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Dr Jacob Agyemang

Lecturer
EBS - Accounting
Dr Jacob Agyemang
  • Email

  • Telephone

    +44 (0) 1206 873043

  • Location

    EBS.3.127A, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911

Profile

Biography

Jacob Agyemang re-joined the University of Essex as a Lecturer in Accounting in September 2016. He previously held lectureship/teaching positions at the Queen Mary University of London, University of East London, University of Suffolk and again, University of Essex. At the above universities, Jacob was among others, responsible for either the design, preparation, assessment and/or the delivery of courses linked to Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Performance Management Accounting, Corporate Financial Management, Issues in Management Accounting and Financial Decision Making. His academic work is augmented with non-academic work experiences linked to companies such as the British Petroleum, TNS Field Ltd and the Range Superstores. His research interest is interdisciplinary, and in large part underlined by critical understanding with a focus on the multi-differentiated and interdependent contextual factors that shape management accounting and control systems (MACS) in the private and public sectors of less developed countries (LDCs).

Qualifications

  • BBA in Accounting (Ghana)

  • MA in Accounting and Financial Management (Hertfordshire)

  • PhD in Accounting (Essex) PGCHEP (Essex), FHEA

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Management accounting and control systems in developing and emerging economies

Open to supervise

Management accounting and development issues in developing and emerging economies

Open to supervise

Interdisciplinary research across management controy systems, entrepreneurship and development issues

Open to supervise

Corporate governance

Open to supervise

Current research

Micro-Level Analysis of the Contextual Index on MOP and/ or MACS in Product Manufacturing: A Case Study Evidnece from Ghana with K. Jayasinghe, R.Malagueno de Santana.

Macro/Microscopic Analysis of Cultural Political Economyof Budgeting in Less Developed Countries with K. Jayasinghe

Assessing the potency of TMOP-informed MACS towards the strategic development of organizations in less developed countries with K.Jayasinghe and A. Owusu.

Analysing the entrepreneurial potency of TMOP and their implications on local economy

Conferences and presentations

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting(IPA) Conference (Stockholm, Sweden, 2015)

Stockholm, Sweden, 2015

BAFA Special Interest Group10th Workshop on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, CIMA London (2013)

London, United Kingdom, 2013

British Accounting and Finance Association Doctoral Conference, Newcastle, UK (2013)

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2013

British Accounting and Finance Association Doctoral Conference, Brighton, UK (2012)

Brighton, United Kingdom, 2012

BAFA Special Interest 7th Workshop on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, University of Essex.

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Management Accounting II (BE113)

  • Advanced Management Accounting (BE131)

  • Financial Decision Making (BE162)

  • Accounting and Finance for Managers (BE167)

Previous supervision

Adam Adams
Adam Adams
Thesis title: Habermasian Perspective of the Marketing Accounting Interface: The Communicative Role of Performance Measurement Metrics.
Degree subject: Accounting
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 8/7/2024
John AyUK Enombu
John AyUK Enombu
Thesis title: Informal Acquisition of Accounting Literacy and the Use of Accounting Information By Clinicians At the Board of Clinical Commissioning Group
Degree subject: Accounting
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/11/2022
Mohammad Gh MEM Alasfour
Mohammad Gh MEM Alasfour
Thesis title: Post-Acquisition Management Accounting and Control Systems in an Islamic Bank: An Institutional Logics Perspective.
Degree subject: Accounting
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 1/6/2020

Publications

Journal articles (6)

Tunyi, AA., Areneke, G., Hussain, T. and Agyemang, J., (2024). From performance to horizon: managements’ horizon and firms’ investment efficiency. Review of Accounting and Finance. 23 (3), 419-446

Agyemang, J., Azure, J., Kimani, DK. and Arun, T., (2023). Government Financial Resilience during Pandemics: the case of West Africa. Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management. 35 (3), 385-414

Hussain, T., Tunyi, AA. and Agyemang, J., (2023). Corporate governance transfers: the case of mergers and acquisitions. International Journal of Disclosure and Governance. 21 (4), 543-567

Elmghaamez, IK., Attah‐Boakye, R., Adams, K. and Agyemang, J., (2022). The diffusion of innovation theory and the effects of IFRS adoption by multinational corporations on capital market performance: a cross‐countryanalysis. Thunderbird International Business Review. 64 (1), 81-108

Agyemang, J., Jayasinghe, K., Adhikari, P., Carmel, S. and Abongeh, T., (2020). Calculative Measures of Organising and Decision-Making in Developing Countries: The Case of a Quasi-Formal Organisation in Ghana. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. 34 (2), 421-450

Tunyi, AA., Agyei-Boapeah, H., Areneke, G. and Agyemang, J., (2019). Internal capabilities, national governance and performance in African firms. Research in International Business and Finance. 50, 18-37

Grants and funding

2023

Developing a framework for professional directors' certification in Africa

University of Essex (QR Impact Fund)

New ways of understanding and measuring productivity: Exploring how novel calculative practices shape investment decision-making and business-planning processes.

The University of Manchester (Funder)

Contact

jagyem@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 873043

Location:

EBS.3.127A, Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911