Empowering Women in the Digital Economy (ePub)

Francis/Routledge Book on Delivering Distinctive Value in Emerging Economies - Efficient and Sustainably Responsible Perspectives from Management Researchers and Practitioners. He has also co-edited a Springer Book on Digital Innovations, Business and Society in Africa - New Frontiers and a Shared Strategic Vision. On two occasions, Prof. Boateng has been invited to contribute to global reports on information systems access and usage. First, by the Renowned Economist, Diane Coyle for the Vodafone Global PLC.'s Socio-economic Impact of Mobiles (SIM) Report; and second, by the World Wide Web Foundation for the 2019 Women's Rights Online Survey. Richard has been listed among the Top twenty Highly cited Scholars in University of Ghana by Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/y89o59se

Dr. Sheena Lovia Boateng is a lecturer at the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ghana Business School. She holds Doctoral and Undergraduate degrees in Marketing from the University of Ghana. She is the first female to complete a PhD in Marketing from the University of Ghana and is also the founder of the Women in Tertiary Education (WITE) Network, which seeks to provide support for women pursuing tertiary education in their academic research, family life and career balance. She is a fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science. She also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Emerald Emerging Markets Case Study Journal, Emerald Publishing Limited, UK, from 2018 to 2020. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Journal of Financial Services Marketing, Smart Learning Environments, and the Journal of Educational Technology Systems. Dr. Sheena's paper on signalling theory published in the International Journal of Bank Marketing (2019) was listed among the most popular papers in the journal for the first quarter of 2019. She has also published a practical workbook on Structural Equation Modelling using AMOS and SPSS. She has published seven journal publications, five books, six book chapters, four published conference papers, and one industry report. She has co-edited a Taylor and Francis/Routledge Book on Delivering Distinctive Value in Emerging Economies - Efficient and Sustainably Responsible Perspectives from Management Researchers and Practitioners. She has also co-edited a Springer Book on Digital Innovations, Business and Society in Africa - New Frontiers and a Shared Strategic Vision. She is a Guest Co-Editor for a Special Issue on Digital Innovations and End-User Entrepreneurship for the International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI) published by IGI Global (2021). In March 2021, she was appointed as a doctoral external examiner, Wits School of Business and Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Thomas Anning-Dorson is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and a Research Associate at the School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, University of Johannesburg. Thomas is a Research Fellow at McGill University, Montreal, Canada through the Queen Elizabeth Scholars Program. Thomas is a member of the American Marketing Association, fellow at the Academy of Marketing Science and Academy of International Business. He serves as the Track Chair - (International Business Theory) for the Academy of International Business - Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter (AIB Africa). Thomas is an enthusiastic scholar and management consultant with a keen interest in the issues of Innovation, Strategy, Digitalization, Enterprise Growth, and Marketing in Emerging Markets. Dr. Thomas' current research focuses on Competitive Strategy, Brands, Innovation, Services Management, Emerging Markets, Customer Experience Management, 4IR and Enterprise Development. His research has been published in top tier international journals including Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review, Computer in Human Behavior, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, European Journal of Innovation Management, and International Journal of Bank Marketing.