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Volume 14 Number 1 Year 2015

18 articles in this issue 

Anton Styger, Gary van Vuuren, Andre Heymans

Public funding for higher education in South Africa is a significant investment. Large amounts of funds are invested in students and there is a national shortage of high quality students in scarce skills - in particular, students with a postgraduate quali... see more

 

JH Leibbrandt, CJ Botha

The formal organizational structure, including the control systems, is an important factor in strategy execution. The structure can be defined as the relationship between tasks, individuals, and formal and informal channels. Getting things done in many or... see more

 

Johannes A. Wiid, Michael C. Cant, Safura M. Kallier

Technology has provided many new methods of communicating and has changed the way in which students interact with each other. This had an impact on the way in which students of today interact with their learning environment as well. Educational institutio... see more

 

Ricarda B. Bouncken, Felix Schuessler, Sascha Kraus

This article examines the embedding of the phenomenon of Born Globals into three existing theories of the firm. The model of Born Globals deals with young companies that begin shortly after their foundation to internationalize. The Uppsala Internationaliz... see more

 

M. Anaam Hashmi, Nadia Abdulghaffar, Iman Edinat

Saudi Arabia is an important country among the Middle Eastern nations and a pivotal one because of its key position in international petroleum production. Sustainable practices are becoming prominent considerations among public and private sector Saudi Ar... see more

 

Andrew Maredza

In this paper, the fixed effects method known as the least squares dummy variable (LSDV) technique was applied to investigate the possibility of a trade-off between bank profitability indicators and banking outreach (expanding access to banking services) ... see more

 

David R.I. Pooe, Chengedzai Mafini, Donna Tsakani Makhubele

This study explored procurement challenges faced by municipalities in South Africa. A qualitative approach was adopted in which semi-structured interviews were employed to elicit information regarding procurement related challenges encountered by municipa... see more

 

Prakash Singh, Thembinkosi Twalo

The focus of this study is on the effects of a poorly implemented performance management system (PMS) on the job behaviour and performance of employees. In the implementation of a PMS, one of the imperatives is that managers ensure that their employees ou... see more

 

Oluwole Adekanmbi, Paul Green

Risk management is a concept which has becomes very popular with a number of national and international businesses. Many companies often establish a risk management procedure in their projects for improving performance and increasing profits. Projects und... see more

 

Knowledge Chinhamu, Chun-Kai Huang, Chun-Sung Huang, Delson Chikobvu

Extreme value theory (EVT) has been widely applied in fields such as hydrology and insurance. It is a tool used to reflect on probabilities associated with extreme, and thus rare, events. EVT is useful in modeling the impact of crashes or situations of ex... see more

 

Roger B. Mason

This paper proposes that pricing tactics are influenced by the nature of the external environment. It illustrates the pricing tactics suggested for a turbulent, versus a stable, environment, when viewed through a complexity theory lens. A qualitative, cas... see more

 

John Muteba Mwamba, Donovan Beytell

This paper uses closing prices of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) financial markets to implement a risk model that generates point estimates of both Value at Risk (VaR); and Expected Shortfall (ES). The risk model is thereafter ... see more

 

Mareli Dippenaar, Rudie Nel

The objective of the study was to determine the primary focus of selected developing countries (four BRICS countries; namely, Brazil, China, India and South Africa) in applying tax instruments to reduce their emissions from electricity generation. The foc... see more

 

Nobukhosi Dlodlo

Business is transforming at an exponential rate and mobile technology is considered to be a key driver in this economic revolution. Despite the efforts of many businesses in making extensive investments in resources to enhance service experience, long-ter... see more

 

Alex van der Merwe

Many South African high schools are under-performing with poor pass rates, particularly in mathematics and physical science. Although the countrys state of education would seem to be dire, pockets of excellence thrive in many local schools. Given this ava... see more

 

John D. Theodore

The purpose of this article was to examine and evaluate the historical and developmental process of globalization in Latin America from the 1970s to the second decade of the 21st century and make proposals for the additional developments needed in educati... see more

 

Johanna Catherina Brand, Wandi Kruger-Van Renen, Riaan Rudman

Enterprise mobility is emerging as a fast-growing trend worldwide. Numerous risks originate from using mobile devices for business-related tasks and most of these risks pose a significant security threat to organisations information. Information Technolog... see more

 

Gizelle Willows, Darron West

Research has shown that, as a result of certain behavioural biases, individuals do not always make investment decisions in such a way as to maximise their expected utility. These biases have also been observed to manifest differently within gender: men ar... see more