- Business Ethics
- Digital Transformation
- Geopolitics
- Business Research Methods
Obaid Amjad
Obaid Amjad
Vice-Dean for Research and Faculty Development
- PhD in Management, ESADE Business School
- Master of Research in Management Science, ESADE Busines School
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Schulich School of Business
✉ o.amjad@euruni.edu
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Bio
Obaid Amjad is an Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Research and Faculty Development at EU Business School. Holding a PhD from ESADE Business School, his research interests focus on investigating the impacts of digitalization on societies, ranging from the power relations and ethical controversies arising from the data extractivism of digital platforms, to the geopolitical, social and environmental implications of technologies and public policies. He has presented his work at various international conferences such as Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Academy of Management, and European Group for Organization Studies, as well as contributing to various press articles and industry reports. Prior to academia, Obaid worked as a Strategy Consultant at IBM Canada.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
- Alternative Organizing
- Dark side of Digitalization
- Power and Resistance
- Privacy
Publications
1. Amjad, O. Organizations, state and power struggles in the age of digitalization and datafication.
2. Amjad, O. (2021). Social Movements, Markets, and a Commons-based approach in the Digital World; <Available at: http://www.esade.edu/faculty-research/en/institute-for-social-innovation/event/social-movements-markets-and-a-commons-based-approach-in-the>
3. Amjad, O., & Murillo, D. (2020). Setting the Expectations Right: Reassessing the Power of GDPR in Protecting Online Users’ Privacy. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2020, No. 1, p. 21204). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.
4. Moliner, L. A., Amjad, O., & Bonvehí, D. M. (2019). My data, my rules: From data extractivism to digital empowerment; <Available at: https://www.esade.edu/en/faculty-and-research/research/knowledge-units/institute-social-innovation/publications/social-innovation-models/my-data-my-rules>
Working papers
- The everyday cyberculture of the oppressed and its prefigurative politics to facing crisis Authors: Obaid Amjad and Ali Abu-Yasein
- Janus in the digital trenches: Resisting data extractivism through complicity and confrontation
- Digital Hegemony: Uncovering the role of the state in Estonia´s Digitalization
- New Avenues of Empowerment or Legislated Coercion: The intervention of the GDPR for online users’ privacy
- Sustainable Development Meets Platform Capitalism: Towards a Research Agenda for the Anthropocene