“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”

— B. B. King
Taran Patel
Head of Research and Professor
Program BBA in Global Hospitality Management
Campus Crans-Montana
Bio

Taran Patel is Head of Research at Les Roches Global Hospitality Education, where she leads the institution’s research strategy and scholarly initiatives. She is Professor of Organizational Behavior and International Business and an experienced academic leader in international higher education.

She holds a PhD in International Business from The Open University (UK), supervised at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University of Rouen. Her research examines leadership and followership, culture in international business, and gender and diversity. She has published widely in journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, and European Management Review, and has led externally funded research projects on organizational learning and sustainability.

Education
  • Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), University of Rouen (2022)
    Culture in International Business – Advisor: Prof. Michalis Lianos
  • PhD in International Business, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK (2007)
    Supervised by Dr. Steve Rayner, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
    EFMD Best Thesis Award (Corporate Governance Segment)
  • MBA (part-time), Cyprus College (affiliated with University of New Haven, USA), 2000
  • Bachelor of Pharmacy, L.M. College of Pharmacy, Gujarat University, India, 1994
Publication
  • Patel T., Bote R. N., Stanisljevic J., 2024. The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Gofmanian lens, The Journal of Business Ethics.
  • Hamlin, R.G., Ruiz, C., Jones, J., and Patel, T. 2023. Toward a Universalistic Behavioural Model of Perceived Managerial and Leadership Effectiveness for the Health Services Sector. Health Services Management Research
  • Patel, T., Hamlin, R.G., and Louis, D. 2022. Toward a generic framework of perceived negative manager/leader behavior: A comparative study across nations and private sector industries”, European Management Review.
  • Patel, T., Romani, L. Oberoi, P. and Ramasamy, C. 2021. Gender role entrapment to resist patriarchy: Everyday work of women politicians and gender equality in India. Organization.
  • Hamlin, R. G., Patel, T. 2020. Toward an emergent Asian behavioural model of perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness: A cross-nation comparative analysis of effective and ineffective managerial behaviour of private sector managers in India and South Korea. Human Resource Development International, 23(3), 259-282 .
  • Patel T., Hamlin R.G., Salih A., 2019. Perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness in UAE and Egypt : A comparison through the combined lenses of Islamic Leadership and Islamic Work Ethics, European Management Review, 16, 3: 647-666.
  • Patel T., 2018. Innovative Trends in Culture in International Business Literature: Toward Multiparadigmatic and Nonlinear Studies of Culture, International Studies of Management and Organization, 48, 4: 435-456.
  • Patel T., Salih A., 2018. Cultural Intelligence: A Dynamic and Interactional Framework, International Studies of Management and Organization, 48, 4: 358-385.
  • Patel T., 2018. Guest Editor’s Introduction: Innovative Trends in Cultural Studies, International Studies of Management and Organization, 48, 4: 353-357.
  • Patel T., Holm M., 2018. Practicing mindfulness as a means for enhancing workplace pro-environmental behaviors among managers, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 61, 13: 2231-2256.
  • Patel T., Hamlin R. G., 2017. Perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness within higher education in France, Studies in Higher Education, 42, 2: 292-314.
  • Patel T., Hamlin R. G., 2017. Toward a Unified Framework of Perceived Negative Leader Behaviors: Insights from French and British Education Sectors, Journal of Business Ethics, 45 (1): 157–182.
  • Patel T., 2017. Multiparadigmatic Studies of Culture: Needs, Challenges, and Recommendations for Management Scholars, European Management Review, 14, 1: 83-100.
  • Patel T., 2016. Promoting multi-paradigmatic cultural research in international business literature: An integrative complexity-based argument,  Journal of Organizational Change Management, 29 (4): 599 – 629.
  • Patel T., 2015. Crossing disciplinary, epistemological and conceptual boundaries in search of better cultural sense-making, Journal of Organizational Change Management, 28 (5): 728 – 748.
  • Patel, T., & Rayner, S. 2015. A transactional culture analysis of corporate sustainability reporting practices: Six examples from India. Business & Society, 54(3), 283-321.
  • Patel, T. and Hamlin, R.G. 2012. Deducing a Taxonomy of Perceived Managerial and Leadership Effectiveness, Human Resource Development International, 15(5): 571-587.
  • Patel, T. & Hamlin, R.G. 2012. Behavioral Indicators of Managerial and Leadership Effectiveness within Romanian and British Public Sector Hospitals, An Empirical Study and Cross-Nation Comparative Analysis, European Journal of Training and Development, 36(2): 234-260.
  • Patel, T., & Rayner, S. 2012. Towards a transactional approach to culture: Illustrating the application of Douglasian cultural framework in a variety of management settings. European Management Review, 9 (3), 121-138.
  • Patel, T., & Schaefer, A. 2009. Making sense of the diversity of ethical decision making in business: An illustration of the Indian context. Journal of Business Ethics, 90(2), 171.
  • Patel, T. 2009. Book review on ‘Sustainability Accounting and Accountability’ by J. Unerman, J. Bebbington and B. O’Dwyer (Eds) Routledge: London and New York, 2007, ISBN -10: 0415384885 (hbk) in European Accounting Review, 18 (2): 407-420.
  • Patel, T. 2007. The role of dynamic cultural theories in explaining the viability of international strategic alliances. Management Decision, 45 (10): 1532-1559.PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS)
    Patel, T. and Salih, M. (Editors) 2022. Cultural Spaces in International Business: Theories and Applications, London: Routledge.
  • Patel, T. 2013. Cross Cultural Management – A Transactional Approach. Routledge.
  • Patel, T. 2007. Stereotypes of intercultural management: a dynamic appreciation of viability of French-Indian strategic alliances. Eburon Uitgeverij BV.PUBLICATIONS (BOOK CHAPTERS)
  • Patel, T. 2022. Introducing Culture in the Context of International Business Studies: Conceptualisations, Controversies, and Convictions, in Patel, T. and Salih, M. (Editors) Cultural Spaces in International Business: Theories and Applications, London: Routledge.
  • Patel, T. 2012. A cultural appreciation of diversity of ethical strategies: Examples from European Businesses In Business Ethics: A Critical Approach. Editors Patrick O’Sullivan, Mark Smith and Mark Esposito. Routledge
  • Patel, T. 2010. Confronting Discrimination through Affirmative Action in India: Playing the Right Music with the Wrong Instrument’ in Managing Diversity in Asia: A Research Companion. Editors Mustafa Ozbilgin and Jawad Syed. Edgar Elgar.PUBLICATIONS (CASE STUDIES/ TEACHING MATERIAL)
    All case studies published with the European Case Clearing House, now called The Case Centre:
  • Patel T., 2014. Gender (In)equality in India
  • Patel T. and Steiler, D. 2011. Stress Management in Group Ambrose:
  • Tackling a multi-level and multidimensional concern
  • Patel, T. and Sussin, I. 2010. Corporate Culture at Bricovitch: The French Connection.
  • Patel, T. 2006. ‘Motivating High Performers’.
  • Patel, T. 2006. ‘Stress-Induced Conflict in the Workplace’.
  • Patel, T. and Harrison, P. 2004. ‘Oh, A Career-Minded Woman!’
  • Patel, T. 2004. ‘Daddy, Let’s go back home!’
  • Patel, T. 2004. ‘A Eurostar Couple’.
  • Patel, T. 2004. ‘A Career Change Every Three Months!’

 

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”

— B. B. King