August 2011

Linking tertiary institutions to industries: Evidence from the Vocational and Technical Education Department of the University of Cape Coast

  Despite the various reforms and attempts to relate the school curricula to the world of work, very few studies have been carried out to investigate the constraints and challenges of industrial and institutional linkages. This paper investigates specifically the Department of Vocational and Technical Education (VOTEC) of the University of Cape Coast and the inability of the department to link its students with...

Author(s): Amu, Manasseh Edison Komla and Christine Offei-Ansah

August 2011

The impact of enterprise systems on corporate performance

  This research studied the effect of investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM) systems on a firm’s long-term stock price performance and profitability measures such as return on assets and return on sales. The results are based on a sample of 558 announcements of ERP implementations, 420 SCM implementations. Our analysis of the financial benefits of these...

Author(s): Fakhraddin Maroofi