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Browsing Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) by Title
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The success of the South African automotive production industry relies on the industry support programs from the Government. The industry’s seven Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of passenger vehicles are wholly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-07-11)The research aims to determine the obstacles that BEE mining entrepreneurs face at the growth stage of their business. The objective of the study is to gain insights into both internal and external factors, identify common ...
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(Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2006-03)In the competitive business environment, brand management is viewed as a critical success factor. The importance of building a brand-centric organisation in which employees are ambassadors for the brand is often espoused, ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-03-25)ORIENTATION: The participation of women in the labour force in South Africa has improved and, whilst the gender pay gap is narrowing, it remains persistent. Gender integration in occupations has been slow, and there remains ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-23)Research into whether insider trading exists in the shares traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (“JSE”). The purpose of the research is to examine the share price in target companies and to determine whether or not ...
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(UNISA School of Management Sciences, 2014)The aim of this study was to investigate the motives of white-collar criminals so as to gain a better understanding of white-collar crime and develop measures that can help to reduce it. The study involved face-to-face ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-21)The aim of the research was to look at the motivations behind white-collar crime and, by means of the insights gained, allow businesses to achieve a better understanding of these motivations and the possible loopholes that ...
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(Routledge, 2018)For over four decades ‘The Oily Chart Opera Company’ have annually produced and performed a Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy opera in Pretoria, South Africa. In this strictly amateur group, designed to allow busy people to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-07-06)As the use of nostalgia (an individual’s yearning for positive associations with the past) as an evoked emotional appeal in advertising increases in popularity in South Africa, questions begin to arise as to whom this ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-01)We use institutional theory to understand how managers in different types of firms make sense of the dysfunction of institutionally weak environments. We interviewed ninety executives working in Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-06)When seeking to improve science in emerging economies, uncertainty exists whether PhD training in an emerging economy can yield comparable results to PhD training in the developed world. Scientific achievements may vary ...
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(Emerald, 2008)PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to report on research conducted into the use of stories and storytelling to share knowledge in a large mining company based in South Africa. The paper shows how the use of oral methods ...
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(Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), 2020)In a 21st century digital era, adult learners are mostly acquainted with blended learning and hybrid learning that refer to the incorporation of varying proportions of online- or E-learning as part of educational ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)In today's networked world, and with ubiquitous access to the internet, knowledge is fast becoming. This phenomenon has resulted in a globalised economy, highly mobile workforce and more informed customers. Furthermore, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The purpose of this paper was to assess the existing body of literature on open innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to have a comprehensive position on what scholarship position on the nature of open innovation ...
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(Inderscience, 2017-10)In the last decade, we have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the globalisation of innovation activities and more specifically, of global innovation networks (GINs) extending into middle-income countries. However, ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-04)ORIENTATION : Values influence decision-making in organisations; however, it is not yet clear how values of openness to change and conservation determine decision quality when managers are faced by competing values. RESEARCH ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-11)This research develops the notion of operational resilience and investigates its relationship with operational efficiency under differing conditions of operational disruption. Operational resilience is conceptualized as a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The state of global corporate affairs, failures of powerful corporations and the negative social and environmental impacts as a results of business have raised a heated debate regarding the role of business in society. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Entrepreneurship, characterised by small to medium enterprises, are considered fundamental contributors to employment in an economy. Two core constituents form the broader concept of entrepreneurship; the individual and ...
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