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Determinants of Technological and non-technological Innovations: Evidence from Ghana’ Manufacturing and Service Sectors 技术和非技术创新的决定因素:来自加纳制造业和服务业的证据
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Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2113209
Samuel Amponsah Odei, M. A. Odei, Evelyn Toseafa
{"title":"Determinants of Technological and non-technological Innovations: Evidence from Ghana’ Manufacturing and Service Sectors","authors":"Samuel Amponsah Odei, M. A. Odei, Evelyn Toseafa","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2113209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2113209","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper aims at investigating the various factors driving technological and non-technological innovations in the manufacturing and service sectors in Ghana. We argue that numerous previous studies have shown that digitalization, firms’ collaborations, access to finance, engaging in research and development and certain firm characteristic such as age, size and ownership influence firms’ aptitude and incentives to be innovative. However, in the context of developing countries like Ghana, we do not know whether these same determinants also have positive effects on stimulating innovations at the firm-level. Using a sample of 549 firms sourced from the World Bank Enterprises Survey conducted between 2007 and 2013, this study finds that the adoption of digitalization promotes non-technological (organizational) innovations than technological innovations. We also find that firms’ innovation collaboration with consultants and universities rather exert no impact on technological and non-technological innovations. Our finding show that internal R&D enhance technological innovations and not non-technological innovations. The main practical implications of the study are that attempts to boosting firm-level and developing countries innovation potentials should mainly focus on improving internal R&D and innovation support activities, expanding access to finance, and upgrading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure to enhance digitalization.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"467 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42462294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Transactional and Transformational Leadership Styles, Sensing, Seizing, and Configuration Dynamic Capabilities in Kenyan Firms 肯尼亚企业的交易型和变革型领导风格、感知、把握和配置动态能力
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2112487
L. Wamalwa
{"title":"Transactional and Transformational Leadership Styles, Sensing, Seizing, and Configuration Dynamic Capabilities in Kenyan Firms","authors":"L. Wamalwa","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2112487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2112487","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Leaders play a vital role in the development of dynamic capabilities. However, the effects of leadership styles on firms’ dynamic capabilities have not been fully explored, with relatively few studies examining the relationship between leadership and dynamic capabilities. This research examined the influence of transformational and transactional leadership styles on dynamic capabilities. Using data from 279 Kenyan firms. Data analysis was done using hierarchical linear regression model. The finding shows that transformational and transactional leadership styles influence the development of organizational dynamic capabilities. While the transformational leadership style leads to the development of sensing, seizing, and configuration capabilities, transactional leaders do not affect the development of sensing dynamic capabilities. However, they have significant effects on seizing and configuration capabilities development. This study develops knowledge that enables leaders, scholars and practitioners to understand how to use different leadership styles to pursue or develop different dynamic capabilities.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"444 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48055184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in Ghana’s Informal Economy: Does Customer Perceived Value Matter? 加纳非正式经济中的关系营销与顾客忠诚:顾客感知价值重要吗?
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-08-11 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2107317
L. N. Tettey, Oliver Kwabena Aggrey, G. Acheampong
{"title":"Relationship Marketing and Customer Loyalty in Ghana’s Informal Economy: Does Customer Perceived Value Matter?","authors":"L. N. Tettey, Oliver Kwabena Aggrey, G. Acheampong","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2107317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2107317","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, we seek to understand the role of relationship marketing in achieving customer loyalty in Ghana’s informal economy. The study further investigated the role of customer perceived value as a pass-through mechanism for the relationship between relationship marketing and customer loyalty. We collected primary data from 229 customers of informal economy operators in Accra. The data was then analyzed using structural equation modeling utilizing the STATA 15 Package. Our findings indicate that commitment is the only fundamental relationship marketing factor investigated that has a direct influence on customer loyalty in the informal business context. Trust and conflict handling on the other hand benefit significantly from the presence of customer perceived value whereas communication seems to have negligible effects. Consequently, scholars and marketing practitioners seeking to deploy the relationship marketing concept in the informal economy need to be aware of these contextual interplays and how they shape further discussions of the relationship marketing theory.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"427 - 443"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43119635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Environmental Dilemma? Explicating Stakeholder Engagement in Kenyan Firms 环境困境？肯尼亚公司利益相关者参与的阐释
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-07-18 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2100745
Edward M. Mungai, S. Ndiritu, Tazeeb S. Rajwani
{"title":"Environmental Dilemma? Explicating Stakeholder Engagement in Kenyan Firms","authors":"Edward M. Mungai, S. Ndiritu, Tazeeb S. Rajwani","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2100745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2100745","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Stakeholder pressure is among the pathways through which firms are being prodded to adopt environmental management practices. Owing to research paucity from the context of developing countries and overall inconclusiveness, this research investigates whether mimetic, normative, and coercive pressures (which encompass stakeholder pressure) sway firms into adopting resource management and energy efficiency. An analysis of data from 852 firms in Kenya using a simple probit model, suggests that all the three types of stakeholder pressure positively influenced corporate resource management and energy efficiency. This augments our postulations on both stakeholder and neo-institutional theories. Based on these findings, it is plausible to view stakeholders as critical ‘tools’ that can foster corporate sustainability initiatives in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"404 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41904609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Cushioning the Covid-19 Economic Consequences on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Role of Stakeholders` Engagement, Collaboration, and Support 缓解新冠肺炎经济对创业生态系统的影响：利益相关者参与、合作和支持的作用
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2078933
Jonathan Mukiza Peter Kansheba, M. Marobhe, A. Wald
{"title":"Cushioning the Covid-19 Economic Consequences on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Role of Stakeholders` Engagement, Collaboration, and Support","authors":"Jonathan Mukiza Peter Kansheba, M. Marobhe, A. Wald","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2078933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2078933","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Covid-19 (corona virus) disruptions have necessitated a new way of thinking about how entrepreneurship and its environments (ecosystems) function in times of heightened uncertainty. Based on a sample of 237 entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) stakeholders in Tanzania – an emerging economy, we examine the pandemic economic consequences steered by government countermeasures on the EE-perceived quality and performance. We further examined the role played by EE stakeholders` engagement, collaboration, and support during the crisis. Our structural equation model results suggest that strictness of government counter measures for containment of the current pandemic predicament has a bearing on EE- perceived quality and performance by fueling EE vulnerability via amplifying the magnitude of the negative effects. We further find that stakeholders` engagement and collaboration play a significant role in improving the EE-perceived quality and slowing down EE-vulnerability. We conclude by providing the implications and avenues for future research.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"214 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49095419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Credit Cooperative Lending Loans as Challenges and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurship in Africa: Evidence from Ghana 信用合作社贷款是非洲妇女创业的挑战和机遇：来自加纳的证据
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2078937
J. K. D. Fieve, E. Chrysostome
{"title":"Credit Cooperative Lending Loans as Challenges and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurship in Africa: Evidence from Ghana","authors":"J. K. D. Fieve, E. Chrysostome","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2078937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2078937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46325915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Banking Supervision and Nonperforming Loans in Africa: Does Institutional Quality Matter in the Ghanaian Banking Space? 非洲银行监管与不良贷款:加纳银行业的制度质量是否重要?
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2087443
J. Forson, A. I. Braimah, S. K. Asiamah, R. Kuranchie-Pong, Edward Daniels, Samuel Evergreen Adjavon
{"title":"Banking Supervision and Nonperforming Loans in Africa: Does Institutional Quality Matter in the Ghanaian Banking Space?","authors":"J. Forson, A. I. Braimah, S. K. Asiamah, R. Kuranchie-Pong, Edward Daniels, Samuel Evergreen Adjavon","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2087443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2087443","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we reexamine the determinants of nonperforming loans through the impact of supervisory devices in credit risk management in Africa. The paper employs bank-specific, macroeconomic and institutional data for a panel of 14 universal banks over the period 2009 to 2020. We develop models that capture the role of regulatory supervision on credit risk. Findings from the Panels Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) and the system GMM shows that previous year’s NPL and inflation significantly affect NPLs in the banking space of Gana. Bank size and financial development are inversely associated with NPLs. The interactive term of regulatory quality and government effectiveness on NPLs has net negative effect. This suggest that regulatory quality enhances the reductive effects of government effectiveness on NPLs. Our findings in general lends credence to the financial instability theory as NPLs in the Ghanaian context has been the outcome of activities of speculative borrowers.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"384 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41726134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Recovery Strategies of a Micro Restaurant in Nigeria: Implications on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty 尼日利亚一家微型餐厅的恢复策略：对顾客满意度和忠诚度的影响
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-06-12 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2087442
A. G. Agu
{"title":"Recovery Strategies of a Micro Restaurant in Nigeria: Implications on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty","authors":"A. G. Agu","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2087442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2087442","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Given the increasing lucrativeness and competitiveness of the restaurant industry in Nigeria, a number of micro operators have emerged, and many operate within a defined market such as university environments. Knowing the service failure and recovery strategies applicable to this set of restaurants is necessary in building customer satisfaction and loyalty after failure encounters. Since this knowledge is currently lacking in the literature, this study anchors on the justice theory to close the gap. First, an exploratory research helped to identify common service failures and recovery strategies in micro restaurants. Thereafter, a survey involving a purposive sample of 140 customers of a micro-restaurant was conducted and collected data assessed with Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis in SPSS 23.0. Findings indicate that the service recovery strategies significantly influence customer satisfaction and loyalty, with ‘sincere apology’ having the highest influence. Besides, failure severity was found to mediate the relationship between service recovery strategies and customer satisfaction/loyalty.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"363 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46385413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Gender, Credit Risk and Performance in Sub-Saharan African Microfinance Institutions 撒哈拉以南非洲小额信贷机构的性别、信贷风险和绩效
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2079275
Hadizatou Ali, Jean-Pierre Gueyié, E. Chrysostome
{"title":"Gender, Credit Risk and Performance in Sub-Saharan African Microfinance Institutions","authors":"Hadizatou Ali, Jean-Pierre Gueyié, E. Chrysostome","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2079275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2079275","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The involvement of women in business in developing countries has become a subject of great interest for many researchers. In particular, female involvement in microfinance institutions has received special attention from governments and development institutions given its potential impact on poverty alleviation. This paper assesses the effect of gender on the credit risk and performance of microfinance institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. A sample of 43 microfinance institutions from 19 sub-Saharan African countries was selected and data was collected over the period 2010–2016. Seemingly unrelated regressions (SURs) were performed to examine how gender affects the credit risk and performance of microfinance institutions. The findings do not show any significant impact of female loan officers on credit risk, financial performance or social performance. Thus, all else being equal in the countries analyzed, female loan officers do not impact the credit risk and performance differently compared to male credit officers. The contribution of this paper is to shed light on the debate on the impact of gender on the performance of microfinance institutions.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"235 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43380858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Market Orientation, Innovativeness and Competitive Advantage: Empirical Insight from Women Entrepreneurs in the Senegalese agri-food Sector 市场导向、创新与竞争优势:塞内加尔农业食品部门女企业家的经验洞察
IF 1.9
Journal of African Business Pub Date : 2022-05-22 DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2079871
B. Doucouré, Assane Diagne
{"title":"Market Orientation, Innovativeness and Competitive Advantage: Empirical Insight from Women Entrepreneurs in the Senegalese agri-food Sector","authors":"B. Doucouré, Assane Diagne","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2022.2079871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2079871","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study is to investigate whether market orientation interacts with innovativeness to generate a dynamic capability that procures sustainable competitive advantage drawing on the resource-based theory and the dynamic-capabilities perspective. The structural equation modeling was established to explain the complex relationship between market orientation, innovativeness, and competitive advantage. To test the hypothesis, this study used partial least square with data from a survey of 105 women entrepreneurs. The results show that market orientation influences competitive advantage only when it is bundled together with innovativeness as an internal complementary resource.","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":"24 1","pages":"320 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42020077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
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