Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Graduate School of Business and Leadership) by Title
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Achieving high performance through competitive strategy: a case of Tshwane-based small and medium enterprises.
(2018)The goal of the study was to explore achieving high performance for the Tshwane-based Small and Medium Enterprises based on the competitive strategies and examine the effect that the competitive strategies had on the ... -
Action strategies for enhancing the implementation of performance improvement initiatives within the health sector in Botswana.
(2013)This study investigates the extent to which performance improvement initiatives are efficiently and effectively implemented in the Botswana health sector. The study is prompted by numerous public complaints through various ... -
Analysing the eThekwini green economy according to its dynamic and complex components for identifying leverage points.
(2018)It is widely accepted that climate change is taking place as a result of anthropogenic activities. The rapid rate of the current bout of climate change being experienced is unprecedented. Climate change results in disastrous ... -
Analysis of global competitiveness in the light motor vehicle component industry of South Africa.
(2014)The automotive industry’s global competitiveness has been acknowledged by the South African government and therefore the sector has been identified as a key economic growth sector. The success of the domestic automotive ... -
Analysis of open innovation strategy and challenges faced by automotive component manufacturers in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, and Eastern Cape in South Africa.
(2021)The automotive components manufacturing sector is an essential complementary strategic player in the automotive industry in South Africa. Without this sector's vibrancy, the automotive industry cannot forge ahead as a ... -
An analysis of the effectiveness of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement process for tourism projects.
(2018)Although the South African government has implemented a range of infrastructure delivery programs that have significantly increased access to services, large backlogs remain. Within the same context, National Treasury ... -
Application of systems thinking in reviewing power-infrastructure capital investment in South Africa.
(2022)The aim of this study was to investigate how the application of systems thinking can minimize revenue losses in capital power-infrastructure investment in South Africa. The study reviewed the application of existing ... -
Articulating South Africa’s port doctrine for a democratic developmental state.
(2019)South Africa lacks a concise paradigm for port governance. This results in a number of challenges including lack of cost-based pricing for port services, retrogressive cross-subsidization, inequitable cost allocation to ... -
An assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of the strategic and operational management of the Makana Municipality, Grahamstown : a total quality management and business excellence approach.
(2006)In South Africa, companies and organisations are now operating within the global marketplace. Various authors writing on organisational effectiveness state that, in the last decade, many organizations have come to ... -
Balanced scorecard usage as performance measurement tool for hotel and restaurant SME’s growth strategy.
(2020)Abstract available in PDF. -
Balanced scorecard usage as performance measurement tool for hotel and restaurant SME’s growth strategy.
(2020)Performance measurement and management is very critical for any business growth and success. The study assessed the balanced scorecard (BSC) usage as a performance measurement tool for hotel and restaurant small and ... -
A business sustainability framework for community pharmaceutical SMEs in South Africa, Gauteng Province.
(2021)Community pharmaceutical Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) play a key role the world over and for South Africa, their role is more felt as the sector contributes to employment creation as well as boosting the gross domestic ... -
The challenges and implications of corporate re-branding : a case study of amalgamated beverage industries (ABI).
(2006)This thesis aims to address the issues of corporate re-branding in the context of marketing strategy and general strategic management. The research for the thesis was conducted in Pietermaritzburg and the surrounding areas ... -
A comparative analysis of business strategies for professional cricket and rugby in South Africa since 1994.
(2019)This study is focused on professional sport in South Africa, in particular the three most popular sporting codes in South Africa: football (soccer), rugby and cricket. Its aim is to develop a business model which will ... -
A comparison of management style before and after retrenchment.
(2012)While there is an abundance of literature on models of coping with the loss of employment, the present study adopts the more particular focus of a study by Ribton-Turner and De Bruin who investigate stressors and support ... -
A conceptual framework for factors that influence willingness of low-income farmers to pay for weather index insurance in South Africa.
(2021)Weather index insurance is an emerging risk management instrument in the African agricultural landscape designed for low-income farmers that are perpetually vulnerable to weather-related production hazards due to unprecedented ... -
A conceptual framework for success factors required for a South African SME foundry.
(2021)South Africa has witnessed an unprecedented decline in the number of foundries over the past four decades, with literature reflecting that there has been about 73 percent reduction in the number of foundries in South ... -
A conceptual leadership model: challenges in the Eastern Cape’s public sector.
(2018)Despite large studies conducted on public sector leadership challenges, there remains no standardised approaches applicable universally in addressing leadership challenges in public sectors. This study was conducted in the ... -
A corporate governance and business ethics framework based on King IV™ for Standard Bank African subsidiaries.
(2020)This study investigated the degree of compliance to King IV Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa, 2016 (King IV™) principles and recommended practices by 17 sampled Standard Bank African subsidiaries. An extensive ... -
Critical analysis of corporate governance implementation and control systems within the municipal sector in Gauteng province in South Africa.
(2016)By utilising the King III Report as a conceptual framework, this study sought to critically analyse corporate governance implementation and control systems within the municipal sector in the Gauteng province, South Africa. ...