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