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Research Articles (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)): Recent submissions
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(MDPI, 2024-04)Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 seeks to end hunger and guarantee food and nutrition security worldwide by 2030. Smallholder irrigation development remains a key strategy to achieve SDG 2. This study assesses how ...
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(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2023-05)The concept of food security appeared in policy forums and documents during the 1970s as a concern largely for developing countries. Today, food security stands centre stage in developing and developed nations. It is a ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-08)BACKGROUND: Entrepreneurial activity in an efficiency-driven economy is fundamental to economic growth, yet its sustainability and opportunities are concerning. Both entrepreneurial bricolage and design thinking could ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-08-03)ORIENTATION: Calls exist to understand how talent can be managed especially within the public service. RESEARCH PURPOSE: The research sought to determine the determinants of employee mental health accounting for the ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-09-29)PURPOSE : Researchers have found it difficult to gain access to board members to collect credible data. Acquiring such insights, however, is becoming increasingly important in view of rising numbers of corporate failures. ...
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(Emerald, 2024-06)PURPOSE : The COVID-19 pandemic has burdened the health-care system and exposed nurses to immense stress. This study therefore aims to investigate nurses’ mental well-being who are working with COVID-19-positive patients. ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-08)Given the significant risk supply chain disruptions pose to businesses, scholars and experts presume such events encourage resilience-building efforts. This study uses the threat-rigidity theory to question this normative ...
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(Emerald, 2024)PURPOSE : This study explores clothing disposal in a developing economy. It focuses on how consumers dispose of clothing and what motives influence them to use a specific disposal method. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH ...
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The influence of institutional logics on vaccine development, production and distribution in Africa (Emerald, 2024)PURPOSE : Africa has the most deaths from infections yet lacks adequate capacity to engage in vaccine development, production and distribution, the cornerstone of efficiently managing and eliminating several infectious ...
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(Emerald, 2024)PURPOSE : This paper aims to explain the occurrence of sustainable entrepreneurship in the underresearched sub-Saharan Africa context and to improve the understanding of how effectuation manifests in this context. DE ...
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(Emerald, 2024-03)CASE SUMMARY : LEARNING OUTCOMES : The learning outcomes for this case study are as follows: learning outcome 1: evaluate the environmental context of Youth Employment Service (YES) and ascertain whether YES is a social ...
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(Emerald, 2023-02)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of authentic leadership on strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a less researched environment. This study set out to fill that gap in ...
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(Emerald, 2023-02)PURPOSE : The purpose of this study is investigating the influence of leadership on work engagement. The definition of leadership is primarily couched in culturally masculine terms (and known as an agentic leadership ...
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(Wiley, 2024-05)Firms and their managers have long been concerned with encouraging customers to take on an active role in their marketing research activities. The critical question for these firms is how to foster collaboration with ...
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(Routledge, 2024)A significant amount of research has been conducted to understand what makes workplace coaching effective. Several factors, including coach competencies, have been found to contribute to coaching success. Extant literature, ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2024-01)Multinational corporations operate across locations with different risk profiles. We examine how multinational corporations address the optimal allocation of capital across multiple locations and analyse the transition ...
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(Emerald, 2023-12)CASE SUMMARY: LEARNING OUTCOMES : After completion of this case study, students should be able to reflect on the concept of creating shared value and then determine whether Shesha Geza can be referred to as a shared ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2023-07-24)Kelp are large seaweeds that provide a variety of contributions to humans and the environment. In South Africa, kelp forests are expanding as a consequence of climate change. Considering this expansion, assessing local ...
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(Emerald, 2023-11)CASE SUMMARY : LEARNING OUTCOMES : After reading and discussing the case study, students should be able to identify the reasons why the company needed to digitise and how this links to the company’s strategy around ...
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(Routledge, 2024)The COVID-19 crisis has been one of the most significant events in recent history. Informal traders who depend on a thriving tourist market have been especially vulnerable to COVID-19. The resultant travel bans affected ...
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