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Browsing by Supervisor "Barnard, Helena"
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-05-26)Traditional financial institutions in South Africa have experienced difficulty in trying to bring the benefits of the formal, first world economy to the unbanked and underbanked markets that constitute the bottom of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-06-17)This study tries to identify the key factors that influence the acceptance of an aggregated electronic bill presentment and payment solution in South Africa. As technology acceptance models are primarily developed and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-23)South Africa appears to lag behind the international community in transacting online (B2C) e-retailers with only certain industries performing very well online. The evidence of lack of online spending was experienced by ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)There is a dearth of scholarship on digital transformation at for-profit firms in countries behind the technology frontier. However, digital transformation has been at the centre of disruptions of business practice and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-16)Within the socio-economic sphere, the development and nurturing of small medium micro enterprises will be a feature of any emerging economy into the fore-seeable future. In this context, the interventions by institutions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-01)The purpose of this study is to ascertain the impact of foreign entrants on the South African commercials production industry during the period 1990-2007. This industry, previous to 1990, had only very limited exposure to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Firms require policies that are supportive to their operating environment and competiveness. Few firms, however, interact with policy makers and it is suggested in the literature that they do so in a self-interested manner. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Institutional voids are increasingly gaining precedence and research attention due to the increased participation of developing countries in global markets (Mair&Marti, 2009). This theory focuses on the identification of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-09)The following quantitative study investigated staff turnover at Company H, a hardware retailer, where 174 former employees were telephonically interviewed via a questionnaire. The results showed that staff enjoyed various ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009)Resource scarcity and resource abundance along with a mindset of scarcity or abundance was researched within an innovative environment. The methodology involved the use of four different scenarios within an experimental ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007)Prior research on capability upgrading in developing country firms has emphasised the importance of gaining legitimacy in the public domain. For technology-based firms this implies disclosure of knowledge assets through ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Previous literature on the social dynamics of network creation in enterprises has drawn a sharp division between the utility of personal and professional networks. This has been particularly marked in social network analysis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04-01)Export credit agencies are government entities that support a country’s exports through non-payment insurance policies. Traditionally, only high national content exports benefitted from their support. In recent years, most ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)One critical aspect of a multinational's (MNE) non-market strategy is its political strategy the management of a firm's political capabilities and actors to influence public policy outcomes. Research on corporate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-07-08)This research seeks to determine the impact of headquarter control, rent- seeking behaviour, inter-subsidiary cooperation and competition on multination corporation (MNC) business performance. The research presents a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This study explore the linkages or partnerships that companies across the EU and a defend set of emerging market economies have in either a formal or informal manner. The research aims to understand the correlation of these ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Based on a study of knowledge transfer from a multinational corporation head office to subsidiary, this study examines the ease of cross border knowledge transfer to developed, developing and least developed countries ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-11-29)This study describes how institutions in a developing country, South Africa influence the salient characteristics and patterns of innovation in firms belonging to an emerging versus a mature industry. The patterns and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This study investigates the impact that certain constructs of Leader Member Exchange (LMX) between supervisors and shop floor workers of South African manufacturing firms have on the willingness of the shop floor workers ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This paper aimed to develop a better understanding of political institutions by assessing the direct and indirect impacts of political decentralisation on economic growth. Institutions as the major drivers of economic ...
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