Faculty Profile

Anthony

Afful-Dadzie

Title: 

Prof

Role/Position: 

Associate Professor/ Head of Department

Office Location: 

Old Graduate Block

Email: 

aafful-dadzie1@ug.edu.gh/atosarsah@gmail.com

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Biography: 

Prof. Anthony Afful-Dadzie is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Operations and Management Information Systems at the University of Ghana Business School. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering as well as an M.A. in Economics from The Ohio State University. He also holds an MPhil degree in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing, and Management from University of Cambridge. He is the recipient of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship-Advanced Scholars Program serving as a fellow at Carleton University, Canada. Anthony has also thrice (2015, 2017, and 2022) served as a host to fellows from Quinnipiac University, and College of Charleston from USA on the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.

Prof. Anthony Afful-Dadzie’s research interest spans the areas of management science, operations research and decision science with a special focus on the development of techniques for evaluation and analysis of operational decisions and decision support systems that support business processes and public sector organizations. He has published extensively in the areas of energy policy and planning, multi-criteria decision-making, supply chain management, data analytics, and information systems. Anthony has published in journals including Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy, Journal of Quality Technology, Energy Economics, Energy, Management Decision, and Government Information Quarterly.

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Research

Research : 

Energy Modelling, Policy and Planning

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making

Healthcare Analytics

Data Analytics

Sustainability

Supply Chain Management

Information systems

Teaching

Teaching: 

• UGBS 605: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• UGBS 618: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• OMIS 666: DETERMINISTIC OPERATIONS RESEARCH
• UGBS 301: QUANTITATIVE METHODS
• UGBS 202: BUSINESS MATHEMATICS

Journal Publications

Journal Publications: 

Ofori, C. G., Aboagye, A. Q., Afful-Dadzie, A., & Bokpin, G. A. (2022). A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana. Climate Policy, 1-14.

Afful-Dadzie, E., Afful-Dadzie, A., & Egala, S. B. (2021). Social media in health communication: A literature review of information quality. Health Information Management Journal, 1833358321992683.

Afful-Dadzie, E., & Afful-Dadzie, A. (2021). Online health consumer behaviour: What informs user decisions on information quality? Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 3, 100064.

Afful-Dadzie, A. (2021). Global 100% energy transition by 2050: A fiction in developing economies? Joule, 5(7), 1641-1643.

Ofori, C. G., Bokpin, G. A., Aboagye, A. Q., & Afful-Dadzie, A. (2021). A real options approach to investment timing decisions in utility-scale renewable energy in Ghana. Energy, 235, 121366.

Afful-Dadzie, A., Löschel, A., Newman, C., Geels, F., Freeman, R., & Christie-Miller, T. (2021). Managing transition risks on the road to net-zero.

Baker, E., Nock, D., Levin, T., Atarah, S.A., Afful-Dadzie, A., Dodoo-Arhin, D., Ndikumana, L., Shittu, E., Muchapondwa, E., & Sackey, C.V. H. (2021). Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana. Energy Research & Social Science, 73 (2021), 101933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.101933

Afful-Dadzie, A., Afful-Dadzie, E., Abbey, N. A., Owusu, B. A., & Awudu, I. (2020). Renewable electricity generation target setting in developing countries: Modeling, policy, and analysis. Energy for Sustainable Development, 59(2020), 83-96.

Afful-Dadzie, A., Mallett, A., and Afful-Dadzie, E. (2020). The challenge of energy transition in the Global South: The case of electricity generation planning in Ghana. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 126(2020), 109830.

Awudu, I., Asare, A., Asa, E., Osmanu, A., Gonela, V., and Afful-Dadzie, A. (2019). “Maximizing Profits in an Ethanol Supply Chain with Hedging Strategies” Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Management, 17(2), 221-241. https://www.csupom.com/uploads/1/1/4/8/114895679/jscom17n2p5.pdf

Afful-Dadzie, A., Afful-Dadzie, E., and Mensah, S. (2019). “Could cost sharing sustain the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme?” International Journal of Healthcare Management. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2019.1617982.

Ohene-Asare, K., Turkson, C., and Afful-Dadzie, A. (2017). “Multinational operation, ownership and efficiency differences in the international oil industry”. Energy Economics, 68, 303-312.

Afful-Dadzie, A., Afful-Dadzie, E., Awudu, I., and Banuro, J. K. (2017). “Power generation capacity planning under budget constraint in developing countries.” Applied Energy, 188, 71-82.

Afful-Dadzie, E., and Afful-Dadzie, A. (2017). “Liberation of public data: Exploring central themes in open government data and freedom of information research”. International Journal of Information Management, 37(6), 664-672.

Afful-Dadzie, E., and Afful-Dadzie, A. (2017). “Open Government Data in Africa: A preference elicitation analysis of media practitioners.” Government Information Quarterly.

Afful-Dadzie, A., and Allen, T. T. (2016). “Control charting methods for autocorrelated cyber vulnerability data.” Quality Engineering, 28 (3), 313-328.

Afful-Dadzie, A., Afful-Dadzie, E., and Turkson, C. (2016). “A TOPSIS extension framework for re-conceptualizing sustainability measurement.” Kybernetes, 45(1), 70-86.

Afful-Dadzie, E., and Afful-Dadzie, A. (2016). “A decision making model for selecting start-up businesses in a government venture capital scheme.” Management Decision. 54(3), 714-734

Afful-Dadzie, E., and Afful-Dadzie, A. (2016). Assessing Commercial Viability of Technology Start-up Businesses in a Government Venture Capital under Intuitionistic Fuzzy Environment. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 19 (2), 400-413

Allen, T. T., Xiong, H., and Afful‐Dadzie, A. (2015). “A directed topic model applied to call center improvement.” Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. 32 (1), 57-73

Afful-Dadzie, E, Nabareseh, S , Afful-Dadzie, A, and Oplatková, Z.K. (2015). “A fuzzy TOPSIS framework for selecting fragile states for support facility.” Quality & Quantity: 49 (5), 1835-1855.

Afful-Dadzie, A and Allen, T. T. (2014). “Data-Driven Cyber Vulnerability Maintenance Policies.” Journal of Quality Technology, 46(3), 234-250.

Afful-Dadzie, E., Afful-Dadzie, A., and Oplatková, Z. K. (2014). “Measuring progress of the millennium development goals: A fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approach”. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 28(1), 1-15.

Afful-Dadzie, A, Afful-Dadzie, E., Nabareseh, S., and Oplatková, Z.K. (2014). “Tracking progress of African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method.” Kybernetes 43(8), 1193-1208.

Allen, T. T. , Artis, S., Afful-Dadzie, A., and Allam, Y. (2013). “Case Study Application of Blended Learning for an Engineering Simulation Course.” Quality Approaches in Higher Education, Vol. 04(1): pp. 13-22.

Books

Books: 

Entee, E., & Afful-Dadzie, A. (2020). Coming of Age?: Exploring the Role of Dynamic Capabilities in Social Commerce Firms–Evidence From a Ghanaian Enterprise. In Handbook of Research on Managing Information Systems in Developing Economies (pp. 281-294). IGI Global.

Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceedings: 

Kevor, M. O., Boateng, R., Kolog, E. A., Owusu, A., & Afful-Dadzie, A. (2020, April). Preliminary Insights into the Nature of Graduate IS Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (pp. 545-556). Springer, Cham.

Barnor, J., Boateng, R., Kolog, E. A., Afful-Dadzie, A., Entee, E., & Patterson, A. (2020). A Systematic Literature Review of Digital Piracy Research in Information Systems Journals (2010–2020): Preliminary Insights.

Barnor, J. N. B., Boateng, R., Kolog, E. A., & Afful-Dadzie, A. (2020). Rationalizing Online Romance Fraud: In the Eyes of the Offender.

Gyaisey, A. P., Boateng, R., Afful-Dadzie, A., & Owusu, A. (2019). Individuals’ Internet Security Perceptions and Behaviours: Polycontextual Contrast Between Ghana and Nigeria. In Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Cancun, 2019, Bristol, UK, Aug 15-17. Retrieved from: https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1295&context=amcis2019

Afful-Dadzie, E., and Afful-Dadzie, A. (2018, July). Local Government Open Data (LGOD) Initiatives: Analysis of Trends and Similarities Among Early Adopters. In International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations (pp. 299-308). Springer, Cham.

Afful-Dadzie, A., and Afful-Dadzie, E (2017). Multi-Criteria Decision Making: The Case of Large and Distinct Decision Makers. In Proceedings of the 2017 International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Bristol, UK, July 24-25, 2017. Retrieved from: http://www.ieomsociety.org/ieomuk/papers/77.pdf

Afful-Dadzie, A., & Turkson, C. (2014). Economic sustainability in the Ghanaian Banking Sector: An application of TOPSIS for bank performance ranking. In 2nd UGBS Conference on Business and Development 2014 Conference Proceedings (p. 169).

Afful-Dadzie, A., Allen, T. T., Raqab, A., and Li, J. (2013). Sufficiency model-action clarification for simulation optimization applied to an election system. In Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 1079-1088).

Afful-Dadzie, A and Allen, T. T (2013). “Optimal Traditional Versus Online Instructional Method Selection.” Forthcoming in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education North Central Conference.

Seminars & Conferences

Seminars & Conferences: 

Afful-Dadzie, A. (2021). “Energy Transition Challenges in Developing Countries.” Climate Exp0 – the Cop26 Universities Network Virtual Conference, 17-21 May 2021 Afful-Dadzie, A. (2019).

“The Challenge of Achieving Energy Transition in Low Income Countries.” International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June.

Afful-Dadzie, A. (2017). “Buyer and Supplier Strategies for Hedging against Risk in the Ethanol Industry.” INFORMS Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, November. Afful-Dadzie, A., and Afful-Dadzie, E. (2017). “Multi-Criteria Decision Making: The Case of Large and Distinct Decision Makers”.

International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Bristol, UK, July 24-25, 2017. Afful-Dadzie, A. (2016). “A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for Evaluating Alternatives under Large and Distinct Decision Makers.” INFORMS Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November.

Afful-Dadzie, A. (2015). “A New Framework for Sustainability Measurement.” INFORMS Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November.

Afful-Dadzie, A., and Agyekum-Sam, S. (2015). “Sustainable Supply Chain Optimization of Fresh-Cut Fruit Products under Demand Uncertainty: The Case of Blues Skies Ghana.” 3rd UGBS Conference, Accra, Ghana, August.

Afful-Dadzie, A., and Allen, T. T. (2014). “SMERT Modeling of #BringBackOurGirls Tweets.” INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, November.

Afful-Dadzie, A., and Turkson, C. (2014). “Economic sustainability in the Ghanaian Banking Sector: An application of TOPSIS for bank performance ranking.” 2nd UGBS Conference on Business and Development, Accra, Ghana, August.

Afful-Dadzie, A, and Allen, T. T., (2013). “Sufficiency Model-Action Clarification for Simulation Optimization Applied to an Election Systems.” 2013 Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., U.S.A, December 8-11, 2013.

Afful-Dadzie, A and Allen, T. T (2013). “Optimal Traditional Versus Online Instructional Method Selection.” American Society for Engineering Education North Central Conference, Columbus, OH, June

Afful-Dadzie, A., Allen, T. T. and Soo, H.L. (2012). “Sufficiency Model-Action Clarification with Applications in Cyber Maintenance.” INFORMS Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, October.

Afful-Dadzie, A. and Allen, T. T. (2012). “Optimal Cyber Vulnerability Maintenance Policies Using SMAC Methods.” Joint Workshop between Battelle and Ohio State on Big Data and Cyber-Security, Columbus, Ohio, December.

Afful-Dadzie, A. and Allen, T. T. (2011). “Parallels between Cyber Vulnerabilities and Attacks and Tool Degradation and Failure,” Amstat Spring Research Conference, Evanston, Illinois, June.

Afful-Dadzie, A. and Allen T.T (2011). “Optimal Control of Cyber Vulnerabilities using Partially Observed Markov Decision Process,” Midwest INFORMS 2011, Columbus, Ohio, August.

Artis, S., Allen T.T, Afful-Dadzie, A, and Allam Y (2011). “Results from a Randomized Experiment Involving Blended Learning Discrete Event Simulation Software,” Midwest INFORMS 2011, Columbus, Ohio, August.

Afful-Dadzie, A. and T. T. Allen (2011). “Engineering Reliable Cyber Security and Vulnerability Management Systems,” ISE Graduate Student Seminar 2011, Ohio State University, May.

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Awards & Honours: 

Queen Elizabeth Scholarship-Advanced Scholar Program, 2019

Host, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, 2015, 2017,2022

Shell Centenary Scholarship, 2004

Cambridge DFID Scholarship, 2004

History

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