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Market-focused strategic flexibility and sales growth: empirical evidence from Nigeria

Asikhia, Olalekan Usiobaifo (2009-08-25)

A newly competitive environment is developing in Nigeria, the business environment has altered rapidly and unpredictably, and new knowledge and capabilities are consequently needed to survive in such a turbulent environment. ...
Managing pure and statistical equity arbitrage opportunities within the South African environment

Cronje, Peter John (2009-08-25)

The analysis undertaken, firstly aims to identify the extent to which equities, their indexes and their derivatives priced in accordance with their fair value. Secondly, presuming that the traded values of the instruments ...
The dynamic effects of leader emotional intelligence and organisational culture on organisational performance

Bipath, Minnesh (2009-08-25)

The topic of emotional intelligence (EQ) and organisational culture has attracted considerable interest from both academics and practitioners for many years. Much of the interest in the two areas is based on explicit and ...
The development of a framework for an integrated logistics support system within a high technology industry in a developing country

Lambert, Keith Richard (2009-08-25)

Competitive and high-risk environments require complex high technology systems, which need to be supported and maintained over their respective life cycles. These systems often have a significant consequence of failure, ...
The strategic processes of small businesses operating in a turbulent environment: a retail community pharmacy perspective

Naidoo, Kamsaladevi Kumudini (2009-08-25)

In South Africa, the small business sector has been identified as a sector that is not performing optimally. In a turbulent environment, this type of small business profile is magnified. Therefore, it is important to examine ...
Consumer behaviour with respect to domestic water in Mauritius including a model

Sowdagur, Daramdeo (2009-08-25)

Literature survey shows that with, a few exceptions, the consumer behaviour of domestic water consumers has not been a common area of research. This explains the scarcity of information in this specific field. This scarcity ...
A study of knowledge management strategies as enabled by the support of asynchronous groupware systems

Campbell, Harold Moody (2009-08-25)

Knowledge Management (KM) and Business Intelligence (BI) are topics, which are receiving much currency in the literature of academia and the general media over the past several years. This thesis explores KM from the ...
Analysis of South African pension fund conversions: 1980-2006; developing a model for dealing with environmental change

George, Dion Travers (2009-08-25)

Between 1980-2006, thousands of South African pension funds converted members from defined benefit to defined contribution structures. This research set out to answer the questions of why this phenomenon occurred and whether ...
The case for an executive coaching model for private healthcare in South Africa

Dorning, Augusta Waller (2009-12)

No abstract available
Social capital in multinational enterprise : host government relations a South African perspective

Du Toit, Francois (2010-03)

In South Africa Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) have to contend with the typical adversarial relations with a host government. In addition, MNEs operate in an environment regulated by a government policy of Redress, aimed ...
Competitiveness and strategic change : a longitudinal study of the interactions between tourism industry and air Seychelles 1970 to 2007

Padayachy, Lunez Jude (2010-06)

In studying organisational change in Air Seychelles, the context, content and process of change together with the interconnections of the airline and the tourism industry in Seychelles through time is explored. The literature ...
Organisational change management in South Africa : the development of a change framework and scorecard within a mergers and aquisitions environment

Glensor, Michael Colin (2010-11)

Change in today’s business environment may be seen as inevitable however in the absence of a generic and endemic Change Framework for Managing and Leading Change; South African businesses face a difficult task of surviving ...
Knowledge management practices in rural areas of South Africa

Mbhalati, Oliver Jan (2010-11)

This research report captures a detailed exposition of an investigation on Knowledge Management (KM) practices in public and private sector entities in three industries (health, education and business loans) of Limpopo ...
A resource allocation model to support air quality management in South Africa

Govender, Urishanie (2011-05)

South African Air Quality Units are continuously undergoing changes, and improving their performance remains a constant endeavour. In addition, these units are also experiencing several challenges in terms of ...
The systems psychodynamic world of the fund manager

van Niekerk, Elna (2011-06)

No abstract available
The influence of cultural factors on successful succession in Indian South African family owned businesses and American family owned businesses (based in Indiana)

Taruwinga, Patience (2011-09)

This doctoral dissertation utilizes survey research design and an interview research design to compare the influence of cultural factors on successful succession in South African and American family owned business (FOB’s). ...
A model for the formulation of strategic intent based on a comparison of business and the military

Brand, Colin George (2011-10-10)

This study examines whether there is a strategic intent forumlation process available for use by the typical CEO.Further investigation showed that the military environment was the only environment that made regular (and ...
The role of online social networks in inter-firm collaborative innovation and problem solving

Duncan, Robert David (2011-11)

This study examined how online social networking (OSN) leads to increased communication and collaboration across inter-firm boundaries. This online social networking behaviour represents significant opportunities to firms ...
Developing a service quality measurement instrument for archival institutions

Sibanda, Rosemary (2011-11)

The service sector of the global economy is undoubtedly growing and increasingly highlighting the criticality of service quality to enhanced profitability in most service organisations. The demand for accountability from ...
The relationship between strategic leadership and strategic alignment in high-performance companies in South Africa

Lear, Lorraine Wendy (2012-02)

In the global economy of the 21st century, competition is complex, challenging and fraught with competitive opportunities and threats. Strategic leadership is increasingly becoming the main focus for business and academics ...

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