The purpose of this study was to explore the strategising practices of sustainability champions at Transnet, a South African state-owned enterprise (SOE). The study set out to discover what these micro-strategising practices ...
The earlier theories considered trade credit as a substitute for bank credit. Recent theories suggest that bank credit and trade credit can also be considered as two complementary sources of financing. By using South African ...
It is generally accepted in academic circles that the developed country capital markets with their advanced
infra-structure, depth and liquidity are at a minimum Weak-Form efficient.
Since the Weak-Form EMH proposes that ...
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the challenges that a Namibian bank faced in recruiting and retaining skilled employees. The study adopted a qualitative research approach and the data were collected ...
This study assessed the link between financial literacy and levels of debt among junior permanent bank employees. Based on the mixed purposive and simple random sampling approach, a structured questionnaire was used to ...
Orientation: Over the years, the increase in executive remuneration in both the
private sector and state-owned entities (SOEs) has been the subject of intense
discussions. The poor performance of some SOEs with highly ...
Researchers posit that the primary objective of a business enterprise is to create shareholder value, and Economic Value Added (EVA) has been found to be the best available financial metric for measuring value. It is argued ...
Women form a critical component of the workforce of South Africa. Therefore the issue of retaining women should be a strategic priority for organisations. This study focused on identifying general retention factors for ...
The objective of this study was (i) to determine the relationship between sense of
coherence, work engagement and burnout; and (ii) to determine whether, in terms of the
various socio-demographic groups, namely, gender, ...
The research focused on the relationship between hardiness and career adaptability of students studying at Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges in Gauteng. A quantitative survey was conducted on ...
The South African public service is experiencing a high staff turnover and difficulties to retain staff. These will result in the loss of talented and knowledgeable employees and consequently a loss of institutional memory, ...
The purpose of this study was to identify the relevant factors to develop a framework for
optimising public participation to improve service delivery in a metropolitan municipality
in South Africa. This approach was ...
Orientation: This article focuses on the changes to section 198 of the Labour Relations
Act (LRA).
Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of employees
regarding the changes to section ...
Existing diversity management interventions are often less effective and very costly. Employees are also often forced to participate in these interventions. A need exists to develop an organisational team sport intervention ...
The study investigated the impact of research and development expenditure on economic growth in Hungary using annual time series data ranging between 1996 and 2013. Abundant literature is available which shows that research ...
Tsaurai, Kunofiwa(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2017)
This paper seeks to investigate the relationship between savings and financial development in Zimbabwe using both autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) and vector error correction model (VECM) approaches for comparison ...
Recent studies which investigated the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in BRICS include Hsin-Hong and Shou-Ronne (2012), Nandi (2012), Jadhav (2012), Darzini and Amirmojahedi (2013), Nischith (2013), Ho et ...
This study explored the interrelationships between financial development, economic growth and trade openness in Argentina using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) with annual time series data (1994 to 2014). The ...
This study examined the relationship between banking sector development and personal remittances in Zambia using the vector error correction model (VECM) approach with annual time series secondary data ranging from 1980 ...
This paper investigates the relationship between human capital development and foreign direct investment (FDI). In particular, the direction of causality between these two variables is the main focus of this study. This ...