Papers by Godwin B . Akrong
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Sep 20, 2023
The propensity to accept vaccines and factors that affect vaccine acceptance and hesitancy will d... more The propensity to accept vaccines and factors that affect vaccine acceptance and hesitancy will determine the overall success of the COVID-19 vaccination program. Therefore, it is essential for countries to understand the factors that influence vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in order to prevent further future shocks, and it is necessary to have a thorough understanding of these factors. This study, as a result, aims to review selected published works in the domain of study and conduct valuable analysis to determine the most influential factors in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in Ghana. The review also explored the acceptance rate of COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana. We selected published works from 2021 to April 2023 and extracted, analyzed, and summarized the findings based on the key factors that influence COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in Ghana, the acceptance rate in Ghana, the demographic factors that are often examined, and the study approach used to examine these factors. The study found that positive vaccination perception, safety, belief in vaccine efficacy, knowledge of COVID-19, and a good vaccine attitude influence COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Ghana. The negative side effects of the vaccines, mistrust in the vaccine, lack of confidence in the safety of the vaccines, fear, and spiritual and religious beliefs all played significant roles in the factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. The demographic parameters frequently included in these studies that have a significant impact include educational attainment, gender, religious affiliation, age, and marital status.
Open Journal of Business and Management
Reproductive Health
Background Biological fathering, especially in patrilineal societies, was traditionally acceptabl... more Background Biological fathering, especially in patrilineal societies, was traditionally acceptable only in the context of marriage to the mother of the child. Many men were polygynous, often staying in one household with all their wives and children. However, this phenomenon has been on the decline in recent times, mainly due to Christianity, which encourages monogamy while frowning on polygyny. The Ghanaian family has for the past few years been undergoing changes due to migration, urbanization, and industrialization. With an increase in non-marital births and the dissolution of marital unions, multi-partner fertility is likely to increase. Contemporary Ghanaian perspectives on the circumstances that lead men to engage in paternal multi-partner fertility, otherwise referred to in this study as serial fathering, are scanty, hence this study examines the factors that lead to serial fathering among Ghanaian men. Methods The study employed the qualitative method, using in-depth intervi...
Africa Journal of Management
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector
Agencies depend on enterprise resource planning (ERP) to achieve success. However, the factors th... more Agencies depend on enterprise resource planning (ERP) to achieve success. However, the factors that lead to the success and use of these ERP systems have not attracted the needed attention. This study investigates the factors that influence the success and use of an ERP system. The proposed model is based on a quantitative and a mixed-method case study (MM-CS). The results show that organizational climate has a positive effect on information quality, system quality, and service quality constructs of the DeLone and McLean IS success model. The quality constructs also affect user satisfaction negatively as compared to previous studies.
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems
The study presents the results of a comprehensive review conducted between 2005-2020 to identify ... more The study presents the results of a comprehensive review conducted between 2005-2020 to identify Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) challenges, discover the divisions in which these challenges can be clustered, and provide general strategies to resolve these challenges. The study also found 25 categories that can be classified into ERP challenges. 65 ERP challenges were identified based on the reviewed literature, of which 18 were not provided with adequate solutions as to how to resolve them, and the related solutions as mentioned in the reviewed literature are presented in-depth. The result will help both academics and practitioners involved with how to resolve ERP system challenges.
Data collected from the Marine Operations Unit of the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority with resp... more Data collected from the Marine Operations Unit of the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority with respect to organizational climate factors (training&learning, commitment&morale, and training &learining ), technological innovation and performance.
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems
Globally, governments are taking steps to help them increase their income generation margin by im... more Globally, governments are taking steps to help them increase their income generation margin by implementing tax administrative ERP systems. However, the impacts on the internal system users of these ERP system quality features have not drawn the attention needed. This study, therefore, examines the relationship between the information systems' (IS) quality and individual impact using the theoretical foundation of the DeLone and McLean IS success model and, secondly, addresses the interrelationships between the quality constructs of information systems (IS). The authors also used the structural equation modeling technique of partial least squares to evaluate and analyze the data. The results show that system quality, the information quality, and the service quality characteristics of the tax administrative ERP system have a strong positive impact on the success of the IS at the individual level. There is also a positive relationship between the information systems' (IS) quali...
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