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Browsing Business Management by Type "Article"
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(University of the Free State, 2022-12-08)Mining companies are responding to increasing pressure to conduct their operations responsibly by implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in their host communities. However, it has been argued that ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2010-11)Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies activity costs in an organisation. It assigns the cost of activity resources to generate the actual cost of products in order to eliminate unprofitable products ...
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(University of Johannesburg, Department of Business Management, 2010)PURPOSE: Owing to a shortage of South African research focusing on international strategic alliances, this study aimed to determine whether the advantages and pitfalls of international strategic alliances referred to in ...
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(OmniaScience, 2021-04-26)The importance of ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) has been lauded in the entrepreneurship discourse. Building on entrepreneurial orientation theory, this study seeks to understand family influence on the entrepreneurial ...
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(School of Accounting Sciences, University of Pretoria, 1998)The development and growth of listed firms during the past few decades has caused an ever-widening gap between ownership and management. The agency theory addresses this relationship between owners (shareholders) and the ...
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Analysing maximum monthly temperatures in South Africa for 45 years using functional data analysis (Asia University, Taiwan, 2020)The paper uses Functional Data Analysis (FDA) to explore space and time variation of monthly maximum temperature data of 16 locations in South Africa for the period 1965 - 2010 at intervals of 5 years. We explore monthly ...
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(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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(Greenleaf Publishing, 2015-09)Sound corporate governance is a key driver for sustainable business performance, particularly for companies in developing countries. Since the media fulfils an important function in developing discourse regarding the ...
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(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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(Academic Journals, 2011-02-04)Innovation is one of the characteristics that distinguish an entrepreneurial venture from one that is nonentrepreneurial. In a situation where undifferentiated mass production is the defining feature of the global coffee ...
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(Department of Business Management, University of Pretoria & Academic Entrepreneurship Society of South Africa (AcES), 2008)Many institutions embark on entrepreneurship education, as ultimately start-ups benefit economic growth; but institutions unfortunately lack tools and benchmarks for assessing the quality of their programmes. The uniqueness ...
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(College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa, 2006-08)Complementing the service vision in organisations leads to the development of best practice initiatives, often adopted by innovative firms in competitive industries and environments. Such initiatives are regarded as pivotal ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2019-05)BACKGROUND: Although many scholars focus their research efforts on predicting entrepreneurial intention, these scholars have not determined the bidirectional relationship between entrepreneurial intention and competencies. AIM: ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-02-21)BACKGROUND : Delay in cognition by management is likely to see a firm’s distress worsening and the turnaround potential of a firm eroded. This inertia and resistance to change are further likely to result in antecedents ...
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(Juta, 2004-06)This article focuses on the position that South African commercial banks adopt when evaluating an application for finance of new business ventures. The role and importance of the business plan in the decision-making process ...
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(Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, 2013)ORIENTATION : Business rescue has become a critical part of business strategy decision making, especially during economic downturns and recessions. Past legislation has generally supported creditor-friendly regimes, and ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2018-04-11)BACKGROUND : Sensemaking of the extreme vagaries and external considerations that influence decision-making and judgement during business rescue events (BREs) are currently sparse but details about evaluation criteria are ...
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(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2013)The potential of small businesses is inhibited by a cocktail of problems of which inaccessibility to finance is pre-eminent. This problem is linked to the lenders’ risk estimation, often based on financial indicators which ...
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(International Foundation for Research and Development, 2014-01)In a job-scarce environment, where unemployment is rife the need for fostering entrepreneurship especially among youth is a prime concern. This is arguably the case in South Africa, where despite a number of government-pioneered ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-08-20)BACKGROUND : There is a longstanding debate on whether the practice of coaching support is useful for entrepreneurs who lack the skills and assistance needed to make a success of their businesses. AIM : To gain a better ...
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