The capabilities concept is critical in understanding the competitive competencies of firms. Capabilities allow
firms to sense, seize and reconfigure their resources in response to opportunities and threats within their ...
Blom, Tanja; Steyn, Herman; Bond-Barnard, T.J.(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2023-05-26)
A project manager’s competency depends on the project’s complexity and includes a unique set of personal attributes and the ability to apply appropriate leadership styles. This paper reports on a Delphi study that includes ...
Pretorius, Suzaan; Steyn, Herman; Bond-Barnard, T.J.(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2023-08-25)
This paper explores whether organisations in a developing country have become more mature over time in their project management practices, and compares the current state to findings from a similar study conducted in 2010. ...
Maphosa, Vusumuzi; Maphosa, Mfowabo(Taylor and Francis, 2023)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought unprecedented growth and productivity in every socioeconomic sector. AI adoption in education is transformational through reduced teacher workload, individualized learning, intelligent ...
Pettersen, Inger B.; Kubberod, Elin; Van der Lingen, Elma; Neethling, Adolph C.(AOSIS, 2023-08-24)
BACKGROUND : Cross-cultural learning provides students with the opportunity for improved self-awareness when they are placed in unfamiliar situations where their understanding of who they are and what they can do is ...
Van Rooyen, Michelle; Van der Lingen, Elma(Elsevier, 2024)
This research addresses the challenge of managing uncertainty associated with technology innovation, a process vital for economic growth and organisational sustainability. The study aims to offer novel insights on reducing ...
BACKGROUND : The introduction of digital health technology in a healthcare facility results in emergent and recursive interactions between new technology and existing social systems, technologies, and operating ...
Mandree, Prisha; Thopil, George Alex; Ramchuran, Santosh(MDPI, 2023-10)
Globally, greater than 30% of waste is disposed of in some form of landfill, and it is estimated that annual waste-related emissions will increase by up to 76% by 2050. Emissions arising from fossil fuel-derived products ...
Bambo, Thabang Lazarus; Pouris, Anastassios(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
The South African bioeconomy strategy did not clearly articulate the measurement framework to monitor the implementation of the strategy. This paper provides an analysis of bioeconomy patents, the most prolific organizations ...
Ceriano, Mbiika; Lalk, Joerg; Thopil, George Alex(Wiley, 2024-01)
This research paper narrates the application of the soft systems methodology (SSM) as a problem structuring tool, as well as the first step of a methodological approach that will provide decision support based on multi-criteria ...
Large Capital Projects (LCPs) have a significant impact on the growth and development of local and international economies. Their failure stagnates progress, is not sustainable and cripples the economy and society in which ...
Contracting is an integral part of project management. The contract stipulates the legal and commercial relationship between the two engaging parties. The dynamics of this mutual, contractual agreement is contextualized ...
BACKGROUND : Investing in late-stage clinical trials, trial sites, and production capacity for new health products could improve access to vaccines, therapeutics, and infectious disease diagnostics in middle-income countries. ...
Loots, M.; Grobbelaar, Schalk; Van der Lingen, Elma(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2022-07)
The increased adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may improve the productivity and costeffectiveness
of remote sensing in the mining industry. This review’s objective is to enable stakeholders
to identify possible ...
Mulder, Hardus; Bekker, M.C. (Michiel Christiaan)(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2022-07)
The objective of this paper is to describe the research followed in creating a generalized, readiness
assessment tool for mining projects. We start by highlighting the need for the assessment tool and then
progress towards ...
Publication of research outputs is a method of researchers to capture their knowledge generated. Analysing the publication topics and trends in a research field can provide insight into the main research trends. A bibliometric ...
BACKGROUND : Projectification is becoming a topic of interest within the project management community. Various
authors discuss and debate the concept of projectification but little information is available about the level ...
The sustained use of eHealth is influenced by the dynamic and nonlinear interactions of technological, social, organizational and economic factors. However, most eHealth implementation frameworks are modelled linearly ...
Grobbelaar, Schalk; Oosthuizen, Rudolph(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2022)
Bibliometrics is used to determine patterns in published research. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the observable bibliometric patterns in the journal Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science. Frequency analysis ...
Oyewole, Gbeminiyi John; Thopil, George Alex(Springer, 2023-07)
Clustering has primarily been used as an analytical technique to group unlabeled data for extracting meaningful information. The fact that no clustering algorithm can solve all clustering problems has resulted in the ...