Research Outputs (Operations Management): Recent submissions

  • Technology systems for land administration: a case study of South Africa 
    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 ...
  • Towards a framework for the integration of data and data sources in the automation and dematerialisation of land administration systems 
    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 ...
  • Implications of Cadastral Systems on Engineering Asset Management 
    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 ...
  • Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Operations Management 
    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 ...
  • Managing Assets to Facilitate Circularity and Sustainability of Food Systems 
    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, ...
  • Legal Aspects of Engineering Asset Management 
    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 ...
  • Using enterprise resource planning systems to manage property processes 
    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 ...
  • Using blockchain technology to facilitate property transactions 
    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 ...
  • Revisiting Agricultural Technologies in the 4IR Era 
    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 ...
  • Supply chain integration in the South African conveyancing environment 
    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 ...
  • An analysis of small business skills in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng province 
    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 ...
  • Entrepreneurial Education in a Tertiary Context: A Perspective of the University of South Africa 
    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 ...
  • Small business constraints: The influence of time 
    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 ...
  • Coping With Work Stress is Essential for Long-Term Success in the Hospitality Industry 
    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’ ...
  • The future of work in Africa in the era of 4IR – The South African perspective 
    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 ...
  • Digital entrepreneurship and indigenous value systems: An Ubuntu perspective 
    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 ...
  • The impact of Covid-19 on e-grocery mobile apps: urban township perspective. 
    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 ...
  • The Relationship Between Market Environment Dimensions and Availability of Malaria Pills in Uganda 
    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 ...
  • Offshoring-Outsourcing and Onshoring Tradeoffs: The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Supply Chain 
    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 ...
  • Deconstruction of a Multi-Embedded Supply Chain Coordination Problem Using Mixed Methods 
    Nagitta, Oluka Pross; Mkansi, Marcia (Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2020)
    It is without doubt that there are many overviews of mixed methods research in supply chain management. However, there is relatively little research and representation on the application of robust methodological approaches ...

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