Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Evaluation of mass dog vaccination campaign in Techiman, Ghana

Background Across Sub-Saharan Africa, implementation of mass dog vaccination programmes is frequently constrained by inconsistent vaccine procurement, financing limitations, cold-chain requirements, and weaknesses in distribution systems, rather than complete vaccine unavailabili...

Macroeconomic dynamics and forestry sustainability in Ghana: evidence from time series analysis

Purpose This study examined how macroeconomic variables, such as inflation, relate to forest sustainability in Ghana. It focuses on three issues: inflation's effect on private investment, how investment affects forest resources, and how inflation influences forest outcomes. The r...

A framework for implementing lean practices in the Nigerian construction industry: an integrated diffusion-adoption approach

Purpose This study challenges the persistent lack of awareness and action on Lean Practices (LPs) in the Nigerian construction industry by developing an integrated Diffusion of Innovations (DOI)–Technology–Organisation–Environment (TOE) model. Rather than treating adoption as a f...

Mental and Physical Health Challenges of Ukrainians Under Hybrid Warfare

Abstract: The ongoing hybrid warfare against Ukraine has generated profound and sustained challenges to the mental and physical health of the civilian population. Unlike conventional armed conflict, hybrid warfare combines military violence with information terror, psychological...

From adoption to assimilation: routinised GenAI use and SMEs' digital presence

Purpose This study examines whether and how SMEs' post-adoption use of generative AI (GenAI) relates to firms' market-facing digital presence. Moving beyond binary adoption, it asks how three usage patterns, i.e. duration (continuity over time), volume (cumulative interaction) an...

How core self-evaluation shapes meaningful work: a conceptual framework

Purpose This conceptual paper aims to address the underexplored role of core self-evaluations (CSE) – a higher-order personality construct integrating self-esteem, self-efficacy, locus of control, and emotional stability – in shaping perceptions of meaningful work (MW), a key voc...

Uniform Bounds for Digit-Appending Fibonacci Walks

Building on the work of Miller et al. [Fibonacci Quarterly, 2022], we show that it is impossible to "walk to infinity" along the Fibonacci sequence in any integer base $b\geq 2$ when at most $N$ digits are appended per step. Our proof method is base-independent, yielding the boun...

Recognizing gender role congruity in newly appointed CEOs’ strategic risk-taking

Role congruity theory suggests that men and women are perceived according to their gendered roles and may avoid violating expectations based on those roles. However, little is known about what enables individuals to recognize these gendered expectations, particularly in difficult...

Examining the influence of ethnomodelling as second-order construct on students' problem-solving ability: the role of epistemological belief and mathematics self-efficacy

Purpose The study aims to investigate the mediating role of mathematics self-efficacy and the moderating effect of epistemological belief on the nexus between ethnomodelling as a second-order construct and students' problem-solving ability. Design/methodology/approach Adopting a...

EU excess capacity management through member states-driven patient mobility: economic and legal aspects

Capacity management plays an increasingly important role in healthcare delivery, both at national and supranational level, in increasing value for money. In this paper, we propose using cross-border patient mobility across European Union (EU) countries to pool demand and reduce e...