Dr. Kweku Adams,Associate Professor
Information about Dr. Kweku Adams at the University of Bradford.
- School of Management
(Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences) - Email:
- k.adams3@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 232391
Biography
Dr Kweku Adams is an Associate Professor in International Business & Management and the Programme Leader for the MSc International Business and Management at the Bradford School of Management. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds MBA (Finance)- University of Bedfordshire, Master of Laws (LLM) - University of York, PhD (International Business Management) from Swansea University, among others. Dr. Adams has also held academic positions in North America. First, as a Lecturer in Strategy and Global Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary and a Visiting Lecturer of Management at the University of Lethbridge School of Management in Calgary, Canada. His research interests centre on international business/business strategy, specifically the management of headquarters-subsidiary relations, investigating the wider environmental, social governance and human rights challenges facing multinational corporations. His work has appeared in quality outlets such as Tourism Management, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, Technovation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, IEEE- Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Critical Perspectives on International Business, Thunderbird International Business Review, Resources Policy, Employee Relations, Strategic Change, amongst others. His work has also been presented at several academic and practitioner conferences. In Africa, Dr Adams has been a visiting Professor of Management at the University of Education Kumasi, Ghana. He has successfully supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations across these three continents, particularly Ghana, the UK, and Canada. He has examined several PhD theses in the UK, Canada, Ghana and Pakistan and is currently an external examiner at Brunel University and Northumbria University.  He has also been a member of several committees including EDI and awarding bodies, and he is currently on the Health and Safety and External Examiners and External Experts sub-committees at the University of Bradford. He has also consulted for several for-profits and not-for-profit organisations including banks, building and construction firms, and multijurisdictional tax advisory services, among others, in Canada, UK, and Ghana. He has been invited to speak at several universities, NGOs, faith-based organisations, and student union platforms on various local and global issues that engage his research expertise and professional experience. He is the founding president of the Ghana Scholarly Society in Europe, a learned society with a focus on finding solutions to challenging problems facing Africa.  Dr Adams is currently on the Editorial Review Boards of the Thunderbird International Business Review and the Africa Journal of Management (AJG 2* Journals).
Research
My research interests centre on international business/business strategy, specifically the management of headquarters-subsidiary relations, investigating the wider environmental, social governance and human rights challenges facing multinational corporations and local communities. I am interested in supervising PhD topics in the areas of ethics and sustainability dilemmas of emerging market multinationals, human rights violations by multinational corporations, gender diversity in emerging market firms and the activities of oil and gas multinationals in resource-rich countries.
Publications
There are 24 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Kweku Adams. They are listed as:
- book (1)
- book chapter (2)
- peer reviewed journal (21)
Book
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book title: Corporate Sustainability in Africa: Responsible Leadership, Opportunities, and Challenges | 2023 | Rexford Attah-Boakye, Elvis Hernandez-Perdomo, Mike Tooke, Honglan Yu, Kweku Adams | Dr Samuel Adomako, Associate Professor of Strategy, University of Birmingham, UK, Dr Albert Danso, Associate Professor of Finance, De Montfort University, UK, Dr Agyenim Boateng, Professor of Finance, De Montfort University, UK | Palgrave Macmillan |
Book Chapter
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply chain management systems in Africa: insights from Nigeria | 2020 | Business in Africa in the Era of Digital Technology | Business in Africa in the Era of Digital Technology | Ade Oyedijo, Kweku Adams, Serge Koukpaki | Springer | ||||||
| Human capital, innovation and international competitiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa Authors | 2018 | Africa’s competitiveness in the global economy | Africa’s competitiveness in the global economy | Yaw A Debrah, Raphael Oriaghe Oseghale, Kweku Adams | ISBN 978-3-319-67014-0 | Palgrave Macmillan, Cham |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Board Representation and Coupled Open Innovation: Evidence from Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises | 2023 | Technovation | Kweku Adams, Rexford Attah-Boakye, Honglan Yu, Jeaneth Johansson. Eric, Njoya | ||||||||
| South African MNCs’ HRM Systems and Practices at the Subsidiary Level: Insights From Subsidiaries in Ghana | 2017 | Journal of International Management | 23 | 180 - 193 | Adams K.;Nyuur R.B.;Ellis F.Y.A.;Debrah Y.A. | 1075-4253 | 10.1016/j.intman.2016.07.001 | ||||
| Assessing the influence of celebrity and government endorsements on bitcoin's price volatility | 2022 | Journal of Business Research | 145 | 228 - 239 | Ullah S.;Attah-Boakye R.;Adams K.;Zaefarian G. | 0148-2963 | 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.055 | ||||
| Social and environmental practices and corporate financial performance of multinational corporations in emerging markets: Evidence from 20 oil-rich African countries | 2022 | Resources Policy | 78 | Adams D.;Adams K.;Attah-Boakye R.;Ullah S.;Rodgers W.;Kimani D. | 0301-4207 | 10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102756 | |||||
| Signalling the corporate brand promise to front-line employees: The role of learning and development in internal branding | 2022 | Tourism Management | 92 | Garavan T.;Koukpaki A.S.F.;Darcy C.;O'Brien F.;Oyedijo A.;Adams K. | 0261-5177 | 10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104558 | |||||
| The diffusion of innovation theory and the effects of IFRS adoption bymultinational corporations on capital market performance: a cross-countryanalysis | 2022 | Thunderbird International Business Review | 64 | 81 - 108 | Elmghaamez I.K.;Attah-Boakye R.;Adams K.;Agyemang J. | 1096-4762 | 10.1002/tie.22244 | ||||
| Eco-environmental footprint and value chains of technology multinational enterprises operating in emerging economies | 2022 | Journal of Strategic Change | 31 | 99 - 116 | Attah-Boakye R.;Adams K.;Yu H.;Koukpaki A.S.F. | 1099-1697 | 10.1002/jsc.2479 | ||||
| DIY Entrepreneurship: a decision-pathway framework for ethical thought structures | 2020 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 161 | Rodgers W.;Al Shammakhi B.N.;Jeaneth J.;Wincent J.;Adams K. | 0040-1625 | 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120290 | |||||
| Enhancing professional growth and the learning and development function through reflective practices: an autoethnographic narrative approach | 2020 | European Journal of Training and Development | 44 | 805 - 827 | Koukpaki A.S.F.;Adams K. | 2046-9012 | 10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0165 | ||||
| The contribution of human resource development managers to organisational branding in the hotel industry in India and South East Asia (ISEA): a dynamic capabilities perspective | 2021 | Employee Relations | 43 | 131 - 153 | Francois Koukpaki A.S.;Adams K.;Oyedijo A. | 0142-5455 | 10.1108/ER-09-2019-0375 | ||||
| Application of Algorithmic Cognitive Decision Trust Modeling for Cyber Security Within Organisations | 2020 | IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management | Rodgers W.;Attah-Boakye R.;Adams K. | 0018-9391 | 10.1109/TEM.2020.3019218 | ||||||
| The Mabey and Johnson bribery scandal: A case of executive hubris | 2019 | Thunderbird International Business Review | 61 | 387 - 396 | Sarpong D.;Sajdakova J.;Adams K. | 1096-4762 | 10.1002/tie.21989 | ||||
| Critical perspectives on “manufactured” risks arising from Eurocentric business practices in Africa | 2018 | Critical Perspectives on International Business | 14 | 210 - 229 | Adams K.;Nayak B.S.;Koukpaki S. | 1742-2043 | 10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0058 | ||||
| Multinational corporations and human right violations in emerging economies: Do commitment to social and environmental responsibility matter? | 2021 | Journal of Environmental Management | 280 | Ullah S;Adams K;Adams D;Attah-Boakye R; | 1095-8630 | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111689 | |||||
| Why on Earth Should Foreign Banks Invest in Africa's Financial Services Sector? Evidence from Financial Multinationals in Ghana | 2015 | Thunderbird International Business Review | 57 | 445 - 462 | Adams K.;Debrah Y.A.;Williams K.;Mmieh F. | 1096-4762 | 10.1002/tie.21691 | ||||
| Causes of Financial FDI Inflows into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Evidence from Ghana | 2014 | Thunderbird International Business Review | 56 | 439 - 459 | Adams K.;Debrah Y.A.;Williams K.;Mmieh F. | 1096-4762 | 10.1002/tie.21636 | ||||
| The impact of board gender diversity and national culture on corporate innovation: A multi-country analysis of multinational corporations operating in emerging economies | 2020 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 161 | Attah-Boakye R.;Adams K.;Kimani D.;Ullah S. | 0040-1625 | 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120247 | |||||
| The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana | 2019 | Resources Policy | 61 | 433 - 440 | Adams D.;Ullah S.;Akhtar P.;Adams K.;Saidi S. | 0301-4207 | 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.03.005 | ||||
| Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries | 2019 | Resources Policy | 61 | 128 - 140 | Adams D.;Adams K.;Ullah S.;Ullah F. | 0301-4207 | 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.02.009 | ||||
| Blockchain, business and the fourth industrial revolution: Whence, whither, wherefore and how? | 2020 | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 161 | Kimani D.;Adams K.;Attah-Boakye R.;Ullah S.;Frecknall-Hughes J.;Kim J. | 0040-1625 | 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120254 | |||||
| Competence and Enterprise of Management as Drivers of Early Foreign Listing of Medium-Sized Emerging Market Multinationals (EMNEs) from Africa | 2023 | Journal of Business Research | Kweku Adams, Rexford Attah-Boakye, Honglan Yu, Irene Chu, Maria Ishaque |