Prof Fanny Adams Quagrainie is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management at the Business School, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies (University of Cape Coast, Ghana), an MBA in Human Resource Management (University of Ghana, Legon), and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology). She also has Certificates in Strategic and General Management from the School of Management, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

She has published in various top-ranked journals including, the African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development; the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, and the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Asian Development Perspectives, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, Journal of African Business and Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy.

She also has some book chapters in Fashion and Environmental Sustainability in Africa’ Fashion and Environmental Sustainability: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, and the De Gruyter Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in Developing Economies.

She also served as a reviewer of various journals such as International Journal of Business and Economics, African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development, Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Journal of African Business, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development.

She was an editorial board member for Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa Historical Framework, Ecosystem, and Future Perspectives for the Region (2022), Springer Nature Switzerland.

She has also undertaken various consultancy assignments for the Ministry of Communication, and Digitalization, Ministry of Finance, and the World Bank.

• Entrepreneurship
• Development Issues
• Fashion and Economic Development
• Business Strategy

• Women and Youth Entrepreneurship,
• Quality of life,
• Entrepreneurship and achievement of SDGs
• Fashion
• Human resource issues in micro and small businesses
• Climate change
• Religiosity and entrepreneurship
• Business and Society.

• GIMPA grant to conduct research in entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial resilience of Ghanaian micro and small women entrepreneurs
• UNICEF/UDS grant for a study on Informal Social Protection among the Urban Poor in three towns in Greater Accra, Region, 2018.
• UNICEF/UDS grant for a study on Financial Inclusion and Educational Outcomes of Children in Ghana: The Conditioning Role of Family Based Factors, 2019.
• Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) of Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Research Grant Competition to research ‘Impact Evaluation of the Ghanaian Undergraduate Pre-Engineering Program” 2023.
• Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) of Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Research Grant Competition to conduct a ‘A Difference-in-Difference Approach to the Evaluation of the Mentorship Programme for Ghana Statistical Service” 2023.

Undergraduate level

• Introduction to human resource management,
• Business research methods,
• Contemporary enterprise,
• Practice of entrepreneurship,
• Small business management,
• International business management
• Development issues.

Master level

• Entrepreneurship workshop.

Books and Publications:

• Quagrainie, F. A., Opoku Mensah, A., & Adom, A. Y. (2018). Christian entrepreneurial activities and micro women entrepreneurship development: Church embeddedness in action. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 12(5), 657-676.

• Quagrainie, F. A., Mensah, A. O., & Adom, A. Y. (2019). Articulation of micro-entrepreneurial success and well-being among Ghanaian women. World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Sustainable Development, 15(6), 678-699.

• Erogul, M. S., Quagrainie, F. A., Dankwa, A. D., & Kabalan, A. (2019). Exploring Ghanaian women entrepreneur’s internet usage. International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 9(2), 127-143.

• Quagrainie, F.A., Adams, S., Kabalan, A.A.M. and Dankwa, A.D. (2020), “Micro-entrepreneurship, sustainable development goal one and cultural expectations of Ghanaian women”, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 13 (1), pp. 86-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEEE-11-2019-0174

• Quagraine, F. A. (2020) Are small women entrepreneurs resilient? Highlighting the roles of entrepreneurial competencies and motivation. International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 25 (3), pp.361–377,

• Quagrainie, F. A., Dankwa, A., D. and Kabalan, A. (2020) An empirical note on social protection, the meaning of life and integrated quality of life in rural Ghana, Asian Development Perspectives. 11(2):168-184 pISSN 2635-4659,

• Quagrainie, Fanny Adams, Dankwa, Afia Dentaa, and Kabalan, Alan Anis Mirhage (2021), ‘The social lens of choice of hairstyle among Ghanaian female youth’, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, 8:1, pp. 63–81,

• Quagrainie, F. A., Adams, S., Kabalan, A. A. M., & Dankwa, A. D. (2023). Women Micro-entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion: The Moderating Role of Individual Perceptual Factors. Journal of African Business, 24(1), 77-94.

• Quagrainie, F. A., Kabalan, A. A. M., Adams, S., & Dankwa, A. D. (2023). 3Ps model of entrepreneurial resourcefulness among micro-youth entrepreneurs. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 15(5), 1194-1214.

• Quagrainie, F.A., Kabalan, A.A.M., Dankwa, A.D. and Erogul, M.S. (2022) ‘Performing parenting: competencies and social capital for Ghanaian single fathers’, Int. J. Gender Studies in Developing Societies, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.308–327.

• Quagrainie, F. A., Adams, S and Kabalan, A. (2023) ‘Different shades of learning from entrepreneurial failure among Ghanaian micro-women entrepreneurs”, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies;

• Quagrainie, F. A., Erogul, M. S., Dankwa, A. D., & Kabalan, A. A. M. (2023). Drivers of critical thinking among women micro-entrepreneurs in Ghana. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 49(3), 436-457.

• Quagrainie, F. A. (2023) “Do psychological and social factors drive female youth entrepreneurial readiness: The moderating effect of entrepreneurial education” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEPP-01-2023-0002

• Quagrainie, F.A., Erogul, M.S. and Adom, A.Y. (2024) ‘Corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurial motivation and integrative quality of life among Ghanaian small business owners’, Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp.257–279.

Email: fquagrainie@gimpa.edu.gh