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Browsing Economic and Management Sciences by Supervisor "Pretorius, Marius"
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The plethora of studies existing in the field of strategic management especially strategy implementation, has exhausted theories such as agency theory, organisational theory, social system theory, social learning theory, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)As the information age progresses, people and businesses alike have become accustomed to the convenience that technology brings into our lives. However, in the business world, high failure rates of projects to produce such ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Background: The direct costs associated with business rescue proceedings are integral to the decision-making of directors, business rescue practitioners and other affected parties. Business rescue has been criticised for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-09-15)Against the background of reports such as the Global entrepreneurship monitor (Foxcroft, Wood, Kew, Herrington&Segal 2002) and the World competitiveness report (2003), indicating that South African small businesses lag ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The current theoretical framing of entrepreneurship includes a number of diverse phenomena under the same conceptual umbrella. This entrepreneurship umbrella is painted as a silver bullet for economic development and job ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Background: A business rescue plan has to comply with a new and vague set of obligations regulated by South African legislation. Expectations of the plan are largely unknown, yet crucial in determining compliance. Establishing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The business rescue occupation operates in a multi-professional body landscape and traces its origin to the Companies Act (Act No. 71 of 2008) promulgated in 2009. In this dissertation, Determination of a Business Rescue ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study aims to identify drivers and hindrances of strategy execution when using the balanced scorecard execution premium (BSCEP) process. Strategy execution consistently remains a global challenge. Chief executive ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-01-09)This study focus on the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), Education and Economic and Management Science learning area of curriculum 2005 constructs in order to determine whether EMS education can impact on the entrepreneurial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-04-29)The Local Business Service Centre (LBSC) programme launched by the government of the Republic of South Africa in 1995 to provide business development services to small business, moreso in the Black communities, did not ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-28)This study focuses on entrepreneurial cognition and the decision to start a new venture opportunity. The entrepreneurial process used has four broad phases namely; the intention to start, opportunity identification, taking ...
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Exploring pre-packaging as an enhancement to business rescue processes : the case for South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2017)Pre-packaged sales are a common occurrence in most regimes that apply formal restructuring practices to rescue distressed businesses, giving them a fighting chance of survival. This study examines pre-packaged sales (or ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Reorganisation is a relatively new development within insolvency law and is becoming increasingly popular across the world. It is complex, being both a second chance to some parties and great frustration to others. An ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Orientation: As required by various sections in The Companies Act 71 of 2008, the appointed practitioner in a rescue must place before the court facts proving reasonable prospect; this is mainly determined through the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Conventionally, the purpose of business strategy is the attainment of competitive advantage, and it is generally understood that competitive advantage yields superior performance. The locus of value-creation – central to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)ABSTRACT Background: Distressed decision-makers (business rescue practitioners or turnaround specialists) are confronted with various alternatives to make the appropriate decisions at various stages of a distressed business ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Controlling shareholders of private firms may define "value of the firm" in terms of personal utility. They may thus prioritize their personal wealth over the firm. Furthermore, agency-based corporate governance may not ...
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Investigating peer-to-peer lending as a solution to unsecured lending in an unbalanced credit market (University of Pretoria, 2017)The unsecured lending market in South Africa is characterised by a high consumer debt-to-income ratio, significant legislative amendments, government-instituted credit amnesties, abnormal lender profits, the bailout of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Strategic competence has been found to be declining in certain geographical areas and industries with poor implementation often predominantly attributed to ineffective communication. However, based on addressing communication ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Decision makers within a business rescue event find themselves burdened with a high-stress environment riddled with tensions which add to the complexity of their decision-making. Even though business rescue, dictated by ...
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