14 articles in this issue
Y. Hefer, M. C. Cant, J. A. Wiid
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that motivate and challenge people when starting up their own small business. This paper includes the challenges that entrepreneurs encounter, advantages and disadvantages of owning ones own business,... see more
Ricarda B. Bouncken, Miriam Muench, Sascha Kraus
The distinguishing characteristic of a business model is the way in which the type of product or service is linked to a particular group of customers using a specific communication and delivery method. The authors argue that the distinctive characteristic... see more
John D. Theodore
The purpose of this article is to indicate that curricula in business administration and economics in the higher educational system of Brazil were not adequately introduced until the 1960s and that the absence of such curricula contributed to the delay of... see more
Arben Zibri, Agim Kukeli
The paper studies the differences in risk reduction among global minimum variance portfolios (GMVPs) derived from the optimization of weekly and monthly return. This research follows the analysis of Zibri and Kukeli (2014) regarding differences in perform... see more
Marcel Kohler, Thembeka Khumalo
A major focus of research on trade policy reform relates to whether changes in global economic participation, brought about by such reform, provides for sustainable income growth in the countries concerned. The challenge for many African economies in this... see more
Sibanda Kin, Mishi Syden, Tsegaye Asrat
Failure to create more jobs is a problem faced by many African countries, and South Africa is not spared. Evidence concerning the effect of oil prices on employment is lacking. The paper examines the impact of factor prices (oil prices) on sectorial emplo... see more
Courage Mlambo, David Mapondera, Morris Tenderere
This paper investigates the barriers and challenges restraining Zimbabwean banking institutions in going multinational. The paper drew attention from the fact that although multinational banking had increased drastically in the last two decades, Zimbabwea... see more
Tendai Chimucheka, Fortunate Mandipaka
This study investigated the challenges that are faced by entrepreneurs in the Nkonkobe Municipality in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and the objectives were to identify and suggest solutions for the challenges. This study followed a qualitative re... see more
Sujit Kumar Basak, D.W. Govender
This paper aims to present a theoretical framework of the factors affecting university academics job satisfaction, which is achieved by identifying the contributing factors. The main objective of the research was concluded in designing a theoretical frame... see more
S.Y. Ravu, K.M. Parker
This paper outlines aspects of a broader exploratory study on the management of skills shortages at a leading energy utility in Africa. Specifically, the paper examines the opinions of local and foreign personnel employed on a power plant construction pro... see more
Durrel Ramrathan, Mabutho Sibanda
This study investigates the association between information technology spend and future company performance for a sample of companies where accounting and market value measures are used as proxies for performance. While the earnings measure indicated a st... see more
Nadia Yusuf, Laila Al-sharqi, Farah Durrani
An increase in the number of elderly people has major implications for society, affecting such areas as health and social services and public spending. The economic effects of an ageing population are considerable. Older people have more savings than youn... see more
Gail Ncube, Kapingura Forget Mingiri
African stock markets are deemed to be small, segmented and illiquid. Given this back ground, the study utilises monthly data for the period 2000-2008, employing the Johansen and Julius cointegration method to determine the long-run relationship between t... see more
Christine Gaul
Franchising has gained popularity over the last decades. From a franchisor point of view, expanding a franchise network depends on several key aspects, one of which is the franchisee candidate recruitment and appropriate selection. This paper develops a t... see more