Ajay Pillai
Ajay Kumar Pillai is employed as a full-time faculty in British University Vietnam (BUV) and is the programme leader for Finance and Economics.
He has an MBA from University of Surrey, UK and holds certificates from The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK (CIMA) and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). His main research areas are behavioural management accounting and corporate governance, and he has written several articles and conducted several workshops.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in Business Administration on the impact of contextual factors influencing strategic cost allocation adoption and its mediating role in the service industry. He has more than fifteen years of experience and has lectured in different countries.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Master of Business Administration
University of Surrey, UK - CIMA Adv Dip MA
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- British University Vietnam (BUV)
Teaching Fellow (2020 – Current)
Programme Leader, Finance and Economics - MDIS (Singapore)
Senior Lecturer (2008 – 2020)
Academic Quality Lecturer, University of Bradford, UK (2008-2015)
Local Program Director for MSc Finance, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France (2012-2015)
Chairman – Internal Exam Board, MDIS (2010-2020)
Adjunct Lecturer, Southern Cross University (2010-2016)
Module Leader for MDIS Tashkent, China, India and Malaysia (2008-2020)
RESEARCH AREAS
- Strategic cost allocation
- Executive Compensation
- Curriculum innovation
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
- Pillai, A.K., Pereira, M., Luong K.H., & Roe J. (2022)
Curriculum Innovation in Vietnam: A Study on Teachers’ Attitudes using the Dimensions of ACB (Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral) Model.
Vietnam Journal of Education, 6(1),20-30.
ISSN: 2588-1477 - Pillai, A.K., Tan K.C., & Teo, Z.X.H.(2020)
Key Influences on Cost Allocation Adoption: The Role of Managerial Characteristics, Personality Traits, Behavioural Intention and Decision Styles
Journal of Business, Sciences and Technology, 2(1),1-47.
ISSN: 2737-5471 - Pillai, A.K. (2008)
A review of literature on behavioural cost allocation with recommendations for future research.
The ICFAI Journal of Behavioural Finance, 5(3),40-53.
ISSN: 0972-9089
RESEARCH & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/EXHIBITIONS
- Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference, NIE, Singapore (2022)
Redesigning Pedagogy: Using Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior (DTPB) to examine educators’ behavioural intention towards implementing TPACK. - Workshop on SPSS (2020)
For Doctoral and Postgraduate Students
MDIS Singapore - Interdisciplinary Workshop, MDIS, Singapore (2016)
Are you left-brained or right-brained? And why does it matter? - German Talk Centre, Singapore (2012)
Business Talk on “Fraud and Internal Control” - Accounting and Finance Workshops, Singapore (2010-2019)
Conducted Accounting and Finance workshops for Visiting Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Russian students.
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