Davies, Clint E.; Moos, Menisha; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen(AOSIS, 2023-11-13)
ORIENTATION : Entrepreneurship education (EE) and entrepreneurship training (ET) programmes
have boomed but many studies have questioned the degree of applied benefits realised from
the training.
RESEARCH PURPOSE : The ...
PURPOSE : Business rescue, as a mechanism to aid financially distressed companies in South Africa, has received considerable academic and practical recognition. However, the business rescue plan is an overlooked and, ...
Ntakumba, Stanley Sixolile; De Jongh, Derick(AOSIS, 2023-04-28)
PURPOSE : This article explores how the relational social constructionist leadership (RSCL)
ontology and epistemology, as well as the practice approach, could be employed to
reconceptualise the responsible leadership ...
During the past few decades, firms have undergone radical changes due to digitalisation initiatives, changing consumer behaviour and other factors, such as the pandemic. This has led to, amongst others, the implementation ...
Du Toit, A.C. (Andria); Pretorius, Marius(AOSIS, 2023-08)
BACKGROUND : Practice has shown that decision-makers experience various tensions during
a business rescue event, which adds to the complexity of their decision-making. Even
though business rescue has been operational for ...
Pretorius, Marius; Millard, Sollie M.; Le Roux, Ingrid(Unisa Press, 2023-06)
BACKGROUND : In search of more entrepreneurs for economic development, academics and policy makers are continuously seeking ways in which the participation of potential entrepreneurs in the economy can be enhanced.
PURPOSE ...
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY : The purpose of this study was to explore the needs of youth entrepreneurs while comparing the effectiveness of support offerings provided by public and private entrepreneurial support centres ...
Ilo, Sylvester O.; Das, Sonali; Bello, Felix G.(Africa Journal, 2023)
The need to systematically examine emergent literature focusing on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on
South African tourism is prompted by the contributions of tourism to the South African economy. The Preferred
Reporting ...
ORIENTATION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) alcohol sale prohibitions have significantly
impacted the South African liquor industry. This act of government halted the supply chain
flow of both locally produced and ...
Eresia-Eke, Chukuakadibia E.; Shaun, De Villiers; Jean-Claude, Pinto; Ijagbulu, Oluwafemi Dele(Adonis and Abbey, 2023-03)
In a society plagued by inadequate employment opportunities as
evidenced by relatively high unemployment rates, the youths are often
the most affected. A commonly touted recourse in such situations is an
inclination ...
Nomafu, Zukile; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Davies, Clint E.(AOSIS, 2023-07-20)
ORIENTATION: Global policy attention has shifted from start-up companies to high-growth entities (HGEs), as these entities can innovate and scale up within a short timeframe.
RESEARCH PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate ...
Van der Spuy, S.J.H.; Antonites, Alexander Josef(JCMAN, 2022-01)
BACKGROUND : Public funding agencies are governmental funding organs tasked with supplying developmental finance to prospective and emerging entrepreneurs. These agencies focus on bridging the finance gap between investors ...
Within the South African economy, financial institutions have a particular responsibility to act ethically because of their responsibility to safeguard economic and financial stability. This study, using a strategy-as-practice ...
Maepa, Alfred Nchaupe(University of Pretoria, 2003-10)
McDonald (1999:513) defines marketing planning as simply a logical sequence and
a series of activities to the setting of marketing objectives and the formulation of
plans. This management report proposed a strategic ...
Brinkley, Maddison-Lee(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 ...
Ntakumba, Stanley Sixolile(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Interorganisational partnerships are organisational forms in which multiple stakeholders work as a collective towards common objectives, and yet little empirical evidence exists on how the leadership construct occurs in ...
Mapena, William Lekgoa(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The proliferation of unethical behaviours and the various instances in which leaders have behaved unethically in the past decade have resulted in a series of negative impacts on their respective firms and organizations. ...
The South African pay television broadcasting industry has been dominated by a single player for a long time, and this organisation enjoyed an uncontested monopoly status since its launch in 1995. However, the gradual ...
Smit, Maria Magdalena; Pretorius, Marius(AOSIS, 2023-05)
ORIENTATION: From a critical entrepreneurship perspective, this article examines the potential hegemonic nature of the mainstream entrepreneurship discourse.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: (1) To determine what mainstream ...
Serfontein-Jordaan, Muriel; Bornman, D.A.J. (Dawid)(University of Johannesburg, 2022-07)
Considering the recent corporate scandals faced by the South African capital
market, stakeholders are understandably more sceptical about the accuracy
and transparency of information being communicated to them. An ...