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Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

I have done my PhD from National Institute of Technology and I have done my MBA from Aligarh Muslim University. I have done my graduation from University. I have done science in my class 12th and seen science in my class 10th.

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Yes, my expertise in Kuwait. I teach operations research as a subject and I have taught supply chain management, I have taught operation research, I have taught inventory management and control. These are all the subjects related to.

Operations research, which is my expertise and my research was also in operations research domains.

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Let’s begin by assessing your expertise. Starting with: Can you elaborate on a specific area within operations

Certainly. Can you elaborate on a specific area within operations research where you've made significant contributions, either through teaching or research?

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Yeah. So what I have been teaching is your question, right. What I am doing is your question, right.

Or you're asking about my research.

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Please share your response, Professor.

Yeah. So the specific area is regarding the circular economic context in the area of Agri business industry which I have made where I think I have made a significant contribution where I did my research on this topic, where I understood the logistics and the supply chain process of the Agri business industry and how the implementation of. These, you know, practices of sustainability and how the implementation of.

Sustainable practices in the Agri business domain is studied, that is the special expertise.

Uh, which I have obtained in the area of supply chain management. So to, uh, briefly, you know, conclude what I've done is I've tried to understood what exactly is circular economy, what is active business, how the implementation of circular economy can agribusiness is done. So this is my area of expertise and this can come under the domain of the supply chain management or the logistics of it of the agribusiness industry with the special context.

In the in about the Indian industries.

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That's all from myself.

Thank you for sharing, Professor. Could you elaborate on how you approached integrating circular economy concepts into the agribusiness supply chains? Specifically, what methodologies or frameworks did you employ in your research?

Yes, I'll start this. So circular normally is about the concept where we try to reduce, reuse, remanufacture, remake all the resources that we have in via utilizing from the industry and Agri business in the sector which deals with the primarily starts with the machineries which are involved in agriculture deals with the resources that are involved with.

So I try to understand how these forms then that there are small medium enterprises or faculty business in India is the specific to the North Indian state. So how are they implementing circular economics? First of all, I started with a primary study where I went on to conduct the interviews where I went on to take the responses of the managers who are into the Agri business funds and try to understand.

Whether they know about the circular economic concept, whether they are aware about the principles of the circular economy or not, and whether are they building to implement these practices in the near future or are they implementing these practices as of now. So once I was done with the qualitative part of the research where I tried to take interviews, try to take responses based on a semi structured interview then. I converted those texts into.

I will lose the interviews that have taken into into text. And then what I did was converted those text into a subcategory, then into a major category. And then further, I came up with six major factors that were responsible for the implementation of certain economic practices. So those six factors, to name them were economic factors, there were socio-cultural factors, there were supply chain factors and, and financial factors and.

As the economic factors, so these factors were further subjected to statistical analysis, that is the.

So like EFA that is explorative analysis, then we have a CFA that is confirm it with after analysis which is followed after the EFA. And then at last I care I did the structural equation modeling that is the same part. So these are structured and statistical analysis that I went through for validating my results, for validating my conceptual framework. I came up with a good results and and then I have the papers, research papers published based on.

Results which I obtained. So this is how, uh, to be briefly tell how I try to understand the implementation of circular economic practices in the Agri business terms. That's all for myself.

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Certainly, Professor. Thank you for your detailed explanation earlier. To follow up: In your research on circular economy practices

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Of course. In your research on circular economy practices in agribusiness, how did you ensure the robustness of your statistical models, such as the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses?

OK, So what the the question is about the confirmation about the raw business of the study. So let's try to understand this. The research was primarily divided into two parts. The 1st is the qualitative part and the question which has been asked is about the point of edit part. Let's consider it. It has a second part of the study.

Yeah, we, we, we get to start the point credit part of the study. Uh, what was done was we started with the questionnaire formation. So we had to refer to plenty of research papers to the question. I designed papers to the, those research papers which informs about the practical aspects of the questionnaire designing. What are the minimum requirements for the questionnaire designing. So once the question I was started.

So once we.

We came up with, uh, lots of skills. We came up with lots of predetermined skills where we can determine. So the questionnaire was basically divided into, uh, uh, based on the conceptual framework and to eat or 8 to 10 segments. The initial was about the demographic profile of the respondents. We started with the rule, with their age, with their gender to understand the demographic profile of those responses of the responses to be specific about.

Answer the managers of the phone.

Yeah. The second part was about the conceptual framework, like we had the external factors. This was based on Tam model. This is technology acceptance model. Now the technology acceptance model talks about.

Impact of these external factors on the perceived usefulness and the perceived ease of use. Now once we have straight days, then we move on to the adoption characteristics, then eventually.

To the implementation characteristics. So this is technically based on the technology systems model which was proposed way back in the 1990s by Francis so.

Ditching their business, we first collected the response, the question I was thoroughly, you know, judged and it was based on the from the literature itself. It was we started the pilot study and I remember, you know, it took a long time to finalize the questionnaire and once the responses were received, this was we started with eliminating irrelevant responses or those responses with. The deviation of 0, so those were removed.

And we started with the KMO partly test. This is a uh value. KMO partly is a value. And, and let me clarify this. We did this on a smart PLS. We had the option of using SPSS. We had the option of using MMOS. We start, we did this using smart PLS software. So the KM battery test was .92, which is a good value to move ahead, which is a good value for the consistency of the data. Then these we went on to do.

HTML ratio we went on to do fondant leapt. We went on to analyze the different statistical outputs of those responses which we had received and eventually the one CFA was determined. Then we moved into CFA, that is the consummated analysis and then we moved on to the next stage, that is the structural equation modeling where the whole.

Figurative form where we try to understand the links between different items, different constructs of the conceptual framework. And these are all validated through the values. Like if there are more than 0.5, we, we accept that if they're less than 0.5, but we don't accept them. So this is how based on the statistical analysis, all the values were determined and this is how they're the the robustness of this study was done.

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That's all from my side.

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Of course. Could you provide an example of how you’ve inspired or mentored students during their research projects?

OK, so right now I have done my PhD in the EA 2035, so I haven't guided a PhD candidate yet.

But if we are talking about the guidance of the research, then we can talk about the masters trends, MBA students to be precise, and how I have guided them is by.

You know, having a regular meeting with them by discussing with them their interest initially, then narrowing it down to a certain topic or a certain industry of their interest. And then for the starting with the literature review part. So every master student, I told them to start with the literature review to understand the topic, to understand the horizon of the information that has already been done by the previous authors and to. Narrow it down to a certain specific industry or just. Next topic in such a way so that you can you know.

Uh, do better research in that particular domain rather than getting a holistic approach going, narrowing it down to a particular topic. So this is how I've been mentoring strengths. Apart from mentoring, I have also been, uh, doing, I've been, I've been mentors to like around 60 or 70 students who, whom I guide them related to their career paths. Or it can be, you know, it can be due to their depression. It can be due to their anything, any heightens they expect me to do so, So these are all my.

It's my opinion to answer for now.

That's all from myself.

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Understood, Professor. Thank you for sharing. Let’s finish by validating your teaching methodology. Could you outline your approach to designing

Certainly. Could you outline your approach to designing and delivering a course on service operations?

So the method which I generally use for teaching is based on an active learning type of environment. So I generally start my class with the.

Curious, or let's say curious, are the building questions.

Then once I get the response, it helps me, uh, you know, level up the class to, uh, to understand the class to a certain extent, like from where I can start and those, that particular topic are the basic experience or not. And the lecture also includes, uh, apart from the curiosity question, it starts with the learning outcome of that particular lecture. It starts with the topic introduction, brief introduction on the topic.

Based on the Blooms taxonomy, if you're talking about, I try to, you know, put the questions at the end so that I can understand whether the students have understood.

Once the question has been asked, then understanding the concept.

Whether the students have, you know, absorbed the the concept which I was trying to deliver them. And I think the best way is to get a class activity right. There are plenty of activities in your mind, like I mean, which I tend to perform in a classroom. It could be a thing based, it could be a discussion type of thing. It could be presenting by.

What it could be, who is type of thing. I tend to use different platforms for performing quiz for performing different activities in the classroom. These activities help me determine whether the concept that I have taught to them is delivered in the right sense to restaurants online. And the quiz could be on Google app. Let's say on who flash there are N number of atmosphere. I can conduct the quiz online in a classroom by sharing a QR code and the ThinkPad share is about like.

There could be N number of books and person from the group having a topic to explain to other groups. So these are all activities which I do in the classroom.

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You're welcome, Professor. To confirm, would you like to conclude the interview at this point?

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