Amanze Ejiogu

• Professor (Full) at Sheffield Hallam University

Purpose This paper sheds light on how appointing a lead independent director (LIDIR) affects a firm’s commitment to climate change and to what extent environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance is affected by a firm’s commitment to climate change in the presence of a LIDIR. Design/methodology/approach The authors utilise ordinary least...

Purpose This paper introduces the special issue on Race and Accounting and Accountability. In so doing, it explores racism in its historical and contemporary forms, the role of accounting and accountability in enabling racism and racial discrimination and also efforts of redress and resistance. Design/methodology/approach We reflect on several cri...

Purpose This paper explores the historical roots of environmental accountability in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria by focusing on the campaigns for social and environmental justice by writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and the indigenous Ogoni people. Design/methodology/approach The methods consist of an analysis of books, diaries, letters and poems written...

Our report titled “Stigma and Social Housing in England” published in July 2021 revealed how social housing stigma impacts every aspect of residents’ lives. It highlighted how stigma was evident in interactions with local councils, housing providers, employment agencies, neighbours, the police, local GP surgeries, and schools, amongst others and ho...

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This study explores public sentiment in relation to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) by analysing 18,481 tweets mentioning ACFTA over a three-month period. The findings highlight the dominance of actors outside the African continent in the public discourse on ACFTA thus indicating the importance of the African diaspora and forei...

Purpose: This paper discusses the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the Egyptian economy and Egyptian government’s budgetary responses to the pandemic. Design/Approach: We undertake a critical analysis of Egyptian government’s economic and social interventions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the funding of these interventions and their short- an...

Purpose This article aims to explore the Nigerian government's budgetary response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the economic and social implications of the pandemic response. Design/methodology/approach Our analysis is based on a review of secondary evidence such as Nigerian Federal Government budget documents, policy documents, Central Bank...

This study explores how the global transparency norm is localized in the Nigerian extractive industry. Transparency is theorized as a process which can be analyzed in terms of rules, interactions, power games, and context. Nigeria is conceptualized as a “penkelemes”—a concept which denotes how traditions, norms, and practices are intertwined with a...

Employment and workforce issues have been largely overlooked in sustainable tourism and efforts to address this shortcoming have drawn on sustainable human resource management (SustHRM) without regard to limitations of SustHRM theorization. This chapter addresses this oversight, three problems are identified in current SustHRM theorization and pros...

Organizations involved in safety-critical operations often deal with operational tensions especially when involved in safety-critical incidents that is likely to violate safety. In this paper, we set out to understand how the disclosures of safety-critical incidents take place in the face of reputational tension. Based on the case of the Nigerian N...

Attached is a call for papers to the 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference 2019 at the Open University, Milton Keynes. We will be convening a stream titled “Critical Perspectives on Transparency, Accountability, Governance, and Corruption Control Stream" The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 31st, 2019.

This study explores the dark side of transparency by problematizing the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) as a transparency, accountability and anti-corruption initiative in Nigeria. It does this by interrogating the underlying assumptions that transparency in the form of increased information disclosure inevitably leads...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of the process through which ideas are translated across disciplines. It does this by focussing on how the idea that people are corporate assets was translated between the accounting and human resource management (HRM) disciplines. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on...

This paper seeks to account for how accounting is implicated in the neoliberalization processes of social housing in England. It adopts a processual view which instead of conceptualizing neoliberalism as static and ‘end-state’, views it as a dynamic process of neoliberalization. We draw upon Bourdieu’s notions of field, capital and habitus to frame...

Nigeria is the second largest gas flaring nation in the world. Flaring of associated gas during oil production has a significant impact on the environment, health and finances of the nation. This paper aims to give readers an overview of the issues around gas flaring in Nigeria. It highlights the associated environmental and health as well as the l...

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. It is also the holds the continent's largest oil and gas reserves and is its largest exporter of crude oil. However, due to several years of underinvestment in and neglect of its power sector, there is an energy crisis in Nigeria. The current government is looking to reform the power sector and invest...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview on the e‐waste topic, highlight the economic arguments for dumping e‐waste in developing countries and examine the issues around the e‐waste problems in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology adopted is based on a review of existing literature, personal observation and i...