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Digital Innovations, Business and Society in Africa

New Frontiers and a Shared Strategic Vision

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Overview

  • Indicates Africa's response to the digital economy and new and emerging technologies
  • Provides practical insights into how digital innovations are transforming service delivery, the management of consumers, and the management of digital disruption
  • Offers success stories in Africa and how they may be replicated

Part of the book series: Advances in Theory and Practice of Emerging Markets (ATPEM)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Digital Innovation and Value Creation

  2. Digital Innovation and Development

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About this book

For African enterprises, entrepreneurs and governments to take full advantage of new digital opportunities, they need a shared strategic understanding of where they are, what they have, and what they may need to have for the future. This book presents this shared strategic vision to guide future coordinated actions of African enterprises, entrepreneurs, consumers/citizens and governments in using new and emerging digital technologies. It showcases how consumers/citizens, entrepreneurs, organisations, institutions and governments are leveraging new and emerging digital innovations to disrupt and transform value creation and service delivery in Africa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Ghana Business School, Accra, Ghana

    Richard Boateng, Sheena Lovia Boateng

  • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Thomas Anning-Dorson

  • American University of Nigeria, Yola, Nigeria

    Longe Olumide Babatope

About the editors

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital Innovations, Business and Society in Africa

  • Book Subtitle: New Frontiers and a Shared Strategic Vision

  • Editors: Richard Boateng, Sheena Lovia Boateng, Thomas Anning-Dorson, Longe Olumide Babatope

  • Series Title: Advances in Theory and Practice of Emerging Markets

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77987-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77986-3Published: 18 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77989-4Published: 19 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77987-0Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2522-5006

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-5014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 421

  • Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International Business, Start-Ups/Venture Capital, African Economics

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