The researcher was fortunate to be a member of an international development programme for library and information science (LIS) in South Africa (DISSAnet), and has benefited from the experience to the extent that research ...
Jansen van Rensburg, Mari; Davis, Annemarie; Venter, Peet(2014)
In recognition of middle managers as influential strategists we collected 654 responses from South African middle managers detailing their spontaneous and unguided descriptions of their strategic roles in the organisation ...
A new administrative scenario - the virtual office - emerged in organisations because of the influence of technological developments that drastically changed the traditional office scenario. The virtual office is a worksite ...
Effective corporate governance of boards can become a sustainable competitive advantage for organisations. In the extant literature a number of reasons are cited for dysfunctional boards. Some of the reasons attributed to ...
Van Dyk, Francois; van Vuuren, Gary; Heymans, Andre(The Clute Institute, 2014-05)
The Sharpe ratio is widely used as a performance evaluation measure for traditional (i.e., long only) investment funds as well as less-conventional funds such as hedge funds. Based on mean-variance theory, the Sharpe ratio ...
Badenhorst-Weiss, Johanna Adolphina; Cilliers, Jacoba Orpha; Eicker, Themari(2014)
The rationale for this study is to determine how independent formal small retail and wholesale businesses compete against increasing competition mainly from large retail chains located in new shopping malls in Soweto. ...
van Dyk, Francois; van Vuuren, Gary; Heymans, Andre(Clute Institute, 2014-11)
The Sharpe ratio is widely used as a performance measure for traditional (i.e., long only) investment funds, but because it is based on mean-variance theory, it only considers the first two moments of a return distribution. ...
Van Dyk, Francois; van Vuuren, Gary; Heymans, Andre(The Clute Institute, 2014-07)
The Sharpe ratio is widely used as a performance evaluation measure for traditional (i.e., long only) investment funds as well as less-conventional funds such as hedge funds. Based on mean-variance theory, the Sharpe ratio ...
Given ongoing advocacy for the institutionalisation of derivatives trading in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA) as a convenient way for enhancing regional countries’ growth
prospects, this study examines the impact of derivatives ...
Opportunities abound in the Armaments industry is South Africa and
abroad. This is probably one of the main reasons why it has grown
to almost astronomical amounts in va lu e . Simultaneously, the vast
f igures in ...
Gauteng, one of the nine provinces of South Africa, has a high number of households as compared to the other provinces. Geographically the province has the smallest land size, however it forms the central part of the South ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the maintenance management system (MMS) on production output and profitability (PO&P) at the Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA) GTL Refinery ...
The economic success of a country depends on its capacity to apply activities which create a compet-itive advantage. The business environment is highly complex in South Africa and the purpose of thisarticle is to examine ...
Ambe, Intaher Marcus; Badenhorst-Weiss, Johanna Adolphina(Academic Journals, 2011-11-23)
This article illustrates practical examples of theories built during a grounded theory process on the implementation of supply chain management in the Central District Municipality, North West province, South Africa. It ...
Ambe, Intaher Marcus; Badenhorst-Weiss, Johanna Adolphina(Academic Journals, 2010-08-18)
The changing business conditions of the 21st century has led to companies facing issues ranging from globalisation, economic uncertainty to new technologies and increasing consumer demands. In the automobile industry, as ...
The study evaluates whether and to what extent supply chain management (SCM) practices in local municipalities are implemented. A case study was undertaken in the Central District Municipality and its local municipalities, ...
This article articulates the challenges that restrain supply chain management implementation in the South African public sector. Supply chain management (SCM) promotes South Africa’s New Public Management model by means ...
This study investigated the relationship between individual knowledge transfer methods, self-study and work experience and behaviour patterns, facilitation, conduct and ability in the development of SMEs. This study further ...
This study set out to explore how Official Development Assistance was practised in South Africa. An exploratory narrative design was followed to uncover the ‘strategy in the skin’ of strategy practitioners in the unit of ...
Mineral extraction is one of the key drivers of Africa’s economies and is also one of the largest
industries in the world. In many African countries, including Zimbabwe, mining contributes to
profound parts of the economy ...