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Browsing by Supervisor "Marks, Jonathan"
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The war against poverty, inequality and unemployment is one of South Africa s greatest imperatives. The unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world and GDP is on a steady decline. It is widely accepted that ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)It is widely-accepted that to achieve sustainable economic development, South Africa needs to move towards sustained and efficient entrepreneurship. However, in informal settlements (townships), entrepreneurship is hindered ...
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Clarifying effectuation and causation : the role of regulatory focus and entrepreneurial orientation (University of Pretoria, 2020)The research article produced for this MBA research project heeds to the call for further clarification of the concepts of effectuation and causation within the broader entrepreneurship discourse. It does this by empirically ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)To date there has been significant research on the topic of financial distress prediction, due to its relevance to various stakeholders. Beaver (1966), Altman (1968) and Ohlson (1980) are generally regarded as the pioneers ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The township retail market in Gauteng contributes 10% to the GDP of the province, generated by informal small retail businesses. While their success is considered key for economic growth in South Africa, they are faced ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The research paper investigated contemporary issues in the knowledge transfer landscape within family businesses. The paper set out to determine the influence of contextual business factors on the transfer of tacit knowledge ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The field of entrepreneurship research offers differing theories regarding the underlying behaviours of entrepreneurs. These theoretical frameworks describe the behaviours and principal thought processes that entrepreneurs ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The study aimed to validate the applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior and to test its sufficiency within a contextual setting that has seemingly received limited prior focus. The sample comprised of 134 part-time ...
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Entrepreneurial orientation as a performance variable for performing and non - performing companies (University of Pretoria, 2013)Unlike other studies incorporating the traditional Hughes and Morgan (2007) entrepreneurial orientation (EO) scale, the current study accepted the challenge issued by Lyon, Lumpkin and Dess (2000) evaluating EO in a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Economic progress and development has been linked to constructive entrepreneurship; understanding the individual and institutional variables that support entrepreneurial endeavours is thus critical for positive economic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Small businesses are an indispensable conduit that allow for millions of people to enter the economic and social mainstream of a society by creating sustainable employment and decreasing poverty. This makes entrepreneurs ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The issues with traditional methods of education and the growing skills gap in several key knowledge areas like software engineering are well known. After the realisation that massive open online courses (MOOC) did not ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The literature shows that resistance and adoption factors differ and by solely focussing on the one and ignoring the other, diffusion of an innovation will be limited. Resistance factors have largely been ignored while ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The link between high Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and Performance is wellestablished. The objective of incubators is to drive entrepreneurship through supporting start-up businesses. The incubator manager is a key ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study explores performance differences between corporate owned and operated and franchised outlets in the Quick Service Restaurant industry. While studies have proven that there is a performance difference favouring ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Purpose – Extensive prior research has highlighted the correlates of basic need satisfaction and autonomous motivation in the workplace, where the satisfaction of such needs positively impacts a variety of work outcomes, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The Electronic Health Record (EHR) has the potential to promote understanding or awareness of healthcare knowledge among patients and healthcare providers to facilitate collaboration between various key stakeholders to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The study seeks to explain how sustainable entrepreneurship occurs in a resource constrained setting. This is important as it improves our understanding of how entrepreneurs respond to adversity and develop opportunities ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Entrepreneurs have to constantly make decisions about the various opportunities available to them. Bad decisions can lead to the failure of a business while good decisions will enable the business to grow and make a positive ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Research on entrepreneurial learning tends to focus on formal environments while entrepreneurs typically learn in non-formal environments such as business incubators. Despite this, incubators are rarely designed with ...
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