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Africa: The UN SDGs and a Key Role for Non-Bank Financial Institutions. A spotlight on Dr. Ronald Rateiwa and Professor Meshach Aziakpono, Stellenbosch Business School, and their research insight included in the recently published Routledge-CoBS book Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet

Africa, the UN SDGs and a Key Role for Non-Bank Financial Institutions  

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Dr. Ronald Rateiwa & Professor Meshach Aziakpono, Stellenbosch, focus on how NBFIs can help Africa reach the UN SDGs.

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Brian Kaitano explores how technology can help to boost sexual health education and tackle HIV and other STDs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Technology and Sexual Health Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Brian Kaitano explores how technology can help to boost sexual health education and tackle HIV and other STDs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmer rituals in Ghana. When culture and worldviews clash, even a well-planned initiative to transfer knowledge can get bogged down and fail in the key stages of relationship-building and information exchange. Fascinating new research by Professors Anca Metiu, ESSEC Business School, and Mira Slavova, Warwick Business School, draws upon the farming communities of rural Ghana to highlight the role of rituals in effectively facilitating knowledge transfer.

Rituals and Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmers in Ghana

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Profs. Anca Metiu and Mira Slavova, ESSEC and Warwick Business Schools, research farmers’ rituals as a key to unlocking knowledge transfer.

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For Better or for Worse – the impact of managerial decisions on conflict risk. An increasing number of places around the globe face the risk of turbulent and even violent conflict. Do managerial decisions impact inter-group relations and the risk of conflict? How do impacts flow from the boardroom into the broader society? Professor Brian Ganson, Stellenbosch Business School shares his research into the issues.

The impact of managerial decisions on conflict risk

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Prof. Brian Ganson, Stellenbosch Business School, shares his research on how managers and businesses can impact the risk of conflict.

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For an African Entrepreneurial Area

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Prof. Hamid Bouchikhi, ESSEC, asserts that for an African entrepreneurial area to materialize requires in-depth work with the younger generations.

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