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Commodity derivative transaction comparability: evidence from South Africa
(Clute Institute, 2012)Financial statements are used by investors and financiers in their investment or financing decisions. The accounting treatment of individual transactions is reflected in the annual financial statements; therefore, similar ... -
Commodity prices and stock market performance in South Africa
(Virtus Interpress, 2014)As an export based economy, commodity prices and stock market performances are always a course for concern in the South African economy. This paper investigates the effects of the commodity prices and selected macroeconomic ... -
Communication and relationship satisfaction in Chinese, Western and Intercultural Chinese-Western couples
(American Psychological Association, 2016)The current study compared Chinese, Western, and intercultural Chinese-Western couples' communication and examined how culture moderates the association of communication with relationship satisfaction. We coded the ... -
Community participation in crime prevention: informal social control practices in Site B, Khayelitsha Township
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)The role of informal social controls and their sanctions are still given little attention in crime prevention field. Some people still regard fighting and preventing crime as the work of the government and its agencies. ... -
Community participation in NGO development projects in Zimbabwe: myth or reality?
(Kamla-Raj, 2016)For Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to bring about development to the communities they work with, it is imperative that they effectively employ participatory methodologies for their beneficiaries to take initiative ... -
Community-based and pro-poor tourism: initial assessment of their relation to community development
(Varna University of Managemen, 2016)Alternative forms of tourism development from its conventional approach such as community-based tourism (CBT) and pro-poor tourism (PPT) are proposed to be specifically relevant to alleviate poverty and facilitate the ... -
Community-based tourism: an exploration of the concept(s) from a political perspective
(Cognizant Communication Corporation, 2012)Tourism is always seen as a viable alternative means of boosting development in developing countries. Similarly, community-based tourism (CBT) is generally associated with development in poor, especially rural, communities. ... -
Community-based tourism: from a local to a global push
(AOSIS, 2016)Orientation: World inequality is growing and tourism contributes to it; an alternative option is, therefore, needed towards a more just and redistributive approach to this industry. Purpose: The aim is to propose that there ... -
Comparative advantage of value-added services: the case of South Africa
(University of Primorska, 2014)Global supply chains have changed the way in which products are produced internationally. The inputs into a final product include both intermediate goods and services, which adds value to the final product. Gross trade ... -
A comparative analysis of current trade union trends in the European Union and South Africa
(Academic journals, 2012)The primary objective of this study was to establish what factors currently influence trade unions as organisations in South Africa and the European Union and then to compare these factors. To conduct this study a pure ... -
Comparative analysis of two conceptual frameworks to measure creativity at a university
(LLC “Consulting Publishing Company “Business Perspectives”, 2014)Creativity is often misunderstood due to inconsistencies concerning the definition of creativity, the methodologies used to explain creativity as a phenomenon and the various measurement instruments to determine creative ... -
A comparative assessment of the economic benefits from shale gas extraction in the Karoo, South Africa
(UNISA, 2014)It has been said that the development of a shale gas industry could be a 'game changer' for South Africa. Proponents of shale gas tend to emphasise the benefits, whilst opponents emphasise the environmental costs. This ... -
Comparative study of Holt-Winters triple exponential smoothing and seasonal Arima: forecasting short term seasonal car sales in South Africa
(Virtus interpress, 2016)In this paper, both Seasonal ARIMA and Holt-Winters models are developed to predict the monthly car sales in South Africa using data for the period of January 1994 to December 2013. The purpose of this study is to choose ... -
Comparing different methods to determine the relationship between environmental performance and economic performance: an empirical study of the South African mining industry
(Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2011)The study investigated the South African mining industry and estimated the linear association between environmental performance and economic performance and developed a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to estimate the ... -
Comparing the South African stock markets response to two periods of distinct instability the 1997-98 East Asian and Russian crisis and the recent global financial crisis
(Clute Institute, 2014-05)This paper compares the South African stock markets response to two periods of distinct instability, namely the East Asian and Russian crisis of 1997-98 and the global financial crisis of 2007-09. Considering share prices, ... -
Comparing tourists’ and residents’ motivations for travelling to Kruger National Park, South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)This study analysed the motivations for visiting South Africa's Kruger National Park, with the aim of identifying similarities and differences between tourists' motives and those of people living near the Park. A factor ... -
Comparing trust levels of male and female managers: measurement invariance of the behavioural trust inventory
(Sage, 2016)Despite the widely acknowledged need for validated trust measurement instruments and the legal obligation to ensure that psychometric tests are unbiased towards different groups in South Africa, no attempt has ever been ... -
A comparison of the traditional and simplified methods for water poverty index calculation
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)The aim of this research is to quantify the difference in the water poverty index when calculated with the traditional method, compared to the new and simplified water poverty indices. It is calculated and compared for the ... -
Comparison of trauma on survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence in Limpopo
(Aosis Publishing, 2014)Background: Gender-based violence is a challenge in South Africa, despite available interventions. Caring for the survivors of both forms of violence is critical for ensuring their speedy recovery. Objectives: To compare ... -
Competitive intelligence in a foreign environment: German and Canadian firms compared
(Physica-Verlag HD, 2005)The objective of this chapter was to examine the intelligence practices of German MNE's and contrast these to those found in Canadian and U.S. studies. Taking into consideration the caveats involved in the comparison of ...