Dr Frank Nyame-Asiamah

Frank is Director of the Help to Grow: Management Programme and former School Lead for Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at ARU. He has senior academic leadership experience across four UK universities and a track record of delivering business improvement training to SME executives in the East of England.

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Background

Frank is an interdisciplinary scholar and experienced academic researcher best known for originating Cohered Emergent Theory, a system-level lens used in policy-relevant research, including business EV adoption in England, healthcare management in Ghana, successful funded project applications, and doctoral-level inquiry across multiple disciplines.

He holds a PhD in Management Studies from Brunel University and works with critical, emergent, and participatory approaches to address complex research problems. He publishes in leading international journals, with original research contributions submitted to the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). Frank has led funded projects, supervised and examined doctoral theses, and provided strategic advice on curriculum design and institutional improvement.

He has led high-profile international initiatives, including a British Council education project for Queen Elizabeth II’s 2008 visit to Turkey. Frank brings senior editorial leadership and has earned international and institutional recognition for research quality, peer review leadership, and educational impact, including the European Journal of Information Systems Outstanding Reviewer Award (2021), faculty development honours, and awards for supervisory excellence and sustained student success.

Currently, Frank co-chairs the International Conference on African Development (iCAD) 2026 and welcomes doctoral candidates interested in rigorous qualitative or mixed-methods research aligned with his expertise.

Spoken Languages

• English
• Akan

Research interests

• Healthcare information systems for development
• Organisational learning and knowledge management
• Entrepreneurship
• Sustainability and corporate social responsibility
• Risk communication and management
• Complexity-based theory development and applications
• Cohered emergent theory and deferred action
• Critical research studies
• Curriculum innovation
• Electric vehicle adoption
• Technology platforms as a business model

Areas of research supervision

Frank applies different theoretical foundations and methodological designs to implement research studies. His interests lie in interdisciplinary business and management research. He welcomes potential candidates who want to conduct research in qualitative or mixed method traditions in his areas of interests and expertise.

PhD completions as 1st (Primary) Supervisor

• Regina Hule – Micro, small and medium-sized enterprise policies: A cohered emergent and institutional theory perspective (awarded in 2025; supervised the first 2 years)
• Charlene Wami – Cohered emergent theory for evaluating and designing employee reward and motivational packages in Nigerian commercial banks (awarded in 2024)
• Ziad Al Qadi – The impact of strategic human resource management practices on firm performance: A study of financial crisis on the banking sector of Jordan (awarded in 2022)
• Viviane Chinwah – PRISMA model for improving maternal-child health outcomes in Rivers State, Nigeria (awarded in 2021)
• Ghanim Ali – A deferred model for evaluating and improving the Dubai metro train security management (awarded in 2021)
• Calistus Sone – Teacher attrition and retention in private secondary schools in Cameroon (awarded in 2020)
• Ghulam Sughra – CSR and financial performance of retail industry in the UK (awarded in 2020)
  Mukunda Bastola – A deferred-based framework for evaluating the quality of privatised curriculum provision to improve student experience in Nepal (awarded in 2019)
• Tala Abuhussein – Quality management implementation in the Jordanian Higher Education sector (awarded in 2017)

PhD completions as 2nd Supervisor

• Malcolm Hoare – Educare, Educere and Enterprise Education in schools. A case study approach to identifying effective policy initiatives to prepare young people and their teachers for an entrepreneurial future (awarded in 2023)

DBA completions as 1st Supervisor

• Arvin Nagir – Business sustainability in micro and small enterprises in the community of Gasparillo (awarded in 2023; supervised the final year)

Teaching

Frank has extensive experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across a range of management and business education modules.

Currently, he teaches strategic management and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and MBA students. He supervises several MBA dissertations and doctoral students.

Previously, Frank taught the following modules.

Undergraduate:

• Global contemporary business issues
• Crisis and business continuity management
• Managing operations and projects
• Progressive franchising
• Research projects

Postgraduate:

• Strategic management
• Global strategy
• Emerging philosophy of teaching and learning
• Leading learning in communities
• Collaborative learning and development
• Extending impact and influencing others

Qualifications

• FHEA (Canterbury Christ Church University)
• PhD in Management Studies (Brunel University)
• MSc in Management and Applications of IT in Accounting (1st class) (DCU)
• PGCE with Qualified Teacher Status (UEA)
• BA (Hons) Economics and Geography (University of Ghana)

Memberships, editorial boards

• Ghana Scholarly Society (2022-date)
• Society for Risk Analysis (2021-date)
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2019-date)
• Academy of Management (2014-date) 
• Review Editor of Information Technology for Development, 2022-date
• Guest Editor of Special Issue for Information Technology for Development (2022-2024)
• Editor of Social Sustainability Journal (2023-2024) 
• Editorial Board Member of Technological Sustainability Journal (2022-2024)
• Scientific committee member of SRRNet’s conferences on CSR and Organisational Governance (2022-2024)
• Reviewer for several reputable journals (see ORCiD)
  
   

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Co-creating inclusive futures: A cohered model of female business support policy in the East of England. ARU S&ICs Quality Research funding (£4,800), 2025-2026; Co-I
• Training Programme for African Public and Private Sector Executives. Academic & Practitioners Consultancy, 2025-2026; PI
• University-industry curriculum design. ARU FBL Quality Research funding (£2650), 2025-2026; PI
• Complexity and benefits of General Practice training. ARU HEMS Quality Research funding (£3500.00), 2023-2024; PI
• Help to Grow Management Programme contract, funded by the Development for Business and Trade through CABS, 2023-2025, Project Director
• Overcoming the barriers to industry decarbonisation through academic engagement. ARU FBL HEIF funding (£2000), 2022-2023; PI
• South East New Energy project. The European Regional Development Fund (£200,000), 2022-2023; Industrial Research Lead
• Pharmaceutical and medical innovation business model in West Africa. DMU FBL Quality Research Funding (£2331), 2020-2021; PI
• Curriculum Knowledge Assessment Lead in Business for Teach First, 2018-2020
• Evidence-based recommendations for Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana to help improve the design, adoption and implementation of the hospital’s knowledge-based systems, 2013

Selected recent publications

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Shaw, B., & Stacey, T. (2025). Cohered model of adopting electric vehicle fleets in the East of England. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 146, 104897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2025.104897.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Kaba, B., & Khene, C. (2025). Technology platforms as an ICT4D model for business development. Information Technology for Development, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2025.2449762.

Amankwah‐Amoah, J., Nyame‐Asiamah, F., & Ayiine‐Etigo, D. (2025). Navigating Temporary Competitive Advantage: Pandemic‐Driven Strategies in the Global Airline Industry. Thunderbird International Business Review, 67(2), 247-256. https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22423.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Sime, S., Boasu, B., Y. (2023). Comparing for-profit and not-for-profit collaboration: Cohered emergent theory application. In The Routledge Companion to the Future of Management Research (pp.188-201). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225508-14.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Boasu, B., Y., Kawalek P. & Buor, D. (2022). Improving fire risk communication between authorities and micro entrepreneurs: A mental models study of Ghanaian central market fires. Risk Analysis: An International Journal. 43(3), 451-466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119876.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Amoako, K. & Kawalek, P. (2022). Cohered Emergent Theory for designing and implementing multinational mining sustainability practices in Ghana. In: Crowther, D. and Seifi, S. (Eds.) The complexities of sustainability. World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811258756_0007.

Chinwah, V., Nyame-Asiamah, F. & Ekenam, I. (2021). Maternal child health risk factors in Nigeria: Towards the PRISMA model. Social Sciences & Medicine. 265, 113520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113520.

Mafimisebi, O & Nyame-Asiamah, F (2021). A new look at case study approach in Africa entrepreneurship research. In: Kolade, O., Rae, D., Obembe, D., Woldesenbet Beta, K. (Eds.) (2021) The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75894-3_24.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. & Kawalek, P. (2020) Sustainability and consumer behavior: Toward a cohered emergent theory. In: Crowther, D. and Seifi, S. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42465-7_23.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Amoako, I.O., Amankwaah-Amoah, J., Debrah, Y. (2020) Diaspora entrepreneurs’ push and pull institutional factors for investing in Africa: Insights from African returnees from the United Kingdom. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 152:119876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119876.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. & Kawalek, P. (2020). Participating in critical discourse: A critical research study of clinicians’ concerns for a Ghanaian hospital e-mail system. Journal of Global Information Technology Management,23(1):53-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/1097198X.2019.1701356.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2020). Improving the ‘manager-clinician’ collaboration for effective healthcare ICT and telemedicine adoption processes – a cohered emergent perspective. Information Technology for Development, 26(30):525-550. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2019.1650326.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. & Sughra, G. (2019). The relationship between CSR activity and sales growth in the UK retailing sector. Social Responsibility Journal, 16 (3): 387-401. https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-09-2018-0245.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., & Patel, N. V. (2010). Informing knowledge management systems design and evaluation with the theory of deferred action. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 6(2), 191-210. https://doi.org/10.18848/1832-3669/CGP/v06i02/56076.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2013). The deferred model of reality for designing and evaluating organisational learning processes: A critical ethnographic case study of Komfo Anokye teaching hospital, Ghana (Doctoral dissertation, Brunel University Brunel Business School PhD Theses). https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7582.

Recent presentations and conferences

Mantey, J., Y., Nyame-Asiamah, F., Okwechime, E. (2025). A cohered model of business resilience capability for small businesses. Paper presentation at the 2025 Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting. Westin Hotel, 7-11 December 2025, Washington, DC.

Chrysostome, E., Suddaby, R., Adegbile, A. S., Nyame-Asiamah, F., & Boafo, C. (2025). Crafting A Theory of Resilience Strategies of Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Africa: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective. Paper presentation at 51st Conference of the European International Business Academy, Athens, Greece.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Kyei-Mensah, T. (2025). Organisational change in the age of AI adoption: Cohered emergent theory application. FBL Annual Conference. Anglia Ruskin University, June 2025.

Kyei-Mensah, T., Nyame-Asiamah, F., Burke, V. (2025). A cohered model of university-industry employability curriculum: Its application in a Ghanaian context. The International Conference on African Development by the Ghana Scholarly Society in Europe. Aston University, 18-20 June 2025, Birmingham.

Bannor, B., F., Nyame-Asiamah, F., Ojeme, M., Takhar, A. (2025). A social capital framework of farmer support networks. The International Conference on African Development by the Ghana Scholarly Society in Europe. Aston University, 18-20 June 2025, Birmingham.

Bannor, B., F., Ojeme, M., Takhar, A., Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2025). ‘Resource integration and motivation in the subsistence marketplace: The social constructivist perspective’ Academy of Marketing Conference. Cork University Business School, 7-10 July, 2025, Ireland.

Okwechime, E., El-Morakib, Y., Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2025). Integrating problem solving and AI for smart city projects: A cohered emergent theory perspective. 1st International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Family Business & Sustainable Innovation. KAEC, 20-23 January 2025, Saudi Arabia.

Kyei-Mensah, T., Nyame-Asiamah, F., Burke, V. (2024). Improving graduate employability through effective university-industry curriculum design: A systematic literature review within 2014-2024. Inaugural Conference of the Ghana Scholarly Society in Europe. Bradford University, 19-21 June 2024, Bradford.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2024). Reconceptualising learning loop logics: A cohered emergent model of healthcare learning transformation. 21st International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and the 12th Organisational Governance Conference, Universidad Estatal de Milagro, 3-6 April 2024, Ecuador.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2024). Involving clinicians in a hospital’s internet resource distribution processes. Eternal University Conference, 10 March 2024, India (Invited presentation).

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Tom Stacey, T., Shaw, B., Rasif, E. (2023). Overcoming the Barriers to Vehicle Fleet Decarbonisation through Academic Engagement. Colloquium Sponsored By ARU. 20th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, 13 September 2023, Spain.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Kawalek, P. (2023). A Cohered emergent model of complex change: Beyond planning to the actuality of public sector change. FBL and AHSS Joint Annual Conference. Anglia Ruskin University, 23 June 2023.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Sime, S., Boasu, B., Y. (2022). Comparing For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Collaboration: Cohered Emergent Theory Application. 19th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and the 10th Organisational Governance Conference, Université des Mascareignes, 7-10 September 2022, Mauritius.

Sime, S., Boasu, B., Y., Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2022). Improving micro-entrepreneurs’ capabilities for fire relief communication and fire disaster resilience: A mixed methods study of micro-entrepreneurs in a Ghanaian Central Market. 19th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and the 10th Organisational Governance Conference, Université des Mascareignes, 7-10 September 2022, Mauritius.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2022). Diaspora entrepreneurs’ push and pull institutional factors for investing in Africa. At the ‘Africa on the move: Mobility, migration, languages, culture and economy, session. University of Mannheim Summer School, Germany, 1-5 August 2022 (Invited speaker).

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2021). African diaspora engagement and investment opportunities in home countries. A shared presentation platform with a Ghanaian Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture at the Africa Entrepreneurship and Innovation research webinar, De Montfort University, July 2021.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. Amoako, I. O., Omeihe, K. & Rae, D., (2021). Marginalisation and empowerment of West African women entrepreneurs. The Inclusion and Women’s Entrepreneurship in Africa research webinar, De Montfort University, July 2021.

Nyame-Asiamah, F., Sime, S. & Obembe, D. (2021). Pharmaceutical innovation business model in West Africa. The Journal of Management Studies paper development workshop, De Montfort University, April 2021.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2021). A cohered emergent model of complex change. Virtual Management Seminar Series, De Montfort University, October 2020 (Invited presentation).

Sughra, G., Nyame-Asiamah, F. and Crowther, D.  (2019). Determining customer perceptions that influence the retail industry’s corporate responsibility activities in the UK. 18th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, School of IPCA and the Social Responsibility Research Network, 10-13 September 2019, Barcelos, Portugal.

Chinwah, V., Nyame-Asiamah, F. and Ekenam, I. (2019). Ascertaining the risk factors of maternal child health outcomes in Rivers State, Nigeria: Towards the PRISMA model. 18th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, School of IPCA and the Social Responsibility Research Network, 10-13 September 2019, Barcelos, Portugal.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2018). Ghana Networking Session. The GCRF working group with support of the CALIBRE Global Research Challenges, Loughborough University. July 2018 (Invited presentation).

Abuhussein, T., Nyame-Asiamah, F. and Kewell, B (2017). TQM implementation and organisational culture alignment: Turning a gloomy picture to better student experience in a Jordanian University.  Cardiff Metropolitan University and London School of Commerce Postgraduate Research Conference, 13 September 2017, London, England.

Sughra, G., Nyame-Asiamah, F. and Crowther, D. (2017). A study investigating corporate social responsibility and financial performance of retail industry in the United Kingdom.  Cardiff Metropolitan University and London School of Commerce Postgraduate Research Conference, 13 September 2017, London, England.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2013). How to Write Your Dissertation Cleverly. The ISEing PhD Seminar, Brunel Business School, February 2013 (Invited presentation).

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2012). The deferred model of reality for re-designing ICT-enhanced learning and knowledge management processes at KATH, Ghana (Working Paper). Proceedings of the Brunel Business School Doctoral Symposium, 27-28 March, London, England.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2012). Research findings and implications.  Presented at the Information Systems Evaluation and Integration (ISEing) Group PhD Consortium, Brunel Business School, January 2012, London, England.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2011). Evaluating the role of knowledge management technologies in learning organisations: A study of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana (Working Paper). Proceedings of the Brunel Business School Doctoral Symposium, 28-29 March, London, England.

Opuni, A. M. and Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2010). Designing an effective internally generated funds utilisation system for mission hospitals – A case study of SDA Hospital Asamang. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, University of Illinois, USA, 13-15 February 2010.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. and Patel, N. V (2009). Research methods and methodologies for studying organisational learning. Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS2009). Crowne Plaza Hotel, Izmir, Turkey, 13-14 July 2009.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2009). Web2.0 and business transformation’. Proceedings of eLearning2.0. International Mini-Conference, 6-7 July 2009, Brunel University, London, England.

Nyame-Asiamah, F. (2009). Exploiting tacit knowledge through knowledge management technologies. Learning Forum London 2009. Proceedings, European Institute for E-Learning (EIfEL), 22-24 June 2009, City University, London, England.

Media experience

Interviewed for BBC and Press Association (in Istanbul, Turkey) on a coordinated British Council International Educational Project displayed for the Queen of England’s visit in Turkey.