Guiding principles on building sustainable SOEs in South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorNorth, Johnen
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateFikelepi, Ursula Nobulalien
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-06T15:56:16Z
dc.date.available2011-05-11en
dc.date.available2013-09-06T15:56:16Z
dc.date.created2011-04-20en
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.date.submitted2011-04-05en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.en
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the performance of SOEs in developing countries in competitive sectors such as aviation, telecommunications and energy to ascertain whether there are any common principles that determine such performance. Through a case study analysis and interviews with executive managers of South Africa’s SOEs, the paper will determine whether the common principles ascertained in the successful performance of the other developing countries’ SOEs can be applied to South Africa and whether any differences in principle exist between South African SOEs and other developing country SOEs. The paper uses the strategic management schools of organisational and institutional theory, agency theory and the resource based view to determine if there are any differences in principle between SOEs in South Africa and other developing countries. The paper also explores whether the environments and contexts of the different SOEs materially impacts their performance and ability to create a competitive advantage over a sustained period. A qualitative approach was used given that this is an explorative study, to provide better insights and in-depth discussion on the relatively new issues that have not been studied in great detail before. The main research findings are that successfully performing SOEs from developing countries exhibit certain common factors that can be applied by SOEs seeking to reform and improve their performance across developing countries. Copyrighten
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dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.identifier.citationFikelepi, UN 2010, Guiding principles on building sustainable SOEs in South Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23805 >en
dc.identifier.otherF11/131/agen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04052011-123511/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/23805
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoriaen
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen
dc.subjectSuccess factorsen
dc.subjectCommon principlesen
dc.subjectSuperior performanceen
dc.titleGuiding principles on building sustainable SOEs in South Africaen
dc.typeDissertationen

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