COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & LEGAL STUDIES: Recent submissions

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You Cannot Give What You Do Not Have: Assessing Practicing Teachers’ Capacity to Teach Personal Finance among Senior High Schools in Ghana

Ansong, Abraham (Journal of Business Administration and Education, 2013)

A survey of practicing Senior High School teachers was conducted to determine teachers‘ background and capacity to teach personal finance. The results indicate that a majority of teachers have little personal finance ...
Women, Livelihood and Oil and Gas Discovery in Ghana: An exploratory Study of Cape Three Points and Surrounding Communities

Boohene, Rosemond; Peprah, James Atta (Journal of Sustainable Development, 2011)

The role of oil and gas exploration and other natural resources in the economic development of a country cannot be over emphasized. Unfortunately, in most oil producing countries women have not benefited from oil and ...
WHY THE ZEBRA’S STRIPES ARE IMPORTANT: PROTECTING ORGANIZATION INTELLECTUAL ASSETS

Opoku Mensah, Abigail (International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2018)

This article discusses a framework to protect proprietary information drawing upon the Zebra as a metaphor to protect the information that matters to a business. The discourse to shield proprietary information in successful ...
Unearthing the Integral Determinants of Foreign Ownership Prevalence of Companies in Africa: Role of Country-level Governance

Agyemang, Otuo Serebour; Fantini, Giulia; Ansong, Abraham (Journal of African Business, 2016)

This study seeks to deepen our understanding on how countrylevel governance structures influence prevalence of foreign ownership of firms in Africa. This study reinforces the new institutional economics perspective by ...
Institutional structures and the strength of investor confidence in Africa

Agyemang, Otuo Serebour; Kyeraa, Millicent; Ansong, Abraham; Frimpong, Siaw (International Journal of Law and Management, 2017)

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the role of country-level institutional structures in strengthening the level of investor confidence in Africa while controlling for real GDP growth, interest rate spread, inflation ...
To What Extent does Employees’ Perception of Organizational Justice Influence Their Organizational Citizenship Behaviour?

Asamani, Lebbaeus; Opoku Mensah, Abigail (European Journal of Business and Management, 2013)

This study investigated how employees’ perception of organizational justice affects their Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB). Three dimensions of organizational justice were studied. Organizational tenure of employees ...
Theorising the Relationship between Television Programmes and Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture among University Students in Kenya

Afriyie, Nina; Boohene, Rosemond; Ofafa, Gorrety (2222-2839, 2013)

This paper examined the relationship between television programmes and promotion of entrepreneurial culture among final year university students drawn from ten private and public universities in Kenya. Pearson product moment ...
The role of commission-based pay on employee retention in the Ghanaian banking industry: The case of GCB Bank Limited

Adom, Alex Y. (Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review, 2018)

Background: Human Resource is one of the valuable assets for organisations to facilitate the achievement of competitive advantage. Managing human resources is very challenging and must be done with care in organisations. ...
The Relationships Among Gender, Strategic Capabilities, and Performance of Small Retail Firms in Ghana

Boohene, Rosemond (Journal of African Business, 2009)

The study examines the direct and indirect effects of gender on business strategies, firm resources, business owners’ skills, and performance of small firms in Ghana. Small businesses comprise about 90% of all enterprises ...
The Nature of Capital Structure among Insurance Companies in Ghana

Ansong, Abraham; Ekow-Asmah, Emmanuel (Developing Country Studies, 2013)

The objective of the study was to ascertain the nature of the capital structure of insurance companies in Ghana. Panel data was derived from annual reports and financial statements of 15 insurance companies registered ...
The Influence of Workplace Facilities on Lactating Working Mothers’ Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment: A Case Study of Lactating Working Mothers in Accra, Ghana

Mensah, Abigail Opoku (2011)

The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of workplace facilities on lactating working mothers’ job satisfaction and their commitment level at work. The subjects for the study were two hundred and sixty ...
The Influence of Employees' Self-Efficacy on Their Quality of Work Life: The Case of Cape Coast, Ghana

Mensah, Abigail Opoku; Lebbaeus, Asamani (International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2013)

Employees today are spending more time in the workplace in response to job insecurity, workplace demands, financial pressures etc. The purpose of the study was to find out the current status of employees’ self-efficacy and ...
The Effects of Financial Innovation on Financial Savings: Evidence From an Economy in Transition

Ansong, Abraham; Marfo-Yiadom, Edward; Ekow-Asmah, Emmanuel (Journal of African Business, 2011)

The general objective of this research is to establish the effects of financial innovations on financial savings in Ghana for the period 1963 to 2006. Both the perceptual index and M2=M1 that were used as proxies for ...
The Effect of Unionisation on Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment in the Cape Coast and Takoradi Metropolis of Ghana

Asamani, Lebbaeus; Mensah, Abigail Opoku (European Journal of Business and Management, 2013)

The study sought to find out how being a member of a trade union affects the satisfaction of employees in the Cape Coast and Takoradi Metropolis derive from their jobs and also how it influences their commitment to ...
The Effect of Human Resource Management Practices on Corporate Performance: A Study of Graphic Communications Group Limited

Boohene, Rosemond; Asuinura, Ernesticia Lartey (Electronic Business Journal, 2011)

In developing economies such as Ghana, the influence of governments in state-owned entities renders many human resource management best practice principles ineffectual. Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) is ...
Social capital and SME performance: the moderating role of emotional intelligence

Gyimah, Regina Appiah; Osei, Martin Boakye; Boohene, Rosemond (Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 2019)

Purpose – Lack of extant studies on the moderating role of emotional intelligence on the relationship between social capital and firm performance necessitated this study. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent ...
Rural Entrepreneurship in African Countries: A Synthesis of Related Literature

Boohene, Rosemond; Agyapong, Daniel (Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development, 2017)

The paper focuses on rural entrepreneurship and its implication for the practice of entrepreneurship as anarea of study and practice in Africa. The paper surveys the entrepreneurship literature using the case study approach. ...
Role of personal values in investment decisions Perspectives of individual Ghanaian shareholders

Agyemang, Otuo Serebour; Ansong, Abraham (Management Research Review, 2016)

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the role personal values play in investment decision-making processes among Ghanaian shareholders. Design/methodology/approach – In consequence of the recent emergence of the issue ...
Risk Management as a Conduit of Effective Corporate Governance and Financial Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

Ansong, Abraham (Developing Country Studies, 2013)

Previous attempts to measure the quality of corporate governance tend to focus on inputs of governance such as the separation of the CEO and the chairman’s roles and the composition of boards, largely based on the ...
Resistance to Organisational Change: A Case Study of Oti Yeboah Complex Limited

Boohene, Rosemond; Williams, Asamoah Appiah (International Business and Management, 2012)

impediments to organisational expansion and growth due to its negative repercussions. This study therefore sought to investigate the factors that influence resistance to organisational change at Oti-Yeboah Complex ...

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