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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah
Kent Business School, University of Kent, Kent ME4 4TE, United Kingdom

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Editorial
Published: 25 June 2021 in Sustainability
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In this Editorial, we synthesise the articles in the Special Issue with unique insights into sustainable waste management innovations and sustainable business practices

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Frederick Ahen. Editorial: Sustainable Waste Management Innovations: Developing New Ventures for Improved Health and Environmental Wellbeing. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7132 .

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Frederick Ahen. Editorial: Sustainable Waste Management Innovations: Developing New Ventures for Improved Health and Environmental Wellbeing. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7132.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Frederick Ahen. 2021. "Editorial: Sustainable Waste Management Innovations: Developing New Ventures for Improved Health and Environmental Wellbeing." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7132.

Review
Published: 21 June 2021 in Environment International
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Despite the valuable contributions of scholars to the COVID-19 pandemic, limited scholarly attention has been paid to the opportunities unleashed by the crisis. As many industries have been turned upside down and markets rendered uncertain, the crisis is also propelling waves of innovation activities. In this paper, we developed the concept of “CoviNovation” to denote the firm’s innovation emerging from, rooted in or accelerated by the crisis. Our analysis yielded insights on innovations inspired by COVID-19 across the global airline industry, including inflight social distancing, utilizing touchless technologies at airports, disinfecting aircraft with UV, open-middle-seat policy, accelerated use of biometrics in check-in and COVID-19 insurance. The theoretical and practical implications of the COVID-19-inspired innovations examined.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. COVID‐19 pandemic and Innovation Activities in The Global Airline Industry: A Review. Environment International 2021, 156, 106719 .

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. COVID‐19 pandemic and Innovation Activities in The Global Airline Industry: A Review. Environment International. 2021; 156 ():106719.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2021. "COVID‐19 pandemic and Innovation Activities in The Global Airline Industry: A Review." Environment International 156, no. : 106719.

Review
Published: 10 June 2021 in Sustainability
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The need for green business practices and green innovations underscores a growing recognition that climate change is now an existential threat not just to population health but also to the survival of businesses that are unable to embrace green practices with a sense of urgency. This paper contributes to the literature on market violence as an inhibitor of green innovations for sustainable waste management to curb the unneeded health effects of wastes in Africa. Our purpose is to problematize received wisdom, unquestioned assumptions, and incorrect diagnosis of the sources and health consequences of various forms of wastes in Africa. Much of the discourse on this issue remains ahistorical, and that risks leaving aside a vital question of exploitative extraction. By including this ‘out-of-the-box’ explanation through major case references, we are able to shed light on the critical issues that have hitherto received limited attention, thus enabling us to propose useful research questions for future enquiries. We propose a framework that delineates the structural composition of costs imposed by market violence that ranges from extraction to e-waste disposal. We advocate for the engineering of policies that create conditions for doing more with less resources, eliminating waste, and recycling as crucial steps in creating sustainable waste management innovations. Additionally, we highlight a set of fundamental issues regarding enablers and inhibitors of sustainable innovations and policies for waste management worth considering for future research. These include programmed obsolescence, irresponsible extraction, production, and consumption, all seen through the theoretical lens of market violence.

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Frederick Ahen; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Sustainable Waste Management Innovations in Africa: New Perspectives and Research Agenda for Improving Global Health. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6646 .

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Frederick Ahen, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Sustainable Waste Management Innovations in Africa: New Perspectives and Research Agenda for Improving Global Health. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6646.

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Frederick Ahen; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2021. "Sustainable Waste Management Innovations in Africa: New Perspectives and Research Agenda for Improving Global Health." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6646.

Journal article
Published: 31 May 2021 in Tourism Management Perspectives
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Although the impact of COVID-19 is inordinately enormous, there remains a lack of attention to the new governance architecture, the African Union High-Level Task Force (AU-HLTF), in Africa's aviation and tourism sectors in its wake, which this paper primarily examines. We foregrounded governance themes of political economy within the African Union High-Level Task Force (AU-HLTF) through secondary data, observing 90 key industry leaders and 10 purposively sampled semi-structured interviews. We found the insignificant priority in tourism restart via LCCs first, the incongruent holistic relationship between the restart of the aviation and tourism sectors. Secondly, the historical-geographical material relationships within the new governance framework. Thirdly, the AU-HLTF intervention is actor-biased towards the aviation sector and rooted in path dependency. A hierarchical-mixed market governing typology we propose by arguing is a steering mechanism of public sector reform that alternatively reboots a balanced path towards sustainability by prioritizing intra-tourism promoted by low-cost carriers.

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David Ania Ayiine-Etigo; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. COVID-19 and Africa's aviation and tourism sectors: A new agenda for the future? Tourism Management Perspectives 2021, 39, 100840 .

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David Ania Ayiine-Etigo, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. COVID-19 and Africa's aviation and tourism sectors: A new agenda for the future? Tourism Management Perspectives. 2021; 39 ():100840.

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David Ania Ayiine-Etigo; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2021. "COVID-19 and Africa's aviation and tourism sectors: A new agenda for the future?" Tourism Management Perspectives 39, no. : 100840.

Journal article
Published: 21 April 2021 in Decision Support Systems
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This research explores firms' digital presence in an online interactive network. Anchored in the literature on firm engagement and firm-generated content, this study discusses and empirically examines the impact of managerial response to online reviews on future ratings. A big data approach coupled with text analytics is employed on a large field dataset to analyse both structured review/response metrics and unstructured response text. Results show that an increase in future review valence is positively associated with the intensity, promptness, and sentiment of managerial responses, and the magnitude of effects is contingent upon firms' rating status and market position. Mixed evidence is obtained for comprehensiveness and standardisation of response content. These findings reveal that the influence of firm engagement in the online review network is likely to be shaped by the goodwill signalled by managerial responses.

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Jie Sheng; Xiaojun Wang; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. The value of firm engagement: How do ratings benefit from managerial responses? Decision Support Systems 2021, 147, 113578 .

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Jie Sheng, Xiaojun Wang, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. The value of firm engagement: How do ratings benefit from managerial responses? Decision Support Systems. 2021; 147 ():113578.

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Jie Sheng; Xiaojun Wang; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2021. "The value of firm engagement: How do ratings benefit from managerial responses?" Decision Support Systems 147, no. : 113578.

Article
Published: 12 March 2021 in Management and Organization Review
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Organizational hybridity refers to the combination of multiple institutional logics and identities that, within an organizational setting, do not conventionally complement one another. In such conditions, organizations must develop strategies to combine logics and sustain their hybrid forms. Success, however, is not inevitable. In this article, we take a legitimacy-as-process perspective to focus on a failed Microfinance Organization (MFO) in the African context of Zambia. MFOs represent a fascinating context because of their hybrid nature and need to balance several competing institutional demands. We utilise field interviews to analyse the process through which MFOs fail, analysing actor legitimation responses to emerging hybridity demands. We identify three phases associated with these changes: 1) dependent coupling, (2) misaligning legitimation, and (3) circumnavigating over conformity. Our findings emphasise that legitimation efforts in a failed hybrid are not simply the reverse of those that succeed. We observe adaptive processes consistent with successful hybrids but that ultimately sow the seeds of eventual failure. This demonstrates the need to re-think the role of legitimation strategies in hybrids alongside their potential deleterious consequences.

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Juliana Siwale; Jonathan Kimmitt; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. The Failure of Hybrid Organizations: A Legitimation Perspective. Management and Organization Review 2021, 17, 452 -485.

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Juliana Siwale, Jonathan Kimmitt, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. The Failure of Hybrid Organizations: A Legitimation Perspective. Management and Organization Review. 2021; 17 (3):452-485.

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Juliana Siwale; Jonathan Kimmitt; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2021. "The Failure of Hybrid Organizations: A Legitimation Perspective." Management and Organization Review 17, no. 3: 452-485.

Research article
Published: 01 March 2021 in Management International Review
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Samuel Adomako; Kwabena Frimpong; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Francis Donbesuur; Robert A. Opoku. Strategic Decision Speed and International Performance: The Roles of Competitive Intensity, Resource Flexibility, and Structural Organicity. Management International Review 2021, 61, 27 -55.

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Samuel Adomako, Kwabena Frimpong, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Francis Donbesuur, Robert A. Opoku. Strategic Decision Speed and International Performance: The Roles of Competitive Intensity, Resource Flexibility, and Structural Organicity. Management International Review. 2021; 61 (1):27-55.

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Samuel Adomako; Kwabena Frimpong; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Francis Donbesuur; Robert A. Opoku. 2021. "Strategic Decision Speed and International Performance: The Roles of Competitive Intensity, Resource Flexibility, and Structural Organicity." Management International Review 61, no. 1: 27-55.

Journal article
Published: 06 February 2021 in Journal of Business Research
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This paper utilizes insights from the knowledge-based view and ambidexterity literature to examine the effects of knowledge integration (KI) on innovation via contextual ambidexterity (CA). The paper also investigates the potential moderating role of human resource (HR) slack on the relationship between KI and CA. Using survey data collected from 245 entrepreneurial firms operating in Ghana, the findings show that KI positively relates to CA, and this relationship is moderated by HR slack. In addition, we observed that CA mediates KI and innovation. The broader theoretical and practical implications of the study are outlined.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Samuel Adomako. The effects of knowledge integration and contextual ambidexterity on innovation in entrepreneurial ventures. Journal of Business Research 2021, 127, 312 -321.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Samuel Adomako. The effects of knowledge integration and contextual ambidexterity on innovation in entrepreneurial ventures. Journal of Business Research. 2021; 127 ():312-321.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Samuel Adomako. 2021. "The effects of knowledge integration and contextual ambidexterity on innovation in entrepreneurial ventures." Journal of Business Research 127, no. : 312-321.

Journal article
Published: 30 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Drawing on the awareness of consequence literature, this paper unpacks how the awareness of the consequences of full-sun cocoa production can encourage farmers to adopt shaded cocoa agroforestry that preserves the land and favours better cocoa farm waste management. Using Ghana as a case study, the paper provides distinctive insights on how shaded cocoa agroforestry systems provide sustainable yields in the medium- to long-term, relative to unshaded systems. We also find that cocoa farmers’ awareness of consequences about the effects of undertaking unshaded cocoa production could make individual farmers exhibit pro-environmental behaviour, leading to the adoption of cocoa agroforestry systems that help preserve soil fertility and improve waste management. We recommend that the utilization of awareness of consequence protocols, coupled with the efficient diffusion of information on the benefits of agroforestry in terms of waste management and environmental improvements to the cocoa farmers, could increase the adoption of shaded cocoa production regimes in Ghana.

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Fred Yamoah; James Kaba; David Botchie; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Working towards Sustainable Innovation for Green Waste Benefits: The Role of Awareness of Consequences in the Adoption of Shaded Cocoa Agroforestry in Ghana. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1453 .

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Fred Yamoah, James Kaba, David Botchie, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Working towards Sustainable Innovation for Green Waste Benefits: The Role of Awareness of Consequences in the Adoption of Shaded Cocoa Agroforestry in Ghana. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1453.

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Fred Yamoah; James Kaba; David Botchie; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2021. "Working towards Sustainable Innovation for Green Waste Benefits: The Role of Awareness of Consequences in the Adoption of Shaded Cocoa Agroforestry in Ghana." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1453.

Journal article
Published: 26 January 2021 in International Business Review
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The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the fortunes of multiple companies around the globe. Accordingly, questions are increasingly being asked about how organizations can revitalize during and after a crisis. Yet, we have limited understanding of how organizations renew themselves during crises over time. We explore this question through the lens and examination of two South-Asian airlines: Pakistan International Airlines and Sri Lankan Airlines. The cases offer important insights into the reasons behind underperformance of state-controlled enterprises and renewal activities. We shed light on strategic renewal (SR) in the wake of increasing liberalization and deregulations in the global airline industry. To this end, we propose a four-stage approach towards renewing such underperforming organizations to respond effectively to black swan events and external shocks.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Zaheer Khan; Ellis L.C. Osabutey. COVID-19 and business renewal: Lessons and insights from the global airline industry. International Business Review 2021, 30, 101802 .

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Zaheer Khan, Ellis L.C. Osabutey. COVID-19 and business renewal: Lessons and insights from the global airline industry. International Business Review. 2021; 30 (3):101802.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Zaheer Khan; Ellis L.C. Osabutey. 2021. "COVID-19 and business renewal: Lessons and insights from the global airline industry." International Business Review 30, no. 3: 101802.

Journal article
Published: 24 December 2020 in International Business Review
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Using panel data of 1080 multinational corporations (MNCs) from the United States, we examine the effects of environmental sustainability practices on the degree of firms’ offshoring activities. In addition, we disaggregate offshoring activities into their core components depending on whether or not the firm buys (inputs) or sells (outputs) and/or owns assets in a given country and examine the extent to which sustainability practices influence the different components of offshoring decisions. The results indicate that sustainability practices significantly affect offshoring activities of MNCs. In particular, we found that sustainable business practices matter when the firm sells goods or owns assets in the given host nation. Additionally, the results show that the sustainability–degree of the internationalization relationship is crucial for MNCs that have offshoring activities in advanced economies relative to those firms that have activities in emerging markets. Our results are robust to alternative explanations.

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Theophilus A. Lartey; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Albert Danso; Samuel Adomako; Zaheer Khan; Shlomo Y. Tarba. Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets. International Business Review 2020, 30, 101789 .

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Theophilus A. Lartey, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Albert Danso, Samuel Adomako, Zaheer Khan, Shlomo Y. Tarba. Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets. International Business Review. 2020; 30 (5):101789.

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Theophilus A. Lartey; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Albert Danso; Samuel Adomako; Zaheer Khan; Shlomo Y. Tarba. 2020. "Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets." International Business Review 30, no. 5: 101789.

Journal article
Published: 08 November 2020 in International Business Review
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Emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) are attracting significant scholarly attention in the international business and general management domain. The extant research has provided important insights into the EMNEs’ internationalization processes and whether the existing theories adequately explain their outward investment motives. This special issue aims to provide a platform suited to extend the current understanding of the rapid rise of EMNEs and examine the vital role played by strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for the EMNEs. The current research on EMNEs has failed to adequately leverage strategic ambidexterity and link it with the post-entry performance of EMNEs. We argue that the strategic ambidexterity perspective offers valuable opportunities to understand the post-entry performance of EMNEs as they expand into developed and developing markets. The article also highlights important areas for future research by taking into account the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

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Zaheer Khan; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Yong Kyu Lew; Pushyarag Puthusserry; Michael Czinkota. Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals. International Business Review 2020, 101762 .

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Zaheer Khan, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Yong Kyu Lew, Pushyarag Puthusserry, Michael Czinkota. Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals. International Business Review. 2020; ():101762.

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Zaheer Khan; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Yong Kyu Lew; Pushyarag Puthusserry; Michael Czinkota. 2020. "Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals." International Business Review , no. : 101762.

Special issue article
Published: 26 October 2020 in British Journal of Management
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This paper examines the mediating mechanism of the relationship between institutional voids (IVs) and inter‐firm cooperation and the moderating role of economic adversity in the context of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) based in emerging markets. The hypotheses are tested using time‐lagged survey data from 214 SMEs in Ghana. The findings provide support for the hypotheses by showing that: (1) IVs positively influence the use of government research and development (R&D) support; (2) the use of government R&D support mediates the relationship between IVs and inter‐firm cooperation; and (3) economic adversity positively moderates the relationship between IVs and the use of government R&D support. The findings contribute to understanding the role of IVs in inter‐firm cooperation. The wider implications for theory and practice are examined.

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Samuel Adomako; Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah; Yaw A. Debrah; Zaheer Khan; Irene Chu; Catherine Robinson. Institutional Voids, Economic Adversity and Inter‐firm Cooperation in an Emerging Market: The Mediating Role of Government R&D Support. British Journal of Management 2020, 32, 40 -58.

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Samuel Adomako, Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah, Yaw A. Debrah, Zaheer Khan, Irene Chu, Catherine Robinson. Institutional Voids, Economic Adversity and Inter‐firm Cooperation in an Emerging Market: The Mediating Role of Government R&D Support. British Journal of Management. 2020; 32 (1):40-58.

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Samuel Adomako; Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah; Yaw A. Debrah; Zaheer Khan; Irene Chu; Catherine Robinson. 2020. "Institutional Voids, Economic Adversity and Inter‐firm Cooperation in an Emerging Market: The Mediating Role of Government R&D Support." British Journal of Management 32, no. 1: 40-58.

Journal article
Published: 07 October 2020 in Journal of Business Research
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This paper contributes to international business literature by investigating the relationship between perceived corruption and the degree of internationalization (DoI) through business process digitization (BPD). Moreover, the paper examines the moderating effect of firm age on the correlation between perceived corruption and BPD. Using data collected from two sub-Saharan African countries—Ghana and Nigeria, the findings show that perceived corruption is positively correlated to BPD and this correlation is stronger among younger firms. Besides, the findings reveal that BPD is positively correlated to DoI. Moreover, the results of our analysis also indicate that BPD mediates the correlation between perceived corruption and DoI. The limitations of the study and the implications of its findings for researchers and practitioners are discussed.

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Samuel Adomako; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Shlomo Y. Tarba; Zaheer Khan. Perceived corruption, business process digitization, and SMEs’ degree of internationalization in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Business Research 2020, 123, 196 -207.

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Samuel Adomako, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Shlomo Y. Tarba, Zaheer Khan. Perceived corruption, business process digitization, and SMEs’ degree of internationalization in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Business Research. 2020; 123 ():196-207.

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Samuel Adomako; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Shlomo Y. Tarba; Zaheer Khan. 2020. "Perceived corruption, business process digitization, and SMEs’ degree of internationalization in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Business Research 123, no. : 196-207.

Journal article
Published: 29 September 2020 in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
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The COVID-19 pandemic in 2019/2020 ushered in a new turbulent and chaotic global environment where governments not only placed temporary restrictions on people’s movements, but also mandated limits on business activities. However, lacking in the contemporary scholarly discourse is a deeper understanding of how businesses respond to such pandemics. In this research note (RN), a conceptual framework of firms’ responses is advanced. Using the global airline industry, the analysis delineates a host of internally generated and externally imposed firms’ strategic and tactical responses to the pandemic including in-flight service changes, flight cancellations, seeking emergency aids and financial supports, and firm closures. The analysis demonstrates that in responding to the crisis, many airlines sought to minimise erosion of long-developed knowledge, market capabilities, route networks, access to airports, customer base and relationships/trust with customers prior to COVID-19 to equip them for recovery. The wider implications for academics, managers and governments are outlined as the effects of COVID-19 continue to unfold.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Note: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Responding to environmental shocks: Insights on global airlines’ responses to COVID-19. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2020, 143, 102098 -102098.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Note: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Responding to environmental shocks: Insights on global airlines’ responses to COVID-19. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2020; 143 ():102098-102098.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2020. "Note: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Responding to environmental shocks: Insights on global airlines’ responses to COVID-19." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 143, no. : 102098-102098.

Journal article
Published: 06 September 2020 in European Management Journal
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In light of growing scholarly works on business failure, across the social science domains, it is surprising that past studies have largely overlooked how extreme environmental shocks and ‘black swan’ events such as those caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and other global crises, can precipitate business failures. Drawing insights from the current literature on business failure and the unfolding event of COVID-19, we highlight the paradoxes posed by novel exogenous shocks (that is, shocks that transcend past experiences) and the implications for SMEs. The pandemic has accelerated the reconfiguration of the relationship between states and markets, increasing the divide between those with political connections and those without, and it may pose new legitimacy challenges for some players even as others seem less concerned by such matters, whilst experiential knowledge resources may be both an advantage and a burden.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Zaheer Khan; Geoffrey Wood. COVID-19 and business failures: The paradoxes of experience, scale, and scope for theory and practice. European Management Journal 2020, 39, 179 -184.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Zaheer Khan, Geoffrey Wood. COVID-19 and business failures: The paradoxes of experience, scale, and scope for theory and practice. European Management Journal. 2020; 39 (2):179-184.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Zaheer Khan; Geoffrey Wood. 2020. "COVID-19 and business failures: The paradoxes of experience, scale, and scope for theory and practice." European Management Journal 39, no. 2: 179-184.

Journal article
Published: 25 June 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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The allure for businesses to jettison short-term costly processes, regulatory demands and green business practices (GBPs) in the turbulent times of COVID-19 remains sky high. Although GBPs and eco-friendly policies deliver results in the long term in terms of market competitiveness (MC), in many industries firms have sought to jettison well-rooted practices in the face of the existential threats stemming from COVID-19. In this paper, we examine the new contemporary challenges of adopting and implementing environmental sustainability policies in the global airline industry in the wake of COVID-19. The analysis sheds light on firms’ level sustainability initiatives such as upgrading to environmentally friendly aircraft and offsetting emission footprint, and institutional initiatives such as the European Union Emissions Trading System and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for Aviation. Our analysis demonstrates that some airlines and industrial bodies sought to sidestep environmentally friendly commitments and practices to overcome new challenges such as cost pressures, survival threat and deprioritising environmental sustainability initiatives. We establish and examine the implications of the analysis.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Stepping up and stepping out of COVID-19: New challenges for environmental sustainability policies in the global airline industry. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 271, 123000 -123000.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Stepping up and stepping out of COVID-19: New challenges for environmental sustainability policies in the global airline industry. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 271 ():123000-123000.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2020. "Stepping up and stepping out of COVID-19: New challenges for environmental sustainability policies in the global airline industry." Journal of Cleaner Production 271, no. : 123000-123000.

Journal article
Published: 15 June 2020 in International Business Review
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Though institutional contexts are critical drivers of firms’ international expansion, very limited research efforts have focused on how and when these factors facilitate developing country firms’ outward market activities. This study derives insights from the institution-based view and activity theory to test how perceived environmental uncertainty mediates the link between institutional impediments and international expansion. Using data from small and medium-sized firms from Ghana (N = 222) and Ethiopia (N = 203), the findings suggest that high levels of perceived regulatory and cognitive impediments amplify the mediation effect of perceived environmental uncertainty on the degree of SME’s international expansion. Additionally, the findings suggest that, when political connections are well-developed and deployed, the potency of perceived environmental uncertainty as a driver of international expansion is attenuated. Moreover, the study finds that varying levels of home-country industry competition moderate the relationship between perceived environmental uncertainty and the degree of international expansion. Implications relating to theory and practice are discussed.

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Samuel Adomako; Kwabena Frimpong; Albert Danso; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Moshfique Uddin; Kwabena Kesse. Home country institutional impediments and international expansion of developing country SMEs. International Business Review 2020, 29, 101716 .

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Samuel Adomako, Kwabena Frimpong, Albert Danso, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Moshfique Uddin, Kwabena Kesse. Home country institutional impediments and international expansion of developing country SMEs. International Business Review. 2020; 29 (5):101716.

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Samuel Adomako; Kwabena Frimpong; Albert Danso; Joseph Amankwah-Amoah; Moshfique Uddin; Kwabena Kesse. 2020. "Home country institutional impediments and international expansion of developing country SMEs." International Business Review 29, no. 5: 101716.

Research article
Published: 13 April 2020 in Business Strategy and the Environment
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In this paper, we examine how and when chief executive officers' (CEOs') reputation enhances environmental innovation by considering quality management as a mediating mechanism of this relationship. In addition, we introduce stakeholder pressures (primary and secondary stakeholder pressures) as important contingencies of the relationship between CEOs' reputation and quality management. Moreover, we test the moderating role of resource commitment on the quality management‐environmental innovation relationship. We test our research model using data from a manufacturing industry sample of 217 firms from Ghana. We find that quality management mediates the relationship between reputation and environmental innovation. Moreover, the relationship between CEOs' reputation and quality management is amplified when levels of both primary and secondary stakeholder pressures are greater. Finally, our findings show that the effect of quality management on environmental innovation is enhanced when resource commitment is greater. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Renata Konadu; Samuel Owusu‐Agyei; Theophilus A. Lartey; Albert Danso; Samuel Adomako; Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah. CEOs' reputation, quality management and environmental innovation: The roles of stakeholder pressure and resource commitment. Business Strategy and the Environment 2020, 29, 2310 -2323.

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Renata Konadu, Samuel Owusu‐Agyei, Theophilus A. Lartey, Albert Danso, Samuel Adomako, Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah. CEOs' reputation, quality management and environmental innovation: The roles of stakeholder pressure and resource commitment. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2020; 29 (6):2310-2323.

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Renata Konadu; Samuel Owusu‐Agyei; Theophilus A. Lartey; Albert Danso; Samuel Adomako; Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah. 2020. "CEOs' reputation, quality management and environmental innovation: The roles of stakeholder pressure and resource commitment." Business Strategy and the Environment 29, no. 6: 2310-2323.

Research article
Published: 29 March 2020 in Thunderbird International Business Review
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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Talent management and global competition for top talent: A co‐opetition‐based perspective. Thunderbird International Business Review 2020, 62, 343 -352.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. Talent management and global competition for top talent: A co‐opetition‐based perspective. Thunderbird International Business Review. 2020; 62 (4):343-352.

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Joseph Amankwah-Amoah. 2020. "Talent management and global competition for top talent: A co‐opetition‐based perspective." Thunderbird International Business Review 62, no. 4: 343-352.