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Research Articles (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS))
The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) is a leading business school in the heart of Illovo, Johannesburg, close to the Sandton business hub. Academic programmes as well as a wide range of executive courses are availble and can be custom-designed to suit specific company needs.
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(Wiley, 2024-07)Many established clothing brands did not survive the global COVID-19 pandemic, while some unexpectedly departed from countries such as South Africa which is a gateway for clothing imports in Africa. This raised questions ...
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(Emerald, 2025)PURPOSE : The paper explores the ramifications of rising costs of living on accounting fraud (ACF) as well as how it disrupts the effect of staff bonding (SB) on ACF tendencies. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : Data were ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-09)In recent years, the international entrepreneurial behaviors of African firms have garnered considerable attention within the global business context. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, African firms are ...
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(Centre for Business & Economic Research, 2024-05)This study aims to perform a comparative analysis of the influence of township entrepreneurship on unemployment and economic development among the Francophone and Anglophone countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The study ...
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(Emerald, 2024-08)PURPOSE – Large supermarket chains are adopting customer-service robots to improve service delivery in physical stores. Successful deployment of these robots depends on shoppers’ willingness to interact with them, requiring ...
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(Narotama University, 2024-01)PURPOSE : This study interrogates the interfering role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between the effectual actions of small businesses and their performance. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : Structured ...
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Conceptualising franchise success and failure in the South African quick service restaurant sector (Africa Journals, 2024)The ability of a franchisor to sustain a productive working relationship with its franchisees over time has been shown to ensure the continued success of the franchise system. This involves developing a strong and mutually ...
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(World Scientific Publishing, 2024-06)The study’s purpose is to examine the effect of experiential learning on business performance through the mediating role of entrepreneurial competencies. Quantitative research was conducted with 123 entrepreneurs in the ...
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(Sage, 2024-10)The existing research has focused on the role of traditional entrepreneurial education in promoting entrepreneurship. This study suggests that mass media radio entrepreneurial education, which is underexplored, fosters the ...
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(Elsevier, 2025-02)While existing resource-based theorizations consider green process innovation as an important internal firm resource, this research utilizes the resource orchestration logic to argue that a greater capability to manage and ...
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Enhancing international business competence : how cognitive and exposure training approaches matter (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2025)This study draws insights from knowledge acquisition theory to examine how cognitive and exposure training approaches explain differences in international business competence (IBC). Following an interpretive phenomenological ...
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(Elsevier, 2025-04)Cooperating with competing firms, a phenomenon also known as coopetition is increasingly seen as a viable resource-pooling strategy that enhances competitiveness and growth. The role of coopetition is particularly important ...
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(Routledge, 2025)Scholars believe that exploration of the factors that mediate Pygmalion leadership (PL) and follower performance contribute a great deal to the understanding of PL. However, mediation studies involving PL and innovative ...
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(Springer, 2024-12)Management of global value chains by manufacturing firms requires detailed consideration of the relationships with partner firms and the risks involved in operating in different countries, especially emerging markets. Value ...
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(Wiley, 2024)As African countries increasingly adopt circular economy strategies, the implications for sustainable development remain underexplored, particularly regarding gender dynamics. This study investigates the critical role that ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-08)Using a historical lens to investigate sanctions against Apartheid South Africa, we found foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) lost out repeatedly during sanctions, almost always to the local economic elite. When ...
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(Emerald, 2025-01)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to provide a scene-setting viewpoint that critically examines various diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) blind spots within the field of international business (IB). These include ...
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(Emerald, 2025-01)PURPOSE : Following identity theory from a symbolic-interactionist perspective, we explore the post-retirement role identity reformation of public company CEOs to uncover the process elements through which role identities ...
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(Emerald, 2025)PURPOSE : This research aims to investigate the nature of the team grit construct as distinct from individual grit and determines its relevance within a net of team constructs. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH : Using a ...
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(Routledge, 2025)Selling products and services to tourists is often the main or sole source of income for local and migrant informal traders participating in the tourism sector in developing countries. However, they are vulnerable ...