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(AOSIS, 2021-09-30)This article presents hospitality as a pivotal value in the context of increasing diversity that characterises the complex relations in which leadership emerges. After reviewing the concept of Otherness in philosophy, ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-04-22)The Global Risks 2035 Update by the Atlantic Council, despite its clinical focus on economic, environmental and security challenges, nevertheless suggests that shared global meaning might have a role to play in enabling ...
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The impact of national health promotion policy on stillbirth and maternal mortality in South Africa (Elsevier, 2021-09)OBJECTIVES : In 2015, the South African government implemented the national health promotion policy (NHPP), intending to reduce stillbirth and maternal mortality. This study was designed to quantify the impact of the NHPP ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2021-07-28)Several previous scholars have investigated the relationship between entrepreneurial intention (EI) and entrepreneurial competencies (ECs), yet categorising individual ECs in relation to higher-order competence constructs ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2021-04)Public sector organisations play a critical role in many countries. Central to the performance of these organisations is the effort of strategy implementation that enables organisations fulfil their mandates and realise ...
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(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2021-11)The evolution of design has seen shifts towards more co-creation-based practice. This is not an entirely new development, as there has been a growing recognition and adoption of user-centred themes and terms such as co-design ...
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(Emerald, 2021-10)PURPOSE : Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognised as a vehicle for bringing about the development of different economic sectors in various geographical regions, and it is believed to result in greater productivity ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Business Management & Academic Entrepreneurship Society of South Africa (AcES), 2020-06-30)BACKGROUND : Despite calls by scholars for small business owners (SBOs) to seek external consultation from accountants, empirical work demonstrating the relationship between the frequency of various types of services ...
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(MC Cant, 2020-07)Street food vendors are common in South Africa’s townships and are typically patronised by individuals in lower- income brackets. The extent to which service quality considerations play a role in the patronage of such ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-07)PURPOSE : This study seeks to model the nexus between environmental dynamism, environmental hostility, five sub-dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) (innovativeness, pro-activeness, risk-taking, competitive ...
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(Adonis and Abbey Publishers, 2020-09)Unemployment is a socio-economic challenge in many countries, and small businesses are continually touted as vehicles for economic growth and job creation. However, this is largely dependent on the entrepreneurial orientation ...
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The relationship between environmental hostility and entrepreneurial orientation of small businesses (Sage, 2020-07)Declining entrepreneurship as indicated by low total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) and high business failure is unacceptable in any economy. This predicament is indicative of South Africa’s business environment ...
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(Wiley, 2021)Leadership is inextricably intertwined with the notion of influence. When examining the most prominent contemporary approaches to leadership, notably neo-charismatic leadership theories, trait-based approaches to leadership ...
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(Wiley, 2020-07)The Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) agenda is regarded as the principal instrument to ensure the coherent alignment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with domestic policies. Due to PCSD's ...
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(Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2020-08-31)PURPOSE : The primary aim of this study was to investigate the entrepreneurial intentions of social grant recipients in the cities of Johannesburg and Tshwane. This study further investigated the extent to which social ...
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(Springer, 2020-10)ORIENTATION : Conventional accounting education is presented from a business perspective that rationalises the prioritisation of shareholder interests. Such a paradigm, viewed as the hegemony of business, fails to deliver ...
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(Sage, 2021-12)While entrepreneurial behaviour is generally seen to arise from a reasoned, judgement-then-action pathway, evidence of an alternative is emerging. Yet, this alternative – an unreasoned, impulse-driven pathway remains to ...
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(Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2020)Environmental, social and economic concerns experienced over the past few decades have raised the need to address sustainability in supply chains, hence the concept of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). Supply ...
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Achieving coherence : towards a model of the nascent-stage behavioral dynamics of new venture teams (Springer, 2021-09)While research has begun to identify Team Entrepreneurial Passion (TEP) and Team Entrepreneurial Competencies (TEC) as drivers of new venture team (NVT) dynamics, current literature fails to account for how these cognitive ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-12)ORIENTATION: Social media is often described a double-edged sword, yielding opportunities and challenges. It brings organisations closer to their customers, and when executed properly it can help drive business and provide ...