Helen Afang Andow
Helen Afang Andow is a professor of Entrepreneurship Management at Kaduna State University. She is the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Strategy, Innovation, and Service Delivery at Kaduna State University, and also a Trustee/Member of some educational institutions. Helen specialises in entrepreneurship, digital marketing and small-business management analysis for business decision-making.
Education
Helen Afang Andow obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in 1997 and a master's degree in Business Administration from the same institution in 2002. Also, she obtained her postgraduate degree from Kaduna Polytechnic (KADPOLY), Kaduna, in 2007, and a PhD in management from the Nigerian DeFence Academy, Kaduna, in 2012. Furthermore, she obtained a certificate for doctoral supervision from Stellenbosch University (African Doctoral Academy), South Africa, and a certificate in E-Learning from Louisiana State University, USA.
Career
Helen Andow served as the Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences at Kaduna State University. She was also the Director of the Entrepreneurship Research and Development Centre at the same institution, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Strategy, Innovation, and Service Delivery. She is a Fellow of the African Council for Small & Entrepreneurship and the Institute of Business Diplomacy and Financial Management. Helen also serves as a Board of Trustees member of the Association of Skills Development, Technicals and Entrepreneurship Educational Development (ASDEED), Abuja Chapter, and was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the Unique Open University, Lagos.
Research and publications
Helen has publications that focus on areas such as entrepreneurship and Venture Creation, social media and digital marketing, as well as small business management. The following is a selected list of works authored by Helen Andow.
- J Okpanachi, (2013) A. H. Andow. "Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Development and Youth Unemployment Reduction in Nigeria." Journal of Transformative Entrepreneurship 1 (2), 112–123.
- Andow, Helen (2014). "Military spending and external debt burden in Nigeria". International Journal of Education and Research 2 (7), 611–626.
- Andow, Helen (2015). "Impact of banking reforms on service delivery in the Nigerian banking sector". Second 21st Century Academic Forum Conference Boston, USA at Harvard 5 (1), 551
- Andow, Helen (2016). "Ownership structure and the financial performance of listed conglomerate firms in Nigeria". The Business & Management Review 7 (3), 231.
- Andow, Helen (2018). "Capital structure and share price: Empirical evidence from listed deposit money banks (DMB) in Nigeria." International Journal of New Technology and Research 4 (2), 263130
- Andow, Helen (2018). "Impact of working capital management on financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria" International Journal of New Technology and Research 4 (3), 263121.
- F.I Usman, M.I Bazza, H.A Andow (2018). "The impact of leadership, security and national development on organisational performance in public organisation of Adamawa State University, Mubi, Nigeria." Leadership, security, and national development 1 (2), 152.