Innovation and productivity in formal and informal firms in Ghana

Fu, Xiaolan; Mohnen, Pierre; Zanello, Giacomo

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2017.08.009

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“…For the Innovation indicator, the moderate category shows that the municipal governments are aware that innovation is an important factor for productivity, which agrees with what has been obtained in [24] and in [25], where it is pointed out that innovation has a positive impact on the productivity of companies and incipient on competition in the national industry, which is reflected in the small magnitude of the coefficients associated with the various indicators of innovation.…”

Section: Dimension: Factors Of Productivitysupporting

confidence: 86%

Effects of mobbing on labor productivity

Feria¹,

Martelo²,

Franco³

2018

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The objective of this research was to analyze workplace harassment and its impact on labor productivity. It is framed under the descriptive, correlational and field type; with a non-experimental, cross-descriptive design, the population under study were employees who work in the Municipal Mayoralties of the Media Guajira. For the data collection an instrument of 48 Likert scale questions was elaborated. The results show, among other aspects, that there is no good conflict management and that sometimes it is conducive to the solution of the same among the personnel. It concludes the lack of existence of labor harassment by workers and that there is little knowledge on the part of employees about labor productivity.

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Section: Dimension: Factors Of Productivitysupporting

confidence: 86%

Effects of mobbing on labor productivity

Feria¹,

Martelo²,

Franco³

2018

ces

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“…More highly educated and skilled workers can be a direct source of innovation (Roper & Love, 2006), which often leads firms to engage in formal and non-formal training. Whereas formal training is frequently used to update employees' obsolete knowledge (van Uden et al, 2017), non-formal training is often used to overcome gaps in the educational system (Fu, Mohnen, & Zanello, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Multiple Paths to Firm Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: How informal institutions matter

Saka‐Helmhout

Chappin

Vermeulen

2019

Organization Studies

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Although innovation studies in developing countries acknowledge the importance of resources for firm innovation, their emphasis tends to be on bottlenecks created by resource constraints and institutional weaknesses. We address this shortcoming by exploring the relationship among firm resources and formal and informal institutions leading to innovation in these settings. By adopting a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis of firms in sub-Saharan Africa, we confirm the thesis that informal institutions substitute underdeveloped formal institutions and in combination with firm-level resources afford firm innovation. More importantly, we find that informal institutions also complement more developed formal institutions in the presence or absence of high levels of firm resources or accommodate them in the presence of high levels of firm resources to support firm innovation. Our findings point to multiple paths that firms can take to be innovative that best fit their existing institutional context.

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“…The results show that many of the studies were conducted at the micro-level, with very few at the macro-and meso-levels, which suits entrepreneurship research [25]. The current focus on organizational level noted in the study may be explained by the fact that many of the studies are applied studies that do not simply seek to advance knowledge, but also to understand, contextualize and explore the practices of entrepreneurs and SMEs that have adopted digital innovation technologies [13,16,17,23,26,38].…”

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Digital Entrepreneurship in Business Enterprises: A Systematic Review

Anim-Yeboah

Boateng

Kolog

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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This study systematically reviews extant contemporary literature on digital entrepreneurship in peer-reviewed journal articles over six years (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018) from six journal databases. It involved a systematic literature review of 101 papers from 53 journals focusing on the publication outlets, yearly trends, themes, and associated theoretical and conceptual approaches, methodologies, sources and geographical distribution of digital entrepreneurship research. The findings suggest that extant literature mostly lacked sound theoretical underpinnings. More work adopting appropriate and proven theoretical approaches is needed. Most of the reviewed papers also focused mainly on issues relating to the technology itself than those relating to the enterprise or the entrepreneur. The capabilities and capacities of enterprises, as well as the strategies in implementing digital technologies and harnessing the opportunities of digitalization, are key issues that have not hitherto received much attention. The study contributes to the understanding of the conceptualization of the digital entrepreneurship phenomenon. Future research should consolidate the understanding of the field, with models and frameworks that recognize digital entrepreneurship as an academic research field in its own right, and also consider the impact of enterprise capabilities and capacities on digital entrepreneurship.

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Innovation and productivity in formal and informal firms in Ghana

Abstract: Despite the high profile of the issue in current policy formulations in low-

Cited by 134 publications

References 57 publications

Effects of mobbing on labor productivity

Effects of mobbing on labor productivity

Multiple Paths to Firm Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: How informal institutions matter

Digital Entrepreneurship in Business Enterprises: A Systematic Review

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