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Shehla Riza Arifeen

Dr. Arifeen is a Professor of Business Administration at the Lahore School of Economics. She was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in Management Learning and Leadership from the University of Lancaster, UK. She is a gold medalist from Punjab University, Department of Business Administration. She is also a Diploma Associate of The Institute of Bankers in Pakistan. She began her career with NDFC and later joined the teaching profession. She has extensive teaching experience and has taught for a number of years at the Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Civil Services Academy, DMG and Walton Campuses as visiting faculty. She also has managerial experience as CEO of a manufacturing firm and a logistics company in Pakistan. Her research interest is Women in Management. She has written cases for LUMS and has represented the Lahore School at academic conferences in the USA, Europe, UK and Australia.

CV

  1. Arifeen, S.R. (2025). "Juxtaposed between hypervisibility and invisibility: The case of the hijab in Pakistan.” Gender in Management: An International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-10-2024-0539
  2. Chughtai, A.A. and Arifeen, S.R. (2024). “Affective Trust in the Supervisor and Innovative Work Behavior: The Effects of Proactive Skill Development and Learning Goal Orientation”.          Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2024.2325664
  3. Arifeen, S. R., & Mughal, F. (2023). Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality       and       the      improvised       digital       disruption. Management Learning, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076231197908
  4. Arifeen, S.R. (2023). Ecological aspects of online learning in higher education: a qualitative  multi-level   exploration   in   a  developing   country. Education   and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11507-5
  5. Chughtai, A.A. and Arifeen, S.R. (2022). "Humble leadership and career success: a moderated mediation analysis", Management Decision, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-05-2022-0651
  6. Arifeen, S.R. & Syed, J. (2022). “Social Reproduction and Gender Beliefs of Ethnic Minority Women”. Gender, Work and Organization. 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12822
  7.  Arifeen, S. R. (2020). "British Muslim women's experience of the networking practice of happy hours", Employee Relations, Vol. 42 No. 3, pp. 646-661. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-04-2018-0110
  8. Arifeen, S.R. & Syed, J. (2020). "The challenges of fitting in: An intersectional framing of minority ethnic women managers’ career experiences in the UK", Personnel Review, Vol. 49(5), 1194–1211. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-02-2019-0093
  9.  Arifeen, S.R & Gatrell, C. (2020). “Those Glass Chains that Bind You: How British Muslim Women Professionals Experience Career, Faith and Family”, British Journal of Management. Vol. 31(1), 221–236. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12387
  10.   Arifeen, S.R. “Icepac Limited: Strategic Growth Choices for an SME in the Frozen Food Industry”. of Asian Journal Management Cases, March 2019; vol. 17: Sage Publications, India.
  11. Arifeen, S.R and Gatrell, C. (2013). “A blind spot in organization studies: gender with ethnicity, nationality and religion. Gender in Management: An International Journal, Vol. 28, 3, p. 151-170.
  12. Arifeen, S.R.  “Is masculinity a prerequisite to female managerial advancement in Pakistan?” Pakistan Journal of Psychology, Vol.43, 1, p.71-95.
  13. Arifeen,  S.R.    “The  Socio-demographic  Progression  of  the  Pakistani  Woman Manager 1988 to 2004 an Empirical Evidence from the Private Sector”. Business Review. Research Journal of IBA, Karachi, Pakistan. Vol:6, 2, p.34-66.
  14.   Arifeen, S.R. “The Significance Of Mentoring And Its Repercussions On The Advancement Of Professional, Managerial Women In Pakistan”. Global Business Review, 11.2, p. 221-238. Sage Publications, India.
  15. Arifeen,  S.R.  “The  Development  Of  Managerial  Women:  An  Exploratory Comparison Of Malaysia And Pakistan.” IUP Journal of Management Research. p. 21-36. ICFAI University Press. India
  16. Haque,  E.  and  Arifeen,  S.R.  “Zareen  and  Majid  Durrani.”  Asian  Journal  of Management Cases, Sep 2008; vol. 5: p. 110. Sage Publications, India.

 

Book Chapters

  • Chapter 26: “A blind spot in organization studies: Gender with ethnicity, nationality and religion”. Arifeen, S.R. & Gatrell, C. In Edt: Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou, Cary Cooper and Caroline Gatrell. Women, Business and Leadership. Gender and Organizations. April 2019. Edward Elgar Publishing
  • “The sustainable immigrant family business model of good governance (Case study: A Chinese immigrant family business in Pakistan”, Arifeen, S.R. In (Edt) Daphne Halkias and Christian Adendorff, Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics. July 2014. Gower/Ashgate. UK.
  • “The   pro-poor   innovative   female   entrepreneur:   Linking grassroots enterprises to upscale markets in Pakistan”, Arifeen, S.R. In (Edt) Daphne Halkias, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability:  Business Solution for Poverty Alleviation from around the World. Sept 2012. Gower/Ashgate. UK.
  • “The Case of Father-Daughter Succession in Pakistan”, Arifeen, S.R. In (Edt) Daphne Halkias, Paul Thurman, Celina Smith and Robert S. Nason; Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business, A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Jan 2012. Gower/ Ashgate. U.K.
  • “United Kingdom: The Rise of South Asian female entrepreneurship”, by D.Halkias, S.Arifeen, L.Mourad, In (Edt) D.Halkias, P. Thurman, Nicholas Harkiolakis and Sylva Caracatsanis; Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs. The Economics and Social Impact of a Global Phenomenon. Ashgate/Gower, UK.