Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are businesses that help accelerate the rate of economic growth in low-income countries and also contribute to poverty alleviation if managed with the right leadership. However, in Ghana most SMEs fail in the first year of existence (Biekpe, 2004) due to...

Research on the correlations between design leadership, work values and ethics, and workplace innovation is lacking, especially in non-Western regions. This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of design leadership in the relationship of work values and ethics with workplace innovation...

Strategic management (STM) is recognized as an important element for firms’ success; however, small firms, especially in agribusiness, have widely been overlooked because it is often thought that a systematic STM is exclusively for large corporate firms. Firms engage in STM practices such as...

Management control is one of the key management functions, but has been rarely addressed in academic research. Amongst other reasons, this disinterest might be rooted in the typically negative connotation of the term 'control'. Academics rather prefer topics like strategy development, planning...