12 articles in this issue
Philip E. Burian, Francis Skip Maffei III
In todays turbulent business environment, providing services, products, and solutions that meet customer needs and demands is a major challenge for all businesses. To be more competitive, companies are placing greater emphasis on lowering costs, improving... see more
Teresa Calvert Pidduck, Karen Odendaal
The 2013 Budget Speech presented by the South African Minister of Finance highlighted that the best way to generate resources is to grow the economy and increase the tax base. In investigating the possible broadening of the South African tax base, as well... see more
Paul Green, Stanley Hardman
The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of a conceptual framework for the evaluation of an academic department as a service provider at a university of technology. A multi-methodological approach using action research, which involved a c... see more
Prakash Singh, Carmel Claire Mahomed
Devolution of power to get things done with other people depends on the collegial relationships that are fostered in the organisation as its source of energy. Even the success of a mentoring programme to develop the human resource development needs of an ... see more
Lawrence Mpele Lekhanya
This paper examines how culture influences the diffusion and adoption of social media technologies in rural businesses. The cultural factors influencing the diffusion and adoption of social media technologies among the rural communities in South Africa ar... see more
John Muteba Mwamba
This paper investigates the persistence of hedge fund managers skills during periods of boom and/or recession. We consider a data set of monthly investment strategy indices published by Hedge Fund Research group. The data set spans from January 1995 to Ju... see more
Suzaan Hughes, Chantal Breytenbach
Groupon is the fastest growing company in the daily deal social e-commerce arena. For this reason, their growth and globalization strategy is of particular interest to any researcher or investor interested in understanding this industry and its potential ... see more
Suren Pillay, Pieter W. Buys
Carbon excise tax was implemented on all passenger motor vehicles in South Africa as of 1 September 2010. Since its implementation, the impact of carbon tax on the corporate social investment (CSI) initiatives and expenditure of South African motor vehicl... see more
Prakash Singh
The question that is addressed in this article is whether it matters for collegial leaders to have a binocular vision. Imagine looking through a pair of binoculars as a metaphor for leadership. One lens of the binoculars represents cognitive abilities (IQ... see more
Carol Shepherd
On a global level, water has become a commodity that is no longer taken for granted. Whether it is due to determining the rights to water, or determining the channeling of water with dams to create reservoirs for consumption, water violence has become a r... see more
Richard Chinomona, Maxwell Sandada
In spite of the increasing research on consumer behaviour, there is a dearth of studies that have investigated the influence of mobile provider service quality in customer satisfaction regarding customer trust and loyalty in the African mobile communicati... see more
Stephan Kienle
Over the last decade, the Spanish housing market has gained a lot of attention due to its dynamics in house prices and residential investments. Our contribution provides a general framework based on the classical user cost approach. We take an equity cons... see more