One of the primary missions of universities is the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Consequently, doctoral programs globally focus on how to train students to do quality research that could be published in reputable and high-quality journals. However, the high-quality and leading journals in all areas of business have low acceptance rates. This has led to an interest in how to increase the quality of papers that are submitted for publication in high-quality journals in business. This workshop will focus on presenting a set of guidelines for writing one part of the paper – the introduction. This is because the introduction is one of the most important parts of the paper. It also helps to position the paper in such a way that the contribution is clearly articulated.

Moses Acquaah Bio

Dr. Moses Acquaah is a Professor and Director of the PhD program in Business Administration and former Head of the Department of Management in the Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), and a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow. Dr. Acquaah received his PhD in Organizations and Strategic Management from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He has an MA in Economics and an MBA from Simon Fraser University, Canada, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a BA in Social Sciences (Economics and Geography) from the University of Science and Technology, Ghana. His current research focuses on strategic management, international management, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and family businesses in emerging economies.  

Dr. Acquaah has published over 80 articles in several internationally recognized journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Some of the journals include the Strategic Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Business Research, Strategic Organization, Journal of International Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Business Review, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Africa Journal of Management and Journal of Family Business Strategy.  

He is the President of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Business, Associate Editor at the Journal of Business Research, and a Consulting Editor at the Journal of Comparative International Management.  Dr. Acquaah is the Editor of the one of the foremost books on family business in Africa entitled, Family Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa: Behavioral and Strategic Perspectives published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of several journals.  

Dr. Acquaah’s work has won competitive research grants from organizations such as the Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation, USA; the Family Owned Business Institute (FOBI), USA; Emerald Publishing Group, U.K.; and the Network for Business Sustainability, South Africa. Dr. Acquaah also served as the Vice-President for Membership, Academy of African Business and Development (AABD), from 2011-2016, and the Vice President and Treasurer of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM). He was the Academy of Management’s Strategic Management (formerly Business Policy and Strategy) Division’s Global Representative for Africa from 2011-2013.