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Browsing by Author "Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen"
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Nayager, T.; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Juta, 2005-03)The environment in which a business operates is not static. Intensifying global competition and rapid technological progress put pressure on business to change. Better quality and service and lower costs are no longer ...
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Urban, Boris; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Owen, Rina H. (Department of Human Resource Management, University of Johannesburg, 2008)Building on previous research on antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions, various measures were tested across different ethnic groups in South Africa. Factorial homogeneity is an important attribute for any scale intended ...
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Labuschagne, H.; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Unisa Press, 2012)Research was conducted at a selected metropolitan local government organisation in South Africa to determine whether the establishment of independent municipal entities (agencies) to deliver services had a positive effect ...
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Oosthuizen, Adele; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Botha, Melodi (University of Pretoria, Department of Business Management & Academic Entrepreneurship Society of South Africa (AcES), 2020-06-30)BACKGROUND : Despite calls by scholars for small business owners (SBOs) to seek external consultation from accountants, empirical work demonstrating the relationship between the frequency of various types of services ...
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Conducting a corporate entrepreneurial health audit in South African short term insurance business Groenewald, Darelle; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Journal of Contemporary Management, 2010)Corporate entrepreneurship is recognised as a potentially viable means of promoting and sustaining competitiveness and transforming businesses and industries into opportunities for value creating innovation. The purpose ...
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Pretorius, Marius; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2003-09)This paper discussed the role of an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and start-up culture to enhance economic development. It investigates the proposition that the South African culture is conducive to EO. Secondly, this ...
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Connolly, Aidan; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Unisa Press, 2016)This article explores, using a qualitative case study design, the role of entrepreneurship in the public sector in South Africa. A “private sector” framework through which to view a public sector organisation’s activities ...
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Snyman, Aletta Elizabeth; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (AOSIS, 2024-02)BACKGROUND: This study will elaborate on previous research investigating the relationship between project success (PS) (customer perception [CP], project characteristics [PC], project performance [PP], project team [PT]) ...
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Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Groenewald, Darelle (University of Johannesburg, Department of Business Management, 2007)PURPOSE: This paper focuses on a critical analysis of the influence of start-up factors in small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures in Gauteng, a province in South Africa. PROBLEM INVESTIGATED: Owing to the low ...
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Pretorius, Marius; Nieman, Gideon; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Emerald, 2005)PURPOSE : This paper focuses on the comparison of two models for entrepreneurial education with the aim of potential integration. At this juncture when entrepreneurial development is seen as the core contributor to enhance ...
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Bux, Sara; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-07-31)ORIENTATION : South Africa is currently facing a youth unemployment crisis. Confirmation of the problem was situated in our review of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Quarter 3, 2015. We found that the 15–24 years age ...
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Muller, C.; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (School of Management, Tshwane University of Technology, 2006)Growth is essential for any business to ensure survival and long term profitability. For the purposes of this study long term SME success is argued from a positive growth perspective. Crijns identified four key success ...
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Davies, C.; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Prof. Marthie Grobler, 2021)PURPOSE FOR THE STUDY : The links between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and business discontinuance are seldom researched. This article analyses EO and business discontinuance rates in the countries of Brazil, Russia, ...
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Davies, Clint E.; Moos, Menisha; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (AOSIS, 2023-11-13)ORIENTATION : Entrepreneurship education (EE) and entrepreneurship training (ET) programmes have boomed but many studies have questioned the degree of applied benefits realised from the training. RESEARCH PURPOSE : The ...
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Vogel, Adolf Johan; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (University of Johannesburg, Department of Business Management, 2008)PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to determine if the independent variables; location of an international assignment, the age of an expatriate, the duration of an assignment and the management level of an expatriate ...
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Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Groenewald, Darelle; Gantsho, Mandla Sizwe Vulindlela (Journal of Contemporary Management, 2009)PURPOSE: To determine how innovation and corporate entrepreneurship can be fostered in Development Finance Institutions (DFI) by means of an innovation and corporate entrepreneurship training programme. PROBLEM INVESTIGATED: ...
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Urban, Boris; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Barreira, J.D. (Journal of Contemporary Management, 2008)In Africa high-growth entrepreneurs are scarce, and in SA entrepreneurial activity is dominated by necessity entrepreneurship with low expectations of growth and job creation. The paper focuses on opportunity entrepreneurs ...
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Nomafu, Zukile; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Davies, Clint E. (AOSIS, 2023-07-20)ORIENTATION: Global policy attention has shifted from start-up companies to high-growth entities (HGEs), as these entities can innovate and scale up within a short timeframe. RESEARCH PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate ...
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Kapepa, Oliver; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-04)BACKGROUND: At the dawn of the 21st century, Zimbabwe started moving towards dangerous levels of the infamous hyperinflation trajectory that made management of businesses a nightmare. Many businesses failed. AIM: This ...
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Antonites, Alexander Josef; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences University of Pretoria, 2005-09)A generally accepted definition of an entrepreneur is an individual with the ability to realise a specific vision from virtually anything, a definite human creative action. A differentiating factor defining the true ...
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