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Entrepreneurship Factor in Institutional Development: A Case Study of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)

Entrepreneurship Factor in Institutional Development: A Case Study of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)

Eva Esther Shalin Ebenezer, Timothy W. Y. A. Adei
ISBN13: 9781466675339|ISBN10: 1466675330|EISBN13: 9781466675346
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7533-9.ch003
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Ebenezer, Eva Esther Shalin, and Timothy W. Y. A. Adei. "Entrepreneurship Factor in Institutional Development: A Case Study of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)." Comparative Case Studies on Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries, edited by Joseph Ofori-Dankwa and Kwame Boasiako Omane-Antwi, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 50-63. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7533-9.ch003

APA

Ebenezer, E. E. & Adei, T. W. (2015). Entrepreneurship Factor in Institutional Development: A Case Study of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). In J. Ofori-Dankwa & K. Omane-Antwi (Eds.), Comparative Case Studies on Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries (pp. 50-63). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7533-9.ch003

Chicago

Ebenezer, Eva Esther Shalin, and Timothy W. Y. A. Adei. "Entrepreneurship Factor in Institutional Development: A Case Study of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)." In Comparative Case Studies on Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries, edited by Joseph Ofori-Dankwa and Kwame Boasiako Omane-Antwi, 50-63. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7533-9.ch003

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Abstract

In 2000, The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) was a government subvented institution on the verge of collapse and threatened by privatization. In less than a decade, GIMPA has achieved over a 2000% increase in turnover and become the second university in Africa to meet the conditions for membership in the Association of African Business Schools. Now ranked among the top business schools in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is the only public university in Ghana that is self-financed. It has built the largest business school faculty in the country and become the first institution in Ghana to run degree top-up programmes for HND holders. What made GIMPA so unique, especially in this area of institutional development? This chapter tries to unearth the success story from a researcher's point of view and unveil the importance of entrepreneurship in institutional transformation.

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