Chukwunonye Emenalo is a lecturer of financial management at Lagos Business School. His teaching interests are in financial management/corporate finance. His research interests are in understanding the links among institutions, financial system development, and economic development in Africa; and in Law and Finance – more specifically investigating the effects of legal rules, regulations, and other institutional factors on access to finance by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa.

He was the winner of the 2018 Lagos Business School (LBS) Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) Faculty member of the Year award.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (first class honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (UNN); a Master of Research in Management (MRM) degree from IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain; and a PhD in Business Studies degree from University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom. He was awarded the departmental prize as the best final year student of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of UNN in his graduating set.
Publications
Published Articles
Emenalo, C. O., and Gagliardi, F. (2020). Is current institutional quality linked to legal origins and disease endowments? Evidence from Africa. Research in International Business and Finance, 52 (2020): 1-15. Doi: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2019.101065

Emenalo, C. O., Gagliardi, F., and Hodgson, G. M. (2018). Historical institutional determinants of financial system development in Africa. Journal of Institutional Economics, 14(2): 345-372. Doi: 10.1017/S1744137417000042

Emenalo, C. O. (2012). Corporate governance systems as dynamic institutions: Towards a dynamic model of corporate governance systems. African Journal of Business Ethics, 6(1): 39-49.

Book Chapters
Emenalo, C. O. (2011). Towards a human-centric theory of the firm. In Amann, W., Pirson, M., Dierksmeier, C., Kimakowitz, E. V., & Spitzeck, H. (Eds). Business schools under fire: Humanistic management education as the way forward: 192-211. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd: Hampshire, UK.

Conference Papers
Emenalo, C. O. (2018, June). The persistence of historical institutional determinants of financial system development in Africa: Colonial vs. precolonial effects. Paper presented at the society for institutional and organizational economics (SIOE) conference in Montreal, Canada.

Emenalo, C. O. (2017, June). Subnational legal property and judicial system efficiency and firm-level access to finance: Evidence from Africa. Paper presented at the society for institutional and organizational economics (SIOE) conference in New York, USA.

Emenalo, C. O., Gagliardi, F., and Hodgson, G. M. (2016, September). Do current and historical institutional determinants of financial system development have any links? Evidence from Africa? Paper presented at the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) conference in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Emenalo, C. O., Gagliardi, F., and Hodgson, G. M. (2016, June). Current institutional determinants of financial system depth and breadth in Africa: Similar or different? Paper presented at the society for institutional and organizational economics (SIOE) conference in Paris, France.

Emenalo, C. O., Gagliardi, F., and Hodgson, G. M. (2015, September). Historical institutional determinants of financial system depth and breadth in Africa: Similar or different? Paper presented at the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Emenalo, C. O. (2010, September). Towards a global theory of corporate governance: Corporate governance systems as dynamic institutions. Paper presented at a conference on Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis in the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.