Naome Otiti

Assistant Professor School of Business and Law

Email: naome.otiti@uia.no
Mobile phone: +47 40 99 64 36
Office: 9I252 (Universitetsveien 19, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

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Background and experience

Naome Otiti holds a PhD in International Business from the School of Business and Law, University of Agder. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Business Administration (International Management specialization) from University of Agder and a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting specialization) from Makerere University, Uganda.

Naome is currently a member of the Center for Research on Social Enterprises and Microfinance (CERSEM) at the University of Agder.

Teaching

ORG208 - International Business

Research

Academic interests

International Business and Development

Social Enterprises and Microfinance

Alternative Finance

Human Resource Management

Godfroid, Cécile; Otiti, Naome & Mersland, Roy (2022). Employee tenure and staff performance: The case of a social enterprise. Journal of Business Research. ISSN 0148-2963. 139, p. 457–467. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.10.011. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The literature on social enterprises has largely examined tradeoffs at the organizational level. In this study, we examine tradeoffs at the employee level. By analyzing the case of an Ecuadorian microfinance institution, we show that the tenure of social enterprise employees affects individual social and financial performance differently: the relationship between tenure and social performance is positive, whereas the relationship between tenure and financial performance is an inverted U-shape. Furthermore, our results suggest that social enterprise employees with the longest tenure are the least inclined to experience tradeoff tensions.
Otiti, Naome; Godfroid, Cécile; Mersland, Roy & D'Espallier, Bert (2021). Does it (Re)pay to be Female? Considering Gender in Microfinance Loan Officer-Client Pairs. Journal of Development Studies. ISSN 0022-0388. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2021.1983167. Full text in Research Archive
Otiti, Naome; Andersson, Kjetil & Mersland, Roy (2021). Is Employee-Client Matching Good for firms Targeting the Bottom of the Pyramid? A Study of Microfinance Institutions. International Journal of Development Issues. ISSN 1446-8956. 20(1), p. 1–23. doi: 10.1108/IJDI-04-2020-0069. Full text in Research Archive

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Otiti, Naome; Andersson, Kjetil & Mersland, Roy (2019). Is Employee-Client Matching Good for Firms Targeting the Bottom of the Pyramid? Full text in Research Archive
Otiti, Naome; Andersson, Kjetil & Mersland, Roy (2019). Is Employee-Client Matching Good for Firms Targeting the Bottom of the Pyramid? A Study of Microfinance Insitutions. Full text in Research Archive
Otiti, Naome; Andersson, Kjetil & Mersland, Roy (2018). Is Socioeconomic Matching of Staff and Clients beneficial for Microfinance Social Enterprises? Full text in Research Archive
Otiti, Naome; Andersson, Kjetil & Mersland, Roy (2018). Is Employee-Client Matching good for firms targeting the Bottom of the pyramid? Full text in Research Archive
Otiti, Naome (2022). Human Resources and Performance in Social Enterprises : Evidence from Microfinance Institutions. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 9788284270692. Full text in Research Archive

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