Isaac Damoah
Associate Professor
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Faculty Since 2022
Isaac Damoah is an associate professor of management at Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s Providence Campus. Prior to joining Â鶹¹ÙÍø, he held lectureship, professorships, and principal positions in various colleges and universities, as well as project management consultancy services in the UK and US for 16-plus years. He has also led several student teams to compete in regional and national competitions and won; and has also led consultancy and entrepreneurships projects and has won several awards. His successful collaboration with his student, Nirpaul Singh, to develop a technology that reduces carbon emission in vehicle parts secured a £100,000 UK government grant in 2019. He also secured internal competitive £5,000 research grants as an individual in 2018 at Bournemouth University (UK).
Damoah has teaching and research interests in Public Policy and Program/Projects Management performance and their impact on Stakeholders; Operations and Supply Chain Management and SMEs performance. Isaac has published in many journals, book chapters and conference papers; and has his research output in reputable journals such as Journal of Small Business Management; Production Planning & Control; Business Strategy and the Environment; Project Management Journal; Technology Analysis & Strategic Management; International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance; Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management; International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management; Journal of Project Management; International Journal of Managing Projects in Business; Politics and Policy; International Journal of Construction Management; International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development; Urban Studies and Administration; and Civil Engineering Research Journal.
Education
- Ph.D., Business Management, Liverpool John Moores University
- Certificate in Social Enterprise, University of Pennsylvania
- MBA, Project Management, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
- BA, Political Science with Philosophy, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra
Teaching Interests
- Project Management
- Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Research Methods
Scholarly Interests
Damoah is interested in multi-disciplinary research including operations and supply chain management, project management, environmental accounting, entrepreneurship & SMEs, and sustainable development.
• Primary: Program/project management performance and stakeholder management; operations and supply chain management; sustainable development
• Secondary: Environmental accounting, entrepreneurship, and SMEs performance
Courses
- BUS 4030: Global Strategy Capstone
- MGMT 3040: Process and Quality Management
- MGMT 2030: Operations and Supply Chain Management I
Extra Curricular Roles
- Sharkfest
- Project Management Institute (PMI) member and chapter Guest Speaker since 2014
- Responsible Project Management member
Professional Affiliations
- CompTIA Security+
- Project Management Institute (PMI) - Member
- Association for Project Management (APM) (UK) - Fundamentals Certificate
- Higer Education Academy (HEA) (UK) - Fellow
Publications
- Damoah, I.S., Ayakwah, A. & Twum, P. (2022). Assessing public sector road construction projects’ critical success factors in a developing economy: Definitive stakeholders’ perspective. Journal of Project Management, 7 (1), 23-34. (DOI:10.5267/j.jpm.2021.7.003).
- Amoako, I., Akwei, C. & Damoah, I.S. (2021). ‘’We know their house, family and workplace’’: Trust in entrepreneurs’ trade credit relationships in weak institutional contexts. Journal of Small Business Management, 59(6), 1097-1126. (https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12488) (ABS=3; ABDC=A; SJR=Q1 Ranked).
- Damoah, I.S., Ayakwah, A. & Tingbani, I. (2021). Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enhanced Medical Drones in the Healthcare Supply Chain (HSC) for Sustainability Development: A Case Study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 328, 129598. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129598) (ABS=2; ABDC=A; SJR=Q1 Ranked).
- Damoah, I.S. (2021). Exploring Critical Success Factors of Humanitarian Supply Chain Management in Flood Disaster Management. Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, (Accepted/In Production), (DOI: 10.1108/JHLSCM-01-2021-0003). (ABS=1; ABDC=C; SJR=Q1 Ranked).
- Damoah, I.S. & Botchie, D. (2021). Do-It-Yourself (DIY) laboratories and science, technology, and innovation (STI): trends, implications and future research. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 33(10), 1267-1280. (https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2021.1942826). (ABS=2; ABDC=B; SJR=Q2 Ranked).
- Botchie, D., Damoah, I.S & Tingbani, I. (2021). From Preparedness to Coordination: Operational Excellence in Post-disaster Supply Chain Management in Africa. Production Planning & Control, 32(1), 1-18. (https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2019.1680862) (ABS=3; ABDC=A; SJR=Q1 Ranked).