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Biography

Aloysius Marcus Kahindi is a full professor and Canada Research Chair in International Sustainable Development, Inequality and Social Innovation.

His research centers on the intersection of strategy and the global business activities of multilateral organizations (e.g., NGOs) and multinational enterprises (MNEs), with a particular interest in understanding how formal and informal markets interact with and affect these organizations in shaping economic activities in frontier economies. He seeks to improve understanding of why governance under informal economies functions; how organizations such as NGOs and MNEs can adjust to and honor these informal markets; and how they fail when they do not adapt to the constraints imposed by them. His research aims to add nuance and predictive power to understanding informal governance contexts—such as institutional voids, impotent and risky environments, and liabilities of foreignness—that may hinder organizations from effectively investing in pressing social challenges related to poverty, human capital, job creation, stakeholder engagement, and environmental sustainability.

Broadly, using inductive ethnographic methods, Dr. Kahindi’s work seeks to redefine Africa’s narrative in global management research by shifting from a focus on institutional impotence—often perceived as incompleteness or shortage—to the emergence of new forms of governance innovation. His scholarship advances the legitimacy of African entrepreneurship and sustainable development as central to strategy research, highlights people-centric dynamics as a source of theoretical innovation in micro-foundations research, and addresses societal grand challenges through a micro-sociological lens that examines moral and economic dilemmas in contexts of scarcity and opportunity.

Teaching

Courses taught

• Stragetic Management (BCom)
• Sustainable Innovation (MBA)

Selected publications

Journal publications

Makarius E., Kahindi, A., Stevens, C. & Kyoungseo, E.H. (accepted, July 2025) Compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals: Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs’ societal impact in frontier markets.  Journal of International Business Studies (56) 901 – 920. 

Nachum, L., Stevens, C., Newenham-Kahindi, A., Lundan, S., Rose, E., Wantchekon, L. (accepted 2023). Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business. Journal of International Business Studies. 10.1057/s41267-022-00581-z

Stevens, C., & Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2021). Avoid, acquiesce … or engage? New insights from sub-Saharan Africa on MNE strategies for managing corruption. Strategic Management Journal, 42(2): 273-301. 

Ault, J., Newenham-Kahindi, A. & Patnaik, S. (2021). Trevino and Doh’s Discourse-based view: Do we need a new theory of internationalization? Journal of International Business Studies. 52 (7), 1394-1406. 

Selmier, W. T. & Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2021). Communities of place, mining multinationals and sustainable development in Africa. Special issue, The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Supporting the SDGs. Journal of Cleaner Production. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125709 

Newenham-Kahindi, A., & Stevens, C. (2018). An institutional logics approach to liability of foreignness: The case of mining MNEs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of International Business Studies, 49(7): 881-901. 

Stevens, C., & Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2017). Legitimacy spillovers and political risk: The case of FDI in the East African Community. Global Strategy Journal, 7(1): 10-35. 

Stevens, C. & Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2016). Legitimacy spillovers and political risk: The case of FDI in the East African Community. Global Strategy Journal DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1151 

Selmier, W. T., Newenham-Kahindi, A. & Oh, Hoon, C. (2015). Understanding the words of relationships: Language as an essential tool to manage CSR in communities of place. Journal of International Business Studies, 46 (2): 153-179.

Book

Newenham-Kahindi, A.; Kamoche, K., Chizema, A., & Mellahi, K. (Eds.) (2013). Effective people management in Africa. (Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, UK).

Chapters

Kahindi, A. & Stevens, C (2025). Taking a research ‘safari’ into Africa: The value of going ‘pole pole’. In Helena Barnard (Ed.), Handbook on Qualitative Research in Emerging Markets.  Elgar publishers, UK. 

Book Reviewed by the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) 2025 - Handbook for qualitative research in emerging markets: methods and applications. Edited by Helena Barnard, Edward Elgar, 2025, ISBN 978-1035322312, 302 pp. Reviewers: Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki & Maria‑Cristina Stoian. DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-025-00812-z 

Wong, D., Kahindi, A. (2024). Swahili/Kiswahili – A Complex Journey of Indigenous People to Global Multicultural Integration. In E.H. Kessler and D. Wong, editors. Global Leadership and Wisdoms of the World. Edward Elgar Publishers, UK. 

Newenham-Kahindi, A. & Stevens, C. (2021). Wisdom of Ecological Sustainability from the Maasai and Hadza Peoples in East Africa. In A. Intezari, C Spiller, & S. Yang, Editors. Practical Wisdom for Leadership in a Poly-dimensional World: Asian, Indigenous and Middle-Eastern Perspectives. Routledge Publishing, UK. 

Selmier, II, W. T. & Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2021).  Using Grounded Theory in an African Business Context. Chapter 17, In D.S.A. Guttormsen, J. Lauring and M.K. Chapman, editors. Field Guide to Intercultural Research.  Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Handbook.

Awards & grants

Recognition & awards

• 2025 – One of the top 12 research papers in international business, Journal for International Business Studies

• 2025 - Best Papers Proceedings” at the 7th Biennial AFAM Conference – Academy of Management Annual Conference, Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa.

• 2024 - Nominated for the 2024 Carolyn B. Dexter Award at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Chicago, USA.

• 2021 - 2031 Canada Research Chair (Tier II, RENEWED), International Sustainable Development: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

• 2018 - Selected by the Journal of Business Ethics as one of the top 10 best virtual papers dedicated to advancing Business Ethics in Africa – Business Ethics in Africa: Virtual Special Issue of Journal of Business Ethics. DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.26031.43683

• 2011 - Nominated and Finalist: SSHRC Aurora Price Award (Dedicated to new Canadian research scholars with original research ideas) - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - (SSHRC). Research topic: Multinationals and stakeholders relationship on extractive natural resources in east and southern Africa.

Grants

• Social Sciences and Human Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant (April 2023 – June 2027) ($97,000)

• Covid-19 Trainee Supplement, Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (September 2020 – March 2021) ($9,576).
• Social Sciences and Human Research Council of Canada, (June 2019 – June 2021) ($60,320)
• Edwards School of Business Research Fund (February 2018) ($10,000).
• Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (June 2016 – June 2018). ($43,307).
• Hanlon Scholar Award, International Business: Edwards School of Business, Univrsity of Saskatchewan. (2009 - 2018). ($180,000).