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Browsing Research Articles (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)) by Issue Date
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Van der Spuy, M.; Wocke, Albert
(Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2003-06)
The trend towards technology-based learning (or 'e-learning') is increasing, driven largely by anecdotal evidence of advantages. This article compares the effectiveness of the technology supported learner driven distance ...
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Tobin, Peter K.J.; Snyman, Retha
(Unisa Press, 2004)
One of the realities of knowledge management is that individuals, teams and organisations are constantly searching for better ways to share their knowledge. Could the use of stories and storytelling help in this search? ...
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Krecek, R.C.; Tobin, Peter K.J.
(South African Veterinary Association, 2004-03)
The changing role of veterinarians in the global market is a current topic of debate and discussion. Few countries including South Africa have formally examined the changing dynamics of this profession. Therefore, the ...
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Saville, Adrian David
(Juta, 2004-09)
Accounting practices are flawed. As a consequence, the accounting data generated by firms are generally open to interpretation, often misleading and sometimes patently false. Yet, financial analysts place tremendous ...
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Gichuru, P.; Tobin, Peter K.J.
(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-12)
Knowledge is now recognized as a company's most valuable asset. For the most part it resides in employees as tacit knowledge. Owing to the nature of tacit knowledge, efforts to diffuse it into an organization come with ...
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Ward, Michael; Muller, C.
(Investment Analysts Society of Southern Africa, 2005)
Hedge funds have shown remarkable growth as an
asset class over the past few years, with an estimated
$1 trillion in assets under management in 2004, and
this figure expected to double in the next five years
(HFR Report, ...
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Pascoe, G.A.; Ward, Michael; MacKenzie, D.J.
(Investment Analysts Society of Southern Africa, 2005)
This study investigates a number of economic factors to
determine whether individually or collectively they affect
the share price response to a rights issue announcement
on the JSE. It adds to the existing body of ...
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Tobin, Peter K.J.; Franze, Michael H.
(Unisa Press, 2005-11)
The research sets out to investigate whether the organisational structure of an organisation
impacts on the ability of the organisation to share knowledge. The research was limited to a
single case study of an organisation ...
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Saville, Adrian David; Bader, Maureen; Spindler, Zane
(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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Huysamen, G.K.
(OpenJournals, 2006)
By means of simple numerical examples it is demonstrated how the value of coefficient alpha is determined by the size and sign of the item intercorrelations, the dimensionality of the items, and the number of items. ...
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Huysamen, G.K.
(OpenJournals, 2006)
Reliability is conceptually defined in terms of consistency across test occasions but coefficient alpha, the most popular reliability estimation method, precludes the examination of such consistency. Three recent proposals ...
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Selby, Kalien; Sutherland, Margaret Mary
(Graduate School of Business Leadership and the Department of Business Management, University of South Africa, 2006)
This research set out to establish whether "space creation" is a viable strategy for accelerating employment equity. In this exploratory qualitative research a series of in-depth interviews were conducted with acknowledged ...
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Naidu, Sanusha; Davies, Martyn
(South African Institute of International Affairs, 2006)
Examines critically China's acquisition of and investment in Africa's natural resource sector, as well as the short- to medium term political, economic, social and environmental implications this has for African states.
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Lew, Charlene C.; De Bruin, Gideon P.
(OpenJournals, 2006)
This study investigated the relationships between the scales of the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI) and those of the Career Attitudes and Strategies Inventory (CASI). The scores of 202 South African adults for the ...
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Tobin, Peter K.J.; Volavsek, Peter
(Unisa Press, 2006)
This article explores the status of knowledge management (KM) measurement in South African organisations. KM has been advocated by some observers as the only way of maintaining a competitive advantage in today's global ...
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Alden, Chris (Christopher); Davies, Martyn
(South African Institute of International Affairs, 2006)
China's goal is not to overturn the world order but instead to participate in this order to reinforce it and even to profit from it.
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Misch, A.; Tobin, Peter K.J.
(University of Johannesburg, Department of Business Management, 2006)
PURPOSE: The aim of this paper is to report on research into whether knowledge can be managed more effectively by taking into consideration the nature and complexity of information being received by members of an organisation; ...
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Tobin, Peter K.J.; Bidoli, M.
(Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2006-03)
The authors embarked on this study to investigate factors likely to impact on the adoption of VoIP and other converged Internet protocol (IP) services in the SA market. The intention of this study was to lay the groundwork ...
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Boyd, G.; Sutherland, Margaret Mary
(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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Saville, Adrian David
(Juta, 2006-09)
Accounting numbers generally obey a mathematical law called Benford's Law, and this outcome is so unexpected that manipulators of information generally fail to observe the law. Armed with this knowledge, it becomes possible ...