How do high-performing organizations define their mission in Ghana?

High performing firms have been associated with “quality” mission statements defined by the choice of components. In an attempt to extend our knowledge in order to give more legitimacy to these claims and also provide more local and relevant reference for Ghana-based firms, the purpose of this paper is to investigate, through a component analysis, how high-performing Ghana-based firms define their mission. This is the first attempt to study how high-performing Ghana-based firms define their mission and hence is a major contribution to the scarce if not non-existent Africa-specific studies. It also provides a more prescriptive approach to crafting mission statements by proposing hierarchies of the components of mission statements.