Dr Dominic Essuman

PhD, FHEA, MBA, BSc

Management School

Lecturer in Sustainable Management

A head and shoulders photograph of Dominic Essuman.

D.Essuman@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3239

D041, Sheffield University Management School

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Dr Dominic Essuman
Management School
D041
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL

Profile

Dominic Essuman is a Lecturer in Sustainable Management at Sheffield University Management School. He teaches Strategic Supply Chain Management (postgraduate level) and Business Management in Context (undergraduate level).

His current research focuses on resilience, sustainability, and strategy issues in local and global supply chains. Dominic has published articles in leading international journals, such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Production Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Journal of International Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, and Management International Review.

Before joining the Management School, he was a lecturer at the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He was part of the committees supervising doctoral research on resilient and sustainable logistics and transport systems at the Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain-Africa (CARISCA), KNUST, and the Regional Transport Research and Education Centre, Kumasi.

He is actively involved in developing supply chain management scholars and advancing supply chain management practices in Africa, and he has a keen interest in these areas.

Qualifications

PhD - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

MBA - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

BSc - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Research interests

Dominic is interested in theoretically-driven empirical studies, especially in the following areas:

Resilient operations and supply chains
Sustainability-resilience nexus
Strategic supply chain management
Global supply chain
Supply chains in Africa

Publications

Journal articles

Dankyira FK, Essuman D, Boso N, Ataburo H & Quansah E (2024) Clarifying supply chain disruption and operational resilience relationship from a threat-rigidity perspective: Evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises. International Journal of Production Economics, 274, 109314-109314.
Appiah LO & Essuman D (2024) How do firms develop and financially benefit from green product innovation in a developing country? Roles of innovation orientation and green marketing innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment.
Nkrumah M, Owusu-Yirenkyi D, Nyuur RB, Donbesuur F & Essuman D (2024) Examining the Drivers and Boundary Conditions of Social Innovation: Evidence from MNE Subsidiaries in a Developing Economy. Management International Review, 1-21.
Awuni FY, Essuman D, Ataburo H, Anin EK & Acquah IN (2023) The proliferation of motor tricycle usage in precarious transportation contexts and the performance of micro and small manufacturers. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 51, 101068-101068.
Essuman D, Bruce PA, Ataburo H, Asiedu-Appiah F & Boso N (2022) Linking resource slack to operational resilience: integration of resource-based and attention-based perspectives. International Journal of Production Economics, 254.
Essuman D, Anin EK & Muntaka AS (2021) Does purchasing recognition help or hinder purchasing quality performance in developing market SMEs? Effects of resource conditions. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 27(5), 100717-100717.
Essuman D, Asamoah D & Anin EK (2021) How interfirm governance mechanisms and capabilities determine supply chain responsiveness in small businesses: Evidence from an African market. Africa Journal of Management, 7(3), 423-446.
Agyapong A, Essuman D & Afia Kesewa Yeboah L (2021) Performance implications of strategic planning and marketing capability in micro and small businesses in an emerging African economy: a contingent resource-based view. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 33(1), 29-48.
Anin EK, Essuman D & Owusu H (2020) How does buyer-seller information sharing affect procurement quality performance? Insight from SMEs in a developing African economy. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, 13(1), 91-105.
Essuman D, Boso N & Annan J (2020) Operational resilience, disruption, and efficiency: Conceptual and empirical analyses. International Journal of Production Economics, 229, 107762-107762.
Ahinful GS, Tauringana V, Bansah EA & Essuman D (2019) Determinants of academic performance of accounting students in Ghanaian secondary and tertiary education institutions. Accounting Education, 28(6), 553-581.
Agyapong A, Osei HV & Essuman D (2019) Re-examining the link between occupational stress and burnout in a Sub-Saharan African nation: the precursor and moderating roles of organisational and social support. International Journal of Business Excellence, 17(4), 414-414.
Munkata AS, Anin EK, Essuman D & Ataburo H (2017) Pursuing Supply Chain Integration. International Journal of Business Analytics, 4(1), 87-103.
Essuman D, Boso N, Addo Asamany P, Ataburo H & Asiedu-Appiah F () Firm resilience, stressors, and entrepreneurial well-being: insights from women entrepreneurs in Ghana. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 30(11), 279-305.
Ataburo H, Ampong GE & Essuman D () Developing operational resilience to navigate transportation disruptions: the role and boundaries of efficiency priority. Annals of Operations Research.
Essuman D, Owusu-Yirenkyi D, Afloe WT & Donbesuur F () Leveraging foreign diversification to build firm resilience: A conditional process perspective. Journal of International Management.
Essuman D, Ataburo H, Boso N, Anin EK & Appiah LO () In search of operational resilience: How and when improvisation matters. Journal of Business Logistics, 1-23.
Essuman D, Boso N, Hultman M, Olabode O, Adeola O & Aku Bruce P () Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of International Business Studies.
Anin EK, Essuman D, Asare-Baffour F, Manu D & Asamany PA () Enhancing Procurement Quality Performance in a Developing Country: The Roles of Procurement Audit and Top Management Commitment. International Journal of Public Administration, 1-12.
Fianko AO, Essuman D, Boso N & Muntaka AS () Customer integration and customer value: contingency roles of innovation capabilities and supply chain network complexity. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print).
Ahinful GS, Tauringana V, Essuman D, Boakye JD & Sha'ven WB () Stakeholders pressure, SMEs characteristics and environmental management in Ghana. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 1-28.

Chapters

Barnard H, Boso N, Essuman D & Verachia A (2024) Strategic responses to turbulence in Africa, Strategy in a Turbulent Era (pp. 40-62).

Research group: Operations Management and Decision Sciences

Teaching interests: Teachers are central to higher educational institutions’ capacity to create and deliver value for parents, industries, and society. Dominic is passionate about working with his students to attain this end.

He draws on emerging industry issues with pertinent research insights to inform my teaching while engaging students and ensuring they own the learning process.

He is interested in teaching supply chain management, strategic management, sustainability, and general management topics.

Teaching activities: Dominic currently teaches and manages two modules: Strategic Supply Chain Management and Business Management in Context.

PhD Supervision

Dominic is interested in supervising theoretically-driven empirical PhD research in the following areas:

Resilient operations and supply chains
Sustainability-resilience nexus
Strategic supply chain management
Global supply chain
Supply chains in Africa

Dr Dominic Essuman supervises:

PhD student Jai Verma