Dr. Muhammad Shehryar Shahid is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Suleman Dawood School of Business at LUMS and is also a leading member of the Entrepreneurship Working Group at the university. Dr. Shahid received his PhD from University of Sheffield in 2011, his MBA from Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2006 and his bachelor's degree from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering and Technology in 2003. Prior to his appointment at LUMS, he served as the Head of Management and Organisation Division and the Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship and SMEs (CESME) at the University of Central Punjab from 2011 to 2013. He has taught courses like Entrepreneurship, Principles of Management, Business Model Development, Lean Launchpad and SME Management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is also an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (JSBE) and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of The Lahore Journal of Business (LJB). His research interests lie in the areas of informal entrepreneurship, small business growth and entrepreneurial intentions.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Syed, J. (In Press 2023). An Economic Sociology Perspective on Informal Domestic Work Relations: A study of domestic workers and their employers in Pakistan. Socio-Economic Review.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Hossain, M., Shahid, S. & Anwar & Anwar, T. (2023). Frugal innovation as a source of sustainable entrepreneurship to tackle social and environmental challenges. Journal of Cleaner Production.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Rodegers, P., Vershinina, N., Zahra & Zahra, M. & Williams, C. (2022). Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Ejaz, L. & Ali, K. (2022). We must deter, but not without trust: a case of formalising informal micro-entrepreneurs in Pakistan. International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy.
Zhilun, J., Shehryar Shahid, M., Mirza, N. & Tan & Tan, Z. (2021). Should The Fourth Industrial Revolution Be Widespread or Confined Geographically? A Country-Level Analysis of Fintech Economies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2020). Beyond the formal/informal enterprise dualism: Explaining the level of (in)formality of entrepreneurs. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Ilyas, A., Shehryar Shahid, M. & Hassan, R. (2020). Evaluating the motives of child labourers in the informal economy. International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Rafay Ahsen, S. (2019). Hawks Engineering Works. Asian Journal of Management Cases, 16 (2), 162-185.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Ahsen, S. (2019). Linking Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions: An interactive effect of social and personal factors. International Journal of Learning and Change.
Rodgers, P., Shehryar Shahid, M. & Williams, C. (2018). RECONCEPTUALIZING INFORMAL WORK PRACTICES: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2017). Evaluation the participation of an ethnic minority group in informal employment: a product of exit or exclusion?. Review of Social Economy.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Imran, Y. & Shehryar, H. (2017). Determinants of entrepreneurial intentions: An institutional embeddedness perspective. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2017.1389053.
Williams, C., Shehryar Shahid, M. & Martinez, A. (2016). Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan. World Development, 84, 312-325.
Williams, C. & Shehryar Shahid, M. (2014). Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.
Williams, C., Adom, K., Baric, M., Ladan & Ladan, U. & Shehryar Shahid, M. (2012). Theorizing the self-service economy: a case study of do-it-yourself (DIY) activity. Journal of Economy and Its Application.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Gill, S. & Ilyas, M. (2023). Bagallery.com: A start-up searching for its next move, Under Review. LUMS Case Research Unit.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Rafaay, S. (2022). EDTECHWORX: An education technology start-up, Published. LUMS Case Research Unit, Case Research center LUMS.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Zafar, N. & Anwar, T. (2021). Formalising Informal Entrepreneurship: Mapping the Policy Landscape of Pakistan, Published. LUMS Case Research Unit, LUMS Case Research Center.
Shahid, M., Ahsen, S. & Zafar, M. (2019). GHARPAR: The Lean Beauty Start-Up Cases (A) and (B), Published. Case Research Unit, LUMS, LUMS No. 23-074-2019-1, Case Research Unit, LUMS.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Ahsen, S. (2018). JbnJaws Productions: Decoding Entrepreneurial DNA, Published. LUMS No. 23-073-2018-1, CRC - LUMS.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Ahsen, S. (2017). Mechline Engineering, Published. LUMS NO 23-072-2017-1, CRC - LUMS.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Imran, Y. (2016). Gardeners: The Garden Stylists, Published. CRC # 23-067-2016-1, Case Research Centre, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Shehryar Shahid, M. & Imran, Y. (2015). Hunting the Heffalump: A Case study of four Inspirational Pakistani Entrepreneurs, Published. CRC Number 23-065-2015-1, Case Research Centre, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2014). The Informal Economy of Pakistan, Published. CRC Number 16-299-2014-2, Case Research Centre, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2016). Levels of Informality and Characteristics of Micro-Entrepreneurs in Pakistan', Accepted. Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies by Routledge.
Shahid, M. (2018). Evaluating competing theorizations of Informal Entrepreneurship: A perspective from Pakistan. ISBE 2018, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Shahid, M. (2016). "It's not just all about the profits' - Rethinking notions of informal work: Some observations from a Pakistani community in the UK",. Academy of Management, Anaheim, United States of America.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2014). Beyond the formal/informal economy dualism: evaluating the degree of informalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan. 2nd Annual Business Research Conference, Managing Businesses in Pakistan – Challenges and Opportunities at Lahore School of Economics (LSE), Lahore, Pakistan.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2013). The size and nature of informal entrepreneurship in Pakistan and how to tackle it. Second Research Competitive Grant Conference by PSSP, Lahore, Pakistan.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2013). Evaluating the motives of informal entrepreneurship in Pakistan: exit or exclusion?. XXIXth Conference on Development, Third World Association June 6, 7 & 8, UNIVERSITY PARIS-EST CRETEIL, Paris, France.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2012). Beyond profit motive: employer and employee relations in the informal economy'. Academy of Management (AOM 2012) conference, Boston, United States of America.
Ejaz, L., Grinevich, V., Kartaz-Ozkan, M. & Shehryar Shahid & Shehryar Shahid, M. (In Press 2022). How digital affordances matter in the context of institutional voids: a study of women entrepreneurship. EURAM.
Ejaz, L., Grenevich, V., Kartaz-Ozkan, M. & Shehryar Shahid & Shehryar Shahid, M. (In Press 2022). How digital affordances matter in the context of institutional voids: a study of women entrepreneurship. EGOS.
Ejaz, L., Grinevich, V., Mine, K. & Shehryar Shahid & Shehryar Shahid, M. (In Press 2022). Logics of Digital Space, Informality and Women Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Proceedings.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Syed, J. & Williams, C. (In Press 2020). Rethinking Notions of Informal Domestic Work: Lessons from Pakistan Shahid. EURAM.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (In Press 2016). Evaluating competing theorizations of Informal Entrepreneurship: A perspective from Pakistan. ISBE.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Williams, C. & Rodgers, P. (In Press 2016). It's not just all about the profits' - Rethinking notions of informal work: Some observations from a Pakistani community in the UK. Academy of Management Annual Conference.
Shehryar Shahid, M., Hossain, M., Karami, M. & Anwar & Anwar, T. (2023). Frugal Entrepreneurship: A way to Seize Business Opportunities for Low-income Customer.
Hossain, M., Shehryar Shahid, M. & Park, S. (2023). Business Models of Frugal Enterprises for Sustainable Development in a Constrained Environment.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2007). Capacity Building of the Pakistanis Proceeding Abroad for Employment.
Shehryar Shahid, M. (2007). Technical Upgradation of the Automotive Industry of Pakistan.