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Attitudes towards information privacy amongst black South African Generation Y Students: A study of loyalty cards
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)Aim: In this era of globalisation characterised with rapid spread and usage of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the capacity to store personal information, the issue of information privacy is becoming an ... -
Authentic leadership as a source of optimism, trust in the organisation and work engagement in the public health care sector
(AOSIS, 2015)Orientation: The orientation of this study is towards authentic leadership (AL) and its influence on optimism, trust in the organisation and work engagement of employees in the public health care sector. Research purpose: ... -
The Balance between work and home: The relationship between work and home demands and ill health of employed females
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between work and home demands, work-home interference (WHI), home-work interference (HWI), and ill health of 500 employed females from various occupations. A ... -
Balancing academic and professional pedagogies: a comparative study of two accounting departments in South Africa and the UK
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-04)The paper adds to extant professional education literature by reflecting on apparent differences in pedagogy of similar professional programmes of study, allowing deeper insight into the unique strand of higher education ... -
Bank productivity and sources of efficiency change: a case of the four largest banks in South Africa
(Clute Institute [for academic research], 2013)The Malmquist productivity index was utilised to estimate the total factor productivity and productivity change of the four largest banks in South Africa for the period 1994 to 2010. Total factor productivity change can ... -
Banking competition and misconduct: how dire economic conditions affect banking behavior
(Business Perspectives, 2016)Increasingly, in the last decade, largely due to perceived greater shareholder pressures for more profitable performance, compensation maximization has taken center stage in some segments of the banking industry. Banks ... -
Banking customers’ attitudes toward complaining: their likelihood of voicing a complaint and service recovery they consider appropriate
(Academic journals, 2012)This paper measures the attitude of banking customers towards complaining and their likelihood to complain when a service failure is experienced at their current and another bank. Insight is also provided into the service ... -
Barriers to internationalisation: firm–level evidence from South Africa
(Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2012)The internal resource barriers that firms experience influence their capability to export. This, in turn, influences the export performance of the country and the extent to which exports contribute to economic growth. The ... -
Barriers to small informal business development and entrepreneurship: the case of Emfuleni Region
(Czestochowa University of Technology, 2016)The nature of being an entrepreneur encapsulates the essence of fully embracing opportunities and taking on new challenges and risks. Informal entrepreneurship is often taken for granted and hardly recognised as being a ... -
Basel III countercyclical capital rules: implications for South Africa
(University of Pretoria, 2012)The financial crisis has been blamed on many entities, institutions and individuals as well as the Basel II accord which had just begun to be implemented globally when the crisis erupted. The criticisms resulted in the ... -
Beachgoers' awareness and evaluation of the Blue Flag award in South Africa
(Coastal Education & Research Foundation, 2015)Beach awards such as the European Blue Flag are increasingly adopted in many countries as an environmental brand to promote better beach management and encourage tourism. However, the validity of the Blue Flag award has ... -
Beachgoers' demands vs. Blue Flag Aims in South Africa?
(Coastal Education & Research Foundation, 2015)The Blue Flag is a beach award aimed to preserve features of the beach environment. While it is assumed that the Blue Flag attracts tourism, this depends on factors such as the socio-demographic background of beachgoers, ... -
Beachgoers' perceptions of sandy beach conditions: demographic and attitudinal influences, and the implications for beach ecosystem management
(Springer, 2016)Sandy beaches represent typical venues for recreation and tourism worldwide, as well as part of the lifestyle and identity of coastal communities. Their overexploitation, however, threatens their survival. Especially in ... -
Being human and trust
(Babes-Bolyai University, 2011)“Trust” has become the buzzword of our decade, amongst other things, as a reaction to what is perceived as a trust crisis. This perception has a lot to do with a perception of not-being-in-control and a culture of suspicion. ... -
Benchmarking CEO compensation: developing a model for different business strategies
(Virtus interpress, 2016)Porter's generic business strategies of cost leadership and differentiation were adjusted to make them applicable to CEO compensation strategies. The cost leadership strategy equates to a firm that attempts to signal that ... -
Benchmarking of Johannesburg Stock Exchange CEO compensation
(Clute Institute, 2012)The purpose of the study is to empirically compare CEO compensation benchmarks set by the frequently used Linear Regression Analysis (LRA), which is based on “averages” and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is based ... -
Best practice management principles for business chambers to facilitate economic development: evidence from South Africa
(Copernicus, 2017)Local economic development (LED) is seen as one of the prominent and emerging tools in the facilitation of development of on a local and regional level. On the local level, the partners in LED are government, business and ... -
Best practice principles for business incubators: a comparison between South Africa and the Netherlands
(ASERS Publishing, 2016)Many researchers and industry leaders have identified business incubators as an alternative method to develop entrepreneurship and support small businesses. Incubators facilitate the success of a large number of start-ups ... -
Beyond agreeableness: social–relational personality concepts from an indigenous and cross-cultural perspective
(Elsevier, 2014)The links of social–relational concepts (SRC) of personality identified in South Africa with the Five Factor Model (FFM), Interpersonal Relatedness (IR), social desirability, and prosocialness were examined. In Study 1 (N ... -
Bias and equivalence of the strengths use and deficit correction questionnaire
(AOSIS, 2016)Orientation: For optimal outcomes, it is suggested that employees receive support from their organisation to use their strengths and improve their deficits. Employees also engage in proactive behaviour to use their strengths ...