awan;Usama Awan;Usama Awan;Sabeen Hussain Bhatti;Saqib Shamim;Zaheer Khan;Zaheer Khan

  • Extended valence theory perspective on consumers' e-waste recycling intentions in Japan

    Amandeep Dhir;Amandeep Dhir;Amandeep Dhir;Suresh Malodia;Usama Awan;Mototaka Sakashita

  • Dynamic linkages among energy consumption, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and agricultural production in Pakistan: sustainable agriculture key to policy success

    Muhammad Imran Qureshi;Usama Awan;Zeeshan Arshad;Amran Md. Rasli

  • Governing Interfirm Relationships for Social Sustainability: The Relationship between Governance Mechanisms, Sustainable Collaboration, and Cultural Intelligence

    Usama Awan;Andrzej Kraslawski;Janne Huiskonen

  • Determinants of green logistics in BRICS countries: An integrated supply chain model for green business

    Abdullah Mohammed Aldakhil;Abdelmohsen A. Nassani;Usama Awan;Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro

  • Does financial development contribute to SAARC'S energy demand? From energy crisis to energy reforms

    Arif Alam;Ihtisham Abdul Malik;Alias Bin Abdullah;Asmadi Hassan

  • Environment and air pollution: health services bequeath to grotesque menace

    Muhammad Imran Qureshi;Amran Md Rasli;Usama Awan;Jian Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Khalid Zaman
Khalid Zaman University of Haripur
Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan University of Aberdeen
Amandeep Dhir
Amandeep Dhir University of Agder
Robert Sroufe
Robert Sroufe Chatham University
Pervaiz Akhtar
Pervaiz Akhtar University of Aberdeen
Muhammad Shahbaz
Muhammad Shahbaz Beijing Institute of Technology
Amran Rasli
Amran Rasli INTI International University
Ismail Golgeci
Ismail Golgeci University of Auckland

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