African Journal of Economic and Management Studies: Volume 14 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Organizational and management practices in COVID-19 business environments in Africa – The human factors

Mohammed-Aminu Sanda

Lead the African way!

Aradhana Ramnund-Mansingh, Kiveshni Naidoo

Countries in Africa have undergone an unprecedented transformation that has shaped the continent as they move ahead from the clutches of colonialism. The evolution of leadership…

Demystifying business models (shifts) among Ghanaian creative entrepreneurs in a COVID-19 era

Rufai Haruna Kilu, Mohammed-Aminu Sanda, Ana Alacovska

There is growing scholarly discourse towards COVID-19 pandemic and creative entrepreneurship in the perspectives of Global South. Extant literature lacks sufficient empirical…

Investigating predictors of medical students' intentions to engagement in volunteering during the health crisis

Kamel Mouloudj, Ahmed Chemseddine Bouarar

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate Algerian medical students' intention to participate in volunteer work during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Pre-covid and peri-covid analysis of employees' work values and job quality

Majoreen Osafroadu Amankwah

The workspace has experienced several significant changes (shift in work culture) due to the Covid-19 pandemic thereby necessitating the need for a comparative assessment of…

Employee engagement and performance of MSMEs during COVID-19: the moderating effect of job demands and job resources

Rosemary Boateng Coffie, Raymond Gyimah, Kofi Agyenim Boateng, Alimatu Sardiya

This study explores how employee engagement (EE) influences employee performance and how this relationship is moderated by job demands and job resources among micro, small and…

Hybrid and virtual work settings; the interaction between technostress, perceived organisational support, work-family conflict and the impact on work engagement

Martha Harunavamwe, Herbert Kanengoni

The study assessed the impact of technostress creators, work–family conflict and perceived organisational support (POS) on work engagement for employees operating within the…

Do talent management practices improve organizational resilience? An empirical study within Tunisian companies

Amira Bouteraa, Fatma Bouaziz

The purpose of this research is to study the impact of talent management practices on organizational resilience in Tunisian firms in times of the sanitary crises due to COVID-19.

On the question of entrepreneurial breakthrough or failure in Africa: a framework for analysis

Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah, Farhad Hossain, Aminu Mamman, Christopher J. Rees

Having the right intent, aspiration, ability and attitude to become an entrepreneur has become the mantra in the extant literature to be driver of entrepreneurship and small and…

Adoption of electronic commerce as a resilience strategy for women's entrepreneurship in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Euphrasie Wamunzila Kaningini, Christine Mwati Malinga, Germaine Mirindi Furaha, Jonathan Pembwe Alulea, Annick Castiaux

The present article aims to determine the factors that explain the intention to adopt electronic commerce among women traders in a developing country like Democratic Republic of…