Effective business management requires keeping up with complex changes in the economic, legal, political, technological, demographic and cultural sphere while coping up with the increasing scarcity of the financial resources. To deal with the changes in a business environment effectively, managers require constant input from consultants, academic and professional researchers. The Center for Research on Management and Governance (CRMG) at FAST School of Management, Lahore was established with a view to bridge academic and professional knowledge on management and governance and its adaptation to suit the indigenous business environment. Jointly supervised by Dr. Hamid Hassan, Dr. Mian Muhammad Atif, Dr. Zia Khan, Dr. Ahmed Arif and Dr. Akbar Azam, the center is a hub for motivating research on the art and practice of management and governance in Pakistan. The findings from the theoretical and empirical research conducted at CRMG are expected to provide guidelines to deal with the management and governance challenges of public and private sector organizations in Pakistan.
Seminars and discussions with business leaders and national & international academics are designed to facilitate sharing of ideas and providing updates on trends are a constant feature of the center. Thus the output is not just defined by producing papers but serves as the core for producing local content for inclusion in the curriculum at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Our empirical studies focus on Finance, Marketing, Motivation, Leadership, Economics, Real-Time Business plans, and a range of other topics related to management sciences. In general, the center’s research efforts are characterized by an ambition to critically and constructively study, describe and analyze the emergence and development of management & governance practices in the country. Researchers at the center aim to uphold a recognized presence in the ongoing academic discourses in crucial parts of management & governance areas. The center also undertakes consultancy projects with a number of governmental and private organizations and collaborates with other national and international universities in advancing the research.