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Dr. Kisito Futonge Nzembayie

Assistant Professor (Trinity Business School)
      
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Dr. Kisito Futonge Nzembayie

Assistant Professor (Trinity Business School)

 kfutonge@tcd.ie

 


Dr Kisito F. Nzembayie is a recognised scholar and practitioner in entrepreneurship, with a PhD in Digital Entrepreneurship and a focus on the intersection of entrepreneurship, digital technology, marketing, and strategy. As the Director of the MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, he leads one of Europe"s premier programmes designed to nurture entrepreneurial mindsets and innovation. Kisito's research explores key themes at the nexus of entrepreneurship, information systems, management education, and action research. His contributions include a seminal book, Digital Entrepreneurship, published by Edward Elgar in 2022, and impactful articles in leading journals such as Technovation, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, and European Management Review. He is a reviewer for several leading journals and currently serves as guest editor for a special issue on Digital Entrepreneurship in Technovation. With a strong commitment to teaching excellence, underpinned by a Postgraduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching, Kisito is renowned for engaging students with a global and pragmatic perspective. Drawing on his fluency in multiple languages, including Mandarin, and his 12 years of working and doing business in China, he brings a rich cultural understanding to modules such as International Entrepreneurship. Beyond academia, Kisito is a serial digital entrepreneur, having previously founded and scaled 3 EdTech ventures in the primary sector that have achieved over 100 million global visits. His unique blend of scholarship and practical rigour strongly positions him as an engaged scholar, bridging the gap between theory and practice. Consequently, he offers unparalleled insights into key domains of knowledge scarcity such as digital transformation, platform-dependent entrepreneurship, generative AI in business and management education, and entrepreneurial resilience in times of crisis.
  Digital Entrepreneurship   Entrepreneurship   Entrepreneurship, innovation
Details Date
Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2024 IPDMC: INNOVATION AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2023
Representing Trinity Business School at the 2022 Irish Export Industry Awards. I delivered a brief speech on TBS and sustainability and proceeded to offer awards to the winners of the Sustainable Trade Company of the Year (Maersk Ireland) I also granted a video interview. 30/09/2022
Advisory Board Member for the Irish Exporters Association 2024
ECSB - SIG Member on Institutions and Entrepreneurship (InsENT) November
Advisory Board - Irish Exporters Association 2024
Guest Editor - Technovation Special Issue - Digital Entrepreneurship 2023
Technovation Guest Editor - I am the guest editor for a Special Issue on Digital Entrepreneurship 2024
Keynote Speaker: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MARKETING INNOVATION & ANALYTICS (ICMIA"23) 2023
Guest Editor for Technovation (ABS3) journal special issue titled: Unlocking the Potential of Digital Entrepreneurship in Turbulent Times 2023
Represented Trinity Business School's Executive Education programme at the 2023 Irish Export Industry Awards as judge and presenter of award for sustainable trade company of the year. 22-09-2023
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Chinese Basic Basic Fluent
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Medium Medium
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IPDMC - Innovation and Product Development Management Conference June, 2023 Present
EURAM - European Academy of Management 2020 2025
ISBE - Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship 2018 2023
RENT Conference/SIG-ECSB - Institutions and Entrepreneurship 2022 Present
ECSB - European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2017 Present
Kisito Futonge Nzembayie, Anthony Paul Buckley , Digital Entrepreneurship: Disruption & New Venture Creation , 1, UK, Edward Elgar, 2022, https://doi.org/10.4337/978180pp, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kisito F. Nzembayie, Natasha Evers, David Urbano, Power dynamics in transaction platforms: Adaptive strategies of platform-dependent entrepreneurs, Technovation, 138, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Kisito F. Nzembayie & David Coghlan, Entrepreneurship education as first-person transformation: Interiority as an operationalizing mechanism, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2024, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00471], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Kisito F. Nzembayie, Anthony Buckley, Isilay Talay, Experiential Pedagogies for Cultivating Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Action Design Learning as Tailored Framework, Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Kisito Futonge Nzembayie, Anthony Paul Buckley, Entrepreneurial Process Studies Using Insider Action Research: Opportunities & Challenges for Entrepreneurship Scholarship, European Management Review, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kisito Futonge Nzembayie, Anthony Paul Buckley, Thomas Cooney, Researching Pure Digital Entrepreneurship " A Multimethod Insider Action Research approach, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11, 2019, pe00103 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Critical AI Literacy Development in Business Schools: An Interiority-Infused Action Research Framework for Collective Empowerment in, editor(s)by Abram Shani, Debra A Noumair, Danielle P Zandee, David Coghlan , Research in Organizational Change and Development -ROCD Volume 31, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025, [Kisito Futonge Nzembayie], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Kisito Futonge Nzembayie, Doing Insider Action Design Research (IADR) in Entrepreneurship: Lessons from a PhD Case, 2023, Case Study, PUBLISHED  DOI
Futonge, Conceptualising Digital Entrepreneurship: Artifacts, Platforms & Infrastructures, 17, (1), 2022, pp101--106 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kisito F. Nzembayie, Natasha Evers, Covid-19 as an External Enabler of Digital Venture Growth, RENT XXXVI, Naples, Italy, 16-18 November, 2022, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
  

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Kisito Futonge Nzembayie, Digital Darwinism on Platforms Survival Strategies of Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurs, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MARKETING INNOVATION & ANALYTICS (ICMIA"23), India, 15th-16th Dec. 2023, 2023, y International School of Business and Media (ISB&M), Notes: [I spoke on the theme of digital Darwinism on platforms, exploring the survival strategies of platform-dependent entrepreneurs.], Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Kisito F. Nzembayie, Natasha Evers, David Urbano, Surviving Dominant Digital Platform Ecosystems: Strategies for Small Digital Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurs, ISBE 2022, York, UK, 27th to 28th October, 2022, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

  


Award Date
2024 TBS Teaching Excellence Award 2024
2023 TBS Teaching Excellence Award 2023
Best Paper - Technology Entrepreneurship - ISBE Conference, Birmingham 2018 2018
Best Paper Finalist - Technology Entrepreneurship - ISBE Conference, Birmingham, 2023 2023
Best PhD Paper - ECRM, 2017, Dublin 2017
Student Excellence Gold Medal Award, TU Dublin 2015 2015
First Place Gold Medal Award - TU Dublin, MSc Entrepreneurship, 2015 2015
Best Paper Finalist - Technology Entrepreneurship - ISBE Conference, Newcastle 2019 2019
Best Paper Finalist - Technology Entrepreneurship - ISBE Conference, York 2022 2022