...William Obeng-Amponsah; Erasmus Owusu Purpose This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on employment and economic growth in Ghana and examines the role of technology in these relationships. Design/methodology/approach This study applied the autoregressive distributed...

...Gloria Clarissa Dzeha; Christopher Boachie; Maryam Kriese; Baah Aye Kusi Purpose This study provides empirical evidence for the first time on how different measures of monetary policy affect banking profitability in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Providing empirical evidence on how...

... 01 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Investment decisions Branding Financial services Return on investment (ROI) Ghana In order to increase investment and formulate appropriate theories and policies...

...Anthony Amoah; Rexford Kweku Asiama; Kofi Korle Purpose This paper acknowledges the rising levels of non-performing loans (NPLs) and the consequences associated with such patterns to an emerging economy like Ghana. In theory, one would expect rising NPLs to have a negative impact on an economy...

... a statistically significant relationship. Bukair and Rahman (2015) argued that Islamic banks' performance is not affected by board composition. By contrast, Bokpin (2013) and Adeabah et al. (2019) found a negative effect of board independence on financial performance in Ghana. Previous...

...Theophilus Azungah; Kate Hutchings; Snejina Michailova Purpose This paper examines Western multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) application of ethnocentrism in human resource management (HRM) practices utilised in their subsidiaries in Ghana. The practices examined include recruitment and selection...

... (IC) and firm performance in Ghana’s hotel industry. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected from managers of 200 registered hotels in the northern region of Ghana. Data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire, with variables measured on a seven-point Likert scale. Findings...

..., demand- and supply-side factors play significant roles in driving inflation, but the effect of the latter dominates. Thus, on the argument of whether inflation in Ghana is structural or monetary, the results support the former. The roles of both structural and monetary factors have changed over time...

...Lordina Amoah; Meshach Jesse Aziakpono Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reexamine the speed and magnitude of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to consumer prices in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The Johansen Maximum Likelihood approach is employed in the estimation of different...

... markets in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – Using a panel data on 14 life and 22 non-life insurers from 2007 to 2011, the authors employed the Herfindahl Hirschman Index and concentration ratio as proxies for the S-C-P hypothesis while efficiency scores were estimated using the data envelopment...

...Samuel Ato Dadzie; Richard Afriyie Owusu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the foreign direct investment (FDI) strategies of manufacturing firms in Ghana using the eclectic model in order to understand how ownership, location and internalization factors impact FDI to developing...

... were used to survey 419 customers of 18 retail banks in Ghana. Descriptive statistics and factor analysis were used to identify the main retail bank switching factors. Findings – The result of the study indicates that service encounter failures, pricing failures, electronic banking failures...

... have an opportunity to influence. This study is therefore relevant to the managerial process. Design/methodology/approach – A survey design using firms from Ghana was chosen. This was expected to be an appropriate population from which data could be gathered to investigate the authors' hypotheses...

...‐sized tourism ventures (SMTVs) in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from 247 SMTVs, defined as tourism establishments employing less than 100 employees in the Western and Central regions of Ghana. Hypotheses derived from human capital and resource‐based theories were tested...

...Nana Owusu‐Frimpong Purpose To ascertain customers' usage level and perceptions of the image of rural community banks (RCBs) in Ghana. This research examines whether women and men differ in their levels of satisfaction and expectation about the banks' services. It also assesses the contribution...