Shirin Alavi

Shirin Alavi has about 13 years of experience across the academia and corporate sector. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor with Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. She has earlier worked with the Standard Chartered Bank and has work experience in the domain of CRM operations and International Business and Marketing. She has conducted research in the domains of customer relationship management, online communities, marketing, social media and mobile apps and has several years of research experience. She has published several manuscripts in International and National Journals and also serves on the Editorial Review Board of International Journals. She has completed one PhD guidance and is guiding PhD students in the domain of digital marketing, green marketing and consumer behaviour. She is member of NBA and NAAC accreditation committee of the institute.

Publications

Employee Online Communities: A Tool for Employee Engagement and Retention
Shirin Alavi. © 2022. 16 pages.
This chapter seeks to impart understanding of the role of employee online communities for enhanced employee engagement and retention in an organization. The highly engaged and...
Leveraging Social Media Tools for Business Purposes
Vandana Ahuja, Shirin Alavi. © 2022. 18 pages.
Human beings are increasingly social, and the growth of social media is a function of increased urbanisation, internet penetration, and digitisation, which have witnessed an...
Using Social Media to Manage Customer Expectations and Quality Perceptions in the Hospitality Industry
Vandana Ahuja, Shirin Alavi. © 2022. 21 pages.
The hospitality sector is a big contributor to the Indian economy. According to a recent report by KPMG, the Indian hospitality industry is projected to grow at 16.1% CAGR to...
A Comprehensive Synthesis of Theories of Mobile Shopping Adoption and Narrative Review
Rajat Gera, Priyanka Chadha, Shirin Alavi. © 2021. 23 pages.
This paper aims to synthesize and integrate the existing literature on MSA adoption and provide directions for future research through narrative review by classifying and...
Mobile Shopping Apps: Functionalities, Consumer Adoption, and Usage
Priyanka Chadha, Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2021. 17 pages.
This article describes how the retailing business has changed drastically in the recent times. The emergence of Internet and mobile channels are primarily responsible for this....
Impact of Consumer Internet Self-Efficacy and User Friendliness of Websites on E-Commerce Adoption
Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2021. 15 pages.
The e-commerce market has grown tremendously in India over the last few years across all product categories and industry verticals. In this chapter, an attempt has been made to...
Managing Social Media Practices in the Digital Economy
Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2020. 312 pages.
Social media platforms are powerful tools that can help organizations to gather user preferences and build profiles of consumers. These sites add value to business activities...
An Evaluative Framework for the Most Suitable Theory of Mobile Learning
Niti Mittal, Monica Chaudhary, Shirin Alavi. © 2020. 24 pages.
The focus of ICT in education has shifted from e-learning to mobile learning as mobile devices offer many technological and pedagogical affordances coupled with their...
Measuring Consumer Brand Perception for Green Apparel Brands
Jasmine S. Dixit, Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2020. 19 pages.
This research article examines how green consumers form perceptions about green brands by creating a frame of reference for such consumers in the apparel category. A research...
Digital Marketing Analytics: The Web Dynamics of Inside Blackberry Blog
Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2018. 17 pages.
Technological advances and the speed with which new technologies are being embraced by organizations, along with the rising power of the consumers and their ability to get what...
Employee Online Communities: A Tool for Employee Engagement and Retention
Shirin Alavi. © 2018. 15 pages.
This chapter seeks to impart understanding of the role of employee online communities for enhanced employee engagement and retention in an organization. The highly engaged and...
Development and Validation of Teachers Mobile Learning Acceptance Scale for Higher Education Teachers
Niti Mittal, Monica Chaudhary, Shirin Alavi. © 2017. 23 pages.
Technological advancements in mobile devices coupled with their increased use in informal and formal learning at an individual level have forced academicians to implement...
Mobile Shopping Apps: Functionalities, Consumer Adoption, and Usage
Priyanka Chadha, Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2017. 16 pages.
This article describes how the retailing business has changed drastically in the recent times. The emergence of Internet and mobile channels are primarily responsible for this....
Netnography: An Internet-Optimized Ethnographic Research Technique
Shirin Alavi. © 2015. 7 pages.
This chapter seeks to impart understanding of Netnography as a new qualitative, interpretive research methodology that uses Internet-optimized ethnographic research techniques to...
E-Marketing and the Hotel Industry: Calculating Web Presence Index (WPI) for the Hospitality Sector
Roli Bansal, Manisha Lamba, Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2015. 11 pages.
In today's world, as online consumers become more price sensitive, less brand loyal and more sophisticated, e-Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-marketing becomes a...
Collaborative Customer Relationship Management-Co-Creation and Collaboration through Online Communities
Shirin Alavi. © 2015. 17 pages.
There are four trends reshaping the world of business-technological advances and the speed with which new technologies are created and copied, the loss of geographic advantage...
Cross-Cultural Management: A New Strategy for CEM
Shirin Alavi. © 2014. 10 pages.
This chapter seeks to impart understanding of cross-cultural management, so as to be able to relate it to managerial activity in the new geoeconomy. The contents provide exposure...
E-Marketing and the Hotel Industry: Calculating Web Presence Index (Wpi) for the Hospitality Sector
Roli Bansal, Manisha Lamba, Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2014. 13 pages.
In today's world, as online consumers become more price sensitive, less brand loyal and more sophisticated, e-Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-marketing becomes a...
Digital Marketing Analytics: The Web Dynamics of Inside Blackberry Blog
Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2014. 16 pages.
Technological advances and the speed with which new technologies are being embraced by organizations, along with the rising power of the consumers and their ability to get what...
Meta-Analysis of Virtual Teams
Swati Kaul Bhat, Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2014. 13 pages.
Growth in technology has brought the world economy on a single platform which has deeply impacted the working pattern of organizations. It is the increase in usage of internet...
E-Commerce in a Web 2.0 World: Using Online Business Communities to Impact Consumer Price Sensitivity
Shirin Alavi, Vandana Ahuja. © 2013. 18 pages.
This paper details the usage of online communities to influence consumer price sensitivity for expensive, medium, and low cost products by formulating a research instrument...
Collaborative Customer Relationship Management-Co-Creation and Collaboration through Online Communities
Shirin Alavi. © 2013. 18 pages.
There are four trends reshaping the world of business-technological advances and the speed with which new technologies are created and copied, the loss of geographic advantage...