Esterhuyse, Leane; du Toit, Elda(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-09-13)
Companies are often accused of using sustainability disclosures as public relations tools to manage financial and non-financial stakeholders' impressions. The purpose of our study was firstly to determine how comprehensive ...
du Toit, Elda; Esterhuyse, Leana(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2023-08)
We explore narrative styles of 50 standalone sustainability reports for the years 2016 to 2019 published by South African mining companies. Our analyses using computer-aided narrative analysis tools reveal that readability ...
Enwereji, Prince; Van Rooyen, Annelien Adriana(African Journals Online, 2023)
This study set out to assess the efficacy of an online tutoring programme at a large distance education institution in South Africa based on lecturers’ evaluations. Online-tutoring or e-tutoring has emerged as a prominent ...
oben, James Ako; Van Rooyen, Annelien Adriana(Routledge, 2023)
The extended social cognitive career theory (SCCT) suggests that career intentions are influenced by person inputs, background contextual affordances, learning experiences, self-efficacy expectations and outcome expectations, ...
Enwereji, Prince; Van Rooyen, Annelien Adriana; Terblanche, Alet(Academic Publishing International Limited, 2023-11-08)
Online or e-tutoring is a component of e-learning that involves teaching in an online setting where the e-tutor provides support to a small group of students, which can increase confidence, improve topic comprehension and ...
Terblanche, Alet; Shuttleworth, Christina Cornelia; Van Rooyen, Annelien Adriana; Masela, Richard Nkosinathi(2023-02)
Developing future accountants who are critical thinkers, able to adapt in a volatile,
uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, remains one of the biggest
challenges facing accounting educators. Competency frameworks ...
Binnekade, Carol; Scott, Deon; Williamson, Charmaine; Van Rooyen, Annelien Adriana; Shuttleworth, Christina Cornelia; Scott, Deone(SAGE Journals, 2020-06-23)
Qualitative researchers place value on taking a closer, insider look at data as well as the subsequent data analysis and interpretation. On one end of the interpretive spectrum, researchers should be fully imbued with the ...
The aim of this study was to the investigate the role of financial and fiscal reforms in upscaling renewable energy access for the business sector as a mechanism to promote sustainability, reduce carbon emissions, and ...
District municipalities in the Republic of South Africa play a crucial role in advancing sustainable development and safeguarding socio-economic rights through the delivery of basic social goods in accordance with the ...
The objective of this study was to present a policy framework that may strengthen the impact of public sector audit effectiveness in African countries, based on the principles of good governance theory, towards promoting ...
There has been an increase in environmental issues across national and international boundaries over the past few decades, with a long history in the Nigerian petroleum industry. The petroleum industry is among the leading ...
Township small, medium, and micro enterprises (“enterprises”) face challenges due to not utilising key lagging and leading performance indicators (“indicators”) to evolve in the organisational life cycle (“cycle”) and ...
The study sought to investigate the effect of environmental management activities on the performance of JSE-listed food processing companies. Also, it seeks to identify environmental management activities that JSE-listed ...
This research explored how external auditing evolved in corporate governance to curb corruption in South African public sector from 2018 to 2022. The research commences by providing an understanding of corporate governance. ...
The purpose of this work was to construct a framework, proposing to enhance the effectiveness of Audit Committees (ACs) in Ghana’s public sector institutions (referred to as “covered entities” [CEs]). This was predicated ...
Purpose – The formal adoption of internal auditing within the South African public sector was made compulsory by the Public Finance Management Act, No. 1 of 1999. Despite internal auditing’s primary role of adding value ...
In the context of governing state-owned enterprises (SOEs), we respond to calls for
further research into public entrepreneurship and for theorising hybridity in SOEs,
by navigating through the diverse and fragmented ...
In addition to integrated reporting, which was arguably first introduced by the third King Report on Governance for South Africa (King III), King III also formally introduced the combined assurance model as a further ...
This paper aims to explore whether the audit profession is impacted by global economic growth, how, and to what extent. In that manner, the study paper explores the interrelationship between the public trust in the auditors’ ...
Ackers, Barry(Responsibility and Sustainability, 2024)
The unprecedented growth in the illegal wildlife trade has created a serious challenge for conservation in Africa. Governments around the world often create entities to protect species and preserve biodiversity in their ...