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Item Does higher education equip graduate students with the employability skills employers require? The perceptions of employers in Ghana(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021) Damoah, O.B.O.; Peprah, A.A.; Brefo, K.O.Recent changes in the labour market and higher education sector have placed graduates’ employability on the agenda of researchers, policy makers and employers in both advanced and developing economies. Yet, the question of whether higher education equips graduate students with the employability skills employers require remains under-studied particularly in a developing country like Ghana. Using survey data and employing a paired t-test analyses, our findings reveal that whilst the employers perceive graduate students to possess various critical skills which match industry demands, the graduate students fall short in these critical skills. The differences were statistically significant indicating that there are still gaps between what higher education is offering its students and what industry requires from graduates at the entry-level. Based on the findings, implications for theory, policy, and practice are discussed.Item Flexible working schedules in SMEs: Evidence from a developing country(Business Strategy & Development, 2020) Peprah, A.A.; Agyemang, C.B.; Damoah, O.B.O.There has been a sustained interest in flexible work schedules (FWSs) because of the opportunities they offer in improving organizational efficiency and providing a more work–life balanced role for employees. Yet, less research attention has been focused on FWSs in SMEs in developing countries, which leaves much to be concerned about FWSs, its application and impacts in SMEs in developing countries especially in the context of Africa. Drawing on the theory of work adjustment and job demand resource model and using a survey data on SMEs from Ghana, the study theorizes and tests the relationship between FWSs and SMEs perceived profitability, employees' career satisfaction and productivity. The results from the analysis indicate that FWSs in SMEs in developing countries are positively associated with (perceived) profitability, employees' career satisfaction and productivity. The implications of these findings are discussed.Item Informal settlement and urban development discourse in the Global South: Evidence from Ghana(Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2022) Agyabeng, A.N.; Mensah, J.K.; Peprah, A.A.; Mensah, E.A.The growth of informal settlements across the Global South has generated concomitant empirical research, and research attention has focused on a different aspect of informal settlements. However, despite the plethora of literature in the growing field of informal settlements research, there is a paucity of research concerning the contribution of informal settlement dwellers to the economic development of the urban economy and the perception of informal settlement dwellers and their challenges, particularly in the context of many countries in Africa. The article contributes to filling this gap by examining the contribution of informal dwellers to urban economic development and the challenges they encounter in the process. Based on a case study involving In in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Accra, Ghana, the authors found that despite the challenges confronting informal dwellers and their characteristics, they contributed to urban development through revenue generation, labour provision, and the creation of employment. Furthermore, the findings uncovered context-specific contributions of informal settlements to urban development that helped both policy actors and practitioners. The authors conclude that the findings imply that urban managers should focus on the settlers and recognize the contributions of informal settlements to urban development.Item The state of corporate social responsibility research in Ghana: A synthesis of literature(Business Strategy & Development, 2019) Damoah, O.B.O.; Peprah, A.A.; Cobla, G.M.There are recent calls to pay attention to the institutional requirement or the config urations of the national business system because it eventually results in the different manifestation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in different contexts. This has led to several contestations against the suitability of transferring developed countries' CSR frameworks and ideas to developing countries. Yet literature reviews about CSR in developing countries and in Africa, in particular, are limited. This paper, therefore, contributes to this gap by systematically reviewing and synthesizing 113 CSR's stud ies from Ghana between 2006 and 2018. Altogether, this paper structures CSR research in Ghana into salient themes to provide the current state of knowledge and help scholars scope the field and explore value‐adding avenues to further our understanding about CSR research in developing countries. Based on the findings, implication on theory, public policy, and practice are suggested.