...Collins Osei; Maktoba Omar; Tasneem Suliman Joosub Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role colonial ties play in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ghana, several years after the official end of colonisation in the African continent. Colonisation left behind legacies...

... and effectiveness of government and the export promotion agencies in supporting exports by non-traditional horticultural SMEs in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study used a qualitative research design, which involved semi-structured interviews with senior managers of six export facilitating institutions...

...; Porter, 2000 ; Krugman, 2011). Anthony Ayakwah can be contacted at: swiftviking@yahoo.com 01 12 2016 17 11 2017 20 11 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cooperation Ghana Competition Clusters Small...

... the critical incidents that trigger the export initiation of SMEs from the garment and textile sub-sector of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on the qualitative multi-case study research approach, coupled with the critical incident method and uses 36 case firms from the garment...

... and after the completion (from the 1950s to the 1960s) of the Volta River Project (VRP). Findings The paper presents insights from the VRP in newly independent Ghana and demonstrates how multiple international firms combine with host country stakeholders to usher in one of the most important engineering...

... on cross-cultural communication competences for Western expatriates working in the sub-Saharan Africa business environment. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a qualitative phenomenology that makes use of lived experiences of senior expatriate staff working in Ghana in the form of direct...