Prof. Samuel Muriithi Profile
Associate Professor & Director of Academic Affairs
Prof. Samuel Muriithi
Associate Professor & Director of Academic Affairs
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| Name: | Prof. Samuel Muriithi |
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| Mobile: | +254 709 972 000 |
| E-mail: | smuriithi@daystar.ac.ke |
| Website: | None |
| Updated: | 09 Sep, 2024 |
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About
Prof. Muriithi is currently an Associate Professor, School of Business & Economics (SBE) and Director of Academic Affairs. Dr. Muriithi lectures in Strategic Management, Cross-cultural Management courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. As an individual he has supervised and co-supervised over seventy theses in various academic fields in management related subjects.
Prof. Muriithi holds a PhD degree in Management from Rhodes University (South Africa), Masters of Arts (MA) degree in Communication (Wheaton Graduate School, USA); Master of Business Administration, MBA (Seattle Pacific University, USA); and B degree in Business Administration and Management (Messiah College, USA).
Besides lecturing, Prof. Muriithi is the Lead Consultant (Coordinator) in charge of Daystar - National Environmental Trust Fund (NETFUND) Partnership. NETFUND is a government body dealing with environmental management. He mostly coordinates NETFUND Green Innovation Award (GIA) Program. The program identifies and equips environmental friendly businesses through offering appropriate skills; incubation and networking. The program is in its third phase with Daystar partnership having lasted for the last four years.
Prof. Muriithi has also consulted for Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in areas of cross-cultural management; Kenya Posta and Agora Enterprises (USA). He also worked as a lecturer for the Australian Study Institute (AUSI) an affiliate of ECU for 11 years.
Prof. Muriithi has been an Executive Director of the Fellowship of Christian Communicators in Africa and Madagascar (FOCCM), a non-profit making Christian organization. This is a job he held from 1997 to 2000. As the Director, Dr. Muriithi oversaw effective running of the organization with major responsibility being administration, funding and publications. The organization as also involved in training of Christian communicators in Africa, publications, research, consultancy, and organizing international conferences.
Before joining FOCCAM, Prof. Muriithi lectured at Daystar University in Nairobi (Kenya) where he taught for six years. His areas of concentration included management, economics, business ethics, human resource management and entrepreneurship. Prof. Muriithi has also held several positions on acting capacity or on appointment. He also acted as Head of Commerce Department twice, participated in Daystar Master of Business Administration (MBA) research as theses coordinator in charge of overseeing MBA thesis students.
Academically, Prof. Muriithi is a reviewer of various academic programmes. Besides being in the SBE review team to review MBA, undergraduate and diploma programmes. He recently reviewed United States International University (USIU) Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) Program. Prof. Muriithi is also an external examiner for different universities in Kenya, among them St. Paul University and Pan African University (PAC). Internationally, he is an external examiner for Rhodes University PhD program. He is also a reviewer for several journal among them KCA Journal of Business Management and South African Journal of Economics and Management Sciences. Prof. Muriithi has also attended several conferences, among them The 4th International Conference on HRM and the Management of Organizations in Africa, The Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists (SAIMS) and International Communication Association (ICA). He is also a member of International Association for Media and Communication Research, ICAfrica and The Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists. He is currently a visiting Professor at the University of Kigali.
Prof. Muriithi has authored several books among them: Africa Crisis: Is there Hope? and African Development Dilemma: The Big Debate: and The Secret of Passing Exams. He has also authored many articles and a book chapter.
Prof. Muriithi’s interests are in the areas of strategic management, cross-cultural management and research.
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Samuel Muriithi (1998). The Secret Of Passing Exams. Nairobi: FOCCAM. 1998
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Samuel M. Muriithi (1996). African Development Dilemma: The Big Debate. Lanham: University Press of America.
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Samuel M. Muriithi (1995). African Crisis: Is There Hope? Lanham: University Press of America.
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Journals
2018: Samuel M. Muriithi, Lynette Louw, Sarah E. Radloff (2018). The relationship between strategic thinking and leadership effectiveness in Kenyan indigenous banks. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | 21 (1), a1741 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems v21i1.174
https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/1741/1216
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2018: Lynette Louw, Samuel M. Muriithi, Sarah Radloff (2018). The relationship between transformational leadership and leadership effectiveness in Kenyan indigenous banks. SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 15 ( a935) DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhrm.v15i0.935
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2018: Muriithi, S. (2018). Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), The heart of Chinese Economic development: What can African governments learn? European Journal of Research and Reflection in Management Science. 6(3), 27-40
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2017: Samuel Muiruri Muriithi (2017). The Chinese-African management and cultural relevancy, challenges and the future of Chinese businesses in Africa. European Journal of Research and Reflection in Management Sciences, 5 (2), 1-14
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2017: Samuel Muiruri Muriithi (2017). Start-up family businesses: lesson from large successful family businesses. International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS), 4 (3), 134-140.
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2017: Samuel Muiruri Muriithi (2017). African Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES) Contributions, Challenges And Solutions. European Journal of Research and Reflection in Management Sciences , l. 5, (1), 26-48
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2017: Samuel Muriithi (2017, February 18th). The Kingdom business influence on culture and transformation of the society. Key Note Speech. Agora Enterprise Incubation Investor Conference
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2017: Samuel Muriithi (2017). Business management training. Netfund Incubation Training Workshop. March 9th, 2018
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2016: Samuel Muiruri Muriithi, Judith Omollo & Muturi Wachira (2016). Strategies Employed In The Cleaning Industry In An Effort To Attain Sustainable Competitive Advantage. International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 4(10), 1037-1051
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2016: Samuel Muiruri Muriithi & Muturi Wachira (2016). Founders’ syndrome, challenges and solutions. Researchjournali’s Journal of Entrepreneurship, 4(4), 1-11
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2016: Samuel Muiruri Muriithi, Veronicah Waithira & Muturi Wachira (2016). Family Business Founders’ Influence On Future Survival Of Family Businesses. International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management. Vol. IV, Issue 1, January 2016
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2015: S. M. & L. Louw, S.E. Radloff. (2015). The relationship between strategic thinking and leadership effectiveness among Kenyan indigenous banks. The 4th International Conference on HRM and the Management of Organizations in Africa 26 – 28 August, 2015. Nottingham University-Daystar University, Nairobi.
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2015: S. M. & L. Louw, S.E. Radloff. (2015). The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence And Leadership Effectiveness Among Kenyan Indigenous Banks. Proceedings 27th Annual SAIMS Conference 2015. August 30th –September 03, 2015, pp. 1753-1784
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2014: Joyce W. Nderitu1, David Minja, Samuel Muriithi (2014). An investigation of Challenges facing Christian universities in Kenya: A case study of Pan Africa Christian University, Nairobi, Kenya. International Journal of Management Sciences, 4 (3), 129-143
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2009: Michael Bowen, Makarius Morara, Samuel Mureithi (2009). Management of business challenges among small and micro enterprises in Nairobi-Kenya. KCA Journal Of Business Management, 1 (2), 16-31
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Research Interests
Overview – I have much interest in research in areas of small business management, strategy and cross-cultural management.
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National Environment Trust Fund (NETFUND)- environmental friendly small businesses (M&E) |
NETFUND |
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Plastic paper research |
Daystar University |
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Indigenous banks in Kenya |
Rhodes University |
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Small Businesses |
Self-sponsored |
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Daystar marketing surveys: MBA and School of Law |
Daystar University |
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MAL Leadership need assessment |
Pan African Christian College |
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Market survey |
Rosslyn Academy |