Victor Frimpong 2026

Dr. Victor Frimpong

Adjunct Faculty | Senior Researcher | Member of the Research Advisory Board

Dr. Victor Frimpong divides his professional activities between Kumasi, Ghana, where he is engaged in business, investment, and entrepreneurial initiatives, and Zurich, Switzerland, where he consults, conducts research, and teaches. His academic work explores the organisational, governance, and societal implications of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to how emerging technologies reshape institutions, decision-making, leadership, and human behaviour.

He is affiliated with SBS Swiss Business School, where he serves as a Senior Researcher, Adjunct Faculty member, and member of the Research Advisory Board. His published works contribute to emerging debates on AI governance, organisational risk and resilience, responsible AI, and the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent systems.

Dr. Frimpong holds a Doctor of Business Administration and a Master of Applied Business Research from SBS Swiss Business School, as well as an MBA from Henley Management College (now Henley Business School), UK.

Prior to and alongside his academic work, Dr. Frimpong built more than two decades of international banking and financial services experience, holding senior and specialist roles in risk, compliance, and financial crime across several global financial institutions, including HBZ Zurich, Investec, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays Wealth. This combination of industry experience and academic research informs his work on the governance challenges emerging at the intersection of technology, organisations, and society.

 

Research Interests

  • Leadership in Organisations, AI and Leadership, AI Governance, Algorithmic Accountability, AI and Organisational Risk

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Publications

  • ‌Frimpong, V. (2026). Model Monoculture Risk: Systemic AI Convergence in Banking and Financial Markets. FinTech, 5(3), 78. https://doi.org/10.3390/fintech5030078 
  • Frimpong, V. (2026). Ethics Suppression in AI Development: A Comparative Case Study of Responsible AI Under Competitive Pressure. International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 7(9). https://doi.org/10.51137/wrp.ijarbm.869 
  • Frimpong, V., & Botchey, O. K. (2026). The Limits of Contemporary Leadership Theory: Boundary Conditions of Authority, Accountability, and Coordination under Institutional Constraint. Business and Management Studies, 12(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.11114/bms.v12i2.8825 
  • Frimpong, V., & Botchey, O. K. (2026). The Geopolitical Repricing of AI Infrastructure: Energy, Risk, and Strategic Allocation. World, 7(7), 116. https://doi.org/10.3390/world7070116 
  • Frimpong, V., Wolfs, B., & Botchey, O. K. (2026). Translational Academic Capital: Why Do Some Industry Professionals Become Knowledge Producers in Academia, While Others Do Not? Journal of Education and Training Studies, 14(3), 164. https://doi.org/10.11114/jets.v14i3.8667 
  • Frimpong, V., & Botchey, O. K. (2026). Where Are the AI Governance Roles? An Early-Stage Empirical Mapping of Presence, Absence, and Structure in Organisational AI Oversight. Businesses, 6(2), 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/businesses6020018 
  • Frimpong, V. (2026). The Challenge of Context-Free Validity: Introducing the Contextual Research Validity Index Framework for Situated Legitimacy under Socioeconomic Challenges. SocioEconomic Challenges, 10(1), 42-49. https://doi.org/10.61093/sec.10(1).42-49.2026 
  • Frimpong, V., & Mamuti, A. (2026). Opaque Price Control and Algorithmic Authority in Financial Markets. Encyclopedia, 6(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia6010019 
  • Frimpong, V., & Mamuti, A. (2026). Adaptive Methodologies and Bricolage Research Design in Africa’s Digital Asymmetry. International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.51137/wrp.ijarbm.429 
  • Mamuti, A., Frimpong, V., & Grima, S. (2025). Financial Inclusion in the Digital Age: A Literature Review on Expanding Access to Financial Services for Underserved Populations. Oppor Chall. Sustain., 4(4), 289-304. https://doi.org/10.56578/ocs040404  
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). Not All That Can Be Automated Should Be Automated – Strategic Minimalism as a Disciplined and Ethically Grounded Approach to AI Adoption. Business Ethics and Leadership, 9(4), 57-66. https://doi.org/10.61093/bel.9(4).57-66.2025 
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). Empathy and the Human-Moment Gaps of AI Chatbots: Insights from Empathy Displacement Theory. BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 16(4), 480. https://doi.org/10.70594/brain/16.4/29 
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). Algorithmic authority and the complexities of delegated decision-making: Case studies on ethical challenges for 21st-century leadership. International Journal of Organisational Leadership, 14(3), 637-655. https://doi.org/10.33844/ijol.2025.60525
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). When Institutions Cannot Keep up with Artificial Intelligence: Expiration Theory and the Risk of Institutional Invalidation. Administrative Sciences, 15(7), 263. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci15070263
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). What Counts as Green AI? Mapping Efficiency, Sustainability, and Critical-Ecological Strands in a Fragmented Discourse. Qeios.  https://doi.org/10.32388/8FB2P4.2  
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). The Strategic Risk of Delayed and Non-adoption of Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from Organisational Decline in Extinction Zones. International Journal of Business and Management, 20(4), 26. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v20n4p26
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). Artificial Intelligence Investment in Resource-Constrained African Economies: Financial, Strategic, and Ethical Trade-Offs with Broader Implications. World, 6(2), 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/world6020070
  • Frimpong, V., & Wolfs, B. (2025). Ethnic Bias in Leadership Selection: Evidence from Ghana’s Financial Sector. International Journal of Organisational Leadership, 0(0), 302–320. https://doi.org/10.33844/ijol.2025.60484
  • Frimpong, V. (2025). The Impact of AI on Evolving Leadership Theories and Practices. Journal of Management World, 2025(3), 188–193. https://doi.org/10.53935/jomw.v2024i4.1100
  • Frimpong, V. (2024). Cultural and Regional Influences on Global AI Apprehension. Qeios. https://doi.org/10.32388/yrdgex.3 
  • Frimpong, V., & Wolfs, B. (2024). Predictive Effect of AI on Leadership: Insights From Public Case Studies on Organisational Dynamics. International Journal of Business Administration, 15(3), 39–39. https://doi.org/10.5430/ijba.v15n3p39
  • Frimpong, V. (2024). Beyond the P-Value: The Significance of Inconclusive Results and the Role of the IIRF in Advancing Scientific Inquiry. Journal of Investment, Banking and Finance, 2(1), 01–08. https://doi.org/10.33140/jibf.02.01.16

 

Books, Chapters & Monographs

  • Frimpong, V. (2025). The Sustainability Paradox of Artificial Intelligence: How AI Both Saves and Challenges Resource Management Efforts. Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability: Innovations in Business and Managerial Practices, 60–79. https://doi.org/10.70301/sbs.mono.2025.1.4 

 

Recent Conference Presentations

  • Frimpong, V: Identity Liquidity Risk and the Breakdown of Identity-Based Trust in AI-Enabled Financial Intermediation. International Conference on Risk Management in Banking and Finance (ICRMBF - 26). Washington DC, USA, 13th - 14th April 2026
  • Frimpong, V.; Tawk, C.; Mamuti, A. Human–AI Handovers: A Dynamic Authority Reversal (DAR) Framework for Trust Calibration and Transitional Accountability. In Proceedings of the IX. International Applied Social Sciences (C-IASOS-2025) Congress, Rome, Italy, 13–15 October 2025.

 

Academic Peer-Review Service

  • Peer Reviewer: Administrative Sciences; Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research; Behavioural Sciences; Societies; Healthcare; Informatics; Social Sciences
  • Book Chapter Reviewer: IGI Global

 

Professional & Academic Memberships

  • Research Advisory Board Member, SBS Swiss Business School, Switzerland
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence in Business

 

Media

  • “AI Will Become More and More Skilful at Mimicking EQ: Professor Frimpong on Leadership in the Digital Age.” Interview with Bolshie Idei (formerly Harvard Business Review Russia), May 2025.