Ghana-Korea Relations Research: A-State-of-the-Art Review

Abstract

Even though scholars have written on Ghana-Korea relations over the past forty years, there is a lacuna in the literature because there is no “one-stop shop” from which one could easily access the literature. The problem is that scholarly works on Ghana-Korea relations are scattered in books and journals which has made undertaking research on the relations between the two countries a bit Herculean. The purpose of this article is therefore to fill the lacuna and provide a state-of-the-art on some key themes in Ghana-Korea relations which have emerged and yet scattered in scholarly works. They include culture and society; governance and leadership; economy; bilateral relations (including political, economic and technical cooperation); and science and education. The methodology employed is desktop research through the consultation of government publications, books and articles.

Administrative leaders as institutional entrepreneurs in developing countries: A study of the development and institutionalization of performance management in Ghana's public service

“…Two forms of stories were used by the officials to help employees absorb the need for and importance of PM. The first, as an interviewee recalled, focused on the “good old days,” when Ghana's public service was the envy of everyone on the African continent and even better than South Korea (Ayee, ). Stories encouraging nostalgia for the service were constantly created and linked to the need for the sector to “wear its clothes again.” Such stories, according to an interviewee, “implanted the need and the sense of duty for us to exert ourselves to do whatever we can to increase the performance and productivity of the service, which included the need to have an effective PM system to assess and measure ourselves.”…”

“…Two forms of stories were used by the officials to help employees absorb the need for and importance of PM. The first, as an interviewee recalled, focused on the "good old days," when Ghana's public service was the envy of everyone on the African continent and even better than South Korea (Ayee, 2019). Stories encouraging nostalgia for the service were constantly created and linked to the need for the sector to "wear its clothes again."…”