Nathaniel Boso
Department of Marketing and Corporate StrategySocial SciencesPhysical Sciences

Nathaniel Boso

100 Publications34 Research Themes43 Open Access
Research Overview & Focus

Business practices, marketing strategies, and policy changes shape performance across various domains. From entrepreneurial behaviors to external knowledge resources, these themes reveal how businesses adapt and succeed in different contexts. For instance, entrepreneurial orientations drive market orientation and network ties, impacting firm innovation and performance. Financial capital and learning orientation influence exports and sales capabilities. Strategic orientation affects export performance and brand positioning. Firms' resilience and operational efficiencies are shaped by supply chain disruption and resource slack. Legal frameworks in Africa influence international behavior, while creativity modulates sales collaboration. Digital marketing strategies enhance consumer attitudes toward social media, impacting engagement. Firms adapt to cultural norms, influencing their business practices. Global orientation enhances export competitive advantage, shaping economic growth. Organizational leaders drive sales-enhancing collaborations, affecting customer satisfaction and product adaptations. International and regional expansions shape entrepreneurial success, while innovation orientations guide market responsiveness. Policy interventions influence international marketing strategies and ethical behaviors in education. Legal policies impact housing economics and organizational learning processes. Psychological intuitions modulate social media usage and consumer behavior, while digital literacy enhances communication in the workplace. Organizational leaders drive sales-benefit exchange capabilities, impacting brand orientation and customer stressors. Firms adapt to cultural differences in technology adoption. Ethical leadership influences selling behavior, shaping organizational cultures. Digital marketing strategies enhance consumer attitudes toward information, influencing social media usage. Legal frameworks impact energy policies in developing economies, while marketing practices shape international business strategies. Legal systems influence tourism demand, impacting domestic and international markets. International business strategies affect African development trajectories and innovation orientations drive market responsiveness. Firms adapt to cultural contexts, shaping entrepreneurial behaviors. Global orientation enhances export competitive advantage, influencing economic growth. Legal frameworks impact energy policies in developing economies, while marketing practices shape international business strategies. Ethical leadership influences selling behavior, shaping organizational cultures. Firms adapt to cultural differences in technology adoption, enhancing brand loyalty and innovation orientations drive market responsiveness. Organizational leaders enhance sales-benefit exchange capabilities, impacting customer satisfaction and entrepreneurial success. Legal frameworks influence housing economics and organizational learning processes. Firms adapt to cultural contexts, shaping entrepreneurial behaviors. Global orientation enhances export competitive advantage, influencing economic growth. Ethical leadership influences selling behavior, shaping organizational cultures. Firms adapt to cultural differences in technology adoption, enhancing brand loyalty and innovation orientations drive market responsiveness. Organizational leaders enhance sales-benefit exchange capabilities, impacting customer satisfaction and entrepreneurial success. Legal frameworks influence energy policies in developing economies, while marketing practices shape international business strategies. Ethical leadership influences selling behavior, shaping organizational cultures. Firms adapt to cultural contexts, shaping entrepreneurial behaviors.

Faculty Biography

Nathaniel Boso is a Professor of International Marketing and Strategy, and O. R. Tambo Africa Research Chair in Entrepreneurship and Employability at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He is also an Extraordinary Professor at University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (South Africa) and a visiting Professor to Strathmore University Business School (Kenya). Nathaniel also has been serving as the Dean of KNUST School of Business since 2017, and the Director of the Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain– Africa (CARISCA), a USAID funded center of excellence since 2020. Prior to joining KNUST, he was an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His research interests span international entrepreneurship, industrial marketing and supply chain strategies that has won multiple international awards. Notably, in 2021 his article on “(How) Does Africa Matter for International Business Scholarship?” won the Academy of International Business (AIB) Insight’s Outstanding Article Award. He was also the winner of the 2019 S. Tamer Cavusgil Award from American Marketing Association Foundation, which recognizes the Journal of International Marketing article published in the calendar year that has made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of international marketing management. He has published in high impact journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Marketing, and International Journal of Production Economics. Nathaniel serves as the Associate Editor of International Marketing Review and African Journal of Management. He also serves as the Vice-President of Academy of International Business African Chapter since 2018. He is the principal investigator of the National Research Foundation (South Africa) US$1.075 Million funded O. R. Tambo Africa Research Chair, and US$15 Million United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded CARISCA center at KNUST. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from University of Ghana in 2002, Master of Science degree in Marketing from Umea University (AACSB accredited) in Sweden in 2004 and Ph.D. in International Entrepreneurship and Marketing from Loughborough University (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA accredited) in the United Kingdom in 2011.

Key Research Themes (34)
Social Sciences

Big Data and Business Intelligence

Social Sciences

Business Strategy and Innovation

Social Sciences

Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification

Social Sciences

Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Social Sciences

Customer Service Quality and Loyalty

Social Sciences

Digital Marketing and Social Media

Social Sciences

Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research

Social Sciences

Economic and Business Studies

Physical Sciences

Economic Growth and Development

Physical Sciences

Education and Learning Interventions

Physical Sciences

Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Social Sciences

Energy, Environment, Economic Growth

Social Sciences

Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Social Sciences

Environmental Sustainability in Business

Social Sciences

Ethics in Business and Education

Social Sciences

Family Business Performance and Succession

Social Sciences

Firm Innovation and Growth

Social Sciences

Global and Cross-Cultural Management

Social Sciences

Global Trade and Competitiveness

Social Sciences

Global trade and economics

Social Sciences

Housing Market and Economics

Social Sciences

Innovation and Knowledge Management

Social Sciences

Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Social Sciences

Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis

Social Sciences

International Business and FDI

Social Sciences

International Development and Aid

Social Sciences

Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Social Sciences

Legal Issues in South Africa

Social Sciences

Management and Organizational Studies

Social Sciences

Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies

Social Sciences

Psychology of Social Influence

Social Sciences

Quality and Supply Management

Social Sciences

Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

Social Sciences

Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

Publications (100)

From rivals to allies: Building and benefiting from coopetition capability

2025Business Strategy and InnovationDOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.02.002

Green process innovation and financial performance in small and medium-sized enterprises in a developing Country: Role of resource orchestration

Open Access
2025Environmental Sustainability in BusinessDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115210

Firm resilience, stressors, and entrepreneurial well-being: insights from women entrepreneurs in Ghana

Open Access
2024Innovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentDOI: 10.1108/ijebr-07-2023-0742

Clarifying supply chain disruption and operational resilience relationship from a threat-rigidity perspective: Evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises

Open Access
2024Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementDOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2024.109314

Editorial to the special issue “International entrepreneurial behaviors of African firms: Emerging issues, challenges and opportunities”

Open Access
2024International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114763

Decision-making in international marketing: past, present and future

2023Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationDOI: 10.1108/imr-11-2022-0249

Casebook of Indigenous Business Practices in Africa

2023Legal Issues in South AfricaDOI: 10.1108/9781802622515
2023Economic Growth and DevelopmentDOI: 10.1108/978-1-80262-251-520231025

Developing and utilizing coopetitive relationships: Evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa

Open Access
2023Business Strategy and InnovationDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114111

In search of operational resilience: How and when improvisation matters

Open Access
2023Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementDOI: 10.1111/jbl.12343

Disruptive market shift: Conceptualization, antecedents, and response mechanisms

Open Access
2023Intellectual Capital and Performance AnalysisDOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122577

Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity: Insights from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa

Open Access
2023International Development and AidDOI: 10.1057/s41267-022-00594-8

Social networks and consumer technology usage: A systematic literature review and future research directions

Open Access
2023Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDOI: 10.1080/23311975.2022.2153487

Exploring how social network ties moderate the relationship between consumer attitude and technology usage: empirical study of mobile banking users in Kenya

2023Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDOI: 10.1504/ijbem.2023.10057833

Exploring how demographic factors influence consumer attitudes and technology usage

Open Access
2023Digital Marketing and Social MediaDOI: 10.5937/sjm18-44381

Exploring how social network ties moderate the relationship between consumer attitude and technology usage: empirical study of mobile banking users in Kenya

2023Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDOI: 10.1504/ijbem.2023.134086

Challenges in Using a Mixed-Method Approach to Explore the Relationship Between Big Data Analytics Capabilities and Market Performance

2023Big Data and Business IntelligenceDOI: 10.4135/9781529669398

Consumer Attitudes and Technology Usage: Moderating Effects of Demographic Characteristics

Open Access
2023Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4356039

Growth implications of creation and discovery behavior among family firms: the moderating role of venture age

Open Access
2022Family Business Performance and SuccessionDOI: 10.1108/ijebr-03-2022-0227

Linking resource slack to operational resilience: Integration of resource-based and attention-based perspectives

Open Access
2022Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementDOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108652

External knowledge resources and new venture success in developing economies: Leveraging innovative opportunities and legitimacy strategies

Open Access
2022Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122034

How agency and self‐efficacy moderate the effects of strategic improvisational behaviors on sales performance: Evidence from an emerging market

2022Management and Organizational StudiesDOI: 10.1111/emre.12535

Customer integration and customer value: contingency roles of innovation capabilities and supply chain network complexity

2022Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyDOI: 10.1108/scm-12-2020-0626

Institutionalization of protection for intangible assets: Insights from the counterfeit and pirated goods trade in sub-Saharan Africa

2022International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101307

International network formation, home market institutional support and post-entry performance of international new ventures

2021International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.101968

Big data analytics capability and market performance: The roles of disruptive business models and competitive intensity

Open Access
2021Big Data and Business IntelligenceDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.10.042

Moderating effect of supply chain complexity in governance mechanisms and operational performance relationship: Evidence from a sub-Saharan African market

2021Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementDOI: 10.1080/23322373.2021.1927448

Product innovation strategy and competitive advantage : an empirical study of Portuguese exporters

2021International Business and FDI

Corporate Sustainability Strategies in Institutional Adversity--Model

2021Economic and Business StudiesDOI: 10.1037/t85960-000

Corporate sustainability strategies in institutional adversity: Antecedent, outcome, and contingency effects

Open Access
2020Innovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentDOI: 10.1002/bse.2654

Job satisfaction, distributive justice, perceived absence legitimacy and the role of turnover intentions: an exploratory study in Ghana

2020Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1108/ijoa-11-2019-1940

Foreign Direct Investment and Tourism Development in Africa

Open Access
2020Energy, Environment, Economic GrowthDOI: 10.3727/108354220x15957702910144

The effect of entrepreneurial orientation on new venture performance: Contingency roles of entrepreneurial actions

2020Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.042

Operational resilience, disruption, and efficiency: Conceptual and empirical analyses

2020Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementDOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107762

Realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Entrepreneurial Activities of Women and Disadvantaged Groups

2020Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59102-1_9

Governance mechanisms and operational performance: the moderating effects of structural network complexity

2019Business Strategy and Innovation

Operational Resilience and Operational Efficiency: Conceptual and Empirical Analyses

2019Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

Do Export Learning Processes Affect Sales Growth in Exporting Activities?

Open Access
2019International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1177/1069031x19848425

Achieving export competitive advantage: can global orientation and export product adaptation be reconciled?

2019International Business and FDI

The effects of learning orientation and marketing programme planning on export performance: Paradoxical moderating role of psychic distance

Open Access
2019Innovation and Knowledge ManagementDOI: 10.1177/0266242619831914

Sales intra-functional flexibility: Its relationship to performance and moderating effects on role stressors

Open Access
2019Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.12.021

Linking improvisational behavior to customer satisfaction: the relational dynamics

2019Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyDOI: 10.1108/jbim-11-2017-0298

Dynamic Decision-Making, Innovation Orientation, and Export Firm Performance--Model

2019International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1037/t79380-000

Ethical Influences on Selling Behavior and Performance Survey

2019Psychology of Social InfluenceDOI: 10.1037/t72601-000

Marketing Capabilities and Dysfunctional Competition in Export Performance--Model

2019Global trade and economicsDOI: 10.1037/t78020-000

Quadratic effects of dynamic decision-making capability on innovation orientation and performance: Evidence from Chinese exporters

Open Access
2018International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.11.005

(How) Does Africa Matter for International Business Scholarship?

Open Access
2018Global and Cross-Cultural ManagementDOI: 10.46697/001c.16833

A MULTI-FACETED EXAMINATION OF THE EXPORT PRODUCT ADAPTATION—CUSTOMER VALUE CREATION RELATIONSHIP

2018Global Trade and CompetitivenessDOI: 10.15444/gmc2018.10.02.02

Africa rising in an emerging world: an international marketing perspective

Open Access
2018Innovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentDOI: 10.1108/imr-02-2017-0030

Global orientation and export competitive advantage : a study of Malaysian firms

2018Global Trade and Competitiveness

The internationalization of African firms: Opportunities, challenges, and risks

2018International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1002/tie.21977

International marketing strategies of emerging market firms

Open Access
2018Innovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentDOI: 10.1108/imr-01-2017-0008

Do entrepreneurs always benefit from business failure experience?

2018Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.01.063

Entrepreneurial alertness and new venture performance: Facilitating roles of networking capability

2018Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1177/0266242617747667

Africa’s Competitiveness in the Global Economy: Past, Present and Future

2018Global Trade and CompetitivenessDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67014-0_1

Bridging Institutional Distance: An Emerging Market Entry Strategy for Multinational Enterprises

2018International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74129-1_8

Influences of Internal Marketing on Customer Satisfaction Survey

2018Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyDOI: 10.1037/t69468-000

Global orientation and export competitive advantage: A study of Malaysian firms [Abstract]

Open Access
2018Global Trade and Competitiveness

The empirical link between export entry mode diversity and export performance: A contingency- and institutional-based examination

Open Access
2017International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.12.001

How internal marketing drive customer satisfaction in matured and maturing European markets?

2017Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.09.024

Does organizational creativity always drive market performance?

2017Innovation and Knowledge ManagementDOI: 10.1002/mar.21039

The effect of export marketing capabilities on export performance: Moderating role of dysfunctional competition

Open Access
2017International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.09.006

Drivers of international tourism demand in Africa

2017Diverse Aspects of Tourism ResearchDOI: 10.1057/s11369-017-0051-3

Linking transformational leadership to turnover intention in the public sector

2017Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1108/ajems-07-2016-0099

Does financial resource slack drive sustainability expenditure in developing economy small and medium-sized enterprises?

2017Corporate Social Responsibility ReportingDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.06.016

Three Levels of Ethical Influences on Selling Behavior and Performance: Synergies and Tensions

2017Ethics in Business and EducationDOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3588-1

Effects of Organized Creativity Questionnaire

2017Education and Learning InterventionsDOI: 10.1037/t68187-000

Does export product adaptation enable customer value creation? An examination of Finnish exporters

Open Access
2017Global Trade and Competitiveness

Sales intra-functional flexibility: its relationship to performance and moderating effects of customer orientation and role stressors [conference abstract]

Open Access
2017Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Complementary Effect of Entrepreneurial and Market Orientations on Export new Product Success Under Differing Levels of Competitive Intensity and Financial Capital

2017International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50008-9_43

International entrepreneurial orientation and regional expansion

2016International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1080/08985626.2016.1255430

Examining the Paths from Export Strategic Orientations to Export Performance: The Mediating Role of Export Resource Transformation Capability

2016International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1002/tie.21878

Enhancing sales benefits of radical product innovation capability in internationalizing small and medium-sized firms: A multi-country empirical examination

2016Firm Innovation and Growth

THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURIAL-ORIENTED BEHAVIORS ON REGIONAL EXPANSION: EVIDENCE FROM A DEVELOPING ECONOMY

2016International Business and FDIDOI: 10.15444/gmc2016.07.05.06

When is brand orientation a useful strategic posture?

2016International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1057/bm.2016.15

Export strategic orientation–performance relationship: Examination of its enabling and disenabling boundary conditions

Open Access
2016International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.078

Investigating the Path from Supply Chain Integration to Business Performance: Evidence from a Sub-Saharan African Economy

Open Access
2016Quality and Supply ManagementDOI: 10.5539/ijbm.v11n6p225

Enhancing the sales benefits of radical product innovativeness in internationalizing small and medium-sized enterprises

Open Access
2016Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.04.077

Customer satisfaction as a performance measurement and management tool in English social housing

Open Access
2016Housing Market and Economics

The Effects of Business Failure Experience on Successive Entrepreneurial Engagements: An Evolutionary Phase Model

Open Access
2016Family Business Performance and SuccessionDOI: 10.1177/1059601116643447

Antecedents and Consequences of Supply Chain Integration: Empirical Evidence from a Developing Economy

Open Access
2016Quality and Supply Management

Salesperson improvisation: Antecedents, performance outcomes, and boundary conditions

Open Access
2016Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2016.02.007

INVESTIGATING THE PATH FROM FIRM INNOVATIVENESS TO FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: THE ROLES OF NEW PRODUCT SUCCESS, MARKET RESPONSIVENESS, AND ENVIRONMENT TURBULENCE

Open Access
2016International Business and FDI

Entrepreneurial and Market-Oriented Activities, Financial Capital, Environment Turbulence, and Export Performance in an Emerging Economy

Open Access
2016International Business and FDI

Africa-to-Africa Internationalization

GEI: The International Marketing Strategies of Emerging Market Firms

2016International Business and FDI

Africa-to-Africa Internationalization: Future Trends and Research Avenues

2016International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30692-6_2

Africa-to-Africa Internationalization: Emerging Trends and Key Issues

2016International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30692-6_1

Performance Implications of the Interplay Between Sales Intra-Functional Flexibility, Customer Orientation and Role Ambiguity

2015Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19428-8_19

Traffic Congestion Impact on Energy Consumption and Workforce Productivity: Empirical Evidence from a Developing Country

Open Access
2015Energy, Environment, and Transportation PoliciesDOI: 10.14738/abr.34.1281

Complementary Effects of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Market Orientation and Network Ties on Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms in a Developing Economy

2014Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10951-0_95

Do Coordination Flexibility and Market Orientation Leverage Entrepreneurial Strategy to Predict Export Sales Performance?

2014International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10873-5_64

The Form of Relationship between Firm‐Level Product Innovativeness and New Product Performance in Developed and Emerging Markets

Open Access
2014Innovation and Knowledge ManagementDOI: 10.1111/jpim.12180

Firm Innovativeness and Export Performance: Environmental, Networking, and Structural Contingencies

2013International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1509/jim.13.0052

Entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, network ties, and performance: Study of entrepreneurial firms in a developing economy

2013Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.04.001

The effects of strategic orientation and network ties on the performance of entrepreneurial firms

2013Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2013.16942abstract

Entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation as drivers of product innovation success: A study of exporters from a developing economy

2012International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1177/0266242611400469

Complementary effect of entrepreneurial and market orientations on export new product success under differing levels of competitive intensity and financial capital

2011International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2011.07.009

Charismatic leadership as a driver of sales-marketing collaboration

Open Access
2011Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies

Export entrepreneurial-oriented behaviour and export performance

Open Access
2010International Business and FDIDOI: 10.1071/he10143
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DepartmentDepartment of Marketing and Corporate Strategy
Total Publications100
Research Themes34
Open Access Papers43

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