Aid providers frequently link supporting small firms to job creation. Small firms create about half of new jobs in Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth. Using panel data for Ethiopia, we find that small and large enterprises create similar numbers of net jobs. Moreover, wages in small firms are persistently lower. To create more ‘...

An upgrade of the lending sector of Ghana requires modern and improved met of banking. Securitization is one of the modern processes used to leverage on lending in many banking sectors. The aim of the study was to assess the readiness and preparedness of the banking industry of Ghana towards the adoption of securitization. The study involved a survey and a quantitative research design in which ...

In this paper, we explore the effects of Enterprise Systems, such as SAP, on the quality of organizational data. Our findings are based on a longitudinal study of an ES implementation at multiple sites in one global organization. We organize the results in terms of how the ES implementation changed Intrinsic data quality, Representational data quality, Contextual data quality, and Accessibility...

In the context of enterprise engineering, strategic planning, information systems engineering, and software engineering activities should be tightly integrated. Traditional, interviewbased requirements gathering and elicitation techniques are suited for this aim not enough well and often lead to the violation of the strategic alignment. The vision-driven requirements engineering has been propos...

Many software development companies have fundamentally changed the way they organize and run their development organizations in the course of the last decade. Lean and agile software development became more and more common. Lean focuses on continuous value generation based on a framework of principles known from manufacturing. But how do software developers actually implement these principles i...