Dr Abdul-Razak Alhassan

• International Business, Development and Management (Change);
• Business Management and Strategy with emphasis on emerging markets;
• Strategic Leadership and Organisational Development; Reflective Practice;  
• Business Ethics and Corporate Political Activity;
• International Trade and Operations Management;
• Agribusiness and Supply Chain Management; Entrepreneurship;
• Globalisation; Project Management; Performance Management; Internationalisation of SMEs;
• Development Finance (Microfinance);  
• Global Political Economy of Development; Capacity Building; Organisational Behaviour and Development; Training and Impact Assessments of Projects; 

• PhD in Development Policy and Management without corrections from the University of Manchester, UK;
• An MA in International Development Management (Distinction) from the University of Westminster, UK;
• A BSc in Agricultural Technology majoring in Economics and Extension Education (UDS, Ghana).
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education (PgCAPHE), Coventry University

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academic
• Member, BAM, UK

Abdul-Razak teaches across the MSc Management Suite, International MBA and BA Business Management Programmes teaching on such modules as:

• Integrated Business
• Reflective Practice and Organisation Transformation
• Contemporary Management Issues
• International Strategic Management
• Strategic Leadership and Organisational Transformation
• The Business Entrepreneur
• Cross Cultural Management

• Business Ethics and Corporate Political Activity
• Business Management and Strategy with emphasis on emerging markets
• Development finance
• Global Political Economy of Development
• Globalisation
• Project Management
• Performance Management
• Internationalisation of SMEs

DoS and 1^st Supervisor for Asim Majeed (PhD Candidate). Topic: Entrepreneurial Universities and Living Labs as an arena of Innovation.

Current Papers

Mamman, A., Bawole, J. N., Agbebi, M., Alhassan, A-R. (2018). SME policy formulation and implementation in Africa: Unpacking assumptions as opportunity for research direction, Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.01.044

Akudugu, M.A., and Alhassan, A-R. (2013) 'The Climate Change Menace, Food Security, Livelihoods and Social Safety in Northern Ghana'. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Policy 1 (3), 80-95

Alhassan, A-R., and Akudugu, M.A. (2012) 'Impact of Microcredit on Income Generation Capacity of Women in the Tamale Metropolitan Area of Ghana'. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development 3 (5), 41-48

Conference Proceedings

Alhassan A-R., (2017). “The Double Bottom Line in Microfinance. An Examination of the Implications of the Commercialisation of Microfinance on the Performance Measurement Practices of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Ghana”. Presented at the 2016 BAM Conference, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

De Kam J., and Alhassan A-R., (2017). ‘Reviewing the Primary Challenges on Global Mobility: A meta-ethnography research. BAM Conference

Saha K., and Alhassan A-R., (2017). Empirical investigation of international trade in Apparel: A gravity model analysis of apparel export from Bangladesh to the EU and North-America. Won best developmental paper at BAM, 2015.

Saha, K. & Alhassan, A. R. (2017) ‘The Implications of Corporate Political Activity on Firms Performance and Institutional Corruption: Evidence from Ghana’ (Presented at the 2015 International Conference of Academic Disciplines (A conference by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences) in Brussels, Belgium.

Commercialising into Whose Hands? The Transformation of African Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and Mission Drift. Presentation at the International Conference for Academic Disciplines at the Ryerson University, Toronto Canada, May 2015.

Commercialisation and Mission Drift: A study of the Microfinance Industry in Ghana. Presentation at the International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) conference for academic disciplines at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 2014.

The Implications of the Commercialisation of Microfinance on the Performance Measurement Practices of MFIs. Presentation at the Coventry University Business, Environment and Society Research (BESRES) Conference in Coventry, UK, July, 2014.