All Outputs (17)

‘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)
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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)
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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.

Improvisation, strategy, and strategic improvisation in emerging markets (2022)
Journal Article
Cuhna, M. P. E., Gomes, E., Kamoche, K., Mair, J., Miner, A., & Tarba, S. (2022). Improvisation, strategy, and strategic improvisation in emerging markets. European Management Review, 19(3), 349-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12543

Ethical leadership: African lessons for international management (2022)
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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)
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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.

Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry (2020)
Journal Article
Choy, M. W., & Kamoche, K. (2021). Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry. Current Issues in Tourism, 24(10), 1375-1388. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1792853

This study aims to investigate and compare the congruent and incongruent perceptions of managers and frontline employees toward employee retention in Hong Kong travel agencies. An integrated model was developed using data from 32 interviews with 16 m... Read More about Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: a qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry.

Employee advocacy in Africa: the role of HR practitioners in Malawi (2019)
Journal Article
Rees, C. J., Mamman, A., Rees, C. J., Bakuwa, R., Branine, M., & Kamoche, K. (2019). Employee advocacy in Africa: the role of HR practitioners in Malawi. Employee Relations, 41(1), 2-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-12-2017-0296

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: In recognising the weakness of trade unions and the lack of an institutional framework designed to enforce employee rights in an African context, the purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which... Read More about Employee advocacy in Africa: the role of HR practitioners in Malawi.

Developing human capital in Africa: carving a role for human resource professionals and practitioners (2018)
Journal Article
Mamman, A., Kamoche, K., Zakaria, H. B., & Agbedi, M. (2018). Developing human capital in Africa: carving a role for human resource professionals and practitioners. Human Resource Development International, 21(5), 444-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2018.1464290

Africa is a continent with remarkable economic potential yet the least developed largely due to its inadequate human capital to transform this potential into social and economic development. The focus on provision of classroom education as the corner... Read More about Developing human capital in Africa: carving a role for human resource professionals and practitioners.

The dynamics of managing people in the diverse cultural and institutional context of Africa (2015)
Journal Article
Kamoche, K., Siebers, L. Q., Mamman, A., & Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2015). The dynamics of managing people in the diverse cultural and institutional context of Africa. Personnel Review, 44(3), 408-429. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-01-2015-0002

If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.em... Read More about The dynamics of managing people in the diverse cultural and institutional context of Africa.

Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique (2014)
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Kamoche, K., & Siebers, L. Q. (2015). Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(21), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.968185

While transforming the investment, trading and infrastructural landscape in Africa, Chinese firms are also generating much-publicised controversy about their real motives. Many of the large Chinese firms operating in Africa focus mostly but not exclu... Read More about Chinese management practices in Kenya: toward a post-colonial critique.

Transferring management practices to China: a Bourdieusian critique of ethnocentricity (2014)
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Siebers, L. Q., Kamoche, K., & Li, F. (2015). Transferring management practices to China: a Bourdieusian critique of ethnocentricity. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.925948

This paper provides a critique of the emergent theories of human resource management in China with a view to generating new theoretical insights with particular reference to Pierre Bourdieu's social theory. It reassesses the relevance of the orthodox... Read More about Transferring management practices to China: a Bourdieusian critique of ethnocentricity.

Knowledge appropriation and identity: toward a multi-discourse analysis (2014)
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Kamoche, K., Beise-Zee, R., & Mamman, A. (2014). Knowledge appropriation and identity: toward a multi-discourse analysis. Organization Studies, 35(9), https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614531720

Knowledge appropriation has been underpinned by an assumption of the organization’s ‘entitlement’ to appropriate knowledge and the outcomes of its utilization. Given the complexity of knowledge and the potentially conflicting views held about it, thi... Read More about Knowledge appropriation and identity: toward a multi-discourse analysis.

Knowledge-sharing, control, compliance and symbolic violence (2014)
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Kamoche, K., Kannan, S., & Siebers, L. Q. (2014). Knowledge-sharing, control, compliance and symbolic violence. Organization Studies, 35(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614525325

Recent developments in control hold that professionals are best managed through normative and concertive as opposed to bureaucratic and coercive mechanisms. This post-structuralist approach appeals to the notion of congruent values and norms and ackn... Read More about Knowledge-sharing, control, compliance and symbolic violence.