• Integrating ecosystems : the synergistic effects of digital innovation hubs on start-up growth 

  Gumbo, Edwell; Moos, Menisha (AOSIS, 2024-09-25)

  BACKGROUND : South Africa faces significant socio-economic challenges, with unemployment rate. This highlights the need for economic strategies to generate employment, and start-ups are crucial in this context, as they ...
• Forecasting U.S. recessions using over 150 years of data : stock-market moments versus oil-market moments 

  Bouri, Elie; Gupta, Rangan; Pierdzioch, Christian; Polat, Onur (Elsevier, 2024-11)

  Using monthly data from 1871 to 2024 and logistic models with shrinkage estimators, we compare the contribution of stock and oil-market moments (returns, volatility, skewness, and kurtosis) to the accuracy of out-of-sample ...
• Realized stock market volatility of the United States : the role of employee sentiment 

  Gupta, Rangan; Hall, Savanah; Pierdzioch, Christian (World Scientific Publishing, 2024-06)

  Using data for the United States (US) stock market covering the sample period from 2008:06 to 2020:12, we study the incremental predictive value of employee sentiment for the realized volatility of stock returns. In doing ...
• Technological shocks and stock market volatility over a century 

  Salisu, Afees A.; Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2024-12)

  This paper provides a novel perspective on the innovation-stock market nexus by examining the predictive relationship between technological shocks and stock market volatility using data over a period of more than 140 years. ...
• The impact of the 2021 civil unrest on the recurrent property tax in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province 

  Channing, Janet; Franzsen, R.C.D. (Riel) (International Association of Assessing Officers, 2023)

  The devastating civil unrest experienced in July 2021 in especially KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, not only affected more than 40,000 businesses, but also had a direct impact on the collection and administration of the ...
• Political donations and tax deductions in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia 

  Marriott, Lisa; Rashbrooke, Max (Journal of Australian Taxation Pty Ltd, 2023)

  This study examines the different approaches to tax concessions for political donations in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). In Australia, a tax deduction may be claimed for a moderate donation to a political ...
• Exploring the applicability of effectuation theory in distressed venture environments 

  Madigoe, Thabang; Pretorius, Marius (AOSIS, 2024-10)

  ORIENTATION: Once appointed, business rescue practitioners and turnaround professionals are faced with critical decision making of whether a distressed venture contains an opportunity as judged by reasonable prospect. RESEARCH ...
• The effect of income on the relationship between travel motives and destination choices 

  Struwig, Jare; Du Preez, Elizabeth Ann (AOSIS, 2024-05-23)

  BACKGROUND : Studies investigating the relationship between travel motivations and destination choice are often unidimensional and hierarchical, presenting limited perspectives on traveller groups with diverse socioeconomic ...
• Environmental, social and governance and financial performance nexus in South African listed firms 

  Matemane, Matwale Reon; Msomi, Thabiso; Ngundu, Marvellous (AOSIS, 2024-04-30)

  BACKGROUND : Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have become topical in recent years because of climate change existential threat to humanity. There is, however, a limited understanding of how the firm’s ...
• Editorial : Intersectional inequalities in work and employment : advances, challenges and renewed possibilities 

  Rodriguez, Jenny K.; Guenther, Elisabeth A.; Nkomo, Stella M., 1947-; Mandiola, Marcela (Frontiers Media, 2024-06)

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• Healthcare access and deprivation in low-income urban households 

  Mazenda, Adrino; Lubinga, Moses Herbert (Springer, 2024-10)

  The financial situation of households is related to their access to healthcare and their level of deprivation. This study analysed the factors that influence access to healthcare among low-income households in Gauteng, ...
• Examining potential health gains arising from reduced risk consumption in South Africa via the PRIME model 

  Koch, Steven F. (Springer, 2024-07)

  OBJECTIVES : Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for over 30% of disability-adjusted life years in South Africa. In this research, we offer an estimate of the potential reduction in NCD incidence that would arise ...
• Raising the future together : assessing the impact of the Chics program on primary caregivers in low-income daycares 

  Van der Merwe, Antoinette; Senyolo, Catherine; Van Niekerk, Attie (Elsevier, 2024-12)

  Parental involvement in a child's school is crucial during early childhood, a critical period for skill-forming and neurodevelopment. However, the impact of early childhood programs on parents is understudied. This study ...
• Stock market volatility and multi-scale positive and negative bubbles 

  Gupta, Rangan; Nel, Jacobus; Nielsen, Joshua; Pierdzioch, Christian (Elsevier, 2025-01)

  We study whether booms and busts in the stock market of the United States (US) drives its volatility. Given this, first, we employ the Multi-Scale Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity Confidence Indicator (MS-LPPLS-CI) ...
• Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda 

  Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (Cambridge University Press, 2023-06)

  The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda. Using a regression discontinuity analysis on neighboring ethnic homelands with different levels of ...
• Employee engagement, telecommuting propensity, and employee performance in the virtual workplace 

  Ravhudzulo, Hangwani Raymond; Eresia-Eke, Chukuakadibia E. (Taylor and Francis, 2024-11-01)

  The COVID-19 pandemic catalysed a monumental shift in the traditional workplace, compelling organisations worldwide to rapidly embrace telecommuting. This unplanned experiment has challenged assumptions about productivity ...
• On contradiction et al. : overcoming the crisis of government in South Africa 

  Chipkin, Ivor (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2024-03)

  This article describes five weaknesses in the organisation of government that taken together are responsible for what it calls the crisis of government. It then discusses a package of legislative and policy reforms that ...
• Millennials as potential creative tourists in South Africa : a CHAID approach to market segmentation 

  Douglas, Anneli; Hoogendoorn, Gijsbert; Richards, Greg (Routledge, 2024)

  Creative tourism has recently emerged as an important area of tourism development, particularly in the Global North. In the Global South, studies of the profile of creative tourists and their motives for partaking in ...
• Can nudging with descriptive norms help internal auditors stop runaway information systems projects? 

  Nuijten, Arno L.P; Verbraak-Kolevska, Violeta; Keil, Mark (Springer, 2024)

  Although internal auditors are expected to play an important role in corporate governance, they are not always effective in bringing their message to management’s attention when they observe that a risky course of action ...
• Empirical analysis of the effect of institutional governance indicators on climate financing 

  Lubinga, Moses Herbert; Mazenda, Adrino (MDPI, 2024-02)

  Sustainable Development Goal 13 echoes the fact that all countries must make urgent and stringent efforts to mitigate against and adapt to climate change and its associated impacts. Climate financing is one of the key ...

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