Digital Innovations, Business and Society in Africa

Edited by:   Richard Boateng, Sheena Lovia Boateng, Thomas Anning-Dorson, Longe Olumide Babatope
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication:   Switzerland
Edition:   2022 ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm, 
Weight:   682g
ISBN:   9783030779894
ISBN 10:   3030779890
Series:   Advances in Theory and Practice of Emerging Markets
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   19 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Richard Boateng is a Professor in Information Systems at the University of Ghana Business School and the Convenor of the BRIGHT Network. His research experience covers the digital economy, e-learning, information and communication technologies (ICT) for development, electronic governance, social media, electronic business, gender and technology, mobile commerce, and mobile health at the national, industrial, organisational and community levels. Sheena Lovia Boateng is a Lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ghana Business School. She is the first female to complete a PhD in Marketing from the University of Ghana. She is also the founder of the Women in Tertiary Education Network (WITE). Her research interests include online pharmaceutical marketing, influencer marketing, online relationship marketing, fashion and beauty marketing, digital business strategy, electronic learning adoption, entrepreneurship, online branding and advertising, social media marketing and structural equational modelling in marketing. Thomas Anning-Dorson is a Senior Lecturer at Wits Business School of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and a Researcher with Oxford Internet Institute on the Fairwork Project. His current research focuses on Marketing, Competitive Strategy, Innovation, Digitalization and Enterprise Development. His research has been published in top tier international journals. Longe Olumide Babatope is a Graduate-level Faculty at the African Centre of Excellence on Technology Enabled Learning (ACETEL) of the National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria. He is also a Visiting Professor of Computing & Information Systems at Trinity University, Lagos, Nigeria and an Adjunct Professor of Cyber Security at AlHikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria. His current research focuses on management information systems security, social and enterprise informatics. He is also involved in cyber criminality profiling to identify causation, assist apprehension, and provide treatments for cybercrime cases.