Dr Serge Koukpaki

Dr Koukpaki has a doctorate in Leadership and Management from The Open University at Milton Keynes in the UK in 2013. He is a Senior Fellow of Advance (HE), a Chartered Manager Member of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a European Test User Certificate (level 2): Work and Organisational Assessment. He is Registered Certificate in Competence Occupational Testing (British Psychological Society).

Dr Koukpaki was a Module Director at The University Edinburgh  and York Business School for the following modules: Strategic Human Resource Management (postgraduate and undergraduate), Managing Innovation and Leadership (Postgraduate), Managing Organisational Change and Development (Postgraduate), Strategic HRM (Postgraduate), Managing Performance and reward (postgraduate), Training, Learning and Development (postgraduate), Strategic Leadership and Talent Management (postgraduate), HRM (undergraduate), and Managing employee resourcing (undergraduate). He has a strong academic leadership in leading programmes. He was a Programme Director MBA (postgraduate online) Strategic Management (postgraduate) and MSc HRM (CIPD).

Dr Koukpaki research interests are in learning and development, performance management, leadership, fairness in supply chain management, and recruitment and selection. He is an experienced PhD supervisor with two PhDs successfully completed. He is also an experienced in external PhD examination. He supervised over 128 postgraduates in management related to HRM, Leadership, Strategic Management, Performance Management, and Rewards Management. Dr Koukpaki has a strong Research Leadership he is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Public Sociology and Sociotherapy (IJPSS) and in the Editorial Review Board European Journal of Training and Development and International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management – Editorial Review Board.

Oyedijo, A., Yang, Y., Koukpaki, A.S.F., and Nishikant, M. (2023) The role of fairness in multi-tier sustainable supply chains, International Journal of Production Research, 61(14), 4893-4917

https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1928319

Garavan, T., Sheerin, C., Koukpaki, A.S.F., O'Brien, F., Chami-Malaeb, R., MacKenzie, C., and Buckley, J. (2022) “Strategic Talent Management in Hotels during Covid-19: Upper Echelons & Dynamic Attention-Based Perspectives on General Manager and Senior Managers”, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-04-2022-0516

Garavan, T., Koukpaki, A.S.F., Darcy, C., O'Brien, F., Oyedijo, A., and Adams, K. (2022) “Signalling the Corporate Brand Promise to Front-Line Employees: The Role of Learning and Development in Internal Branding”, Journal: Tourism Management. 92, October 2022, 104558, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104558, CABS4.

Attah-Boakye, R., Adams, K., Yu, H. & Koukpaki, S. (2022) The eco-environmental footprint and value chains of technology multinational enterprises (TMNEs) operating in emerging economies: a signalling theory perspective, Strategic Change, 31(1),99–116.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2479; CABS 2.

Oyedijo, A., Koukpaki, A.S.F, Kusi-Sarpong, S., Alfari, F., and Yang, Y. (2021) "Restraining forces and drivers of supply chain collaboration: evidence from an emerging market " Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. DOI: 10.1108/SCM-06-2020-0263. CABS3, A

Koukpaki, S., Adams, K., and Oyedijo, A. (2020) "The Contribution of HRD Managers to Organisational Branding in the Hotel Industry in India and South East Asia (ISEA)", Employee Relations: The International Journal, 43(1), pp. 131–153. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-09-2019-0375

Oyedijo, A., Adams, K., and Koukpaki, S. (2021) Supply chain management systems in Africa: insights from Nigeria in “Business in Africa in the era of digital technology – Essays in Honour of Professor William Darley”, Springer Publisher (chapter in eBook)-pp.121-140.

Koukpaki, A.S.F and Adams, K. (2020) “Enhancing Professional Growth and the Learning and Development Function through Reflective Practices: An Autoethnographic Narrative Approach”, European Journal of Training and Development, vol.4, No.8/9, pp.805-827, https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0165

Bayley, D. and Koukpaki, S. (2020) ‘Learning from the NHS: Why we should adopt reflective practices’,  https://www.managers.org.uk/knowledge-and-insights/article/learning-from-the-nhs-why-we-should-adopt-reflective-practices/, Insights  Chartered Management Institute (1st  December 2020).

Bayley, D. and Koukpaki, S. (2020) ‘How to get a reflective mindset’ https://www.managers.org.uk/knowledge-and-insights/article/how-to-get-a-reflective-mindset/,  Insights, Chartered Management Institute (8 December 2020).

Adams, K., Shankar, B. N., and Koukpaki, S. (2018) Critical perspectives on manufactured ‘risks’ and Eurocentric way of doing business in Africa, Critical Perspectives in International Business, Vol. 14 Issue: 2/3, pp.210-229, CABS2, B