Ken Kamoche
Biographic Data
| ID | 334881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Kamoche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamoche |
| SIGNATURE | KAMOCHE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9529-0180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
I am a Scaffolder: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in 'Dirty Work
This article investigates how Hong Kong scaffolders navigate and make sense of everyday dangerous work which is stigmatized in a highly aspirational society. With the theoretical lens of 'dirty work', we examine what attracts the scaffolders into the occupation, how they perceive and navigate risk, and how they construct the knowledge that enables them to function safely as skilled craftsmen. We found that the sector attracts young men from disad…
The Formal and Informal Regulation of Labor in AI: The Experience of Eastern and Southern Africa
The spread of AI technologies has had far reaching consequences for work and employment regulation around the world. This conceptual paper explores the case of AI and formal and informal regulation in southern and east Africa, according particular attention to the cases of South Africa and Kenya. Within the region, governments seem primarily concerned with the potential of AI to promote economic diversification, rather than the protection of empl…
International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management
"This Handbook, representing the collaboration of 36 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of Chinese business and management. The volume represents both an 'inside out' perspective, offering local knowledge and experience, in conjunction with an 'outside in' approach, presenting measured and sensitive observations from an outsider's perspective. The Handbook's approach is organised around five key themes: - Cultural and institutional co…
Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis
This study adopts an exploratory sequential mixed method approach to examine perceptions of Hong Kong travel agencies on factors influencing recommendation of Kenya travel products. First, we conducted 32 in-depth interviews with outbound travel practitioners to collect qualitative exploratory data. Based on 39 identified attributes, we then developed a questionnaire well-adapted to the outbound travel practitioners and study purpose. With survey…
Talent management, identity construction and the burden of elitism: The case of management trainees in Hong Kong
How do ‘talented’ people become corporate elites, and what does the process of becoming elites mean to them? The story of talent management (TM) as a new form of human resource innovation has largely been told from the point of view of managers and the organization. Rarely do we hear the voices of the early-career employees who are the subject of these initiatives. Building on the critique of ‘potentiality’, and with reference to Foucault’s disci…
Human Resource Management in Emerging Markets: Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding Contexts
Originally coined as a term for a grouping of developing countries which that were neither mature market economies nor “Third World” and with earlier linked terminologies, emerging markets reflect an evolving and diverse literature with a series of opportunities, encompassing the purely theoretical through to the methodological and the analytical. This chapter provides an overview examination of such theoretical approaches, indicating where there…
Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: A qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry
This study aims to investigate and compare the congruent and incongruent perceptions of managers and frontline employees toward employee retention in Hong Kong travel agencies. An integrated model was developed using data from 32 interviews with 16 manager–employee dyads. Findings categorized stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change into four themes: job nature, industry factors, organizational factors, and personal factors. Key factor…
Introduction: New Directions in the Management of Human Resources in Africa
The first named author edited a special issue on human resource management (HRM) in Africa in the International Journal of Human Resource Management a decade ago (Kamoche, 2002). At that time, it was fairly common to begin journal articles and doctoral literature reviews affirming that the literature on HRM and management in general in Africa was ‘scarce/scanty/sketchy’, and for authors to proceed as if they were in typically uncharted domain. We…
Effective People Management in Africa
Highlights new realities, challenges and opportunities facing organizations and businesses in managing people in contemporary Africa and attempts to propose alternative sustainable strategies and mode
Improvisation as “real time foresight”
Managing people 'spiritually: A Bourdieusian critique
This article draws from Pierre Bourdieu's critical sociology to examine how organizational spirituality is being framed as a new way to manage people. The article takes a critical look at the way much of the literature prescribes spiritual values with the subtext that human resource practices infused with spiritual values, inter alia, improve organizational performance. This article demonstrates how 'symbolic violence' provides an analytical tool…
Pit sense: Appropriation of practice-based knowledge in a UK coalmine
Pit sense is a form of knowledge constituted by tunnellers as a way to navigate and assess risk. We discuss how this form of tacit knowledge that was situated in everyday practices came under threat when management introduced more bureaucratic procedures rationalized on the basis of commercial outcomes and health and safety. Yet, while managers were prone to vilify pit sense even though they had grown up with it earlier in their career, they were…
The dream went out
HRM in Kenya
Managing Human Resources in Africa
1. Preface 2. Human Resource Management in South Africa 3. Human Resource Management in Botswana 4. Human Resource Management in Zambia 5. Human Resource Management in Mauritius 6. Human Resource Management in Tanzania 7. Human Resource Management in Kenya 8. Human Resource Management in Ethiopia 9. Human Resource Management in Ghana 10. Human Resource Management in Ivory Coast 11. Human Resource Management in Tunisia 12. Human Resource Managemen…
Organizational Improvisation: A Contextual Approach
(2003). Organizational Improvisation: a Contextual Approach. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 567-589
Human Resource Management and the Appropriation-Learning Perspective
This paper posits the concept of "appropriation" to explain the underlying ethos and rationale for seeking to secure the contribution of people to organizational functioning. Human resource management (HRM) practice is therefore largely underpinned by the objective of appropriating the human resource "value." This is ignored by the practitioner-oriented literature which has a financial interest in helping organizations to secure this value, and b…
Rhetoric, Ritualism, and Totemism in Human Resource Management
This paper posits an interpretivist approach to the study of human resource management (HRM) by examining how organizational members construct meanings of HRM in everyday life through ritualistic behavior and the use of language. Concepts from language philosophy and socio-anthropology are brought together to develop an analytical premise upon which we can begin to appreciate the seemingly complex issues associated with expressive and ritualistic…
Rhetoric, Ritualism, and Totemism in Human Resource Management
This paper posits an interpretivist approach to the study of human resource management (HRM) by examining how organizational members construct meanings of HRM in everyday life through ritualistic behavior and the use of language. Concepts from language philosophy and socio-anthropology are brought together to develop an analytical premise upon which we can begin to appreciate the seemingly complex issues associated with expressive and ritualistic…
Improvisation as “real time foresight”
Managing people 'spiritually: A Bourdieusian critique
This article draws from Pierre Bourdieu's critical sociology to examine how organizational spirituality is being framed as a new way to manage people. The article takes a critical look at the way much of the literature prescribes spiritual values with the subtext that human resource practices infused with spiritual values, inter alia, improve organizational performance. This article demonstrates how 'symbolic violence' provides an analytical tool…
Pit sense: Appropriation of practice-based knowledge in a UK coalmine
Pit sense is a form of knowledge constituted by tunnellers as a way to navigate and assess risk. We discuss how this form of tacit knowledge that was situated in everyday practices came under threat when management introduced more bureaucratic procedures rationalized on the basis of commercial outcomes and health and safety. Yet, while managers were prone to vilify pit sense even though they had grown up with it earlier in their career, they were…
Organizational Improvisation: A Contextual Approach
(2003). Organizational Improvisation: a Contextual Approach. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 567-589
Human Resource Management and the Appropriation-Learning Perspective
This paper posits the concept of "appropriation" to explain the underlying ethos and rationale for seeking to secure the contribution of people to organizational functioning. Human resource management (HRM) practice is therefore largely underpinned by the objective of appropriating the human resource "value." This is ignored by the practitioner-oriented literature which has a financial interest in helping organizations to secure this value, and b…
Talent management, identity construction and the burden of elitism: The case of management trainees in Hong Kong
How do ‘talented’ people become corporate elites, and what does the process of becoming elites mean to them? The story of talent management (TM) as a new form of human resource innovation has largely been told from the point of view of managers and the organization. Rarely do we hear the voices of the early-career employees who are the subject of these initiatives. Building on the critique of ‘potentiality’, and with reference to Foucault’s disci…
Rhetoric, Ritualism, and Totemism in Human Resource Management
This paper posits an interpretivist approach to the study of human resource management (HRM) by examining how organizational members construct meanings of HRM in everyday life through ritualistic behavior and the use of language. Concepts from language philosophy and socio-anthropology are brought together to develop an analytical premise upon which we can begin to appreciate the seemingly complex issues associated with expressive and ritualistic…
Human Resource Management and the Appropriation-Learning Perspective
This paper posits the concept of "appropriation" to explain the underlying ethos and rationale for seeking to secure the contribution of people to organizational functioning. Human resource management (HRM) practice is therefore largely underpinned by the objective of appropriating the human resource "value." This is ignored by the practitioner-oriented literature which has a financial interest in helping organizations to secure this value, and b…
HRM in Kenya
Managing Human Resources in Africa
1. Preface 2. Human Resource Management in South Africa 3. Human Resource Management in Botswana 4. Human Resource Management in Zambia 5. Human Resource Management in Mauritius 6. Human Resource Management in Tanzania 7. Human Resource Management in Kenya 8. Human Resource Management in Ethiopia 9. Human Resource Management in Ghana 10. Human Resource Management in Ivory Coast 11. Human Resource Management in Tunisia 12. Human Resource Managemen…
Organizational Improvisation: A Contextual Approach
(2003). Organizational Improvisation: a Contextual Approach. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 567-589
The dream went out
Pit sense: Appropriation of practice-based knowledge in a UK coalmine
Pit sense is a form of knowledge constituted by tunnellers as a way to navigate and assess risk. We discuss how this form of tacit knowledge that was situated in everyday practices came under threat when management introduced more bureaucratic procedures rationalized on the basis of commercial outcomes and health and safety. Yet, while managers were prone to vilify pit sense even though they had grown up with it earlier in their career, they were…
Improvisation as “real time foresight”
Managing people 'spiritually: A Bourdieusian critique
This article draws from Pierre Bourdieu's critical sociology to examine how organizational spirituality is being framed as a new way to manage people. The article takes a critical look at the way much of the literature prescribes spiritual values with the subtext that human resource practices infused with spiritual values, inter alia, improve organizational performance. This article demonstrates how 'symbolic violence' provides an analytical tool…
Introduction: New Directions in the Management of Human Resources in Africa
The first named author edited a special issue on human resource management (HRM) in Africa in the International Journal of Human Resource Management a decade ago (Kamoche, 2002). At that time, it was fairly common to begin journal articles and doctoral literature reviews affirming that the literature on HRM and management in general in Africa was ‘scarce/scanty/sketchy’, and for authors to proceed as if they were in typically uncharted domain. We…
Effective People Management in Africa
Highlights new realities, challenges and opportunities facing organizations and businesses in managing people in contemporary Africa and attempts to propose alternative sustainable strategies and mode
Human Resource Management in Emerging Markets: Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding Contexts
Originally coined as a term for a grouping of developing countries which that were neither mature market economies nor “Third World” and with earlier linked terminologies, emerging markets reflect an evolving and diverse literature with a series of opportunities, encompassing the purely theoretical through to the methodological and the analytical. This chapter provides an overview examination of such theoretical approaches, indicating where there…
Identifying stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change: A qualitative study of employee retention in the Hong Kong travel agency industry
This study aims to investigate and compare the congruent and incongruent perceptions of managers and frontline employees toward employee retention in Hong Kong travel agencies. An integrated model was developed using data from 32 interviews with 16 manager–employee dyads. Findings categorized stabilizing and destabilizing factors of job change into four themes: job nature, industry factors, organizational factors, and personal factors. Key factor…
Factors influencing recommendation of sub-Saharan Africa travel products: A Hong Kong–Kenya importance–performance analysis
This study adopts an exploratory sequential mixed method approach to examine perceptions of Hong Kong travel agencies on factors influencing recommendation of Kenya travel products. First, we conducted 32 in-depth interviews with outbound travel practitioners to collect qualitative exploratory data. Based on 39 identified attributes, we then developed a questionnaire well-adapted to the outbound travel practitioners and study purpose. With survey…
Talent management, identity construction and the burden of elitism: The case of management trainees in Hong Kong
How do ‘talented’ people become corporate elites, and what does the process of becoming elites mean to them? The story of talent management (TM) as a new form of human resource innovation has largely been told from the point of view of managers and the organization. Rarely do we hear the voices of the early-career employees who are the subject of these initiatives. Building on the critique of ‘potentiality’, and with reference to Foucault’s disci…
International business and Africa: Theoretical and applied challenges, and future directions
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management
"This Handbook, representing the collaboration of 36 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of Chinese business and management. The volume represents both an 'inside out' perspective, offering local knowledge and experience, in conjunction with an 'outside in' approach, presenting measured and sensitive observations from an outsider's perspective. The Handbook's approach is organised around five key themes: - Cultural and institutional co…
The Formal and Informal Regulation of Labor in AI: The Experience of Eastern and Southern Africa
The spread of AI technologies has had far reaching consequences for work and employment regulation around the world. This conceptual paper explores the case of AI and formal and informal regulation in southern and east Africa, according particular attention to the cases of South Africa and Kenya. Within the region, governments seem primarily concerned with the potential of AI to promote economic diversification, rather than the protection of empl…
I am a Scaffolder: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in 'Dirty Work
This article investigates how Hong Kong scaffolders navigate and make sense of everyday dangerous work which is stigmatized in a highly aspirational society. With the theoretical lens of 'dirty work', we examine what attracts the scaffolders into the occupation, how they perceive and navigate risk, and how they construct the knowledge that enables them to function safely as skilled craftsmen. We found that the sector attracts young men from disad…
Sociology (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Global and Cross-Cultural Management (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Management (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)