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Theses and Dissertations (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Low-income subsidy housing production is not satisfying the current housing need, leading to increasing backlogs and significant impacts on many poor people's health and safety. Traditional methods for producing these ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)One of the key indicators of port performance lies in port’s efficiency in minimising port congestion. However, the port of Durban like many other ports in Africa and the world is faced with a congestion challenge. This ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)South Africa’s manufacturing performance relative to its’ peers and other local sectors has been in decline in the wake of globalisation and global value chains and reduced competitive advantage. Firms are central actors ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Theory on leadership has emphasised the need for contributing towards leadership in extreme context. Give the rise in crisis, and the study aims to contribute by exploring how crucible moments can contribute towards ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The study aimed to explore women entrepreneurs’ experiences using social capital to develop their manufacturing businesses. Social capital has apparent benefits for developing women-owned businesses. The manufacturing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study sought to explore the governance mechanisms that result in agent principal alignment in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), with specific reference to Job Creation. This is important to understand in South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Understanding the antecedents determining technology adoption in agriculture is essential to promote technology adoption to improve agricultural productivity in developing nations. The aims of this research were to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The proliferation of female entrepreneurs, especially in developing countries, instigated this study, to understand their judgement and decision-making processes in the highly complex and uncertain entrepreneurial landscape ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)There is an under-developed scale of research conducted on sustainable production and consumption of environmentally friendly packaging Tanzania. Using the main concepts from institutional theory along with the diffusion ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In line with the rules applying to all directors of a company, accountants also have the fiduciary duty to act ethically in all their decision-making. However, the widely-publicised cases of accounting fraud and misrepresentation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)South Africa has complex environmental and economic challenges as part of its sustainable development. These include depleting natural resources, significant waste generation and high carbon emissions, compounded with ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In recent years, the eThekwini region has experienced a deterioration in the service delivery of water by its municipalities. A review of available literature indicated that in the current era of managing for all ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This quantitative study examines the interaction between technology-based instant messaging applications (technology applications) and employee engagement. Technology applications are frequently used as a mode of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Beginning in late 2019, the COVID-19 epidemic spread throughout the world, causing unprecedented disruption to global supply chains. Disruptions triggered by disease epidemics differ from other types of supply chain ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The role of job automation technology within the financial services sector has gained prominence recent years. Decision-makers are faced with questions from the external and internal environment relating to the future ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This research reports on the role of linguistic capital in the evaluation of strategic opportunities for an organisation. Linguistic capital can function as a signal of human and social capital. Using Experimental Vignette ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)LRP is a research journal in the field of strategic management, with a research focus on strategy. The article, titled “Leveraging dynamic capabilities in the post-acquisition integration phase of an acquisition” supports ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The path towards successfully transforming established and successful firms in the 21st century remains a subject of much debate among strategic managers. This research report attempts to provide clarity to aspects of this ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The reasons behind why some organisations are able to obtain and sustain competitive advantage over others in their chosen markets has been a topic of discussion in several domains of academic literature. The theory of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Direct selling multinational enterprises (DSMNEs) have successfully managed to leverage insider networks to overcome the liability of outsidership when entering base of pyramid (BoP) markets (Dolan & Johnston-Louis, 2011). ...
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