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  • Unplugging the leadership quagmire : the case for developing nations 
    Kuye, Jerry O. (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2010-06)
    This article predicates the leadership dilemmas and progress made by many African countries since independence of individual nation states. The concept, leadership, has evolved over decades with several authors attempting ...
  • Unravelling the conundrum of entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial characteristics 
    Bignotti, Alex; Le Roux, Ingrid (University of Johannesburg, 2016-06-10)
    ORIENTATION : Against the backdrop of recent youth unemployment dynamics, scholars have increasingly focused their attention on youth entrepreneurial intentions and their associated factors, such as entrepreneurship ...
  • Unravelling the entrepreneurial ecosystem conditions spurring the global value chains : a configurational approach 
    Kansheba, Jonathan Mukiza; Fubah, Clavis Nwehfor; Marobhe, Mutaju Isaack (Emerald, 2024-03)
    PURPOSE : Despite the popularity of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) concept, research on its value-adding activities receives less attention. Thus, in this article, the authors investigate the role of EEs in supporting ...
  • Unrealized arbitrage opportunities in naive equilibria with non-Bayesian belief processes 
    Zimper, Alexander (Elsevier, 2023-09)
    A non-Bayesian decision maker forms posterior beliefs through an – ever so slightly – violation of Bayes’ rule. A naive equilibrium is a competitive equilibrium for a multiperiod complete markets economy such that every ...
  • Unrest at the local sphere of government in South Africa : unrealistic expectations or the inability to implement policies? 
    Roux, Nico L. (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2005-11)
    Local government, being the government closest to the people, has a constitutional obligation to render a variety of services which include basic essential services such as housing, sanitation, electricity and water, ...
  • Untrepreneurship : undoing the myth of entrepreneurship as a development apparatus 
    Smit, Maria; Pretorius, Marius (Medknow Publications, 2020-12)
    The current theoretical framing of entrepreneurship includes several diverse phenomena under the same conceptual umbrella, yet the terms are often conflated and used interchangeably. Based on the assumption that anything ...
  • Unused STC credits : is AC 501 bullet proof? 
    Venter, Elmar Retief; Stiglingh, M. (Madeleine) (South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, 2007-04)
    On 21 February 2007, the Minister of Finance announced that government proposes to phase out secondary Tax on Companies (STC) and to replace it with a new tax on dividends. It is proposed that this process will take place ...
  • The upside of narcissism as an influential personality trait : exploring the entrepreneurial behaviour of established entrepreneurs 
    Botha, Melodi; Sibeko, Sphumelele (Emerald, 2023)
    PURPOSE : As research emerged in terms of how narcissism, a negative or dark trait, has been found to be constructive in enhancing entrepreneurial behaviour, there are mixed results regarding the significance of narcissism ...
  • Urban economic development : a conceptual framework 
    Jordaan, Andre Cillie (University of Pretoria, 2007-04-07)
    The purpose of this study is to develop an economic policy framework for local urban authorities to empower them to increase economic growth and development and thus quality of life of its residents. The study integrates ...
  • Urban governance and the brown environmental problems in South Africa 
    Chokoe, R.; Meso, K.K. (African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)
    This article argues that brown environmental problems have been given scant attention in urban planning and governance in favour of profit-making and industrial development efforts in South Africa, at the expense of ...
  • US fiscal policy and asset prices : the role of partisan conflict 
    Gupta, Rangan; Lau, Chi Keung Marco; Miller, Stephen M.; Wohar, Mark E. (Wiley, 2019-12)
    Fiscal policy shocks exert wide‐reaching effects, including movements in asset markets. US politics have been characterized historically by a high degree of partisan conflict. The combination of increasing polarization and ...
  • US inflation dynamics on long range data 
    Plakandaras, Vasilios; Gogas, Periklis; Gupta, Rangan; Papadimitriou, Theophilos (Routledge, 2015-08)
    In this paper we evaluate inflation persistence in the U.S. using long range monthly and annual data. The importance of inflation persistence is crucial to policy authorities and market participants, since the level of ...
  • US monetary policy and BRICS stock market bubbles 
    Gupta, Rangan; Nel, Jacobus; Nielsen, Joshua (Elsevier, 2023-01)
    We use the multi-scale Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) confidence indicator approach to detect both positive and negative bubbles at short-, medium- and long-run for the stock markets of the BRICS countries. ...
  • The US real GNP is trend-stationary after all 
    Omay, Tolga; Gupta, Rangan; Bonaccolto, Giovanni (Routledge, 2017)
    This article applies the Fractional Frequency Flexible Fourier Form (FFFFF) Dickey–Fuller (DF)-type unit root test on the natural logarithm of US real GNP over the quarterly period of 1875:1–2015:2, to determine whether ...
  • The US term structure and return volatility in global REIT markets 
    Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan; Yuksel, Asli; Yuksel, Aydin (Asia University, Taiwan, 2020-09)
    This paper examines the information content of the U.S. term structure of interest rates on the market for real estate investment trusts (REITs) by decomposing the term structure of U.S. Treasury yields into two components ...
  • US vs the World, a taxing issue 
    Venter, Elmar Retief; Stiglingh, M. (Madeleine) (South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, 2005-01)
    As part of the short-term convergence project on income taxes, the IASB and FASB will consider the appropriate tax rate at which deferred tax assets and liabilities should be recognized. IAS 12 requires an entity to recognize ...
  • The use of a Marshallian macroeconomic model for policy evaluation : case of South Africa 
    Ngoie, Jacques Kibambe; Zellner, Arnold (Cambridge University Press, 2012-03-23)
    Using a disaggregated Marshallian macroeconomic model, this paper investigates how the adoption of a set of “free market reforms” may affect the economic growth rate of South Africa. Our findings suggest that the institution ...
  • The use of a Marshallian Macroeconomic Model for policy evaluation : case of South Africa 
    Ngoie, Jacques Kibambe; Zellner, Arnold (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2010-06)
    Using a disaggregated Marshallian Macroeconomic Model (MMM-DA), this paper investigates how the adoption of a set of 'free market reforms' may affect the economic growth rate of South Africa. Accounting for possible side ...
  • The use of a performance management system to ensure an integrated approach to human resource development 
    Thornhill, Christopher; Van Dijk, Hilligje Gerritdina (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2003-12)
    This article proposes an integrated approach to facilitate human resource development. An appropriate performance management system is a suitable mechanism to promote an integrated approach to human resource management. ...
  • The use of activity-based costing in South African private health care industry 
    Botha, Gideon; Vermaak, Frans N.S. (University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2015-07)
    The private health care industry is facing uncertainty and change as a result of the market inquiry being undertaken by the Competition Commission into the private health care industry, the introduction of the National ...