Browsing by Author "Nyame-Asiamah, Frank"

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    Diaspora Entrepreneurs’ Push and Pull Institutional Factors for Investing in Africa: Insights from African Returnees from the United Kingdom
    (Elsevier, 2020-01-15) Nyame-Asiamah, Frank; Amoako, Isaac Oduro; Debrah, Yaw; Amankwaah-Amoah, J.
    Applying the institution-based views, this article conceptualises how diaspora entrepreneurs take stimuli from the push and pull institutional factors to develop business enterprises in their countries of origin. Using cases of African diaspora entrepreneurs in the UK and the grounded theory methodological approach, our conceptualised model demonstrates that the diasporas use the new knowledge, skills and wealth they have gained in the UK in tandem with support from trusted family, kinship and business ties at home to develop enterprises. It further demonstrates that diaspora entrepreneurs foster resilience to withstand weak formal institutions in their countries of origin and the discriminatory obstacles in the UK. We also found that institutional barriers which served as push factors that encouraged or forced migrants to leave their home countries to seek greener pastures abroad may later become pull factors that enable them to engage in diaspora entrepreneurship which is often characterised by paradoxes. Particularly, the informal institutions that constrain foreign investors can become assets for African diaspora entrepreneurs and help them set up new businesses and exploit market opportunities in Africa. The implications of the study for diaspora entrepreneurship literature are outlined.
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    Improving fire risk communication between authorities and micro entrepreneurs: A mental models study of Ghanaian central market fires
    (Wiley, 2022-03-01) Nyame-Asiamah, Frank; Boasu, Bismark; Kawalek, Peter; Buor, Daniel
    This study conceptualizes how fire management authorities can empower non-expert public to participate in fire risk communication processes and increase their own responsibilities for managing fire preventive, protective and recovery processes effectively. Drawing narratives from ten disaster management experts working at government institutions and nine micro entrepreneurs operating self-sustaining businesses in different merchandized lines in Ghana, we analyzed the data thematically and explored new insights on mental models to generate a two-way fire risk communication model. The findings suggest that fire management authorities planned fire disasters at the strategic level, collaborated with multiple stakeholders, disseminated information through many risk communication methods, and utilized their capabilities to manage fire at the various stages of fire risk communication, but the outcomes were poor. The micro entrepreneurs sought to improve fire management outcomes through attitude change, law enforcement actions, strengthened security and better public trust building. The study has implications for policymakers, governments and risk communication authorities of developing countries to strengthen their fire disaster policies to minimize commercial fire incidents and address the damaging effects of fire on people’s livelihoods, businesses, properties and environments. Our proposed two-way fire risk communication model is a new theoretical lens for experts and the non-expert public to assess each other’s beliefs about risk information and manage fire risk communication effectively at all stages.
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    Improving the ‘manager-clinician’ collaboration for effective healthcare ICT and telemedicine adoption processes – a cohered emergent perspective
    (Taylor and Francis, 2019-08-02) Nyame-Asiamah, Frank
    Existing research shows that the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for healthcare development in developing countries is largely dominated by donor and international agencies, but the actual organizational-level decisions are often driven by corporate healthcare managers. The consequences of the strategicdriven healthcare ICT adoption practices are that they fail to match clinician users’ requirements and cause them to disuse ICTs for clinical practices and healthcare development. Prior attempts to bring local and globally-distributed actors together to implement ICTs innovatively for healthcare development have emphasized less on synthesizing the diverse information system approaches that inform our understanding of how to narrow the ‘manager-clinician’ tensions in ICT adoption for development in emergent situations. To fill this gap, this article explains the process of shifting healthcare ICT adoption from top-down planning to collective user involvement to enhance clinicians’ acceptance of ICTs for clinical practices and development in a Ghanaian teaching hospital, using the cohered emergent transformation model. Action research was used to engage the hospital’s corporate managers, clinician managers and clinicians, and elicit their views and experiences of the hospital’s ICT adoption for healthcare delivery improvement. Together with observations and document analysis, the data was analyzed to understand the hospital’s information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) adoption issues and identify ways of managing them. The outcomes provide alternative theoretical and practical ways of adopting healthcare technology systems that shift the excessive use of managers’ powers in ICT adoption towards clinicians’ involvement, to enable technology acceptance for clinical practices and healthcare development.
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    Participating in Critical Discourse: A Critical Research Study of Clinicians’ Concerns for a Ghanaian Hospital E-mail System
    (Taylor and Francis, 2019-12-16) Nyame-Asiamah, Frank; Kawalek, Peter
    A growing body of information systems (IS) literature advocates the explicit use of suitable critical theories to explore power issues in developing countries and make IS research findings more accessible to systems’ users and the wider audiences for consumption. We respond to this debate in IS by applying critical research perspectives to discuss the power implications of Internet and e-mail resource distribution in a Ghanaian teaching hospital in a way that addresses clinicians’ concerns of using Internet services for healthcare practices. We applied critical qualitative approaches to collect and analyse data from clinicians, healthcare managers and the hospital’s internal documents. It was found that managers exercised their powers to allocate Internet facilities selectively on the contestable account that clinicians might misuse the Internet if they were given access while clinicians sought to empower themselves as co-planners who could make technology choices and add new value to the existing normative decisions of the managers. The outcomes show that critical researchers can directly relate to decision-making powers, recognise their powers and expose structures that surround them, and emancipate people whose Internet resource needs are restricted to co-involve in technology adoption and distribution processes.
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    The relationship between CSR activity and sales growth in the UK retailing sector
    (Emerald, 2019-04-27) Nyame-Asiamah, Frank; Ghulam, Sughra
    The study examined the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sales revenue of two retail companies (Marks & Spencer and Tesco) in the UK to understand how CSR activities can influence retail sales growth. Prior studies have used different theoretical and methodological approaches to report the relationships between CSR and financial performance generally as positive, negative, mixed or neutral, and these are yet to be conclusive. Clarifying the existing inconclusive results, we deduced donations, community work and environmental responsibility CSR activities from the literature and mapped them out onto sales revenue to formulate conceptual propositions. We extracted the corresponding data from Marks & Spencer's and Tesco’s websites and financial reports, focusing on their 2006-2014 activities, and statistically analysed the longitudinal data with Pearson correlation coefficient. The findings revealed positive correlations between donations and sales revenue for the two companies, which suggest that retailers’ philanthropic activities can boost sales levels overtime. Whereas the findings on the community work and the environmental-friendly activities relate either positively or negatively to sales revenue for the companies. There is an indication for retail managers to pursue philanthropic activities to effect sales growth. Retailers exhibiting features of Marks & Spencer can commit to community investment to increase revenue over time whereas those showing features of Tesco can pledge environmental-friendly strategies to influence a stronger correlation between carbon emissions and sales revenue levels. The outcomes support the extant findings that donations can improve retail sales performance while community work and the environmental-friendly activities do not necessarily improve sales growth in the retail sector but suggest that retailers can exploit more of the ones that benefit their sales revenue levels. Theoretically, the study supports the stakeholder theory’s influence on firms’ obligation to a charitable cause, community investment and environmental-friendly responsibility as CSR activities that make retailers morally responsible to their customers and society in general whereas the sustainable development model was instrumental in the retailers’ CSR activities relating to environmental protection.
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    Resource Integration and Motivation in the Subsistence Marketplace: The Social Constructivist Perspective
    (Academy of Marketing, 2025-03-24) Bannor, Bernard Frimpong; Ojeme, Mark; Takhar, Amandeep; Nyame-Asiamah, Frank
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    Sustainability and consumer behavior: Toward a cohered emergent theory
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-06-28) Nyame-Asiamah, Frank; Kawalek, Peter
    Existing research suggests that sustainable strategies of many corporate organizations are internally focused and aim to boost companies’ brand images, improve their competitive positions and to increase wealth for their shareholders. Such sustainable initiatives lack a genuine commitment to long-term green production, ecological integrity, human welfare and green buying behaviour. Yet, not many consumers have developed the mindset to buy green products even when companies strive hard to preserve sustainable standards through externally-focused initiatives to promote fair trade, ecological protection and social justice. While consumers’ demand for products can be analyzed and predicted through economic models, their green consumption behaviour is not always predictable and goes far beyond simple rational analysis. Some consumers even take sustainability matters less seriously due to complex and sometimes divisive sustainability discussions by world leaders. Models to address these sustainability issues are also limited. This chapter, therefore, uses the lens of cohered emergent theory to propose a corporate sustainability model that can promote pro-environmental practices and inspire firms to involve consumers actively in their sustainable development activities. It encourages consumers to become green buyers who consume goods and service responsibly and motivate firms to develop marketing campaigns that are eco-friendly and ethically acceptable to changing consumer behaviour. The chapter also motivates policymakers to introduce policies that can actively bring the ideas of corporate managers, the consuming public, and other environmental-friendly stakeholders together to develop adaptive production and consumption programmes that can promote economic benefits, eco-friendly environments and social justice.