Professor Ken Kamoche

BCom (Nairobi), MPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)

Department: Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Centres/Institutes: ARG, CRG, WEORG
E-mail: Ken.Kamoche@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 115 8466533
Location: C08 (North Building, Jubilee Campus)

Ken Kamoche is Professor of HRM and Organization Studies, and Complaints Officer. He is also the Director of the Africa Research Group. He was educated at the University of Nairobi and St Catherine's College, the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He previously worked at Birmingham University, City University of Hong Kong and Nottingham Trent University. He has served as a Visiting Professor at universities in Portugal, France, China, Australia, Thailand, Kenya, Rwanda, Chile and Hong Kong. He was appointed Honorary Professor at Linyi University, China in 2013, and at Hong Kong Metropolitan University in 2019. His research has been published widely in top management journals. He has also authored two books and co-edited four. Ken was honoured as Academic of the Year 2011 by the Kenyan Community in Britain, and awarded the Outstanding Achievements in Education and Academia 2013 Award by the African Diaspora (UK). In 2023, Ken was ranked 1.98% of Scientists in the World (Stanford University Top 2% Scientist Rankings, 2023).


Areas of Expertise
HRM, organization studies, managing in emerging economies, knowledge management

 

Recent Publications

The following lists my publications from 2014 to the present day.

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Managing people and organizations.

In terms of doctoral supervision, I particularly welcome proposals from students interested in knowledge/innovation/appropriation, international HRM and the challenges of managing in emerging economies, using innovative qualitative techniques.

Ken is module convenor of the following module(s):

MBA

Leading People and Organisations (BUSI4031)


Details of all modules can be found on MyNottingham

My current research interests are as follows: knowledge management particularly in 'peripheral contexts', Africa-Asia business relations and talent management

Ken is currently supervising the following Research Students:

Amani Shajera
Yan Liang
Yilan An

School Administrative Roles
ARG - Chair, Africa Research Group
Student Complaints Officer