International journal of scientific research in science, engineering and technology, 2017
A key vision of the Government of Ghana is to rationalize urban water sector to promote and impro... more A key vision of the Government of Ghana is to rationalize urban water sector to promote and improve the delivery of water services in terms of sustainability, economy, efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction. This need to rejuvenate urban water management in developing countries such as Ghana through effective innovation strategies has renewed academic interest in traditional models of innovation diffusion. Our study sought to investigate the influence of complex adaptive system in adopting technology innovation in urban water delivery system. We augmented Rogers‘ innovation diffusion configuration with three complex adaptive system parameters to overcome the linearity assumption of the former. 195 questionnaires were administered to purposively sampled participants who work in different areas of Ghana‘s urban water supply system. We observed that incorporating complex adaptive system network parameters improved innovation diffusion by 10 percentage points (reduces the prediction...
This paper looks at the effect of environmental performance on firm’s performance of mining compa... more This paper looks at the effect of environmental performance on firm’s performance of mining companies in Ghana. The study looked at total cash cost and capital expenditure as measures of firm’s performance of selected mining company. The study used recent econometric approach: Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) to find the long run relationship between the environmental performances and firm’s performance. The approach of the study is case study of a selected mining company listed at Ghana Stock Exchange for the study period 2007-2015. The study findings are that water consumption has a negative and significant impact on the financial performance of mining companies in Ghana. Hence, our study concludes that companies make environmental performance disclosures as means of meeting industrial regulations and policies and also to make the community see that they are doing something to mitigate the negative effect of their activities in the community.
The interactive nature of the internet has created many opportunities for mobile payment usage. I... more The interactive nature of the internet has created many opportunities for mobile payment usage. In certain age groups and geographies, mobile payments have already unseated traditional means of effecting payment. In this study, 1,351 mobile payment users in Ghana were sampled using a structured questionnaire to investigate their intention to continue to use mobile payments technologies. The results showed that vendor reputation, word-of-mouth, and structural assurance significantly contribute to imbuing trust in mobile payment technology customers. When high levels of trust become identified with a brand, high numbers of customers choose to continue to use their current choice of mobile payment technology.
This current research proposes an integrated cloud base platform for managing the pension schemes... more This current research proposes an integrated cloud base platform for managing the pension schemes of Ghana. The integrated platform will help the Contributor’s/Pensioner’s access all the services online irrespective of their physical geographical location. The platform will also help the government to take strategic economic planning decisions on its citizens aging towards retirement. The research examined the relationship among the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude towards using the integrated pension system and the intention to use the integrated pension system. These entire constructs were tested and proved to be statistically positive and had positive relationships with the use of the integrated cloud pension schemes. The system was developed using simulation tools. In spite of the high cost of integrating these pension systems onto a single platform, its attendant benefit significantly outweigh its cost implication. The research adds value to the use of tech...
This study seeks to explore the causal effect of urban population and economic growth on the envi... more This study seeks to explore the causal effect of urban population and economic growth on the environment of Ghana, using a time series data for the period 1980-2014. The Max Eigen-value Johansen cointegration test failed to confirm a long-run cointegration relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth for the case of Ghana. Hence, the direction of causality among the variables was conducted using the VAR Granger Causality Test. The findings of the VAR Granger causality revealed the presence of a bi-directional causality between these paramount variables: carbon dioxide emission (CO2) and urbanisation (URB); and between economic growth (Y) and urbanisation (URB).This study advocates that Ghana adheres to more stricter environmental regulations in order to control high pollution firms in the residential and commercial sectors, in her quest to mitigate environmental pollution issues even as the economy advances. Furthermore, our study reiterate that the human capacit...
The concept of inter-organisational network relationship is increasingly gaining currency in mana... more The concept of inter-organisational network relationship is increasingly gaining currency in management research; however there is limited recognition as to how these relationships are governed. Governance typically involves the structure, power and process to make decisions on collective activities. Making the right decision is an essential part of inter-organisational relationship governance. Decisions related to the inter-organizational relationship governance can influence the health of the organizations and can as well result on fostering the success or greatly contributing to the failure of the organizations. We conduct an unsystematic review of the inter-organizational network relationship governance and related literature. The study offers insight into the governance mechanisms that are adopted in a transaction relationship by actors in a business ecosystem. A deeper understanding of inter-organizational governance will be valuable in crafting strategies for parties involve ...
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020
This study investigates the dynamic linkage among foreign direct investment, energy consumption, ... more This study investigates the dynamic linkage among foreign direct investment, energy consumption, and environmental pollution of China spanning from 1990 to 2014. Despite the extant literature on the FDI-energy-growth-environmental pollution nexus, most of the conclusion seems inconsistent. Hence, this study utilized recent econometric techniques such as the dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach, Gregory and Hansen structural cointegration, and the bootstrap Granger causality. The study also disaggregated energy consumption into various sources to identify their respective distinct impact on the environment. Our study confirmed the presence of the EKC curve for China in a quadratic equation applying the DOLS. The result of the bootstrapped Granger causality confirmed the presence of a unidirectional Granger causality running from CO2 emission to economic growth and export; non-renewable energy to economic growth, export to ec...
The improvement in the importance of knowledge, technology complexity, globalization and the acce... more The improvement in the importance of knowledge, technology complexity, globalization and the accessibility of digital computerized data innovations are driving this transformation. This has led to an exponential growth of electronic business applications that is leading organizations to embark on huge investments in inventive technologies, for the purpose of preserving their competitive advantage in a gradual dynamic marketplace. However, business investments of IT need to be the subject of appropriate appraisal and assessment. Whilst the literature recommends potential advantages of these adoption technologies, little has been written on the nature of the business case for e-procurement usage in the public hospitals. We evaluated the use of e-procurement system and procurement practices on the performance of public hospitals in Ghana. A bootstrapping technique with 500 subsamples was adopted to investigate the statistical significance of the parameters in our self-designed model. T...
The adoption of innovation in urban water supply system in Ghana is a favored policy by the gover... more The adoption of innovation in urban water supply system in Ghana is a favored policy by the government of Ghana and stakeholders; a priority in the wake of changes in climatic conditions and high population growth impacting on urban water management system. The desire, however, to implementing innovative technology, policies, regulations and laws that facilitate effective change to improve the conventional urban water system’s performance appears a mirage. Perceptions point to social and institutional stakeholders of the urban water management system as major impediments to innovation adoption; though empirical evidence to substantiate and ascertain are lacking. 400 urban water professionals in three Ghanaian regional capital cities were selected to respond to a questionnaire survey to identify drivers and barriers to innovation adoption. Using the concept of receptivity, the perceived drivers and barriers to institutional change and technologies adoption are tested together with ...
The past two decades has witnessed the growing appreciation of relationships between precise publ... more The past two decades has witnessed the growing appreciation of relationships between precise public sector objectives and public procurement practice. In Ghana, the Public Procurement Act of 2003 (PPA) (Act 663) is a comprehensive legislation designed to eliminate the shortcomings and organizational weaknesses which were inherent in public procurement process in Ghana. Despite the influence of the PPA on transparent public procurement process, the nearly two and half decades of implementation have revealed emerging symptoms of genetic lags that were not addressed at the onset of the new procurement reform, hence decrease adherence. The study sampled data from 150 selected officers in 15 public health institutions in Ghana over a three month period. A feed forward artificial neural network was developed. Our final model contained five input layers, 12 hidden layers and 5 output layers. Each network-input-to-unit and unit-to-unit connection is modified by a weight. We observed that, t...
Developing economies are perceived to repulse innovation and rarely accept and use new inventions... more Developing economies are perceived to repulse innovation and rarely accept and use new inventions to solve their numerous water supply challenges. The tendency of infusing innovation and accepting institutional reforms is supposedly a precondition for the improvement of the urban water supply systems of most developing economies, especially Ghana. Infusing innovation in the water sector is not possible unless there is complete societal acceptance; knowledge, attaching value, acquiring and sustaining the new idea or invention. The social aspect of the urban water management of Ghana, to a large extent, is influenced by institutions that govern the interactions of actors. In the study, principles of receptivity framework are used to predict the acceptance of institutional innovation and its relationship with the performance of the urban water supply system in Ghana. The study reveals that all the principles of the receptivity framework significantly predict institutional innovation an...
Energy contributes greatly to every aspect of life and other activities, and is the main source o... more Energy contributes greatly to every aspect of life and other activities, and is the main source of economic development of any country. Globally, the demand for electrical power has increased in recent times, causing a major increase in the price of various fuels. Energy production from various renewable and non-renewable resources is not new. However, its impact on the environment is a major concern. Several power plants from large hydro, wind, thermal and others are being used for energy generation, nevertheless the depletion of the environment is the major global concern. The challenges posed to the environment need to be tackled to protect our environment. This study evaluates the state of energy generation and distribution, and its potential environmental impacts on biodiversity, climate change, aquatic life, land use, emission generation, etc. We also propose some environmental management strategies that can help overcome these challenges.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Ecological footprint (EF) and human development index (HDI) are two critical indicators for asses... more Ecological footprint (EF) and human development index (HDI) are two critical indicators for assessing sustainable development worldwide. Past studies in Africa have ignored dynamic sustainable total-factor ecological efficiency (DSTFEE) assessment. This present study proffers a novel dynamic sustainable total-factor ecological efficiency (DSTFEE) that comprehensively assesses the ecological efficiency among 44 sampled African economies from 2010 to 2016. Our study incorporates EF and HDI in the model. Second, the study evaluates regional DSTFEE heterogeneity efficiency as well as the technological gap efficiency in Africa. Further, projection analysis is done to offer a viable solution path to address the inefficient African countries. Third, the study investigates the determinants of ecological efficiency using the bootstrap truncation regression technique. The results from the implemented models are as follows: first, the DSTFEE for the 44 sampled African countries is very low (0....
Mining and the utilization of mineral resources, especially coal for energy consumption, are cons... more Mining and the utilization of mineral resources, especially coal for energy consumption, are considered a major contributor to China’s total index of environmental pollution, but there is less focus on its sustainable development. This study focused on the influence of research and development (R&D) on the sustainable development capabilities of 45 coal mining cities in China from 2008 to 2017. These cities were grouped into growing, maturity, declining, and regeneration categories. A DEAP model together with the Malmquist productivity index were used in calculating their sustainable development capabilities. It emerged that the R&D inclination for the coal mining cities was low at an average of 0.3406 and its influence has not pushed enough to reach the production frontier. The overall sustainable development capabilities of the four categories of coal mining cities were 0.6918 and also proved to have an unstable trend. There was evidence of inefficiencies in some categories of res...
International journal of scientific research in science, engineering and technology, 2017
A key vision of the Government of Ghana is to rationalize urban water sector to promote and impro... more A key vision of the Government of Ghana is to rationalize urban water sector to promote and improve the delivery of water services in terms of sustainability, economy, efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction. This need to rejuvenate urban water management in developing countries such as Ghana through effective innovation strategies has renewed academic interest in traditional models of innovation diffusion. Our study sought to investigate the influence of complex adaptive system in adopting technology innovation in urban water delivery system. We augmented Rogers‘ innovation diffusion configuration with three complex adaptive system parameters to overcome the linearity assumption of the former. 195 questionnaires were administered to purposively sampled participants who work in different areas of Ghana‘s urban water supply system. We observed that incorporating complex adaptive system network parameters improved innovation diffusion by 10 percentage points (reduces the prediction...
This paper looks at the effect of environmental performance on firm’s performance of mining compa... more This paper looks at the effect of environmental performance on firm’s performance of mining companies in Ghana. The study looked at total cash cost and capital expenditure as measures of firm’s performance of selected mining company. The study used recent econometric approach: Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) to find the long run relationship between the environmental performances and firm’s performance. The approach of the study is case study of a selected mining company listed at Ghana Stock Exchange for the study period 2007-2015. The study findings are that water consumption has a negative and significant impact on the financial performance of mining companies in Ghana. Hence, our study concludes that companies make environmental performance disclosures as means of meeting industrial regulations and policies and also to make the community see that they are doing something to mitigate the negative effect of their activities in the community.
The interactive nature of the internet has created many opportunities for mobile payment usage. I... more The interactive nature of the internet has created many opportunities for mobile payment usage. In certain age groups and geographies, mobile payments have already unseated traditional means of effecting payment. In this study, 1,351 mobile payment users in Ghana were sampled using a structured questionnaire to investigate their intention to continue to use mobile payments technologies. The results showed that vendor reputation, word-of-mouth, and structural assurance significantly contribute to imbuing trust in mobile payment technology customers. When high levels of trust become identified with a brand, high numbers of customers choose to continue to use their current choice of mobile payment technology.
This current research proposes an integrated cloud base platform for managing the pension schemes... more This current research proposes an integrated cloud base platform for managing the pension schemes of Ghana. The integrated platform will help the Contributor’s/Pensioner’s access all the services online irrespective of their physical geographical location. The platform will also help the government to take strategic economic planning decisions on its citizens aging towards retirement. The research examined the relationship among the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude towards using the integrated pension system and the intention to use the integrated pension system. These entire constructs were tested and proved to be statistically positive and had positive relationships with the use of the integrated cloud pension schemes. The system was developed using simulation tools. In spite of the high cost of integrating these pension systems onto a single platform, its attendant benefit significantly outweigh its cost implication. The research adds value to the use of tech...
This study seeks to explore the causal effect of urban population and economic growth on the envi... more This study seeks to explore the causal effect of urban population and economic growth on the environment of Ghana, using a time series data for the period 1980-2014. The Max Eigen-value Johansen cointegration test failed to confirm a long-run cointegration relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth for the case of Ghana. Hence, the direction of causality among the variables was conducted using the VAR Granger Causality Test. The findings of the VAR Granger causality revealed the presence of a bi-directional causality between these paramount variables: carbon dioxide emission (CO2) and urbanisation (URB); and between economic growth (Y) and urbanisation (URB).This study advocates that Ghana adheres to more stricter environmental regulations in order to control high pollution firms in the residential and commercial sectors, in her quest to mitigate environmental pollution issues even as the economy advances. Furthermore, our study reiterate that the human capacit...
The concept of inter-organisational network relationship is increasingly gaining currency in mana... more The concept of inter-organisational network relationship is increasingly gaining currency in management research; however there is limited recognition as to how these relationships are governed. Governance typically involves the structure, power and process to make decisions on collective activities. Making the right decision is an essential part of inter-organisational relationship governance. Decisions related to the inter-organizational relationship governance can influence the health of the organizations and can as well result on fostering the success or greatly contributing to the failure of the organizations. We conduct an unsystematic review of the inter-organizational network relationship governance and related literature. The study offers insight into the governance mechanisms that are adopted in a transaction relationship by actors in a business ecosystem. A deeper understanding of inter-organizational governance will be valuable in crafting strategies for parties involve ...
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020
This study investigates the dynamic linkage among foreign direct investment, energy consumption, ... more This study investigates the dynamic linkage among foreign direct investment, energy consumption, and environmental pollution of China spanning from 1990 to 2014. Despite the extant literature on the FDI-energy-growth-environmental pollution nexus, most of the conclusion seems inconsistent. Hence, this study utilized recent econometric techniques such as the dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach, Gregory and Hansen structural cointegration, and the bootstrap Granger causality. The study also disaggregated energy consumption into various sources to identify their respective distinct impact on the environment. Our study confirmed the presence of the EKC curve for China in a quadratic equation applying the DOLS. The result of the bootstrapped Granger causality confirmed the presence of a unidirectional Granger causality running from CO2 emission to economic growth and export; non-renewable energy to economic growth, export to ec...
The improvement in the importance of knowledge, technology complexity, globalization and the acce... more The improvement in the importance of knowledge, technology complexity, globalization and the accessibility of digital computerized data innovations are driving this transformation. This has led to an exponential growth of electronic business applications that is leading organizations to embark on huge investments in inventive technologies, for the purpose of preserving their competitive advantage in a gradual dynamic marketplace. However, business investments of IT need to be the subject of appropriate appraisal and assessment. Whilst the literature recommends potential advantages of these adoption technologies, little has been written on the nature of the business case for e-procurement usage in the public hospitals. We evaluated the use of e-procurement system and procurement practices on the performance of public hospitals in Ghana. A bootstrapping technique with 500 subsamples was adopted to investigate the statistical significance of the parameters in our self-designed model. T...
The adoption of innovation in urban water supply system in Ghana is a favored policy by the gover... more The adoption of innovation in urban water supply system in Ghana is a favored policy by the government of Ghana and stakeholders; a priority in the wake of changes in climatic conditions and high population growth impacting on urban water management system. The desire, however, to implementing innovative technology, policies, regulations and laws that facilitate effective change to improve the conventional urban water system’s performance appears a mirage. Perceptions point to social and institutional stakeholders of the urban water management system as major impediments to innovation adoption; though empirical evidence to substantiate and ascertain are lacking. 400 urban water professionals in three Ghanaian regional capital cities were selected to respond to a questionnaire survey to identify drivers and barriers to innovation adoption. Using the concept of receptivity, the perceived drivers and barriers to institutional change and technologies adoption are tested together with ...
The past two decades has witnessed the growing appreciation of relationships between precise publ... more The past two decades has witnessed the growing appreciation of relationships between precise public sector objectives and public procurement practice. In Ghana, the Public Procurement Act of 2003 (PPA) (Act 663) is a comprehensive legislation designed to eliminate the shortcomings and organizational weaknesses which were inherent in public procurement process in Ghana. Despite the influence of the PPA on transparent public procurement process, the nearly two and half decades of implementation have revealed emerging symptoms of genetic lags that were not addressed at the onset of the new procurement reform, hence decrease adherence. The study sampled data from 150 selected officers in 15 public health institutions in Ghana over a three month period. A feed forward artificial neural network was developed. Our final model contained five input layers, 12 hidden layers and 5 output layers. Each network-input-to-unit and unit-to-unit connection is modified by a weight. We observed that, t...
Developing economies are perceived to repulse innovation and rarely accept and use new inventions... more Developing economies are perceived to repulse innovation and rarely accept and use new inventions to solve their numerous water supply challenges. The tendency of infusing innovation and accepting institutional reforms is supposedly a precondition for the improvement of the urban water supply systems of most developing economies, especially Ghana. Infusing innovation in the water sector is not possible unless there is complete societal acceptance; knowledge, attaching value, acquiring and sustaining the new idea or invention. The social aspect of the urban water management of Ghana, to a large extent, is influenced by institutions that govern the interactions of actors. In the study, principles of receptivity framework are used to predict the acceptance of institutional innovation and its relationship with the performance of the urban water supply system in Ghana. The study reveals that all the principles of the receptivity framework significantly predict institutional innovation an...
Energy contributes greatly to every aspect of life and other activities, and is the main source o... more Energy contributes greatly to every aspect of life and other activities, and is the main source of economic development of any country. Globally, the demand for electrical power has increased in recent times, causing a major increase in the price of various fuels. Energy production from various renewable and non-renewable resources is not new. However, its impact on the environment is a major concern. Several power plants from large hydro, wind, thermal and others are being used for energy generation, nevertheless the depletion of the environment is the major global concern. The challenges posed to the environment need to be tackled to protect our environment. This study evaluates the state of energy generation and distribution, and its potential environmental impacts on biodiversity, climate change, aquatic life, land use, emission generation, etc. We also propose some environmental management strategies that can help overcome these challenges.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Ecological footprint (EF) and human development index (HDI) are two critical indicators for asses... more Ecological footprint (EF) and human development index (HDI) are two critical indicators for assessing sustainable development worldwide. Past studies in Africa have ignored dynamic sustainable total-factor ecological efficiency (DSTFEE) assessment. This present study proffers a novel dynamic sustainable total-factor ecological efficiency (DSTFEE) that comprehensively assesses the ecological efficiency among 44 sampled African economies from 2010 to 2016. Our study incorporates EF and HDI in the model. Second, the study evaluates regional DSTFEE heterogeneity efficiency as well as the technological gap efficiency in Africa. Further, projection analysis is done to offer a viable solution path to address the inefficient African countries. Third, the study investigates the determinants of ecological efficiency using the bootstrap truncation regression technique. The results from the implemented models are as follows: first, the DSTFEE for the 44 sampled African countries is very low (0....
Mining and the utilization of mineral resources, especially coal for energy consumption, are cons... more Mining and the utilization of mineral resources, especially coal for energy consumption, are considered a major contributor to China’s total index of environmental pollution, but there is less focus on its sustainable development. This study focused on the influence of research and development (R&D) on the sustainable development capabilities of 45 coal mining cities in China from 2008 to 2017. These cities were grouped into growing, maturity, declining, and regeneration categories. A DEAP model together with the Malmquist productivity index were used in calculating their sustainable development capabilities. It emerged that the R&D inclination for the coal mining cities was low at an average of 0.3406 and its influence has not pushed enough to reach the production frontier. The overall sustainable development capabilities of the four categories of coal mining cities were 0.6918 and also proved to have an unstable trend. There was evidence of inefficiencies in some categories of res...
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