2026 Yaw A. Debrah: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	35	2189	2058	347	315	125	6224

Overview

Yaw A. Debrah is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Strategy and Management, Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main topics of Debrah's research focus on Corporate Finance and Governance, Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, Socioeconomic Development in the MENA region, Natural Resources and Economic Development, Human Resource and Talent Management, and Employment and Welfare Studies.

Coauthor collaboration is notable in Debrah's publications, with frequent partnerships involving:

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah
Richard B. Nyuur
Majed Bin Othayman
John Mulyata
Abdulrahim Meshari

Debrah has published numerous articles in recognized journals, with repeated contributions to venues such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Multinational Corporation Strategy, and SSRN Electronic Journal. Other publication venues include the British Journal of Management and the International Journal of Engineering Business Management.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Debrah include:

Institutional Voids, Economic Adversity and Inter-firm Cooperation in an Emerging Market: The Mediating Role of Government R&D Support, 2020, British Journal of Management
Diaspora entrepreneurs' push and pull institutional factors for investing in Africa: Insights from African returnees from the United Kingdom, 2020, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
The challenges confronting the training needs assessment in Saudi Arabian higher education, 2022, International Journal of Engineering Business Management
Greening aviation in era of COVID-19: Towards conceptualizing and operationalizing decarbonization, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
Technology strategies in emerging economies: Emerging issues, challenges and new research agenda, 2021, Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Best Publications

Antecedents and outcomes of abusive supervision: test of a trickle-down model.

Samuel Aryee;Zhen Xiong Chen;Li-Yun Sun;Yaw A. Debrah

1388
Citations
Abusive Supervision and Contextual Performance: The Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion and the Moderating Role of Work Unit Structure

Samuel Aryee;Li-Yun Sun;Zhen Xiong George Chen;Yaw A. Debrah

523
Citations
Human Resource Management in Developing Countries

Pawan S. Budhwar;Yaw A. Debrah

409
Citations
Managing Human Resources in Africa

Ken Kamoche;Yaw Debrah;Frank Horwitz;Gerry Nkombo Muuka

232
Citations
Rethinking comparative and cross-national human resource management research

Pawan S. Budhwar;Yaw A. Debrah

224
Citations
Human Capital and FDI Inflow: An Assessment of the African Case

Emmanuel A. Cleeve;Yaw Debrah;Zelealem Yiheyis

221
Citations
Promoting the informal sector as a source of gainful employment in developing countries: insights from Ghana

Yaw A. Debrah

167
Citations
Future research on human resource management systems in Asia

Pawan Budhwar;Yaw A. Debrah

166
Citations
A cross-cultural application of a career planning model

Samuel Aryee;Yaw A. Debrah

160
Citations
The potential for technology and knowledge transfers between foreign and local firms: A study of the construction industry in Ghana

Ellis L.C. Osabutey;Karen Williams;Yaw A. Debrah

154
Citations
Factors influencing the culture of a construction project organisation: An empirical investigation

N. A. Ankrah;David Proverbs;Y. Debrah

146
Citations
Complementarity or competition: the development of human resources in a South-East Asian Growth Triangle: Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

Yaw A. Debrah;Ian McGovern;Pawan Budhwar

136
Citations
The Protracted Collapse of Ghana Airways: Lessons in Organizational Failure:

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah;Yaw A. Debrah

135
Citations
Human resource development of professionals in an emerging economy: the case of the Tanzanian construction industry

Yaw A. Debrah;George Ofori

126
Citations
Flexibility, labour subcontracting and HRM in the construction industry in Singapore: can the system be refined?

Yaw A. Debrah;George Ofori

92
Citations
Human resource development in the Sultanate of Oman

Pawan S. Budhwar;Saud Al-Yahmadi;Yaw Debrah

90
Citations
Subcontracting, Foreign Workers and Job Safety in the Singapore Construction Industry

Yaw A. Debrah;George Ofori

87
Citations
Air Afrique: the demise of a continental icon

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah;Yaw A. Debrah

87
Citations
Human resource management in hotels.

Alan R Nankervis;Yaw Debrah

81
Citations
The evolution of alliances in the global airline industry: A review of the African experience

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah;Yaw A. Debrah

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah Durham University

Pawan Budhwar Aston University

George Ofori London South Bank University

Samuel Aryee University of Surrey

Nathaniel Boso Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

David Proverbs Birmingham City University

Zhen Xiong Chen Australian National University

Samuel Adomako University of Birmingham

Catherine J. Robinson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Wantao Yu University of Roehampton

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