Findings. This study reveals that uneven access to digital technology, security concerns and resistance to change are the main challenges hampering the use of e-government applications by the business sector.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the social sustainability strategies of multinational mining companies in addressing risks in areas of exploratory intensity and contributing to social capital in local communities.,This study is situated within an interpretivist paradigm and uses a qualitative research methodology, drawing on data from ...

Transfer pricing, earnings management and corporate governance among listed firms: Evidence from Ghana - Author: King Carl Tornam Duho, Emmanuel Tetteh Asare, Abraham Glover, Divine Mensah Duho

The study has unearthed that the existing social and economic infrastructure are very limited to support the development of the coastal communities in Ghana's Western Region. The study suggests that to deal with some of the challenges faced by coastal communities, livelihood diversification programs should be introduced.,Not every community ...

Contextualising Sustainability Reporting in Host Communities: An Insight from a Mining Subsidiary in Ghana - Author: Kwame Oduro Amoako, Isaac Oduro Amoako, James Tuffour, Newman Amaning This study was aimed at examining the motivations, elements and channels of sustainability reporting of a multinational mining company that operates a ...

Effectiveness of Internal Control Systems of Listed Firms in Ghana - Author: Joseph M. Onumah, Ransome Kuipo, Victoria A. Obeng

The findings revealed a positive perception that corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of mining companies contribute to the development of mining communities …

Developing local managers in the Ghanaian mining industry: an indigenous talent model - Author: Nana Yaw Oppong, Jeff Gold ..., Cape Coast, Ghana) Jeff Gold (Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK) Journal of Management Development. ISSN: 0262-1711. Article publication date: 11 April 2016 ... Emerald Group Publishing ...

Using a subsidiary of a multinational mining company in Ghana as a case, the purpose of this study is to examine the formal and informal forms and channels of sustainability reporting in the emerging economy's context.,Semi-structured interviews were conducted amongst managers and employees of the mining company and members of their host ...

This paper explores the extent of site-specific social, environmental and ethical (SEE) reporting by mining companies operating in Ghana.,The authors conduct an interpretive content analysis of the annual/integrated reports of mining companies for the years 2009–2014 to extract site-specific SEE information relating to the companies' mining ...

'The gold mining sector was largely administered by the Abusa system, which is still a feature in agriculture in modern Ghana' (Iliffe, 1995, p. 147). This system operated a tripartite profit-sharing scheme, where the chief who is the landholder, received one-third of the production, the lessee or operator of the mine one-third and the ...

This paper is a case study of the effects of an organizational intervention on the recovery of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporations Limited mining operations in Ghana, a country in West Africa. We examine the events leading up to the company's decline, the deep‐level intervention strategy that was applied, and the effects of that intervention.

Yaaba Baah-Ennumh, T. and Forson, J.A. (2017), "The impact of artisanal small-scale mining on sustainable livelihoods: A case study of mining communities in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of Ghana", World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 204-222.

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The purpose of this paper is to explore how and what drives corporate social responsibility (CSR) in host communities of mining companies in developing countries.,To address this knowledge gap, this paper used Ghana as a test case and conducted 24 in-depth interviews with participants drawn from mining host communities.,The paper discovered ...

Data were collected from 278 managerial staff of five mining companies in Ghana at different waves within a 3-month interval. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data received using the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) statistics (V. 26.0) and Smart PLS (V.4.0).,The study found that Green Ps ...

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1. Introduction. Despite a wealth of prior literature on the subject, corporate social and environmental reporting (SER) continues to attract considerable attention from the research community (see Benameur et al., 2023; Wachira and Mathuva, 2022; Qian et al., 2021; Ali et al., 2017, for an overview of some of the research).In relation to the prior literature, authors have …

A substantial mining concern based in Obuasi in Ghana, this corporation was started in recognition of the potential and possibility of a world class gold mining industry in West Africa. …

Findings. Managerial role in the practice of CSR is limited and ineffective in Ghana. Difficulties of effective CSR implementation mainly stem from leadership weak spots in the form of mismanagement and corruption, lack of leadership commitment and unwillingness to allocate monies due for CSR activities.

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, …

People's experiences may be different from reality.,Detailed background study is required to understand the expectations of communities where mining firms operate.,It is important for companies to appreciate the fact that communities in Africa have high expectations from entities doing business because there are real needs in communities ...

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Innovative green construction adoption in Ghana: architects' perspectives from theory of planned behaviour - Author: Michael Nii Addy, Florence Dadzoe, Titus Ebenezer Kwofie, Clinton Aigbavboa, Barbara Simons

The purpose of this paper is to examine how public hospitals in Ghana are financed, and the challenges facing the financing modes adopted., – To achieve the objectives of the study, one major public healthcare institution in Ghana became the main focus., – The findings of the study revealed that the main sources of financing the public ...

Originality/value. For the concept of MPs to gain a firm foundation globally, its perception and implementation must be explored thoroughly. This empirical study, being the first to investigate MP implementation in Ghana, has provided insights into the topic from the perspective of professionals operating in the Ghanaian construction industry.

The purpose of this study is to examine the degree, contents and trend development of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) performance indicators disclosed in sustainability reports of large mining companies in Ghana.,Content analysis methods are used to analyse 50 sustainability reports of ten large-scale mining companies in Ghana, covering the ...

1. Introduction. The evolution from the First Industrial Revolution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has given rise to Lib 4.0 in library and information science, profoundly impacting libraries (Ahmat and Hanipah, 2018).The 4IR is characterized by a fusion of technologies that blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres (Schwab, …

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr A. Jinapor, has announced that the government is expected to commission the Cardinal Namdini Mining project, the largest gold mining operation in …

Findings. According to this study's empirical results, LBCFs appear to have effective WCM practices in place. This was evidenced in the surveyed responses which indicate that the sector's WCM practices sound good based on the mean scores and statistically significant as the t-values > 1.664.Notably, LBCFs in Ghana pay their suppliers early to …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connections between financial inclusion and agricultural commercialization among farmers in Ghana.,In order to address endogeneity and sample selectivity bias, the study employs endogenous switching regressions (ESRs) to examine whether financially included and financially excluded maize farm ...

The last issue of significance was the dust pollution from the transportation of the washed gravel back to the mined pit.,One main limitation is that the data for this study were collected from Ghana.,The results indicate the need for proper and systematic measures to identify the environmental and social impacts of mining activities.,The work ...

Development of a risk assessment model for adopting public–private partnership in building Ghana's critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events - Author: Godslove Ampratwum, Robert Osei-Kyei, Vivian W.Y. Tam

Case study area. The mining district of South-western Ghana which hosts many known mineral industries including the world-class gold deposit at Obuasi as described by Kesse (1985) was selected for this study. Studies on gold …

Citation. Mohammed, A.S. (2024), "Sources of Environmental Conflicts from Energy Justice and Equity Perspective: Evidence from Gold Mining Sectors in Ghana", Sili, M ...

The prominent large-scale mining company in the district is Newmont Gold Ghana Limited (NGGL), with the Ahafo South concession (Tenkorang, 2021). According to Tenkorang (2021), this large-scale mining …