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Dr Rifat Kamasak

Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship

Programme Director for MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Rifat Kamasak Photo

Specialisms

  • Knowledge and Innovation Management, 
  • Strategy and Leadership, 
  • Emerging Markets

Location

Edith Morley building room 266, Whiteknights campus

Dr Rifat Kamasak is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at Henley Business School. He is a member of the department of Leadership, Organisation and Behaviour, the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies and Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Rifat worked in the food, confectionery, carpet, textile, metal, retail, trade and consultancy industries for nearly 20 years. He has led research, consultancy and training at many organisations and his family's traditional hand-made carpet business for five years simultaneously.

His interests are emerging markets, knowledge and innovation strategy, innovation and decision-making in leadership, atypical leaders, toxic leadership and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) at work. He has led field studies on emerging markets in Turkey, China, Brazil and Sri Lanka. His research, empirically grounded and supported by international and national grants, focuses on increasing firm performance and effectiveness, facilitating firm innovation and changing policy and practice in equality and diversity at work. An engaged scholar, he is driven by values of workplace democracy, equality for all and humanisation of work. He has a special interest in English medium instruction in university settings and sociolinguistics, carrying out field research in these areas.

Rifat served as chair, academic committee member and keynote speaker at many conferences and is an honorary board member of the European Marketing and Management Association (EUMMAS). He earned MA and MSc degrees from Middlesex University London, Durham University and the University of Oxford, a PhD in Management Studies from the University of Exeter and a PhD in Organisational Theory from the University of Istanbul, Turkey.

Reference: Palalar Alkan, D., Gündüz, S., Ozbilgin, M. and Kamasak, R. (2025) Problematising sharenting of supermoms in a neoliberal context. Gender Issues, 42 (1). 3. ISSN 1936-4717 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-024-09348-2 (In Press)
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Reference: Ozgoren, C., Karatas-Ozkan, M., Ozbilgin, M., Kamasak, R. , Sayin, E. and Vassilopoulou, J. (2024) Refugee entrepreneurs: typologies of emancipation and impact. International Small Business Journal. ISB-24-0014.R3. ISSN 1741-2870 (In Press)
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Reference: Catherine, C., Kamasak, R. and Gorener, R. (2024) Closing the deal faster: the role of institutions and government involvement in cross-border M&A completions in Brazil. Critical Perspectives on International Business. cpoib-08-2024-0088. ISSN 1742-2043 (In Press)
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Reference: Kamasak, R. (2014) How marketing capabilities create competitive advantage in Turkey. In: Christiansen, B., Yildiz, S. and Yildiz, E. (eds.) Transcultural Marketing for Incremental and Radical Innovation. Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services. IGI Global, pp. 234-254. ISBN 9781466647497 doi: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4749-7.ch011
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Reference: Kar, A., Kizir, E., Bozdag, E. F. and Kamasak, R. (2025) Mitigating the digital suffering: bolstering the digital literacy of older adults and contributing to a more inclusive society. In: Siyal, S. (ed.) Impact of Digitalization on Education and Social Sustainability. IGI Global, pp. 131-154. ISBN 9798369318546 doi: https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-1854-6.ch005
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Reference: Palalar Alkan, D., Kamasak, R. , Sayin, E. and Vassilopoulou, J. (2024) Trapped in precarious work: the case of Syrian refugee workers in Turkey. In: Meliou, E., Vassilopoulou, J. and Ozbilgin, M. F. (eds.) Diversity and Precarious Work During Socio-Economic Upheaval. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 183-212. ISBN 9781108832113
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Reference: Baykut, S., Erbil, C., Ozbilgin, M., Kamasak, R. and Hamza Bağlama, S. (2022) The impact of the hidden curriculum on international students in the context of a country with a toxic triangle of diversity. The Curriculum Journal, 33 (2). pp. 156-177. ISSN 1469-3704 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.135
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Reference: Palalar Alkan, D., Kamasak, R. and Ozbilgin, M. (2024) Does voluntarism work for the workplace inclusion of individuals with disabilities in a country with limited equality structures? Personnel Review. ISSN 0048-3486 doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-01-2024-0041
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Reference: Cataltepe, V., Kamasak, R. , Bulutlar, F. and Palalar Alkan, D. (2023) Dynamic and marketing capabilities as determinants of firm performance: evidence from automotive industry. Journal of Asia Business Studies, 17 (3). pp. 617-638. ISSN 1558-7894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JABS-11-2021-0475
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Reference: Yurdakul, H., Kamaşak, R. and Yazar Öztürk, T. (2022) Macroeconomic drivers of Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in low income and developing countries: a panel data analysis. Borsa Istanbul Review, 22 (1). pp. 37-46. ISSN 2214-8469 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2021.01.002
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Reference: Ozbilgin, M. F., Erbil, C., Baykut, S. and Kamasak, R. (2023) Passing as resistance through a Goffmanian approach: normalized, defensive, strategic, and instrumental passing when LGBTQ+ individuals encounter institutions. Gender, Work & Organization, 30 (3). pp. 862-880. ISSN 1468-0432 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12928
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Reference: Palalar Alkan, D., Ozbilgin, M. and Kamasak, R. (2022) Social innovation in managing diversity: COVID-19 as a catalyst for change. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 41 (5). pp. 709-725. ISSN 2040-7149 doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-07-2021-0171
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Reference: Kucukaltan, B., Kamasak, R. , Yalcinkaya, B. and Irani, Z. (2022) Investigating the themes in supply chain finance: the emergence of blockchain as a disruptive technology. International Journal of Production Research. ISSN 1366-588X doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2022.2118886
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