Browsing by Author "Adomako, Samuel"
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CEO reputation, quality management and environmental innovation: the roles of stakeholder pressure and resource commitment
Konadu, Renata; Owusu-Agyei, Samuel; Lartey, Theophilus; Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph (Article)In this paper, we examine how and when chief executive offers’ (CEOs’) reputation enhances environmental innovation by considering quality management as a mediating mechanism of this relationship. In addition, we introduce ... -
The effects of stakeholder integration on firm-level product innovativeness: Insights from small and medium-sized enterprises in Ghana
Adomako, Samuel; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph; Danso, Albert (Article)In spite of growing research on the influence of external stakeholders on firm outcomes, there is a paucity of research on how they influence innovation in emerging economies. In addition, the specific environmental factors ... -
Entrepreneurial alertness and new venture performance: facilitating roles of networking capability
Adomako, Samuel; Danso, Albert; Boso, Nathaniel; Narteh, Bedman (Article)An ability to act upon an entrepreneurial opportunity has been noted to be a major driver of new venture success. However, scholarly knowledge is limited on how and when entrepreneurs’ alertness to entrepreneurial opportunities ... -
Entrepreneurial orientation, environmental sustainability and new venture performance: Does stakeholder integration matter?
Amankwah-Amoah, J.; Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel (Article)Previous research has theorised that the link between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance is mediated by environmental sustainability orientation (ESO). However, firm-level factors that may moderate this ... -
Entrepreneurs' optimism, cognitive style and persistence
Adomako, Samuel; Danso, Albert; Uddin, Moshfique; Damoah, John Ofori (Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effects of cognitive style dimensions on the relationship between entrepreneurs’ optimism and persistence. Design/methodology/approach – This theoretically ... -
Environmental sustainability orientation and performance of family and nonfamily firms
Despite the growing research evidence on the effect of environmental sustainability orientation (ESO) on firm outcomes, contingent factors that may influence the strength of this relationship have received little scholarly ... -
Environmental sustainability orientation, competitive strategy and financial performance
Extant research has established that environmental sustainability orientation (ESO) has a positive influence on performance outcomes. Nevertheless, several contingencies tend to affect the strength of this relationship. ... -
Financial Literacy and Firm performance The moderating role of financial capital availability and resource flexibility.
Adomako, Samuel; Danso, Albert (Article)Financial literacy, financial capital availability and resource flexibility are typically modelled as separate antecedents of firm performance. However, the boundary conditions for such models are less examined in a ... -
The financing behaviour of firms and financial crisis
Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel (Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the capital structure literature by examining the determinants of capital structure from the context of South Africa and to provide evidence of the effects of the ... -
Going green, going clean: Lean-green sustainability strategy and firm growth
Lartey, Theophilus; Owusu-Yirenkyi, Diana; Adomako, Samuel; Danso, Albert; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph; Alam, Ashraful (Article)Despite the widespread recognition of the paybacks of “going green” and “going clean”, limited research has focused on the impact of lean-green strategy on firm growth. In this study, we contribute to strategy and environmental ... -
Home country Institutional Impediments and International Expansion of Developing Country SMEs
Adomako, Samuel; Frimpong, Kwabena; Danso, Albert; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph; Uddin, Moshfique; Kesse, Kwabena (Article)Though institutional contexts are critical drivers of firms’ international expansion, very limited research efforts have focused on how and when these factors facilitate developing country firms’ outward market activities. ... -
Institutional outlook of the entrepreneurial climate in Ghana
Adomako, Samuel; Danso, Albert; Ampadu, Ernest (Article)Purpose – Previous scholarly studies on institutions tend to create a sombre picture of institutions by ignoring to examine the antecedents of formal and informal institutions. The purpose of this paper is to overcome ... -
Institutional voids, international learning effort and internationalization of emerging market new ventures
Adomako, Samuel; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph; Obeng Danquah, George; Danso, Albert; Donbesuur, Francis (Article)Much of the existing scholarly works portray institutional voids (IVs) in emerging economies as impeding forces against the development of new ventures. However, little attention has been paid to how such voids generate ... -
Market Sentiment and Firm Investment Decision-Making
Danso, Albert; Lartey, Theophilus; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph; Adomako, Samuel; Lu, Qinye; Uddin, Moshfique (Article)While research on factors driving corporate investment decisions has blossomed, knowledge related to the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) market sentiment on investment decision outcomes is lacking. In this study, we ... -
The moderating influence of financial literacy on the relationship between access to finance and firm growth in Ghana
Adomako, Samuel; Danso, Albert; Damoah, John Ofori (Article)The literature on access to finance has confirmed a positive relationship between access to finance and firm growth. Yet the boundary conditions for such linkage are less examined in the context of developing economies. ... -
Perceived regulator/ burden, institutional ties, financial resource capability and corporate social performance in a sub-Saharan African economy.
This study adopts the institutional, slack resource and social capital theories to examine the perceived regulatory burden-corporate social performance (CSP) link and the moderating effects of this relationship. The ... -
Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, political ties, and performance: Study of entrepreneurial firms in a developing economy
Adomako, Samuel; Danso, Albert (Article)Purpose – Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, and political ties are typically modelled as separate antecedents of firm performance. However, the boundary conditions for such models are less examined in a ... -
Risk-taking Propensity, Managerial Network Ties and Firm Performance in an Emerging Economy
Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel; Damoah, John Ofori; Uddin, Moshfique (Article)The objective of the study was to examine the effect of entrepreneurs’ risk-taking propensity on firm performance and the moderating role of managerial network ties on this relationship in a sub-Saharan economy. This ... -
Stakeholder integration, environmental sustainability orientation and financial performance
Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel; Lartey, Theophilus; Amankwah-Amoah, J.; Owusu-Yirenkyi, Diana (Article)Despite the growing research on the influence of stakeholder integration on organizational outcomes, our understanding of the specific firm-level conditions that may mediate the relationship between stakeholder integration ...