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In the 2012/2013 academic year, a total number of eight
(8) PhDs were recruited to augment and enrich the faculty’s
teaching and research capacity. UGBS’s mission is to develop
quality human resource capacity through the provision of
world-class management
education, skills training
and development, applied
research, consultancy and
other extension services
to meet the needs of its
domestic and international
customers using
knowledgeable, competent
and experienced Faculty and
state-of-the-art technology.
Faculty members continue to win major research grants.
They write and publish an exceptional breadth of research
work, with Prof. Robert E. Hinson and Dr. Bedman Narteh
of the Marketing Department, Prof. Joshua Abor, Vice-Dean,
Dr. Kwesi Amponsah Tawiah and Dr. Kwasi Dartey-Baah
of the Department of Organization and Human Resource
Management winning a total grant of US$526,215. Research
grants won were from DANIDA as well as from the University
of Ghana Business School. A sizable portion of the grants
won from DANIDA is for Institutional Capacity Building. Prof.
Hinson won an additional US$48,014.49 grant from DANIDA
for research. Additionally, Dr. Mohammed Amidu in the
Accounting Department won an €89,500 research grant from
VolkswagenStiftung Foundation to conduct a study on “The
Measurement, Determinants and Implications of Competition
in the Africa Banking Sector: A new industrial organization
perspective”. Prof. Joshua Abor and Dr. Sam Mensah of
the Department of Finance also won a grant from the
International Growth Centre for a study on “Agency Conflict
and Bank Interest Spreads in Ghana”.
UGBS supported a total of twenty five (25) faculty members
to participate and present papers at various conferences.
Countries visited for conferences included China, Spain,
France, Nigeria, Czech Republic, South Africa and Tanzania.
The School also supported Eight (8) research proposals.
The School submitted a proposal to receive support for
Market-Oriented Programmes under Component 2 of the
Ghana Skills and Technology Development Project (GSTDP)
and intends to use the funds to establish a private-sector
oriented technology and development center, dubbed
“Centre for New and Emerging Technologies” (CNET). The
mission of CNET, which will be established in our UGBS-HFC
building, an office and seminar room complex in the Central
Business District of Accra and a multi-purpose graduate
complex at Legon, is to coordinate the work of a private-
sector oriented faculty who will research, develop and
contextualize new and emerging technologies for adoption
and use by the private sector and local communities.
In January 2013, a highly successful colloquium on Scholarly
Writing and Academic Progression was organized. The
various sub- themes of the Colloquium and speakers were
as follows, “Scholarly Writing and Journal Selection” by Prof
I. Otchere, Carleton University, Canada, “Publishing and
Academic Progression” by Prof. A. A. Ampofo, University of
Ghana, Legon, and “Faculty Promotions: Expectations of the
University of Ghana” by Rev. Prof. E. Dovlo, University of
Ghana, Legon.
UGBS held a seminar series during the Academic year,
with faculty presenting papers on various topics. As part of
activities to mark its 50th anniversary, UGBS held its maiden
conference on“Business and Development: Determining
New Frontiers”. The Conference sought to review the past
to determine the new or emerging connections between
business and socio-economic development in Ghana and
Africa.
Star Faculty
Dr. Mohammed Amidu is a Senior Lecturer at the
University of Ghana Business School. He received his
PhD from University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
He is a researcher with the African Economic Research
Consortium (AERC) and his area of research includes:
Banks earnings management, corporate governance,
corporate tax policy, development finance, banking market
structure, regulation and stability. In 2012 Dr. Amidu was
awarded a VolkwagenStiftung Junior Fellowship grant to
conduct research on the measurements, determinants and
implications of competition in the African banking sector
using new industrial
organization literature.
His publications have
appeared in journals such
as the European Journal of
Finance, the International
Review of Financial Analysis,
the Review of Financial
Economics, the Journal of
Risk Finance, Investment
Prof. Kwame Domfe
Dean, Business School
Dr. Mohammed Amidu
