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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 ... -
The bias ratio as a hedge fund fraud indicator: an empirical performance study under different economic conditions
(Clute Institute, 2014-07)The Sharpe ratio is widely used as a performance evaluation measure for traditional (i.e., long only) investment funds as well as less-conventional funds such as hedge funds. Based on mean-variance theory, the Sharpe ratio ... -
Black Generation Y gender differences in Premier Soccer League spectator motives : sport marketing
(AFAHPER-SDLAM PublicationsAJOLSabinet, 2014)The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are gender differences concerning Premier Soccer League (PSL) spectator motives amongst black Generation Y students in South Africa. In South Africa, the black ... -
Black Generation Y students attitudes towards the demarketing of tobacco and alcohol consumption
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)This article reports on a study undertaken to determine Black Generation Y students' attitudes towards the demarketing of tobacco and consequent attitudes towards the demarketing of alcohol consumption in South Africa. As ... -
Black Generation Y Students’ attitudes towards web advertising value
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)The study reported on in this article sought to determine black Generation Y students’ attitudes towards Web advertising value. The black Generation Y cohort (individuals born between 1986 and 2005) represent 84 percent ... -
"Black Gold" Grade 12-learners: relationship between leisure/sport and satisfaction with life
(Stellenbosch University, 2016)There tends to be an increase in scholarly literature regarding the leisure and sport participation of high school learners. However, in the South African context there are many black high school learners within townships ... -
Black Jack: do company benefits and feelings have an impact on my happiness?
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The aim of this study was to determine whether casino employees' benefits and their feelings about the company influence their experienced happiness. A total of 1 502 casino employees were surveyed (females = 57%; males = ... -
Box-Jenkins transfer function framework applied to saving-investment nexus in the South African context
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)This paper studied the relationship between investment and savings in South Africa for the period 1990 quarter 1 to 2014 quarter 3. The unit root test confirmed the non-stationarity of the series prior to first differencing. ... -
BREXIT - change is in the air
(2016)In our July article we shared some thoughts on implications for South Africa - and specifically agricultural exports, of the 'BREXIT' - the exit of Britain (or the United Kingdom) from the European Union (EU) membership ...