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Browsing Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Taylor and Francis, 2020)Efforts to exploit the central roles of cattle to drive agriculture and rural development in low-income countries recorded limited success owing to their narrow focus on modernizing and commercializing low-input cattle ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2017-09)Africa is an increasingly important business context, yet we still know very little about it. We review the challenges and opportunities that firms in Africa face and propose that these can serve as the basis for extending ...
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(NISC Pty (Ltd) and Informa Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2020)This paper grew out of a keynote I delivered at the Academy of International Business Africa chapter meeting in Ghana, 2019, and was further honed in the review process. I share how emotionally challenging I sometimes find ...
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(Emerald, 2020-07)LEARNING OUTCOMES : Students should be able to use the case study in debate apply theories relating to the subjects specified. CASE OVERVIEW/SYNOPSIS : The case is based on a fictitious South African company going through ...
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(Blackwell, 2005-12)Since the early 1900s central banking has developed into the most widely adopted monetary regime by sovereign states. Yet, there is a broad raft of evidence which shows that central banking systems have been less successful ...
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(Emerald, 2021-08)LEARNING OUTCOMES : The learning outcomes are as follows: to demonstrate the phenomenon of strategic inertia in organizations and the impact this has on the type of renewal process that is undertaken; to differentiate ...
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(Routledge, 2023)The study investigated how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) create value in local supply chains. Specifically, the study focused on two initiators of value creation: entrepreneurial competences and supply chain trust. ...
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(Emerald, 2007)Design/methodology/approach – This is achieved by firstly, providing a concise summary of the classical management theory. This is followed by a presentation of selected dimensions of South Africa's economic, social and ...
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(Emerald, 2019-05)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of a positive form of leadership, particularly authentic leadership, on ambidexterity, as ambidexterity has shown to improve financial performance. What ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-02)Despite growing interest in business-to-business branding, there is limited understanding of how B2B brands impact organizational buying decisions in fast-emerging African markets. To address this omission, this study ...
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(Emerald, 2021-04)LEARNING OUTCOMES : The learning outcomes are as follows: How to establish credibility of data sources; measurement scales of data; the importance of descriptive statistics and generating the following based on the type ...
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Barriers to inter-organisational collaboration amongst performing arts organisations in South Africa (Routledge, 2014)There is significant financial pressure on the performing arts sector in South Africa. Demand for the performing arts sector needs to grow if this is to change. This requires inter-organisational collaboration. This study ...
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(Emerald, 2021-03)LEARNING OUTCOMES: The learning outcome is to understand the difference between correlation and causation. CASE OVERVIEW/SYNOPSIS: The case is set during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, globally a search for effective ...
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(Emerald, 2021-03)PURPOSE : Women still face barriers that delay their upward mobility in organisations. This study aims to examine whether women experience critical mass as sufficient to shift deep level discursive dynamics, theorised as ...
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(Emerald, 2019)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into brand avoidance of service brands and explore whether the different types of brand avoidance identified in a product context apply to service providers. DESIGN ...
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(Emerald, 2016-01)PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the impact of editorial policy towards being both inclusive and international on the quantitative metrics of the journal. DESIGN / METHODOLOGY / APPROACH : A bibliometric ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2007-05)The study describes four approaches for configuring corporate HR strategy by firms from an emerging market when dealing with the integration-differentiation dilemma. Most research on strategic international HRM is on the ...
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(Sage, 2022-12)This research explored how action learning contributed to the development of trust in a temporary transorganizational system during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a world fragmented by digitalization, social ...
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(Wiley, 2019-02)This qualitative study investigates whether the views of managers need to be congruent with the corporate sustainability (CS) logics—either integrative or instrumental—of their employing organization. We assessed the CS ...
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(Inderscience, 2008-12)This paper uses UNCTAD data to relate the destination of FDI from developing countries to their capability development. It expands the Investment Development Path (IDP) and the flying geese model to include the destination of ...
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