15 articles in this issue
Michael C. Cant, Johannes A. Wiid, Ricardo Machado
Much has been said as to what makes a good Open and Distance Learning (ODL) practitioner - or lecturer if you prefer. It is easy to make statements and observations, but it is, however, essential to establish exactly what an ODL practitioner is and then t... see more
Job Dubihlela, M. Dhurup
The purpose of the study was to examine the barriers of market orientation by SMEs in South Africa. Data were collected using the personal face-to-face interviews with the use of a structured questionnaire. A total of 350 SMES were selected randomly and v... see more
Yoon C. Cho
Various studies support how satisfied customers become loyal customers by investigating attitudes and behavior, while fewer studies have examined links among dissatisfaction, complaints, and loyalty, particularly in the virtualized environment. By applyin... see more
Andrew Maredza, Sylvanus Ikhide
In this paper, the authors seek to investigate the nexus between banking sector efficiency and labour employment in South Africa. The Hicks-Moorsteen aggregator functions were used to generate total factor productivity (TFP) efficiency measures for the bi... see more
Prakash Singh, Carmel Claire Mahomed
Mentors are expected to create an environment in which prospective employees can be trained to be productive and be able to excel when employed. The personal one-on-one mentoring is especially beneficial for potential employees, such as student teachers, ... see more
Hem C. Basnet
The role of foreign aid in promoting growth by complimenting domestic savings has been an issue of considerable controversy. This study examines the role of foreign aid on domestic savings and economic growth in South Asian countries - Bangladesh, India, ... see more
Pete Mavrokordatos, Stan Stascinsky
The purpose of this paper is to discuss a topic that is somewhat recent, with outcomes that are still uncertain and hard to predict. The topic is the return of Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997. It has only been 15 years since that date, and the impact i... see more
Melody Brauns
In a rapidly changing business environment, one may recognise the words the only thing constant in life is change by French author Francois de la Rockefoucauld. Yet, with on-going change, it can be difficult to know what to do and how to do it. The world ... see more
Ajay K. Garg, D. Ramjee
The influence of leadership style on employee commitment for the organisation has not been adequately addressed in the Parastatal companies in South Africa. A need therefore exists for greater understanding of the relationship between the leadership style... see more
Ansia Storm
No clear link has yet been made between tax evasion and money laundering although many (or all) of the professionals in this field may have already assumed the relation. The aim of the research that was conducted for the purposes of this article was to ex... see more
Johannes de Wet, Mvita Mpinda
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Merwe Oberholzer
The purpose of the study is to create an income statement-based and a balance sheet-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) model, and to demonstrate these models on Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed firms and to compare the technical and scale effic... see more
Siamack Shojai, Patricia S. Root
This paper reexamines economic sanctions research and identifies explanatory variables used by many previous theoretical and empirical research studies on the effectiveness of voluntary and non-voluntary economic sanctions since World War I. A normative l... see more
David Salerno, Nathan Jeppson
This study examines whether financial analysts are more optimistic in their earnings forecasts for non-U.S. firms than they are for U.S. firms. Several areas of research motivate this examination. First, research shows that global economic influences, suc... see more
John M. Polimeni, Kittaya Vichansavakul, Raluca I. Iorgulescu, Ray Chandrasekara
Health outcomes research typically uses cost-effectiveness or cost-utility analysis. These approaches take a narrow perspective of the individual effects, typically from the payer or the provider point-of-view. However, using these narrow perspectives mis... see more