56 10 644 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Africa in the Age of Digitalisation Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource This chapter explores the creative industries in Africa from a digital perspective. This ranges from digital advertising, design, fashion, film and music production to digital publishing and photography. There have been quite a range of innovative developments in the global value chain, which are also explored such as the deployment of artificial intelligence and augmented and virtual reality. Everything Digital – Fashion, Film, and Music production and distribution – is considered in the chapter. It also paves the way for further interrogation of the legal landscape and intellectual property challenges in the creative industries – which is the focus of Chapter 6. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Emerald Publishing Limited Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80071-302-420211005/full/html Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Introduction to Responsible Management: A Corporate Social Responsibility, Green Marketing, and Sustainability Management Perspective Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource There are rising calls for the adoption of responsible management practices in virtually every economic sector of both developed and developing economies. Among others, efforts to promote responsible management have been championed by governments, international organisations, academic institutions, and industry regulators. In developing economies, such moves have spawned numerous success stories across diverse sectors such as energy, mining, manufacturing, and agriculture. Despite these glowing achievements, a plethora of challenges persist that threaten the sustainable development agenda. Against this backdrop, we address some crucial pathways for the sustainability logic and responsible management philosophy, as exemplified by contemporary practices across various sectors within the emerging markets context. We conceptualised responsible management as built on three pillars and examine the contribution of this triad of cognate concepts and practices: corporate social responsibility, green business, and sustainable management. We argue that social responsibility is pivotal to responsible management since it is imperative for corporations to consider the interests of multiple stakeholders, including employees, the society, the environment, future generations, and not only the interests of companies and investors. Akin to corporate social responsibility are sustainable management practices. We applaud current sustainability transitions concerning initiatives by businesses to drive meaningful and rewarding sustainability action. However, considering the upsurge of irresponsible and unsustainable business practices that harm the biosphere, needlessly kill wildlife, deplete natural resources, and destroy vegetation, the chapter explicates some specific ways in which businesses in emerging markets can drive green business initiatives from thought to finish, as expressed through green sourcing, green processing, green production, and green consumption practices. We also make recommendations regarding how governments, policymakers, and managers can support and embed the responsible management agenda in emerging markets. The chapter recommends that organisations must reimagine present-day sustainability actions by adopting innovative and sustainable initiatives such as reducing consumption, recycling, remanufacturing, reusing resources, and employing cutting-edge technology to monitor business processes across the entire value-chain from manufacturing to the end-user. At the micro level, we advocate that firm managers, entrepreneurs, and individuals must propel efforts in adopting responsible management practices. Finally, this chapter introduces the multisectoral chapters contained in the pages of this book, outline contributions to theory, and discuss practical managerial and policy implications. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-76563-7_1 Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/a8c45ab2aaf6d0f08cc266227abffe5a.pdf ae254330d6594ecb07a25b0d099574c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa Robert Ebo Hinson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource Corporate social responsibility is increasingly becoming the ideal and approved mode of sustaining good relations between corporate bodies and their surrounding communities. The building of a strong relationship is essential for the simple reason that a corporation’s ability to operate effectively is partly dependent upon the community’s understanding of the corporations’ business activities, their acceptance and the provision of a conducive environment for the corporation to operate (Du and Vieria 2012). However, there seems to be a disconnect between the perceptions of communities’ desire from such social interventions and what has been provided in many documented instances. Eventually, situations have occurred where the desired effects of the initiatives by corporate bodies are almost non-existent in beneficiary communities. This can be attributed to the apparent lack of well-established relationships and trust between corporations and communities. Additionally, according to Kemp (2010), it is conceptualised as a three-dimensional practice that involves: working for the company to understand local community perspectives; bridging community and company perspectives to generate dialogue and mutual understanding; and, facilitating necessary organisational change to improve social performance. In this direction, this special issue sought conceptual and empirical research on the extractive industry that employs theories and frameworks which aid our understanding of how relations are being brokered at the community level. This special issue comprises three papers that address corporate social responsibility issues within different contexts and industries including the tobacco industry, extractive industry, and the telecommunication industry. This special issue contributes to the growing body of knowledge on socially responsible behaviour and the links to community relations. Wunpini Mohammed, Anli Xiao and Erica Hilton in their paper assess how telecommunication companies in Ghana manage corporate social responsibility and delved into the need for these companies to rethink, reassess and restructure their corporate social responsibility to focus more marginalised communities in Ghana. Their Hinson, Tsiboe-Darko, and Boateng 2 findings show that telecommunication companies in Ghana adopt democratic and collectivist principles to implement their corporate social responsibility initiatives. Furthermore, the results show that the telecommunication companies mostly align their corporate social responsibility initiatives with the social socio-economic needs of the communities they operate in. However, most of the initiatives the companies undertake are philanthropic in nature which may have little long-term impacts on marginalised communities. Tatenda Nhapi examines the roles of the state and non-state duty bearers in ensuring that the tobacco industry in Zimbabwe implements corporate social responsibility implementation and improves natural resources management outcomes. The paper explores the experiences of tobacco farming and its impacts such as the degradation of natural resources in the tobacco farming communities. It points out the lack of proactive corporate social responsibility programs by the tobacco companies to address the degradation of natural resources in the tobacco farming communities. The paper highlights the need for communities of practice approach to corporate social responsibility implementation and natural resources management. The paper also argues for the need for tobacco companies to redesign their corporate social responsibility programs to focus on the tobacco farming community in order to transform the communities. Furthermore, it calls for the tobacco companies to involve various stakeholders including social workers, business enterprises, grassroots communities, and the farmers in the implementation of corporate social responsibility initiatives. Douglas Adeola and Ogechi Adeola study corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector with a specific focus on Chevron Nigeria. The paper argues that businesses that seek to act responsibly must ensure that they do not cause harm to the communities they operate in. Such companies must show restraint in their quest for profit and must ensure peaceful co-existence among all stakeholders including the immediate communities and environment. The immediate communities must benefit from the operations of the business. Furthermore, it argues that responsible businesses, especially those in the extractive industry, must be structured, fair, transparent, sensitive to the needs of the immediate communities, and ensure shared value. We want to thank the authors, the reviewers and the editor in chief contributing to this issue and making it a success. We hope that the issue will stimulate further research interest in this area. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Published online Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02500167.2019.1698629 Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/3b94db9de46925a548bc99422ffb9ef6.pdf 9d0c7d7784ea5ce1cdfad69d3d0c5a8e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Utilising Online and Offline Information in Export: The Case of Firms Operating in Ghana’s Non-Traditional Export Sector Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource Information is useful for enhancing the success of export firms operating on the advantaged and disadvantaged end of the global digital divide; in developed and developing economy contexts. As part of a larger e-readiness survey of Ghana’s non-traditional export sector, this study aims at identifying the nature of information which players in Ghana’s export sector need to enhance export-competitiveness. This study focuses on players in a horticultural export cluster comprising non-traditional export firms, export logistics providers, financial institutions, export associations, government/regulatory agencies and export-related NGOs. The type of information respondents found most essential are those related to market and production. NTE firms regularly receive information on payment, demand trend and orders. Overall, respondents do not often share market, technical and logistics information with representatives of firms in the same line of business as theirs. At the micro-level of Ghana’s non-traditional export sector, e-business could be used as a tool for better acquisition, storage, sharing and utilisation of information. Strategies for enhancing the e-efficacies of export industry players are discussed in the paper. This paper presents a modest contribution to the export firm-electronic business/information management literature from a developing economy context. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness v Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.na-businesspress.com/JMDC/HinsonWeb.pdf Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/4f70926eaa5b99765e0bc5f7595153a4.pdf c361f7047efb2556bad07e810ea57f46 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cultivating social capital: an exploratory analysis of business postgraduates in Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource Purpose – This paper, grounded on social capital and social networking theory, examines how postgraduate students in Ghana cultivate and utilise social resources towards career development. Design/methodology/approach – Following a qualitative study design, the authors recruited and conducted interviews with postgraduate student-workers undertaking a two-year Master of Science in International Business. Findings – There was an active engagement and consciously pre-plan mobilisation of social resources and utilisation of social resources among the postgraduates. Despite the diverse processes of social capital development identified, four important key themes emerged underpinning social capital mobilisation and utilisation: (1) the recognition of the importance of social capital acquisition, (2) the strong link between social capital and individual successes in employment and business opportunities, (3) the importance of the utilisation of social resources for emotional support and (4) the use of social capital to reinforce the individual social identity and recognition of an individual’s worth. Practical implications – The authors offer a theoretical and practical contribution with a frame of understanding by demonstrating that there is more to social capital than economic gain. Social implications – Unlike the findings from prior research in Africa, the strong institutional and cultural conditions did not constrain the key force of education and employability as drivers in attainment and social positioning. This is an interesting and positive finding from the research, especially in terms of the importance of providing educational opportunities to overcome institutional and cultural barriers to workforce participation and career development. Originality/value – Social networks contribute to career success, and while the participants used social networks that reinforced ethnic and religious bonds, there is the opportunity to develop networks through other identity processes, especially education. Formal education imparts more than formal skills and qualifications. It provides the opportunity to access networks that transcend personal identity such as ethnicity and to get support for career development. Keywords Social capital, Social networking, Higher education, Qualitative methods, Ghana Paper type Research paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Value Co-creation of Places and Spaces in Africa’s Creative Hubs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource This chapter provides case illustrations at the sub-regional creative hubs from East to West, and North to South Africa. Starting off with a broad overview of creative hubs – notably African Tech Hubs, and how they have been at the forefront of culture and innovation on the continent, the chapter moves on to discuss a few examples from the Co-Creation Hub in Lagos Nigeria to the South African Cultural Observatory, Starplace Hub and Playable City Lagos. A Sectoral Journey in other Places & Spaces is also undertaken from the African Literature sub-sector to the Music and Fashion sub-sectors. Finally, a selection of Art Galleries and Cultural Centres such as The Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation and the Nike Center for Art and Culture and the Dak’Art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal are highlighted alongside the Kó Art Space, Lagos, Nigeria. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Emerald Publishing Limited Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80071-302-420211007/full/html Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Catalysts for Social Media Adoption in the Public Sector in Africa Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource This chapter aims to provide an understanding of the factors that serve as catalysts for social media adoption by public sector firms in Africa. Using the Technology Organisation Environment (TOE) framework, this chapter explains how social media technology is adopted and used by public sector organisations in Africa. Social media adoption is an organisational context, and hence the TOE can best be used to understand the factors affecting the adoption of the technology. On the technological factors, African countries have the capability to fully use their technological capabilities to introduce all social media platforms. The crucial issue of concern is that public sector organisations must see social media as having potential benefits to promote communications. The external environmental factors involving pressure from government and citizens for public sector organisations to use social media is mainly due to the increasing use of the technology by citizens across Africa. In most African countries, governments have policies in place to take advantage of the enormous benefits of social media. This chapter argues that several organisational factors, including top management support, resource availability, and skilled human resource to sustain social media technologies are significant tonic factors that catalyse the adoption of social media by Africa’s public sector. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived This chapter aims to provide an understanding of the factors that serve as catalysts for social media adoption by public sector firms in Africa. Using the Technology Organisation Environment (TOE) framework, this chapter explains how social media technology is adopted and used by public sector organisations in Africa. Social media adoption is an organisational context, and hence the TOE can best be used to understand the factors affecting the adoption of the technology. On the technological factors, African countries have the capability to fully use their technological capabilities to introduce all social media platforms. The crucial issue of concern is that public sector organisations must see social media as having potential benefits to promote communications. The external environmental factors involving pressure from government and citizens for public sector organisations to use social media is mainly due to the increasing use of the technology by citizens across Africa. In most African countries, governments have policies in place to take advantage of the enormous benefits of social media. This chapter argues that several organisational factors, including top management support, resource availability, and skilled human resource to sustain social media technologies are significant tonic factors that catalyse the adoption of social media by Africa’s public sector. https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/305827440e2a1e17516a9bad42a8639f.pdf 57b7357d7ca39316b0d30eedcb531f3b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Channel Structure and Conflict Management among Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson a Description An account of the resource [Abstract] The research seeks to gain qualitative insights into channel structure and conflict management of leading multinational companies operating in Ghana. A case-study approach was adopted for this study. Data was gathered and analyzed qualitatively through interviews of managers of five multinational firms in Ghana. The companies were found to be practicing a three-level channel system, a combination of exclusive and intensive distribution strategies and a partial integration, thus limiting their control of the chain of distribution. The managements of the case companies have adopted some measures to mitigate the conflict-prone zones, which, in most cases, are not yielding the desired result of consolidating their channel operations. This research may have limited generalizability to all multinationals. The major contribution of this paper is that it helps in drawing out key issues of channel structure and conflict management in a developing economy context. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Anning-Dorson/publication/312038741_Channel_Structure_and_Conflict_Management_among_Multinational_Corporations_MNCs_in_Ghana/links/586b9cde08ae6eb871bb5b36/Channel-Structure-and-Conflict-Management-among-Multinational-Corporations-MNCs-in-Ghana.pdf Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Social Media and E-Government Services in Africa Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson, Description An account of the resource Social media has been described as having the potential to enhance the delivery of e-government services. The chapter relies on examples of social media use in providing e-government services in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Rwanda and Nigeria. From the literature, the chapter found that social media provides a convenient and effective ways for governments to communicate with citizens on e-government services. Social media enables citizens to gain access to e-government sites and facilitates engagement with users of e-government services. The use of government portals to provide e-government services can be augmented with social media accounts providing communications about the services and serving as an avenue to engage the public about e-government services. This chapter makes a strong case for integrating e-government portals with social media accounts in the African public sector. This is a preview of subscriptio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-22642-7_6 Language A language of the resource English https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/5b6726d4d98d6e413d6f36ee4579a1fc.pdf 57b7357d7ca39316b0d30eedcb531f3b https://www.repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/6de16a287f2c83c68090b69a48ff8c72.pdf 57b7357d7ca39316b0d30eedcb531f3b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty of IT Business Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Re-imagining Educational Futures in Developing Countries Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource universities are growing more quickly than the government’s capacity to fnance these institutions (Iruonagbe et al., 2015; Olaleye et al., 2020). Beyond the university itself, there are challenges with internet penetration and power supply. As many people must use the internet for online teaching and learning, poor internet connections pose a problem. Internet penetration in Nigeria stood at 42% in January 2020, and the average speed of mobile internet connections was 15.32 Mbps compared to the United Kingdom with 35.57 Mbps and Australia with 67.66 Mbps; in addition, 96% of mobile connections in Nigeria are prepaid (DataReportal, 2021). Countries in emerging economies also have an average speed of 10 Mbps (Hannata, 2019). Te fnancial implications of using the internet are also an issue, as many people may have to buy more data to engage with teaching and learning. Te power supply in these countries poses a challenge that may afect the teaching and delivery of lectures. Te World Energy Outlook special report recognises the persistent lack of access to electricity, and the unreliability of electricity supplies in emerging countries, including in the continent of Africa. Tis lack of access is a factor that is inhibiting the progress and development of the continent, as there are over 600 million people in Africa who do not have access to electricity (IEA, 2019) and 350 million people in developing Asia (Cozzi et al., 2018). While Africa has 20% of the world’s population, it accounts for less than 4% of global electricity use (Te Economist, 2019). Tis lack of access to electricity also provides challenges for universities, staf and students who may want to adopt online teaching. Tis is a peculiar challenge for emerging countries that may not apply in more developed locations. Urbanisation, growing populations and economic conditions pose other challenges that are peculiar to emerging countries (Alhumaid et al., 2020). Even in many developed countries, there are still disadvantaged students from various backgrounds, including minority ethnic groups, and low-income, migrant and indigenous families, who have not beneftted from the internet and new technologies (Ng & Graham, 2018). If some individuals are still disadvantaged in developed countries, there are many more deprived students in emerging ones. Ho and Lau (2018) recognised the impact of the home literacy environment on student engagement including the educational levels of parents; the sociocultural and economic conditions of these countries also pose additional challenges. Tere are concerns around parents’ abilities to support their children, and the availability of a conducive studying environment at home, especially when people live in high-density areas (Ijadunola et al., 2019; Rotas & Cahapay, 2020). Importantly, in emerging countries, parents also have lower literacy levels. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Varsha-Jain-6/publication/358600114_Role_of_Culture_in_Developing_Transformative_Leadership_for_Higher_Education_in_Emerging_Economies/links/64a7acfcb9ed6874a501cd5e/Role-of-Culture-in-Developing-Transformative-Leadership-for-Higher-Education-in-Emerging-Economies.pdf#page=19