Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "12306797 - Steenkamp, Ermie Annelies"
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Analysis of export and employment opportunities for the South African manufacturing industry
Malan, Johan; Steenkamp, Ermie Annelies; Rossouw, Riaan; Viviers, Wilma (2015)The South African government recognises the importance of promoting manufactured exports as a means of ensuring sustainable economic growth and job creation. However, export promotion organisations have limited resources ... -
Can a new export promotion strategy revitalise Zimbabwe's economy?
Mzumara, Macleans; Matthee, Marianne; Steenkamp, Ermie (Sabinet, 2013)After years of political and economic upheavals and disappointing trade performance, Zimbabwe sorely needs to revitalise its economy. An important step towards this outcome is to grow and strengthen the country's export ... -
Combining the export promotion of products and services: the case of South Africa
Grater, S.; Steenkamp, E.; Viviers, W.; Cuyvers, L. (UNISA, 2014)With the trade in services playing an increasingly important role in boosting economic growth and development in many countries, governments and business entities - particularly in developing countries - should be devoting ... -
Export market selection methods and the identification of realistic export opportunities for South Africa using a decision support model
Steenkamp, Ermie; Rossouw, Riaan; Viviers, Wilma; Cuyvers, Ludo (2009)Market selection methods, of which a vast number exist, are a critical tool in firms’ and government’s policy, planning and budgeting processes. To this end, the primary aim of this paper is to determine the international ... -
How a focused approach to export promotion can accelerate Zimbabwe's post-conflict reconstruction
Mzumara, Macleans; Matthee, Marianne; Steenkamp, Ermie (AfricaGrowth Institute, 2015)Zimbabwe, like many countries that have emerged from a protracted period of conflict, is slowly putting the pieces in place to turn its economy around. But many challenges are presenting themselves, not least of which is ... -
Identification and comparison of export opportunities for South African products and services
Grater, Sonja; Steenkamp, Ermie; Viviers, Wilma (2014)The objective of this study was to provide guidelines for the export promotion of products and services in South Africa. The study outlined the background to the original decision support model (DSM) and the adaptations ... -
The identification of realistic export opportunities for the South African pharmaceutical industry
Viviers, Wilma; Lubbe, Martie; Steenkamp, Ermie; Olivier, Douglas (Clute Institute, 2014)South Africa needs to advance its industrialisation process and diversify its exports if it is to enhance its global competitiveness ranking and meaningfully tackle the double scourge of unemployment and poverty. The ... -
Identifying accessible export opportunities for South Africa in South America
Jacobs, Carli; Viviers, Wilma; Steenkamp, Ermie (AOSIS, 2014)Despite the surging demand for imports in South America in recent years, South Africa’s exports to the region have shown relatively low growth. A contributing factor is the prevalence of trade barriers between South Africa ... -
Identifying accessible export opportunities for South Africa in South America
Jacobs, Carli; Viviers, Wilma; Steenkamp, Ermie (University of Johannesburg, 2014)Despite the surging demand for imports in South America in recent years, South Africa's exports to the region have shown relatively low growth. A contributing factor is the prevalence of trade barriers between South Africa ... -
Identifying new product and service export opportunities for South Africa using a decision support model
Viviers, Wilma; Cuyvers, Ludo; Steenkamp, Ermie; Grater, Sonja; Matthee, Marianne; Krugell, Waldo (Clute Institute, 2014-11)In the face of slow economic growth and development, and the perennial problems of unemployment, poverty and inequality, the South African government and business community have long recognised the importance of growing ... -
Identifying Thailand’s high-potential export opportunities in ASEAN+3 countries
Cuyvers, Ludo; Steenkamp, Ermie; Viviers, Wilma; Rossouw, Riaan; Cameron, Martin (Emerald, 2017)This paper aims to identify Thailand’s realistic export opportunities (REOs) in the ASEAN+3 countries (i.e. ASEAN, Greater China, Japan and South Korea), which together constitute an economically dynamic region and a ... -
Linking export opportunities of products and services: the case of South Africa
Grater, Sonja; Steenkamp, Ermie; Viviers, Wilma; Cuyvers, Ludo (2012)Trade in services has been playing an increasingly important role in the economic growth and development of many countries. In addition it has been found that services trade is more crisis-resilient than goods trade, leading ... -
Streamlining South Africa’s export development efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa: a decision support model approach
Steenkamp, Ermie; Grater, Sonja; Viviers, Wilma (WTO, 2016)Given its abundant natural resources and accelerating consumer-driven growth, sub-Saharan Africa has much to offer investors and traders. Yet the region remains weakly integrated into global and regional value chains, due ... -
Tru-cape fruit marketing, South Africa: managing the export market diversification challenge
Viviers, Wilma; Kühn, Marié-Luce; Steenkamp, Ermie; Berkman, Brian (International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, 2014)Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing (Tru-Cape), South Africa’s leading apple and pear distributor, has an impressive track record since its inception in 2001, growing its turnover from $50 million USD in its first year to $135 million ... -
Tru-Cape marketing, South Africa: managing the export market diversification challenge
Viviers, Wilma; Kühn, Marié-Luce; Steenkamp, Ermie; Berkman, Brian (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2014)Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing (Tru-Cape), South Africa’s leading apple and pear distributor, has an impressive track record since its inception in 2001, growing its turnover from $50 million USD in its first year to $135 million ... -
The utilization of export opportunities in the world market: a comparison of Belgium, South Africa and Thailand
Cuyvers, Ludo; Viviers, Wilma; Steenkamp, Ermie A. (International Academy of Business and Economics, 2011)A decision support model (DSM) was developed in 1995 by one of the authors with the main aim to identify realistic export opportunities (REOs) for a particular exporting country. The DSM results can assist export promotion ...