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A Protracted War Against Counterfeits: Navigating Tension Management Under External Pressures on an E-Commerce Platform (2024)
Journal Article
Hao, B., Feng, Y., & Kamoche, K. (2025). A Protracted War Against Counterfeits: Navigating Tension Management Under External Pressures on an E-Commerce Platform. Information Systems Journal, 35(4), 1218-1232. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12575

This study examines how external pressures drive a platform leader to fight counterfeiting over time. Acknowledging the tension between the illegality and legitimacy of counterfeiting, we find that the fighting effort involves an enduring balance bet... Read More about A Protracted War Against Counterfeits: Navigating Tension Management Under External Pressures on an E-Commerce Platform.

‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’ (2024)
Journal Article
Kamoche, K., & Law, K. K. (2024). ‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241281032

This paper investigates how Hong Kong scaffolders navigate and make sense of everyday dangerous work which is stigmatised in a highly aspirational society. With the theoretical lens of 'dirty work', we examine what attracts the scaffolders into the o... Read More about ‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’.

The Formal and Informal Regulation of Labor in AI: The Experience of East and Southern Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Bischoff, C., Kamoche, K., & Wood, G. (2024). The Formal and Informal Regulation of Labor in AI: The Experience of East and Southern Africa. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 77(5), 825-835. https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939241278956c

The spread of AI technologies has had far reaching consequences for work and employment regulation around the world. This conceptual paper explores the case of AI and formal and informal regulation in southern and east Africa, according particular at... Read More about The Formal and Informal Regulation of Labor in AI: The Experience of East and Southern Africa.

The Role, Nature and Contribution of Indian Emerging Market Multinational Companies in African Countries (2023)
Journal Article
Horwitz, F. M., Ronnie, L., & Kamoche, K. (2023). The Role, Nature and Contribution of Indian Emerging Market Multinational Companies in African Countries. South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management, 10(2), 184-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/23220937231202311

This article examines factors pertaining to the development of Indian emerging market multinational companies (EMNCs) in African countries. India is a member of the BRICS grouping of developing countries, the others being Brazil, China, Russia and So... Read More about The Role, Nature and Contribution of Indian Emerging Market Multinational Companies in African Countries.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management (2023)
Book
Nolan, J., Shuming, Z., & Kamoche, K. (Eds.). (2024). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management. Routledge

This handbook, representing the collaboration of 36 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of Chinese business and management.

The volume represents an ‘inside-out’ perspective, offering local knowledge and experience, in conjunction with... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management.

International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions (2023)
Journal Article
Kamoche, K., & Wood, G. (2023). International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions. Journal of International Business Studies, 54(5), 956–967. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00589-5

In response to Nachum et al.’s (J Int Bus Stud, 2023) call for further research in Africa by international business (IB) scholars, we argue that while IB scholars may have been slow to engage with Africa, the same cannot be said of related and IB-rel... Read More about International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions.

Ethical leadership: African lessons for international management (2022)
Journal Article
Story, J. S. P., Guimarães-Costa, N., Pina E Cunha, M., Kamoche, K., & Rego, A. (2022). Ethical leadership: African lessons for international management. Management International, 26(3), 140-158. https://doi.org/10.7202/1090299ar

Scholarship on ethical leadership is vast. However, scholarship at the interface of ethics, leadership and organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is still scarce. We draw from literature about leadership in Africa to (a) identify three research st... Read More about Ethical leadership: African lessons for international management.

Transforming from Traditional to E-intermediary: A Resource Orchestration Perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Cui, M., Li, X., & Kamoche, K. (2021). Transforming from Traditional to E-intermediary: A Resource Orchestration Perspective. International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 25(3), 338-363

The development of digital technologies has forced an increasing number of traditional intermediaries to transform into e-intermediaries for survival. This study adopts the resource orchestration perspective to investigate the digital transformation... Read More about Transforming from Traditional to E-intermediary: A Resource Orchestration Perspective.

Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Choy, M. W., & Kamoche, K. (2022). Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis. Tourism Economics, 28(4), 1101-1128. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166211018286

This study adopts an exploratory sequential mixed method approach to examine perceptions of Hong Kong travel agencies on factors influencing recommendation of Kenya travel products. First, we conducted 32 in-depth interviews with outbound travel prac... Read More about Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis.