Fannu Quagrainie

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration · Business School

This chapter explores successful Ghanaian indigenous entrepreneurship support for poverty alleviation. The existing literature views indigenous women's entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty and discusses how successful indigenous women's entrepreneurship empowers the poor to address health, education, and standard of living. Despite the contrib...

Sustainable Development Goal 4 highlights universal education, yet in low-income economies, educational achievement levels, such as children's proficiency, often fall short of satisfactory standards. This study explores how family traits link parental financial inclusion to children's proficiency, using recent Ghana Living Standard Survey data 2016...

Purpose While operational performance is important for a company's competitiveness and profitability, this study claims that procurement may be required to drive operational performance. This study aims to focus on how procurement practices is related to operational performance among selected manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach The mo...

The growth of indigenous women entrepreneurs has garnered the interest of both businesses and academics due to its role in poverty alleviation. This chapter aims to assess Ghanaian IWEs’ entrepreneurial competencies needed for their success and the impact of their success on poverty alleviation. The study uses a qualitative approach to the collecti...

The study develops a model to examine the moderating influence of entrepreneurial motivation on the relationships between CSR initiatives and integrated quality of life. Employing a case study approach with mixed-method techniques, data is collected using questionnaires and interviews. Small business owners (SBO) engage in CSR initiatives but rejec...

Purpose Using resource-based theory as a base, this paper aims to analyse the moderating role of entrepreneurial education on the relationship between psychological (perseverance and fear of failure) and social (family support and role models) factors as they related to entrepreneurial readiness among female youth. Design/methodology/approach A sa...

The study investigates critical thinking behaviours of women micro-entrepreneurs in Ghana by examining how life experience, education, use of Internet, social engagement and self-criticism act as antecedents of critical thinking behaviours using age as a mediator. 336 women micro-entrepreneurs were identified in Accra and Tema. Findings reveal that...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the learning effects of entrepreneurial failure (EF) among micro-women entrepreneurship in Accra. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative research method, purposive sampling was used to identify 64 micro-women entrepreneurs, and data was collected using interviews. Findings Linked to the exp...

Drawing on the five competencies areas, the study examines the relationship between individual competencies and successful childrearing practices in single-father homes. Questionnaires are used to collect data from 152 Ghanaian single fathers. With regression analyses, we find that strategic commitment and relationship building are significant for...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which entrepreneurial resourcefulness and competencies theories and practice can be applied in small youth entrepreneurship in Ghana as well as develop an entrepreneurial resourcefulness model for youth entrepreneurs that incorporates their competencies. Design/methodology/approach A qu...

Micro-entrepreneurship literature underscores the role of individual perceptual factors in structuring the social inclusion of women while considering the social systems which shape it. However, untangling the way individual perceptual factors relate to the entrepreneurial outcome, remains a challenge, due to the social systems of women. Based on r...

Purpose-Using functional contextualism, this study aims to explore how Ghanaian micro-entrepreneurship of women (MEW) impacts on the achievement of four targets of sustainable development goal 1 (SDG) (income, social protection, economic resources and resilience) with the cultural factors of women as a mediator. Design/methodology/approach-Using a...

Quality of life in rural areas is typically lower than in urban areas due to vulnerabilities aris�ing from relatively higher poverty levels which expose rural populations to greater life risks. This study examines the mediating role of life meaning on the relationship between social protection interventions (preventive and coping strategies), and...

In this article, we review research on social factors with the main focus being on how self, social factors and fashion consciousness interact with the choice of hairstyles. By highlighting the situations of 397 Ghanaian female youth, we show how their perspectives define beautiful hairstyles and how social factors interact with the choice of hairs...

Purpose Using functional contextualism, this study aims to explore how Ghanaian micro-entrepreneurship of women (MEW) impacts on the achievement of four targets of sustainable development goal 1 (SDG) (income, social protection, economic resources and resilience) with the cultural factors of women as a mediator. Design/methodology/approach Using a...

In this paper, we examine the lack of technological knowledge and adaption to evolving technologies as factors influencing sustainable Internet usage among women small businesses. Accordingly, it is important to unearth internal and external factors critical for small business sustainable Internet usage. Against this background, research questions...

Purpose Review of literature suggests mixed findings on the relationship between the church and micro women entrepreneurship development. This signals that questions remain about the roles of churches in entrepreneurial development. Thus, this paper aims to explore what entrepreneurial activities are provided by churches to their micro women entre...

There is little understanding of factors that inform Entrepreneurial Orientation Dimensions (EOD) with business performance in the context of developing economies. In an effort to determine how this association is manifested among Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies (WEDE), the paper examines the existing literature, and provides the curren...

This paper explores the interplay of family values and practices in explaining the development of entrepreneurial competencies of women in Ghana. Using feminist and interpretative approaches, 35 women entrepreneurs interviewed were selected by purposive, snowballing and convenience sampling. The findings of this study suggest a validation of the as...

This paper explores the interplay of family values and practices in explaining the development of entrepreneurial competencies of women in Ghana. Using feminist and interpretative approaches, 35 women entrepreneurs interviewed were selected by purposive, snowballing and convenience sampling. The findings of this study suggest a validation of the as...

Although literature suggests that religion can influence entrepreneurial values very few studies have actually investigated the effect of religious values which informs entrepreneurial value among women entrepreneurs in developing country like Ghana where religion is a critical part of its life. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship...

This paper explores the experiences of Ghanaian female entrepreneur’s motiva- tion for establishing their own business and the level of support they receive from their personal social network. Findings indicate that both push and pull factors motivate Ghanaian women to start their own business; however, initial motivation for becoming an entreprene...

The study surveyed 286 women entrepreneurs from three major Ghanaian metropolitan cities (Accra, Kumasi, and Takoradi) to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and organizational performance. The study also sought to examine whether motivation mediates the EO and organizational performance relationship. Using a structura...

The positive relation between the internet e-readiness and entrepreneurial activity has been well documented in many empirical studies. We conducted an explorative study to understand the internet e-readiness of micro women entrepreneurs in Ghana. The extensive data that we collected helped us understand the issues such as what are respondents unde...

Women entrepreneurship in the informal sector has been accepted as central to their development. This goal is achieved when these women engage in competitive behaviours. The Ghanaian social structure posits that women behaviours are embedded in their families. Very few studies have investigated the antecedently effect of family issues on the relati...

research on women entrepreneurs

Microcredit has been considered as an effective mechanism for sustainable economic growth and development. Accordingly policies makers in Ghana have used it as a tool for tackling poverty and reducing gender inequalities. However the effect of giving microcredit to women has been a controversial issue. While some researchers have found positive eff...

Abstract: This paper examines the indicators that rural people use to define their quality of life, how relevant the integrated quality of life theory is to the Ghanaian rural setting and the effect of rural development projects on the quality of life of beneficiaries. Using a mixed method and a sample of 354, data was collected via interviews and...

This paper examines the indicators that rural people use to define their quality of life, how relevant the integrated quality of life theory is to the Ghanaian rural setting and the effect of rural development projects on the quality of life of beneficiaries. Using a mixed method and a sample of 354, data was collected via interviews and questionna...

The study surveyed 292 respondents from Tema (a major urban municipality and manufacturing hub in Ghana) to examine the determinants of psychological contract. The study sought to examine whether demographic factors (age and gender) mediate the formation and the effect of a psychological contract. Using a Structural Equation Modeling estimation tec...

The case explains how a small business was able to transform itself from a local to an international business. After five years in operations, the business intends to use its cost leadership strategy to expand into foreign markets. The case examines the various activities that the business undertook and its implications for small profit making busi...