Dan‐bright S Dzorgbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 115013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan‐bright S Dzorgbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan‐bright S |
| FAMILY NAME | Dzorgbo |
| SIGNATURE | DZORGBO D B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Role of Social Institutions in Retirement Planning Information Dissemination in Urban Ghana
Preparedness inadequacy for the retirement transition is one of the key reasons behind the need for planning information dissemination. The paper examines state and other corporate institutions’ role in retirement planning using qualitative data obtained from selected state and related institutions using the qualitative explorative approach. A cross-sectional exploratory design was used to investigate social institutions and how they shape retire…
Mapping the Web of Relations: Understanding Mobile Phone Appropriation among Produce Traders in Ghana
The literature on mobile phones and market relations across Africa primarily emphasizes their role in facilitating agricultural trading. Proponents of this view highlight the support the mobile phone provides to farmers and buyers in obtaining market information relating to supply and demand dynamics. However, these studies tend to gloss over the factors underpinning the facilitatory role, which for all intents and purposes are reduced to an elem…
Mapping the Web of Relations: Understanding Mobile Phone Appropriation among Produce Traders in Ghana
The literature on mobile phones and market relations across Africa primarily emphasizes their role in facilitating agricultural trading. Proponents of this view highlight the support the mobile phone provides to farmers and buyers in obtaining market information relating to supply and demand dynamics. However, these studies tend to gloss over the factors underpinning the facilitatory role, which for all intents and purposes are reduced to an elem…
Social Capital and Adolescent Girls’ Resilience to Teenage Pregnancy in Begoro, Ghana
This study focuses on how older adolescent girls access and utilize social capital to develop resilience against teenage pregnancy in Begoro, Ghana. A survey of 419 non-pregnant girls aged 15–19 years, selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling technique, was conducted in 2012. Qualitative data were gathered through in-depth interviews with ten girls purposively selected from the survey respondents. Parents, relatives, teachers and religious g…
Has the Internet Reduced Friendship? Scientific Relationships in Ghana, Kenya, and India, 1994-2010
Has the Internet changed the pattern of social relations? More specifically, have social relations undergone any systematic change during the recent widespread diffusion of new communications technology? This question is addressed using a unique longitudinal survey that bookends the entire period of Internet diffusion in two African nations and one Indian state. We analyze data on nine professional linkages reported by a population of agricultura…
Access to ICT and Research Output of Agriculture Researchers in Kenya
Agricultural researchers work at universities and research institutes. This paper examines how institutional context has affected Kenyan agricultural scientists’ professional lives along several dimensions: Access and use of emerging ICT technologies, professional activities, and scholarly output. It draws upon a unique longitudinal data set in which scientists were interviewed in 2001, 2005, and 2010. The data allow us to follow changes in techn…
Familial Reciprocity and Subjective Well-being in Ghana
The authors investigated variations in reciprocity and the impact of reciprocity on well-being in a West African society. They hypothesized that household size and income diversity encourage reciprocity, which in turn enhances subjective well-being. In empirical testing of these hypotheses the authors used the data of the Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire of Ghana, a national sample of household heads (N males = 33,949, N females = 13,900) co…
Are mobile phones changing social networks? A longitudinal study of core networks in Kerala
Mobile telephony has diffused more rapidly than any Indian technology in recent memory, yet systematic studies of its impact are rare, focusing on technological rather than social change. We employ network surveys of separate groups of Kerala residents in 2002 and again in 2007 to examine recent shifts in mobile usage patterns and social relationships. Results show (1) near saturation of mobiles among both the professionals and nonprofessionals s…
Mobile phones and core network growth in Kenya: Strengthening weak ties
Collaboration Paradox: Scientific Productivity, the Internet, and Problems of Research in Developing Areas
We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions. First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email) associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee & Bozeman (2005) and Walsh & Maloney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these questions for US scientists. Based on a comparative analy…
Collaboration Paradox: Scientific Productivity, the Internet, and Problems of Research in Developing Areas
We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions. First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email) associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee & Bozeman (2005) and Walsh & Maloney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these questions for US scientists. Based on a comparative analy…
Are mobile phones changing social networks? A longitudinal study of core networks in Kerala
Mobile telephony has diffused more rapidly than any Indian technology in recent memory, yet systematic studies of its impact are rare, focusing on technological rather than social change. We employ network surveys of separate groups of Kerala residents in 2002 and again in 2007 to examine recent shifts in mobile usage patterns and social relationships. Results show (1) near saturation of mobiles among both the professionals and nonprofessionals s…
Familial Reciprocity and Subjective Well-being in Ghana
The authors investigated variations in reciprocity and the impact of reciprocity on well-being in a West African society. They hypothesized that household size and income diversity encourage reciprocity, which in turn enhances subjective well-being. In empirical testing of these hypotheses the authors used the data of the Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire of Ghana, a national sample of household heads (N males = 33,949, N females = 13,900) co…
Mobile phones and core network growth in Kenya: Strengthening weak ties
Collaboration Paradox: Scientific Productivity, the Internet, and Problems of Research in Developing Areas
We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions. First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email) associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee & Bozeman (2005) and Walsh & Maloney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these questions for US scientists. Based on a comparative analy…
Are mobile phones changing social networks? A longitudinal study of core networks in Kerala
Mobile telephony has diffused more rapidly than any Indian technology in recent memory, yet systematic studies of its impact are rare, focusing on technological rather than social change. We employ network surveys of separate groups of Kerala residents in 2002 and again in 2007 to examine recent shifts in mobile usage patterns and social relationships. Results show (1) near saturation of mobiles among both the professionals and nonprofessionals s…
Mobile phones and core network growth in Kenya: Strengthening weak ties
Familial Reciprocity and Subjective Well-being in Ghana
The authors investigated variations in reciprocity and the impact of reciprocity on well-being in a West African society. They hypothesized that household size and income diversity encourage reciprocity, which in turn enhances subjective well-being. In empirical testing of these hypotheses the authors used the data of the Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire of Ghana, a national sample of household heads (N males = 33,949, N females = 13,900) co…
Access to ICT and Research Output of Agriculture Researchers in Kenya
Agricultural researchers work at universities and research institutes. This paper examines how institutional context has affected Kenyan agricultural scientists’ professional lives along several dimensions: Access and use of emerging ICT technologies, professional activities, and scholarly output. It draws upon a unique longitudinal data set in which scientists were interviewed in 2001, 2005, and 2010. The data allow us to follow changes in techn…
Social Capital and Adolescent Girls’ Resilience to Teenage Pregnancy in Begoro, Ghana
This study focuses on how older adolescent girls access and utilize social capital to develop resilience against teenage pregnancy in Begoro, Ghana. A survey of 419 non-pregnant girls aged 15–19 years, selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling technique, was conducted in 2012. Qualitative data were gathered through in-depth interviews with ten girls purposively selected from the survey respondents. Parents, relatives, teachers and religious g…
Has the Internet Reduced Friendship? Scientific Relationships in Ghana, Kenya, and India, 1994-2010
Has the Internet changed the pattern of social relations? More specifically, have social relations undergone any systematic change during the recent widespread diffusion of new communications technology? This question is addressed using a unique longitudinal survey that bookends the entire period of Internet diffusion in two African nations and one Indian state. We analyze data on nine professional linkages reported by a population of agricultura…
Mapping the Web of Relations: Understanding Mobile Phone Appropriation among Produce Traders in Ghana
The literature on mobile phones and market relations across Africa primarily emphasizes their role in facilitating agricultural trading. Proponents of this view highlight the support the mobile phone provides to farmers and buyers in obtaining market information relating to supply and demand dynamics. However, these studies tend to gloss over the factors underpinning the facilitatory role, which for all intents and purposes are reduced to an elem…
Mapping the Web of Relations: Understanding Mobile Phone Appropriation among Produce Traders in Ghana
The literature on mobile phones and market relations across Africa primarily emphasizes their role in facilitating agricultural trading. Proponents of this view highlight the support the mobile phone provides to farmers and buyers in obtaining market information relating to supply and demand dynamics. However, these studies tend to gloss over the factors underpinning the facilitatory role, which for all intents and purposes are reduced to an elem…
The Role of Social Institutions in Retirement Planning Information Dissemination in Urban Ghana
Preparedness inadequacy for the retirement transition is one of the key reasons behind the need for planning information dissemination. The paper examines state and other corporate institutions’ role in retirement planning using qualitative data obtained from selected state and related institutions using the qualitative explorative approach. A cross-sectional exploratory design was used to investigate social institutions and how they shape retire…
Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)