Role
Amon is an Associate Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Nottingham Business School (NBS) in the UK, and his expertise lies in entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on Africa. Amon is the Director of the AfrIE Research Hub at NBS. He supervises PhD students whose studies focus on entrepreneurship & innovation. In addition to his roles at NBS, he is a Professor (Visiting) of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal, Canada. Amon is a Visiting Research Fellow at Wits Business School. He is also an Honorary Research Associate at Durban University of Technology Business School, SA. He is also a Professor Adjunct at the Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Amon is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM), the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB), and the Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (JSBE). He is also a Research Grants Board Member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and an Editorial Board Member at CABS. His work has been published in leading journal outlets, including Small Business Economics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Information Technology & People, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, International Marketing Review, and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour Research.
Research areas
Amon is interested in research that can be classed in the following categories:
- Entrepreneurship & poverty
- Entrepreneurship & wellbeing
- African entrepreneurship & innovation
- Informal financing
- Networking & social capital
- Social entrepreneurship
- International entrepreneurship
- Born global firms
- Microentrepreneurship
- Indigenous entrepreneurship
- Inclusive entrepreneurship
- Informal entrepreneurship
- Informal economy
- Immigrant entrepreneurship
- Women entrepreneurship
- Family Business
- Innovation
- Frugal innovation
External activity
Associate Editor – Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM)
Associate Editor – International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business (IJSEB)
Associate Editor – Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (JSBE)
Chief Guest Editor – International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour Research (IJEBR)
Editorial Board Member – Economic Social Research Council (ESRC)
CMBE CPD Review Board Member
Sponsors and collaborators
- Beneficiary Carnegie-Wits Visiting Research Fellow £26,000 sponsored research programme at Wits Business School
- AfrIE Research HUB Workshop £4000 sponsorship INSECC Business School, Paris
- CoI: British Academy £28,094.00. International Writing Workshop 2023. Promoting African perspectives on Innovation, Digitalisation and Entrepreneurship in Africa: an interdisciplinary writing and mentoring programme for African Early Career Researchers. Ref: IWW23\100443
- Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council: Small-scale holder farmer's entrepreneurial ecosystems in Tanzania (SFEET) $72,000 CA: File number: 430-2023-01183.
- CoI: British Academy £9943.75. Migrant women entrepreneurship, health-related crisis & crisis management framework: An intersectional perspective. Ref: SRG2324\240587