DIRECTOR: Dr. Abena Yeboah Banin
AIM/OUTCOME
WP2 addresses the nature of communicative interactions between stakeholders within Tema Port and how this affects competitiveness. We adopt a view of communication as exchange, rather than dissemination, of information between individuals and entities within and across organisations and are guided by extant allusions, yet unexplored, to communication as a critical success factor in organizations broadly and Ports in particular. We will deepen our findings by focusing on a gender-aware stance to our inquiry in order to explore gendered undertones.
HOW (METHODOLOGY):
In this work package we use three modes of inquiry:
- Formative interviews with key individuals in the Tema Port communication machinery. This method may be complemented by ethnographic visits to hub meetings to help streamline our thinking during instrument development. Data from this will be coded thematically and used to generate items for construct measurement.
- Survey of members of the hubs identified in PEPP1. Participants include freight forwarders, bus drivers, clearance agents, dockworkers, journalists, shipping line, government agencies, and entrepreneurs. Data will be analyzed using a mix of descriptive and inferential statistics (regressions and structural equation models)
- Key informant interviews (our close-out study). This will be used to explore the reasons behind findings from the survey and fill in any gaps left in it. The analysis is thematically guided by steps proposed by Emerson, Fretz and Shaw (2011)
