Robert A. Opoku, Ph.D.

Community Work

I am a firm believer in community participation. I have realized that, in order to contribute more effectively to the academic community, I must be well informed. I therefore welcome the opportunities to contribute in a wide array of academic duties such as seminar presentations, research collaborations and manuscript reviews because it is through those assignments that I can learn more about the current issues in my teaching disciplines, research areas as well as issues affecting higher education. Find below some of the areas I have been contributing to the academic and industrial communities: 

JOURNAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY

• Associate Editor, African Journal of Economic and Management Studies [Emerald] Website

• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Online Information Review [ISI Listed, Emerald] Website

• Editorial Review Board Member, Business and Management Quarterly Review, Malaysia (ISSN: 2180-2777)

• Member of the Editorial Board of International Academy of E-Business, USA for its conferences and Publications (Journal of e-Business and e-Business Review) Website

AD-HOC MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS

• Journal of African Business (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group) Website
• Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (California State University, USA) Website
• Management Research Review (Emerald) Website
• Online Information Review (Emerald)
• International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing (Inderscience) Website
• African Journal of Business Management (academicjournals)  Website
• African Journal of Economic and Management Studies [Emerald]

INVITED PRESENTATIONS/SPEECHES/LECTURES   

1. A Presentation organised by the College of Industrial Management Students' Club for the finalists of the Best Presenter Contest on "Connecting the Puzzles in your Presentation", Sponsored by McKinsey Company, Saudi Arabia under the auspices of the Deanship of Students' Affairs, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, January 12, 2010

2. A Presentation to College of Industrial Management Students' Club on How a Country can Correct a Negative Image? King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2008

3. A Presentation to College of Industrial Management Students’ Club on The Job of Marketing Executive, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, November 13, 2007 

4. A Presentation to the Faculty and Staff of Department of Management on Branding Places in a Globalised World, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, April 19, 2007   

5. A Presentation to the Faculty and Staff of Halmstad University School of Business and Engineering on The Contribution of Faculty to the Success of a 21^st Century Swedish Business School, Halmstad University, Sweden, March 1, 2007  

6. A Presentation to the Faculty and Staff of Hull University Business School on How to Contribute to the Success of a 21^st Century Business School, University of Hull, Hull, UK, January 9, 2007  

7. A Presentation to the Faculty, Staff and General Students’ Body on the Synopsis on Internet and WWW, Regent University College of Science and Technology, Ghana, September 30, 2005 

8. A Presentation to the Faculty, Staff and General Students’ Body on Leadership and ICT: A Catalyst for Business Success in Ghana, Methodist University College, Ghana, September 29, 2005 

9. A Presentation at the 9th AITEC WEST AFRICA Conference and Workshop on Leadership and ICT: A Catalyst for Business Success in Ghana at La Palm Hotel, Accra, Ghana on September 21, 2005 (Presentation) 

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