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Theses and Dissertations (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-17)Purpose: This article seeks to advance, build upon and extend our understanding of the evolution of business-to-business relationships as part of internationalisation strategy, exploring and drawing on the theoretical lens ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-17)Despite the substantial body of knowledge concerning the resource curse theory, the impact of globalisation has been overlooked. The study provides insights into the relationship between a country’s resource curse vulnerability ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-17)This research investigates the possible benefits and challenges that come with financial inclusion for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Botswana that are owned by women. It focuses on three main research ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-17)Flexible working arrangements have become increasingly popular practices within the business landscape, post the COVID-19 pandemic. However, research on integrating employees into organisations utilising these arrangements ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-17)"The global concern regarding climate change and its impact on the environment has intensified as more of its harmful effects are registered all over the world. South Africa, and many other countries, have acknowledged ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-17)The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a significant shift from traditional, physical workplaces to hybrid work environments. This has increased the current need for creativity and disrupted the way organisations operate, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-23)The ability to manage internal tensions arising from the need to safeguard social mission amidst multiple stakeholder mandates is an important issue for social enterprise research and practice because of the potential to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-06-30)The aim of this research was to build a valid and parsimonious scale to measure team grit. The construct of team grit is in its nascency with very little empirical research or theoretical explication of the construct. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-06)Previous research on individual differences has revealed that individuals’ response to change will vary based on their regulatory focus indicating that perceived supervisor support during organisational change will vary ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04-17)This study was conducted in South Africa, amid the COVID-19 pandemic when many clothing retail stores were closing, resulting in many retrenchments which exacerbated the high unemployment rate and reduced the industry’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-11)Investigating the lived experience of followership during the COVID-19 crisis, this study provided greater insight into the importance of followership in the leader-follower paradigm and the influence which crises have on ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-15)Research on the entrepreneurial ecosystem has focused attention on the macro system dynamics and its elements. Despite an increasing myriad of entrepreneurial ecosystem research studies that have been conducted that aim ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-15)The credibility of Institutions contributes towards public trust, which ordinarily increase when institutions achieve their set mandate and objectives. The reliance on state institutions to deliver basic social services ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-27)The survival of vulnerable manufacturing firms within infant industries in African countries is threatened by competing final goods imports from foreign more established competitors. The low survival rate of such firms ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-03-30)By recognizing that technology adoption is a social process, the sociotechnical literature has advanced from traditional models of technology. This perspective, however, disregards the individual and we, therefore, do not ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07-31)This study tests and explains how the opposing preferences for commitment and flexibility impact the saving behaviour of individuals who perceive financial scarcity in South Africa. Those who perceive financial scarcity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04-21)Retirement is widely conceptualised as both a life status and a dynamic process that occurs over an extended period of time, as individuals prepare for, experience and adapt to postretirement life. Extensive study and a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-03-30)Entrepreneurship is an important driving force for economic development in emerging economies traditionally driven by ineffective top-down approaches. More recently, a bottom-up individual-level approach has offered a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-06-30)This study was conducted in South Africa, amid the COVID-19 pandemic when many clothing retail stores were closing, resulting in many retrenchments which exacerbated the high unemployment rate and reduced the industry’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-06-30)This study addressed weaknesses in the emotional intelligence (EI) construct of predicting the performance of organisation members. Typically, research conducted on EI’s association with outcomes such as work performance ...
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