41 10 3108 http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/66c79c06418ff44f99ff1f806f0f26a3.pdf bf4af5eef1345bf67e74b717b0d1c6d4 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 <strong>Postgraduate Theses</strong> 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 Assessing the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsiblity and Financial Performance: The Impact of the Ghana Alternative Market (GAX) on the Financial Performance of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Sector in Ghana; A Case Study of IZWE Loans Limited Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baffour Kwakye Agyarko Description An account of the resource The dissertation evaluated the impact of Ghana Alternative Exchange Market (“GAX”) on the financial performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (“SMEs”) in Ghana using Izwe Loans Limited (“Izwe Loans”) as the case under study. In assessing impact of growth, the research undertook a descriptive statistics evaluation of five key financial performance indicators and interpreted the outcome. The study first and foremost described the emergence of alternative exchanges in other jurisdictions across the globe specifically in Europe, Asia and other African countries in a bid to resolve challenges SMEs or small businesses face in assessing funds from the capital market to finance their operations. Further, an overview of SMEs and the important role they play in economic development of nations was also highlighted citing access to finance as a major constraint they face. Theoretical and empirical review of literature related to this thesis were also evaluated and research gaps pointed out. To satisfy the research hypothesis of whether or not the GAX has had any effect on the growth of Izwe Loans, this study adopted both trend analysis to examine the trends in the financial performance of Izwe Loans and repeated measure multivariate analysis of variance (one-way rMANOVA) to estimate the model. From the trend analysis, it was found that, Izwe Loans recorded its lowest figures in 2014 having recorded fluctuating figures in 2012 and 2013. Three of the five performance indicators examined however began to rise steadily in 2015 and 2016. Inferring from the descriptive statistics results, only two ratios return on asset and return on equity recorded any significant improvement in financial performance post the GAX listing. The other three indicators, Net Interest Margin, Operating Profit Margin and Net Profit Margin did not post any significant improvement after the GAX listing. The conclusion of the study was that, the GAX has had some positive impact on Izwe Loans in terms of ROE and ROA but further studies on the GAX and listed SMEs need to carried when more data is available to re-assess its impact on the listed companies. Subject The topic of the resource MBA Finance Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 2018 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/b19b191aa6b3927f1187b75b0a9a1c21.pdf 920f3c5ae91c8a69ff8bc416c6fd609d 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 Assessing the Relationship between Leadership and Innovation in the Public Sector Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Paul Cochran Subject The topic of the resource Public Relation Management Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available ProQuest Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/3e2b7b7d269d5a81083d8708679f92b5.pdf 164038a2c2b1624ac8d5f0423f714c4c 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 <strong>Postgraduate Theses</strong> 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 Assessing the Role of Financial Inclusion on Poverty Reduction in Ghana; Empirical Evidence from Ahafo Ano North District. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edward Adofo-Bosompem Description An account of the resource Universal access to financial services is a critical component which drives development since it includes the vulnerable such as low-income household in the society to participate in the governance of the country (Iqbal and Sami, 2017). When people get access to financial services, it transforms their production through investment which eliminates them from poverty. Studies have propounded that the basic activity of the financial service sector is to make credit available to its customers. In this way, customers can increase their economic activities (Iqbal and Sami, 2017). Other evidence has confirmed that there is no country which has succeeded in reducing poverty without the expansion of financial accessibility to its rural populace (Rewilak, 2017). When the rural poor have access to finance, they achieve a large increase in production of various primary activities such as agriculture and this enables them to produce surpluses in food, labour and even financial resources which are the basic necessity of a country’s industrialisation and urbanisation (Villarreal, 2017). However, within the short and medium terms, making finance available has its own adverse impact on the rural populace hence it is important that various measures are put in place to overcome these barriers so that the long-term convergence of productivity among the different sectors of the economy could be realised (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, 2015). When this is done, the expectation is a broad spectrum of opportunities which might arise from this progressive change and a renewed mindset of the people to take up challenges. Subject The topic of the resource MBA Finance Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September, 2017 http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/dd1d56b657ea1071d215a4baa690f40b.pdf ab003dd44eecc37b9269e59b3a4509fa 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 Assessing the roles of foreign knowledge acquisition and absorptive capacity in the relationship between market orientation, innovativeness and performance Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Ebo Hinson Description An account of the resource The effects of market orientation (MO) have received much attention from researchers (Ozkaya et al., 2015). Narver and Slater (1990) identified three dimensions of MO: customer orientation (CuO), competitor orientation (CoO) and inter-functional coordination. In particular, studies have shown that good customer knowledge management can create a valuable competitive advantage for firms (Garcia-Murillo and Annabi, 2002). According to the need for firms to manage customer knowledge to drive performance, we therefore focus on the customer and CoOs, both of which focus on the firm’s external information-gathering activities (Narver and Slater, 1990; Ozkaya et al., 2015). However, although gathering and sharing customer knowledge is important, employees must apply this knowledge to effect a transformation in the firm (Ozkaya et al., 2015). Therefore, alongside customer knowledge – i.e. knowledge about, for and from customers – the present study also examines employee absorptive capacity (AC). Knowledge has been recognized as a vital resource that can be managed to increase a firm’s competitive advantage and innovation and improve its performance. The value of the acquisition and sharing of knowledge on customers and competitors across the functional units of an organization is fundamental to MO theory. MO has been found to affect business performance in varied environments (Kohli et al., 1993; Narver and Slater, 1990). Nonetheless, despite an increased research interest in knowledge management, MO, innovation and performance, their interrelationships are not well understood in the literature (Migdadi et al., 2017). Recent literature has demonstrated the importance of foreign knowledge acquisition for firm performance (Elhachemi, 2022; Rakthin et al., 2016). These studies suggest that AC can influence the relationship between external knowledge acquisition and a firm’s innovativeness and performance, but they have examined the AC of market knowledge only in relation to foreign partners and not to knowledge of customers and competitors (Elhachemi, 2022). Rakthin et al. (2016) investigated the mediation of customer acquisition and retention in the effects of AC on firm performance but did not consider competitor intelligence in the knowledge acquisition and dissemination process. There is thus inadequate evidence in the literature for understanding the relationship between foreign knowledge acquisition, AC and firm performance. The present study addresses these gaps in the literature by examining the effect of MO (measured as customer and CoO) on foreign business knowledge (FBK) acquisition and then on firm innovativeness and performance. For this purpose, it determines the effect of MO on firm innovativeness and performance and tests the moderating role of AC in the link between FBK acquisition, firm innovativeness and performance. To address these objectives, we collected data from enterprises in Ghana that export their products to foreign markets. Knowledge acquisition from foreign markets has benefitted SMEs in a range of developing economies, such as China (Lin et al., 2020), Ghana (Sarsah et al., 2020) and Algeria (Elhachemi, 2022). However, studies on the impact of the acquired knowledge have been inadequate. Similarly, the effect of MO on the performance of Ghanaian firms has been rarely studied. Our study thus contributes to researchers’ and practitioners’ understandings of how MO drives foreign knowledge acquisition by firms and the consequent effects on their performance and innovativeness. The remainder of the paper provides the theoretical background, hypotheses development, methodology and results of the present study, before providing a discussion including limitations and recommendations for future studies. 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/mrr-10-2021-0726/full/html Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/1702e47eee4fe2ba5201f16392bcadc3.pdf 6fd35949df15885a0f4a78b7ce1b2cb2 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 Assessing the roles of green innovations and renewables in environmental sustainability of resource-rich Sub-Saharan African states: A financial development perspective Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource M Musah, K.B Gyamfi, S.T Onifade, F.G Sackey Description An account of the resource Environmental literature keeps expanding on the natural resources‐environmental sustainability conundrum. However, most studies examine this conundrum in different geographical locations other than resource‐rich Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries while also neglecting the criticality of issues like green innovations, financial development, and renewable energy. Besides, the likelihood of a nonlinear relationship has often been jettisoned in the framework. Thus, the resources‐sustainability nexus was examined in the SSA using robust econometric techniques, while underscoring the roles of green innovations, renewable energy, and financial development. Using the cross‐sectional augmented auto‐regressive distributed lag (CS‐ARDL), cross‐sectional augmented distributed lag (CS‐DL), and the common correlated effect mean group (CCEMG) approaches that conciliate with residual cross‐sectional … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wiley Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=dzxWX-AAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=dzxWX-AAAAAJ:isC4tDSrTZIC Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/73b982cfa83791e83dbc3f07683be703.pdf 7026bf09b4d58de679a267fc4324c498 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 Assessing the roles of green innovations and renewables in environmental sustainability of resource‐rich Sub‐Saharan African states: A financial development perspective Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mohammed Musah, Bright Akwasi Gyamfi, Stephen Taiwo Onifade, Frank Gyimah Sackey Description An account of the resource Environmental literature keeps expanding on the natural resources‐environmental sustainability conundrum. However, most studies examine this conundrum in different geographical locations other than resource‐rich Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries while also neglecting the criticality of issues like green innovations, financial development, and renewable energy. Besides, the likelihood of a nonlinear relationship has often been jettisoned in the framework. Thus, the resources‐sustainability nexus was examined in the SSA using robust econometric techniques, while underscoring the roles of green innovations, renewable energy, and financial development. Using the cross‐sectional augmented auto‐regressive distributed lag (CS‐ARDL), cross‐sectional augmented distributed lag (CS‐DL), and the common correlated effect mean group (CCEMG) approaches that conciliate with residual cross‐sectional … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Blackwell Publishing Ltd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=-U-tBVYAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=-U-tBVYAAAAJ:Se3iqnhoufwC Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/7b010b76b40479f0cc1a36ccba6f5862.pdf 7288b366d5b7c96da4f2f64eeab1e020 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 Graduate School 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 Assessment Centre Strategy and Tactics Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Terpak, A. Michael Subject The topic of the resource Engineering Project Management(Global Engineering Strategy) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PennWell, Fire Engineering Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/90d6b54c3f09fbb6896a98d3573033f5.pdf ba2587ddd65f7fd7bd5efc720723d12a 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 Engineering 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 Assessment of challenges with borrowing and underlying effects of MSMEs in Kaneshie, Greater Accra Region of Ghana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emmanuel Kwabla Ocloo, Ruhiya Abubakar, G Deva Kumar Description An account of the resource Challenges associated with borrowing have become a worldly topic worth researching. Most especially in sub-Saharan Africa due to the poverty rate which is associated with lack of capital to state businesses. Thus, this study seeks to investigate the issues with borrowing and its underlying effects on Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs) in Kaneshie in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The entire population targeted for this research was 73 and same were sampled. But, 65 respondents were randomly drawn out of the 73 population for a mixed research approach.Some of the challenges associated with borrowing by MSMEs are collateral requirement, tedious loan procedures and long disbursal periods. Also, the effects established on borrowed funds are high interest rates, tax, inflation as well as the risk association.The research employed descriptive research design since it portrays accurate responses … Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IEEE 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://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=AhSMvB8AAAAJ&amp;citation_for_view=AhSMvB8AAAAJ:Wp0gIr-vW9MC Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/ff6943f27948debd28ea253c8d99cefd.pdf 16f6c080b109c47234c345b6108a6eab 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 Computing and Information Systems 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 Assessment of COVID-19’s impact on hotels in Ghana: Case study of hotels in Accra and Kumasi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deri Mildred Nuong, Iddrisu Wahab Abdul, Wireko-Gyeib Sampson, Zaazie Perpetual, Mohammad Faiz Afzal Description An account of the resource The spread of COVID-19, travel restrictions and social distancing continue to affect the hotel industry globally. Using Accra and Kumasi metropolis, the aim of the study is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 on hotels in Ghana. The Survey technique is used. Data was collected from 80 hotel managers using questionnaires. Paired sample t-test was used to compare the average number of employees before COVID-19 and the average number of employees presently at post. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the different levels of impact on the different types of hotels in the country. The major findings are indicated about employees from different hotels on total number of employees before and during COVID-19. Moreover, results also highlighted on the negative impact on Ghana’s hotel industry due to this pandemic spread globally. Implications are discussed. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available International Journal of Tourism and Hotel Management 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://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=ECTxVnYAAAAJ&amp;cstart=20&amp;pagesize=80&amp;citation_for_view=ECTxVnYAAAAJ:_kc_bZDykSQC Language A language of the resource English http://repository.gctu.edu.gh/files/original/c45b53139ddb9283a0c879a57cddfcec.pdf e24dc26459715b7684dc8cf6d21d93bc 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 MSc. Engineering Project Management 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 Assessment of Inadequate Risk Management in Building Projects Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grace Adwo Archer Description An account of the resource Building projects are usually multifaceted and highly diverse to deal with, in comparison to projects done in the previous years, current projects are more time restricting, giving rise to immense technical challenges, and rarely gives the impression to have enough resources. All of this leads to increased project risk; this runs through most projects because every building project involves risks. The management within the building industry requires reliant approach to information and knowledge in order to manage risks in an adequate and organized method of action. Thus, the implementation of an effective risk management in relation to managing associated project risk knowledge may expedite successful building / construction project endeavors. The aim of this study is to develop an understanding of issues pertaining to managing risks in building projects as well as approaches for efficient and effective management of risks in projects within the building industry. This was carried out by providing background specification on risk management, it outlines the aims and objectives, the purpose of study and touches on ethical considerations. This paper tends to review the existing comprehensive (work of literature) and presenting how this study is distinguished from the others. Alongside, a number of theoretical concepts and views of experts and researchers with respect to the subject area and their input to the existing literature. It additionally, provides the methodological framework and includes strategies adopted in obtaining data, how achievable and well argued it was, to help in providing data analysis. This study finally highlights the analysis, findings and discussion of results derived from the data gathered. It provides an accurate presentation of data with a clever interpretation of results, and as a final point, summarizes the dissertation, by stating the outcome of the surveys as well as providing recommendations and references for future research guidelines on project risks within the range of the building / construction industry. Subject The topic of the resource MSc in Engineering Project Management Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ghana Technology University College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 2018 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ing. Isaac Hanson