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 Worldwide, 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).
