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Research Outputs (Operations Management)

 

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  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea; Pellissier, Rene (SAIIE25 Proceedings, 2013-07-09)
    Land is an asset and still remains a valuable factor of production in the modern era of knowledge economy. In many parts of the world, land is a limited resource, hence in most countries, custodianship and ownership of ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea (AOMC Proceedings, 2019-06-19)
    Both private and public sector businesses are aware of the need to deploy information and communications technologies to improve their internal processes as well as to optimise external linkages. For public sector ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea (University of Pretoria, 2017-09-01)
    The South African property process is cumbersome, tedious, and complex mainly since it is a manual paper-based system that involves numerous activities of many disparate firms and organisations in the private sector as ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea; Amadi-Echendu, Joe (Springer, 2016-01-16)
    Fixed or immovable assets include engineered infrastructure such as buildings, bridges, electrical and water utilities, roads, railways, and manufacturing and processing plants. These assets are built on land that often ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea (Springer, 2021-10-31)
    Global atmospheric and ecological changes necessitate the implementation of environmental regulations to manage global warming contributors and other waste-related matters. Better management of scarce resources and the ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea; Ntoyanto-Tyatyantsi, Nonceba; Amadi-Echendu, Joe (Springer, 2023-02-16)
    The United Nations Zero Hunger Challenge focuses on finding solutions to achieve the 2030 SDG 2 targets, albeit in a manner that is consistent with the precepts of circular economy. Sustainable solutions to food accessibility, ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Joe; Amadi-Echendu, Anthea (Springer, 2014-11-30)
    Immovable assets include engineered infrastructure such as buildings, manufacturing plant, roads and railways. These assets are built on land. In most jurisdictions, proposals to acquire and/or establish immovable assets ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea (South African Journal of Information Management, 2023-04-28)
    BACKGROUND: The various organisations that are involved in property transfer transactions tend to work as autonomous units within the end-to-end property supply chain. This compartmentalisation of activities and tasks ...
  • Amadi-Echendu, Anthea (South African Journal of Information Management, 2021-12-22)
    BACKGROUND: As a medium of exchange, money enables the transfer of economic value and forms the basis of financial transactions. The transition from the third to the fourth industrial revolution has brought about technologies ...
  • Ntoyanto-Tyatyantsi, Nonceba; Amadi-Echendu, Anthea (Springer, 2022-03-22)
    Food security is becoming a growing problem worldwide. Much focus should therefore be placed on the agricultural sector with a view of equipping the sector for increased food production capabilities. The agricultural ...
  • Kruger, Louis P; Amadi-Echendu, Anthea; Kruger, Louis P (Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2016-05-13)
    Background: Although conveyancing is a legal term, business management and specifically operations management principles also apply to the processes involved in conveyancing. From a business perspective, each organisation ...
  • Kudakwashe, Chudokufa; Visser, Thea; Amadi-Echendu, Anthea; Phillips, Magaret (African Journal of Business and Economic Research, 2016-01-01)
    Small businesses receive much attention in South Africa as vehicles that stimulate economic growth and development. Evidence shows that high levels of unemployment and poverty exist; small business owners and managers ...
  • Kudakwashe, Chudokufa; Amadi-Echendu, Anthea; Phillips, Magaret; Kudakwashe, Chudokufa; Visser, Thea (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016-06-04)
    South Africa is characterised by high unemployment levels, a low Total Early Stage Entrepreneurial Activity rate, and a high small business failure rate. Entrepreneurship and small business development is seen as a ...
  • Kudakwashe, Chudokufa; Visser, Thea; Amadi-Echendu, Anthea; Phillips, Magaret (Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, 2019)
    The objective of this article was to determine whether the number of years in business influences the constraints experienced by small businesses in the City of Tshwane. A total of 270 questionnaires were distributed and ...
  • Nienaber, Hester; DeMicco, Frederick (Hospitality Net, 2022-05-04)
    An often stated but misunderstood expression is: “Employees are the most important resource of a business.” This statement is certainly true and derives from human competence – the ability to influence a business’ ...
  • Mkansi, Marcia; Landman, Nico (Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2021)
    Although the correlation between technology and the changing labor landscape has been the subject of much research, there are growing concerns regarding the rise of automation and its impact on the job market. Research ...
  • Abubakre, Mumin; Faik, Isam; Mkansi, Marcia (Wiley, 2021)
    This paper investigates the embeddedness of digital entrepreneurship in the entrepreneurs' indigenous value system by examining the influence of ‘Ubuntu’ on digital entrepreneurship activities in the South African ...
  • Mkansi, Marcia (Proud Pen, 2021)
    COVID-19 has caused substantial impacts on businesses of all size across different economies. However, the e-grocery industry has experienced an unprecedented resurgence in demand caused by panic buying that strained the ...
  • Mkansi, Marcia; Kajjumba, George William; Pross Nagitta, Oluka (Sage, 2021)
    Introduction: This study sought to examine the contribution of relationship building (in terms of collaboration, information sharing and supply chain interdependence) on the availability of malaria treatment pills in public ...
  • Kajjumba, George William; Nagitta, Oluka Pross; Osra, Faisal A.; Mkansi, Marcia (IntechOpen, 2020)
    The world has become a global village with companies investing in different nations to remain afloat and competitive. In the process of offshoring- outsourcing, companies and nations have become interdependent in their ...

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