Munday, Monique; Humbani, Michael(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
The study aimed to determine the main factors that predicted users’ intention to continue using mobile food delivery apps during the COVID-19 pandemic. The moderating role of user experience was also explored. Data were ...
BACKGROUND : Nearly all countries have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and, therefore,
support children having access to their rights. However, only a small minority of children worldwide ...
We study the connection between global technology shocks (TS) and the crude oil market from 1880 to 2018. Our study utilizes newly constructed global TS datasets that cover OECD countries and 164 countries, while also ...
The literature on house price convergence largely relies on house price indices, based in an arbitrary year, rather than on actual price levels. This is essentially due to the scarcity of comparable house price level data. ...
Wiese, Melanie; Van der Westhuizen, Liezl-Marie(Elsevier, 2024-04)
Energy security and reliable supply are as important as transitioning to cleaner energy production systems. Emotions towards such energy policies and projects should be more constructively responded to by policymakers. We ...
Using monthly data for the G7 countries from 1973 to 2020, we study whether stock market bubbles help to forecast out-of-sample the realized volatility of oil price returns. We use the Multi-Scale Log-Periodic Power Law ...
This paper analyzes the degree of dynamic connectedness between energy and metal commodity prices in the pre and post-COVID-19 era, using the time-varying parameter vector autoregressive connectedness approach of Antonakakis ...
Dimes, Ruth; De Villiers, Charl Johannes(Elsevier, 2024-01)
Integrated Thinking, the management approach associated with Integrated Reporting, has been hailed as a way of improving organisational decision-making and internal communication, leading to sustainable value creation. Yet ...
This article analyzes the real interest rate transmission mechanism across the United States, Japan, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom over a period of more than 200 years. Based on a time-varying ...
PURPOSE : The primary focus of this study is to examine the distributional consequences of the widespread increase in prices. The fundamental question the study aims to address is whether the dynamics of income distribution ...
PURPOSE : Existing empirical evidence suggests that episodes of financial stress (crises) can act as driver of growth of inequality. Consequently, in this study, the authors explore the time-varying predictive power of an ...
We analyse the transmission mechanism of commodity price shocks in inflation targeting emerging economies. Using a panel vector autoregression, we find that for a commodity exporter, the shock causes a real exchange rate ...
Despite the increasing importance of environmental, social and
governance (ESG) factors, it is not fully understood whether
companies consider these factors when designing compensation
plans for their directors. This ...
BACKGROUND : Evaluation has often been associated with Northern paradigms in its formulation
and practice. It is extractive in nature and often a top-down approach that implies that those
who receive aid or interventions ...
PURPOSE : This study aimed to determine the motivations of a select group of South Africans in terms of their potential engagement with cultural tourism; more specifically, the study set out to show whether these motivations ...
China-Africa economic integration generally looks lucid, as evidenced by rising bilateral trade, as well as Chinese FDI, aid, and debt financing for infrastructure development in Africa. The engagement, however, appears ...
The multiple and overlapping crises faced by countries, regions, and the world appear unprecedented in their magnitude and complexity. Protracted conflicts continue and new ones emerge, fuelled by geopolitics and social, ...
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 ...
PURPOSE : Business rescue, as a mechanism to aid financially distressed companies in South Africa, has received considerable academic and practical recognition. However, the business rescue plan is an overlooked and, ...
We focus on computing the geopolitical risk index (GPRI) for Nigeria, the largest economy in
Africa. The country has faced crises, including Boko Haram insurgency, banditry, kidnapping,
EndSARS, and regional secession, ...