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Dr Bernard Obeng

International Fellow and a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

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Biography

Bernard is an International Fellow with the Open University Business School and a Lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra-Ghana. Bernard studied at Durham University Business School (PhD) and Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (Pg. Cert. in Research Methods). Prior to joining GIMPA, Bernard was an Ad-hoc Lecturer at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK and before joining academia, he was a Senior Banking Officer at the National Investment Bank, Osu-Accra.

Teaching interests

Bernard's teaching interests are in the fields of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, and Marketing. Bernard has taught courses in New Venture Creation, Foundations in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Marketing Management, and Principles of Marketing.

Research interests

Research Interests

Business advice and networks, innovation and growth in small firms, enterprise education in the informal sector, and social entrepreneurship.

Publications
  1. Obeng, Bernard and Blundel, Richard (2012)’Evaluation enterprise policy interventions in Africa: a critical review of Ghanaian small business support services’, Journal of Small Business Management (in press).
  2. Robson, P.J.A., Haugh, H.M. and Obeng, B.A. (2009), ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Ghana: Enterprisin Africa’, Small Business Economics, 32: 331-350. 
  3. Robson, P.J.A. and Obeng, B.A. (2008), ‘The Barriers to Growth in Ghana’, Small Business Economics, 30: 385-403.
  4. Obeng B. A. and Marfo-Yiadom, E. (2008), ‘Constraints to Growth of Small Business in Ghana: A Review of Related Literature’, International Journal of Finance and Policy Analyst, 1(1): 32-48
 
Book Chapter
  1. Obeng, Bernard, Blundel, K. Richard, and Agyapong, Ahmed (Forthcoming) Enterprise education for small artisanal businesses: A case study of Sokoban Wood Village, Ghana. In Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Turkina, Ekaterina, Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy: Models, Approaches and Perspectives for Economic Development, Routledge.
 Conference Attendants
  1. Obeng, B. A. (2011) ‘The Determinants of Small Firm Growth in Ghana’, Whiteman School of Management 2nd Conference on “Entrepreneurship in Africa”, Syracuse University, New York.
  2. Obeng, B. A. and Anderson, A. R (2010) ‘The Social Constraints on Entrepreneurship in a poor Ghanaian Fishing Community’, Whiteman School of Management Conference on “Entrepreneurship in Africa”, Syracuse University, New York.
  3. Robson, P.J.A., Haugh, H.M. and Obeng, B.A. (2007) ‘The Determinants of Small Business Growth in Ghana’, British Academy of Management Conference, Warwick.
  4. Robson, P. J.A., Haugh, H. M. and Obeng, B.A. (2006) ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Ghana’, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University.
  5. Robson, P.J.A., Haugh, H.M. and Obeng, B.A. (2006) ‘The Adoption of Innovation in Ghana. In: Laveren, E. and Crijns, H. (eds.) RENT XX Researching in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Entrepreneurship: a driver for sustainable growth in a global and knowledge-based environment, Antwerpen: Intersentia.
  6. Obeng, B.A. (2004) ‘The impact of business development services on SMES in Africa with particular reference to Ghana’, First Postgraduate Conference of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Aberdeen.