Muhammed Abdulai
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammed Abdulai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammed |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdulai |
| SIGNATURE | ABDULAI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1356-4548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Migration, Mobility and the Formation of In-Migrants’ Leadership among Dagombas in Ghana’s Capital City
University culture, communication, learning and pedagogy in international student exchange programme
Exploring the Effects of Social Media on Marriages in Northern Ghana
Contemporary Mobility Decisions of International and Danish Students in Denmark Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Society and organizational leadership
Toxic leadership phenomenon persists in many institutions at the expense of organisational progress and performance. This article explores the centrality of sociocultural values in leadership formation in Ghanaian organisations. Through the lens of the constructivist paradigm and ethnomethodology research design, fifteen (15) in-depth interviews were analysed. The study revealed that society’s underlying sociocultural values systems fundamentally…
Reflections on migratory and mobility patterns and labour market security of Ghanaian youth amidst the Covid-19 crisis
This article examines the changing migratory and mobility patterns of Ghanaian youth during the covid-19 pandemic using mixed methods research design. The study reveals that the patterns of migration, mobility and labor market security of the Ghanaian youth were adversely affected by the covid-19 pandemic. The study highlighted that due to the covid-19 pandemic, some Ghanaian youth were not able to attend job or promotion interviews, secure jobs …
Gender empowerment and market access in Northern Ghana
Establishing policy to ensure gender equity in market access and price transmission is critical, however, empirical research to feed the policy is limited. This research examines participants of Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods Transformation (RESULT) Project access to agricultural market based on a gender and analyse price transmission from the producers' market to the consumers' markets and vice versa. Secondary data collected from RESULT …
International Student Mobility and Transformative Intercultural Learning in Estonia and Denmark
Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policies on internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark are well crafted, the value that international graduates add to the learning environment and culture are hardly explored. Adopting a phenomenological approach, this study aims to describe transformative intercultural learning with…
Contemporary Mobility Decisions of African International Graduates in Estonia
International students' mobility and value added through internationalization of higher education in Estonia and Denmark
Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policy of internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark is well crafted in the policy and academic domains, the value additions international graduates add to the learning environments and cultures are hardly explored. This study aims at describing the value added through IoHE in Estonia…
Cultural barriers and enablers of integrating educational migrants from the Global South
Culture and International Volunteerism
Communication and Social Interaction across Cultures
Using a constructivist epistemology, this paper explores the cross-cultural learning experiences of exchange students from Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in Germany and the University for Development Studies in Ghana. The findings reveal differences in the students’ commitment to agreements, tasks and time; while the German students have a high commitment to time awareness -- reporting to lectures and other meetings on time …
Migration, Mobility, and Intercultural Learning in Study Abroad Programs
Exploring dialectal variations on quality health communication and healthcare delivery in the Sissala District of Ghana
This article explores the effects of dialectal variations on quality health communication and healthcare delivery using ethnomethodology. The study revealed that healthcare providers and patients in the Sissala District of Ghana experienced significant difficulties in communicating health needs: misinterpretations and miscommunication characterised the interactions between patients and providers due to dialectal variations and cultural difference…
Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and Its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana
The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media workers has become a subject of discussion among academic researchers and general audiences. It is against this background that this article examines media …
Assessment of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme in Karaga district, Ghana
This article assesses the contribution of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in reducing rural poverty in the Karaga district of Northern Ghana, using a mixed research design to compare the livelihoods of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. It concludes that the programme is contributing to poverty reduction among the poor and vulnerable, and recommends that school children benefiting from LEAP should be exempted from pa…
Communicating across cultures in multinational Ibis West Africa
Merging Cultures in International Mergers and Acquisition - A Case Study of Lenovo’s Acquisition of IBM PC Division
This article investigates how the leadership of Lenovo and IBM PC Division integrated their corporate cultures after Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM PC Division. The study identified some post-acquisition cultural integration challenges between Lenovo and IBM PC Division such as: Language and communication differences, power distance, different leadership and managerial styles and difficulties in socializing Lenovo’s corporate culture and IBN PC’s co…
Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and Its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana
The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media workers has become a subject of discussion among academic researchers and general audiences. It is against this background that this article examines media …
Assessment of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme in Karaga district, Ghana
This article assesses the contribution of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in reducing rural poverty in the Karaga district of Northern Ghana, using a mixed research design to compare the livelihoods of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. It concludes that the programme is contributing to poverty reduction among the poor and vulnerable, and recommends that school children benefiting from LEAP should be exempted from pa…
Exploring dialectal variations on quality health communication and healthcare delivery in the Sissala District of Ghana
This article explores the effects of dialectal variations on quality health communication and healthcare delivery using ethnomethodology. The study revealed that healthcare providers and patients in the Sissala District of Ghana experienced significant difficulties in communicating health needs: misinterpretations and miscommunication characterised the interactions between patients and providers due to dialectal variations and cultural difference…
Communicating across cultures in multinational Ibis West Africa
Merging Cultures in International Mergers and Acquisition - A Case Study of Lenovo’s Acquisition of IBM PC Division
This article investigates how the leadership of Lenovo and IBM PC Division integrated their corporate cultures after Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM PC Division. The study identified some post-acquisition cultural integration challenges between Lenovo and IBM PC Division such as: Language and communication differences, power distance, different leadership and managerial styles and difficulties in socializing Lenovo’s corporate culture and IBN PC’s co…
Communicating across cultures in multinational Ibis West Africa
Migration, Mobility, and Intercultural Learning in Study Abroad Programs
Exploring dialectal variations on quality health communication and healthcare delivery in the Sissala District of Ghana
This article explores the effects of dialectal variations on quality health communication and healthcare delivery using ethnomethodology. The study revealed that healthcare providers and patients in the Sissala District of Ghana experienced significant difficulties in communicating health needs: misinterpretations and miscommunication characterised the interactions between patients and providers due to dialectal variations and cultural difference…
Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and Its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana
The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media workers has become a subject of discussion among academic researchers and general audiences. It is against this background that this article examines media …
Assessment of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme in Karaga district, Ghana
This article assesses the contribution of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in reducing rural poverty in the Karaga district of Northern Ghana, using a mixed research design to compare the livelihoods of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. It concludes that the programme is contributing to poverty reduction among the poor and vulnerable, and recommends that school children benefiting from LEAP should be exempted from pa…
Culture and International Volunteerism
Communication and Social Interaction across Cultures
Using a constructivist epistemology, this paper explores the cross-cultural learning experiences of exchange students from Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in Germany and the University for Development Studies in Ghana. The findings reveal differences in the students’ commitment to agreements, tasks and time; while the German students have a high commitment to time awareness -- reporting to lectures and other meetings on time …
Contemporary Mobility Decisions of African International Graduates in Estonia
International students' mobility and value added through internationalization of higher education in Estonia and Denmark
Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policy of internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark is well crafted in the policy and academic domains, the value additions international graduates add to the learning environments and cultures are hardly explored. This study aims at describing the value added through IoHE in Estonia…
Cultural barriers and enablers of integrating educational migrants from the Global South
International Student Mobility and Transformative Intercultural Learning in Estonia and Denmark
Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policies on internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark are well crafted, the value that international graduates add to the learning environment and culture are hardly explored. Adopting a phenomenological approach, this study aims to describe transformative intercultural learning with…
Reflections on migratory and mobility patterns and labour market security of Ghanaian youth amidst the Covid-19 crisis
This article examines the changing migratory and mobility patterns of Ghanaian youth during the covid-19 pandemic using mixed methods research design. The study reveals that the patterns of migration, mobility and labor market security of the Ghanaian youth were adversely affected by the covid-19 pandemic. The study highlighted that due to the covid-19 pandemic, some Ghanaian youth were not able to attend job or promotion interviews, secure jobs …
Gender empowerment and market access in Northern Ghana
Establishing policy to ensure gender equity in market access and price transmission is critical, however, empirical research to feed the policy is limited. This research examines participants of Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods Transformation (RESULT) Project access to agricultural market based on a gender and analyse price transmission from the producers' market to the consumers' markets and vice versa. Secondary data collected from RESULT …
Contemporary Mobility Decisions of International and Danish Students in Denmark Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Society and organizational leadership
Toxic leadership phenomenon persists in many institutions at the expense of organisational progress and performance. This article explores the centrality of sociocultural values in leadership formation in Ghanaian organisations. Through the lens of the constructivist paradigm and ethnomethodology research design, fifteen (15) in-depth interviews were analysed. The study revealed that society’s underlying sociocultural values systems fundamentally…
University culture, communication, learning and pedagogy in international student exchange programme
Exploring the Effects of Social Media on Marriages in Northern Ghana
Migration, Mobility and the Formation of In-Migrants’ Leadership among Dagombas in Ghana’s Capital City
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Business (6 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Intercultural communication (4 works)