RONALD EBENEZER ESSEL

@ucc.edu.gh

Tutor, College of Distance Education (CoDE), Unit of Business Programmes, Cape Coast, Ghana
University of Cape Coast (UCC), College of Distance Education (CoDE)



                    

https://researchid.co/esselronald

Ronald Ebenezer Essel is a Tutor in Finance at the University of Cape Coast, College of Distance Education, Unit of Business programmes, Ghana. He holds an M. Phil finance and a B.Sc. (Admin) banking and finance degrees, from the University of Ghana Business School. Ronald was a Credit Analyst at Republic Bank Ltd and Prudential Bank Limited for six years. He also worked with theSOFTtribe Limited for a year as a software implementation/support officer. Ronald’s research interest is in finance/economics (financial markets developments, FDI and growth, TQM and firm performance, banking and international trade, gender based violence issues in Africa) and has a number of research publications to his credit.

EDUCATION

Period: July 2015
Institution: University of Ghana, Legon
Degree: M. Phil (Finance)
Modules: 1. Advance Corporate Finance & Investment, 2. Financial Economics, 3. Financial Derivatives, 4. Development Economics for Finance, 5. Economics for Business, 6. Econometrics for Finance, 7. Research Design & Qualitative Techniques, 8. Multivariate Data Analysis, 9. Business Information Systems & 10. Business Strategy.
Thesis: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Productivity Growth of Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms. Now published in International Journal

2. Period: May 2004
Institution: University of Ghana, Legon
Degree: BSc. (Admin) Banking & Finance Option: 2nd Class (honours) upper division

3. Period: December 1998
Institution: Adisadel College, Cape Coast.
Certificate: Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE)
Electives: Economics, Mathematics (Elective) & Geography

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Finance/Economics in Africa with specific interest in financial markets developments, FDI and growth, TQM and firm performance, banking and international trade, gender based violence issues in Africa

91

Scholar Citations

7

Scholar h-index

3

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Dividend Policy–Performance Linkages: The Moderating Role of Board Structure Elements in an Emerging Economy
    RE Essel
    Jindal Journal of Business Research 13 (2), 143-161 2024

  • TAX EVASION DETERMINANTS AND EFFECT IN URBAN GHANA: THE CASE OF LEDZOKUKU MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY
    RE Essel
    Public Administration Quarterly, 1-23 2024

  • Relationship Marketing Practices and Export Performance of SMEs in an Emerging Economy: A Mediation Analysis
    RE Essel
    Journal of Relationship Marketing, 1-40 2024

  • The Effect of Capital Structure on Corporate Performance: Panel Empirical Evidence of an Emerging Capital Market
    RE Essel
    Journal of African Business 25 (2), 224-263 2024

  • Corporate Social Responsibility—Performance Nexus: The Moderating Role of Board Size, Board Independence and Board Gender Diversity in Ghana
    RE Essel
    IIMS Journal of Management Science 14 (2), 1-34 2023

  • Foreign direct investment, technological spillover, and total factor productivity growth in Ghana
    RE Essel
    SN Business & Economics 3 (8), 144 2023

  • The Effect of Capital Structure on Corporate Performance in Ghana
    RE Essel
    Ghanaian Journal of Economics 10 (1), 94-116 2022

  • Assessing the moderating role of trialability and perceived risk of E-Banking adoption in an emerging economy
    RE Essel
    Vision, 09722629221106260 2022

  • Assessing Materials Management Practices Effect on Firm’s Performance in Ghana Using Dominance Analysis: Evidence from a Listed Company
    RE Essel
    Journal of Operations and Strategic Planning 4 (2), 174-201 2021

  • The impact of working capital management on the performance of listed firms: evidence of an emerging economy
    R Essel, J Brobbey
    International Journal of Industrial Management 12, 389-407 2021

  • SMEs corporate governance mechanisms and business performance: Evidence of an emerging economy
    R Essel, E Addo
    Journal of Governance and Integrity 5 (1), 155-169 2021

  • Investigation of the effect of service quality (SQ) on patient satisfaction (PS) in Ghana using the SERVQUAl model: the case of greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH)
    R Essel
    İşletme Ekonomi ve Ynetim Araştırmaları Dergisi 4 (2), 240-260 2021

  • Service Quality (SQ) and Patients Satisfaction (PS) in Ghana: The Case of Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH)
    RE Essel
     2020

  • The effects of materials Management Practices on Firm Performance in Ghana: Evidence from a listed company
    RE Essel
    Research Square 5 (2), 1-24 2020

  • Assessing total quality management (TQM) effect on hospital performance in Ghana using a non-probabilistic approach: The case of Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH)
    RE Essel
    Metamorphosis 19 (1), 29-41 2020

  • Foreign direct investment and productivity growth of Ghanaian manufacturing firms
    R Essel
    Int J Sci Basic Appl Res (IJSBAR) 43 (2), 1-32 2019

  • Violence against Women in Ghana: The Interventions by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
    P Essel, R Essel

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The Effect of Capital Structure on Corporate Performance: Panel Empirical Evidence of an Emerging Capital Market
    RE Essel
    Journal of African Business 25 (2), 224-263 2024
    Citations: 16

  • The impact of working capital management on the performance of listed firms: evidence of an emerging economy
    R Essel, J Brobbey
    International Journal of Industrial Management 12, 389-407 2021
    Citations: 14

  • Assessing total quality management (TQM) effect on hospital performance in Ghana using a non-probabilistic approach: The case of Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH)
    RE Essel
    Metamorphosis 19 (1), 29-41 2020
    Citations: 13

  • Assessing Materials Management Practices Effect on Firm’s Performance in Ghana Using Dominance Analysis: Evidence from a Listed Company
    RE Essel
    Journal of Operations and Strategic Planning 4 (2), 174-201 2021
    Citations: 9

  • SMEs corporate governance mechanisms and business performance: Evidence of an emerging economy
    R Essel, E Addo
    Journal of Governance and Integrity 5 (1), 155-169 2021
    Citations: 8

  • Assessing the moderating role of trialability and perceived risk of E-Banking adoption in an emerging economy
    RE Essel
    Vision, 09722629221106260 2022
    Citations: 7

  • Investigation of the effect of service quality (SQ) on patient satisfaction (PS) in Ghana using the SERVQUAl model: the case of greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH)
    R Essel
    İşletme Ekonomi ve Ynetim Araştırmaları Dergisi 4 (2), 240-260 2021
    Citations: 7

  • Foreign direct investment, technological spillover, and total factor productivity growth in Ghana
    RE Essel
    SN Business & Economics 3 (8), 144 2023
    Citations: 6

  • The effects of materials Management Practices on Firm Performance in Ghana: Evidence from a listed company
    RE Essel
    Research Square 5 (2), 1-24 2020
    Citations: 6

  • Relationship Marketing Practices and Export Performance of SMEs in an Emerging Economy: A Mediation Analysis
    RE Essel
    Journal of Relationship Marketing, 1-40 2024
    Citations: 1

  • Corporate Social Responsibility—Performance Nexus: The Moderating Role of Board Size, Board Independence and Board Gender Diversity in Ghana
    RE Essel
    IIMS Journal of Management Science 14 (2), 1-34 2023
    Citations: 1

  • Service Quality (SQ) and Patients Satisfaction (PS) in Ghana: The Case of Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH)
    RE Essel
     2020
    Citations: 1

  • Foreign direct investment and productivity growth of Ghanaian manufacturing firms
    R Essel
    Int J Sci Basic Appl Res (IJSBAR) 43 (2), 1-32 2019
    Citations: 1

  • Violence against Women in Ghana: The Interventions by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
    P Essel, R Essel
    Citations: 1

Publications

1. Essel, Ronald (2020). ‘‘Assessing Total Quality Management (TQM) Effect on Hospital Performance in Ghana Using a Non-Probabilistic Approach: The Case of Greater Accra General Hospital (GARH). Metamorphosis: A management Journal, 19 (1), 29-41. . SAGE Publications INC.
2. Essel, Ronald (2019). ‘‘Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Productivity Growth of Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms’’, International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR)’, , No.2, .
3. Essel, Patricia and Essel, Ronald (2019). ‘‘Violence against Women in Ghana: Interventions by Non-Governmental Organisations”, Munich, Germany. Grin Verlag. Published Online – ISSN 9783346082329.

CONSULTANCY

1. Provided consultancy services for Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) Ghana, to support the three districts assemblies in the Eastern Region (Akwapem North, Akwapem South and Okere) to develop and adopt gender policies performed in May 2019 under the project “Influencing Local Development through Utilisation of Data and Gender Mainstreaming” with sponsorship from STAR Ghana and funding from DANIDA, UKAID/DFIS and the European Union.