Rate My Professor Tarikul Islam

Dr Tarikul Islam serves as a Lecturer in International Business within the School of Management, College of Business and Law at Adelaide University. He earned his PhD in International Business Strategy from Deakin University and an MSc from the University of Hull. His research specializations encompass the internationalisation of emerging economy firms via global value chains (GVCs), governance of cross-border buyer-supplier relationships, GVCs amid digitalisation and the circular economy, as well as organisational resilience, sustainability, and innovation. Islam's academic career includes prior roles as Lecturer in International Business at the University of South Australia (2024-2025), Senior Lecturer at Torrens University Australia (2020-2024), and Lecturer at Torrens University Australia (2019-2020). He began his professional journey as a Marketing Executive at Tally India Private Ltd. in 2006. He is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and holds memberships in the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and ANZIBA & AIB Oceania.

Islam has received several awards for his research and teaching excellence, including the 2025 AIB Insights Award for Actionable International Business Research from the Academy of International Business, the 2024 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of South Australia, the 2020 Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award and 2019 Early Career Research Excellence Award from Torrens University Australia, and the 2017 Early Career Research Grant from the National University of Singapore. His key publications include "Upgrading to Escape the Low Value-Added Trap in Global Value Chains: The Mediating Role of Strategic Learning Capability" (Management International Review, 2026, with M. J. Polonsky and Z. Khan), "Adaptive governance and resilience of global value chains: a framework for sustaining the performance of developing-country suppliers during exogenous shocks" (International Business Review, 2024, with D. Chadee), "The role of social capital, resilience, and network complexity in attaining supply chain sustainability" (Business Strategy and the Environment, 2024, with M. M. H. Chowdhury, I. Ali, and M. Quaddus), "Validating scales for economic upgrading in global value chains and assessing the impact of upgrading on supplier firms' performance" (Journal of Business Research, 2020, with M. J. Polonsky), and "Challenges of achieving social upgrading in Bangladesh's apparel industry" (Society and Business Review, 2018, with C. Stringer). Islam also holds a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching from Torrens University Australia (2021).