Joseph Amankwah-Amoah
University of Kent
198 Papers
450 Citations
Joseph Amankwah-Amoah is an academic researcher from University of Kent. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emerging markets & Business failure. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 164 publications. Previous affiliations of Joseph Amankwah-Amoah include University of Bristol & Kent State University.
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Military expenditure, terrorism and capital flight: Insights from Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a panel data of 37 African countries from 1996-2010 and determined that the thresholds are apparent exclusively in Quantile Regressions with military expenditure thresholds ranging from: 4.224 to 5.612 for domestic terrorism, 5.734 to 7.363 for unclear terrorism and 4.710 to 6.617 for total terrorism.
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A unified framework of explanations for strategic persistence in the wake of others’ failures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine factors that determine strategic persistence in the face of other businesses' failures and present circumstances (i.e. past successes, prior commitment and decisions by the top-management team), present circumstances and future outlook.
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Toward a Construct of Liability of Origin
TL;DR: In this paper, a novel concept of liability of origin is proposed to explicate the mechanisms through which location can be become either a liability or an advantage in a firm's ability to compete and gain legitimacy.
COVID‐19 pandemic, vaccine nationalism and counterfeit products: Discourse and emerging research themes
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine the global vaccine distribution strategies and implications for public policy and governments and highlight the divergent effects of different approaches in terms of ushering elements of nationalism and ethnocentrism.
Managerial attitude towards the natural environment and environmental sustainability expenditure
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of chief executive officers' beliefs on firms' sustainability expenditure through the mediating mechanism of managerial attitudes towards the natural environment was examined, and it was found that superstition positively affects managerial attitudes toward the national environment and this relationship is moderated by gender.
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