Rate My Professor Kadamawe Knife

Dr. Kadamawe Knife is a lecturer and researcher in Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Planning at the Mona School of Business & Management within the Business & Economics faculty at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Faculty of Social Sciences. Holding a PhD in Sustainable Development and an MSc in Economics, he leads and coordinates the BSc in Management and Entrepreneurship Option. As Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Thinking and Practice (CETP) in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Dr. Knife also directs the Office of Social Entrepreneurship and Youth Crime Watch Jamaica, housed in the MSBM. Furthermore, he serves as an associate researcher with the Institute of Sustainable Development at UWI Mona and is affiliated with the Marketing, International Business, Entrepreneurship & Strategy Unit.

Dr. Knife's research focuses on social entrepreneurship and its integration with strategic planning techniques for policy, project development, and sustainable community initiatives, emphasizing community safety, gang and crime prevention, and entrepreneurial development in private, public, and NGO sectors, particularly in developing countries, at-risk communities, and among youths. His key publications include "The dark side of social entrepreneurship" (2011, co-authored with D.A. Williams), "Measuring sustainability and effectiveness of social value creation by social sector actors/social enterprises, within developing countries" (2014, with A. Haughton and E. Dixon), "SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: REDUCING CRIME AND IMPROVING THE PERCEPTION OF POLICE PERFORMANCE WITHIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES" (2013, with A. Haughton), "Policy analysis and implications of establishing the Caribbean Cannabis Economy (CCE): lessons from Jamaica" (2018, with M.A. Emanuel and A.Y. Haughton), "Marcus Garvey the entrepreneur? Insights for stimulating entrepreneurship in developing nations" (2011, with A. Bernard and E. Dixon), "Correlates of gender and credit behavior in small firms: Evidence from a small, developing economy" (2012, with D.A. Williams), "Using integrated assessment to develop policy options–trade, land use and biodiversity: A case study of the sugar industry in Jamaica" (2012, with A. Clayton and A. Spencer), and "A theory of change framework for Caribbean resilience and sustainability through social entrepreneurship" (2025, with A. Medine, P. Bahaw, I. Minto-Coy). These works highlight his contributions to understanding social enterprises' impact on crime reduction, social value, and regional sustainability.