Professor Robert M Yawson
Quinnipiac University
Faculty Member, Business & Management
United States
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My Publications
Strategic flexibility framework: a scenario analysis tool
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
May 2017
The breadth of trends and technologies present an uncertain landscape for decision-makers entrusted with strategic planning. Given the time horizon and uncertainties in predicting the future accura...
A Multiphase Mixed Methods Study to Identify 21st Century Skill Needs
Human Resource Development Quarterly
September 2016
This research is based on a theory that accounts for the dynamic aspect of systems modeling, complexity theory, skill identification, and workforce development. The methods and approaches for this ...
Systems Theory and Thinking as a Foundational Theory in Human Resource Development—A My...
Human Resource Development Review
October 2012
It is time for managers, faculty, students, so-called thought leaders, and everyone else in our body politic start to unlearn some of the deeply ingrained thought patterns that result in unproducti...
The Ecological System of Innovation: A New Architectural Framework for a Functional Evi...
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2009
The 'wicked problem construct'
International Journal of Business and Systems Research
January 2015
Wicked problems require a deliberate leader with the pattern recognition skill of an artist as well as the empirical gift of our 20th Century managerial inheritance.
Leadership Development in South Africa
January 2017
As with many other aspects of leadership studies, the issue of leadership development and its impact remains highly contentious especially if discussed within the context of non-Western cultures.
The role of HRD in university – community partnership
European Journal of Training and Development
March 2019
This paper seeks to identify ways by which the core functions of HRD can be used to enhance the UCP in lieu of the “town and gown era.” Furthermore, we seek to tout the need to extend HRD activitie...
Systems Mapping of Consumer Acceptance of Agrifood Nanotechnology
Journal of Consumer Policy
May 2010
Expectancy Model of Motivation as an Alternative Model for Examining Ethical Leadership...
SAGE Open
April 2021
Incessant occurrences of character failure of people in leadership positions that have characterized organizations in recent years call for critical examination of leadership behaviors. The Social ...
Tempered radicalism as an approach to revisiting indigenous forms of critical HRD
European Journal of Training and Development
October 2020
This paper draws on the concept of a tempered radical approach to provide a framework for a critical HRD (CHRD) and explore ways by which this view can contribute to developing HR who possess the r...
Strategic flexibility analysis of HRD research and practice post-COVID-19 pandemic
Human Resource Development International
June 2020
While governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-profits, corporations are all aware that disruptions through pandemics and other natural bio-disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic can happen,...
The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging e...
Science and Public Policy
December 2022
Developing Leaders for Disruptive Change: An Inclusive Leadership Approach
Advances in Developing Human Resources
July 2022
The future of work and becoming an employer of choice
Organization Management Journal
June 2022
Healthcare System Innovation The Case of Adoption of Telemedicine in Ghana
International Journal of Business and Systems Research
January 2022
Philosophical Underpinnings of the Current Immigration Debate in the United States
June 2021
Re-examining the Philosophical Underpinnings of the Melting Pot vs. Multiculturalism in...
June 2021
Corporate – Nonprofits Partnerships to Improve Social Innovation and Corporate Social R...
May 2021
Corporate – Nonprofits Partnerships to Improve Social Innovation and Corporate Social R...
May 2021
Understanding the Theories and Interventions of Motivation in Organization Development
May 2021
Understanding the Theories and Interventions of Motivation in Organization Development
May 2021
Transformativism: A paradigm whose time has come
Human Resource Development Quarterly
January 2021
The ‘dead goat syndrome’ in organizations
International Journal of Business and Systems Research
January 2021
Correction to: Promise and Peril of Big Finance
January 2021
The 'dead goat syndrome' in organisations
International Journal of Business and Systems Research
January 2021
Understanding the Theories and Interventions of Motivation in Organization Development
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2021
Enhancing student understanding of networks using experiential learning
Organization Management Journal
November 2020
Recruiting For Success. Does Board Diversity Matter?
April 2020
RECRUITING FOR SUCCESS. DOES BOARD DIVERSITY MATTER?
April 2020
Culture Change in Healthcare Delivery
February 2020
The emergence of Social Finance as a Driver for Social Change
February 2020
An Empirical Case for Culture Change in Healthcare Delivery
February 2020
HRD and the Emergence of Social Finance as a Driver for Social Change
February 2020
Collective Impact: Dialogue at the Interface of the Colliding Systems of Philanthropy
World Review of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development
January 2020
Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change
January 2020
Wicked Problems and Deliberate Leadership: Finding True North
January 2020
Big Finance, Big Technology, Wicked Problems, and the World’s Poor
January 2020
Promise and Peril of Big Finance
January 2020
How Do We Know? Measuring Impact
January 2020
The Surround Sound of Technology as an Accelerator of Social Good
January 2020
From Theory to Practice
January 2020
Human Resource Development and the Internet of Things
August 2019
Human Resource Development and the Internet of Things
August 2019
The Impact of Big Finance & Tech on the World's Most Vulnerable
Academy of Management Proceedings
August 2019
Human Resource Development and Executive Leadership Succession Planning in Nonprofits
March 2019
Human Resource Development and Executive Leadership Succession Planning in Nonprofits
March 2019
Work and occupational profile of Eastern African immigrants in the United States
Human Resource Development International
January 2019
The Ecological System of Innovation: A New Architectural Framework for a Functional Evi...
January 2019
The Ecological System of Innovation: A New Architectural Framework for a Functional Evi...
January 2019
Collective Impact and the Colliding Systems of Philanthropy
World Review of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development
January 2019
Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
December 2018
Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
December 2018
Complex Adaptive Leadership for Organization and Human Development
December 2018
Complex Adaptive Leadership for Organization and Human Development
December 2018
A Systems Model of Using the Deliberate Leadership
International Journal of Business and Systems Research
January 2018
Systematic Review to Identify Skill Needs for Agrifood Nanotechnology Workforce
Career and Technical Education Research
December 2017
Leadership Development in Ghana
January 2017
Leadership Development in Emerging Market Economies
January 2017
The importance of multimethods and mixed methods research in understanding complexity i...
International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management
January 2016
Multimethods and Mixed Methods Research
International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management
January 2016
From Theory to Practice
January 2016
Book review: Leadership and management development: Developing tomorrow’s managersDalto...
Management Learning
August 2013
A Systems Approach to Identify Skill Needs for Agrifood Nanotechnology: A Mixed Methods...
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2013
Leadership and management development: developing tomorrow's managers
Human Resource Development International
February 2012
Nanotechnology Workforce Development
Human Resource Development Review
July 2011
Organizational change: themes and issues
Human Resource Development International
July 2011
The future of Nanotechnology in Africa
International Journal of Nanotechnology
January 2011
An epistemological framework for nanoscience and nanotechnology literacy
International Journal of Technology and Design Education
November 2010
Skill needs and human resources development in the emerging field of nanotechnology
Journal of Vocational Education and Training
September 2010
Performance Management in R&D Organisations
Journal of Social Sciences
March 2010
Ethics of Conducting Qualitative Social Science Research in the Emerging Field of Nanot...
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2010
Systems Mapping of Evidence Review and Expertss Opinion on Consumer Acceptance of Agrif...
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2009
Developing a performance measurement framework to enhance the impact orientation of the...
R and D Management
March 2006
Management of Technology in Ghana - Problems and Prospects
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2004
Institutionalizing Impact Orientation: Building a Performance Management Approach that ...
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2003
Crystallisation of Miraculin - A Taste Modifying Glycoprotein from the Fruits of Richad...
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 1997