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Qualitative evaluation of the design variables of a teaching intervention to expose accounting students to pervasive skills
(Sage, 2016)The primary objective of this article is to evaluate the design variables of a newly developed teaching intervention, 'The Amazing Tax Race'. It comprises a race against time in which accounting students participate within ... -
Qualities of work-related well-being in selected South African occupations
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study investigated the structure of work-related well-being in four occupational groups in South Africa. The participants were 4 006 employees, namely educators and administrative personnel (n = 2501), insurance ... -
Quality education and the impact of public and independant schools writing the national senior certificate examination in South Africa
(The Clute Institute, 2014)A new education curriculum for a new democratic dispensation was welcomed and unavoidable in South Africa after the first democratic election in 1994. The main reason for this radical change within education was that ... -
The quality of human capital in South Africa: evidence from a firm survey
(Academic journals, 2012)This paper examines the restrictive nature of human capital in the South African economy, and the impact it has on productivity in the manufacturing sector. These restrictions include an inadequately educated workforce and ... -
Quantifying savanna woody cover in the field and on historical imagery: a methodological analysis
(AJOL, 2014)The proliferation of woody vegetation on open grass savannas constitutes degradation in rangeland quality. Historical high spatial resolution satellite imagery in archive provides possibilities for assessing increase in ... -
The quest for sustainable firm value
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The question is not whether to promote or not to promote, but rather when to promote
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) is one of South Africa's largest and most popular arts festivals. The success of the festival is dependent on the number of tickets sold. Therefore, in order to ensure an ... -
Questioning the context of corporate performance measures in bechmarking CEO compensation
(Corporate Ownership & Control, 2015)The purpose of the study was to reflect on existing practices in studying the CEO pay performance issue, with special reference to the context wherein the financial performance measurements were employed. In total, an ... -
Radical business ethics: a critical and postmetaphysical manifesto
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Business ethics, as it is understood and practised generally, lacks a component of radicality. As part of the contemporary ‘return to ethics’ it displays an undesirable conservatism and blocks off possibilities for systemic ... -
The random walk theory and stock prices: evidence from Johannesburg stock exchange
(The Clute Institute, 2014)In this paper, we test the Johannesburg Stock Exchange market for the existence of the random walk hypothesis using monthly time series of the All Share Index (ALSI) covering the period 2000 2011. Traditional methods, such ... -
Re-evaluation of the Platinum SDI : a critical commentary
(University of Johannesburg Department of Finance and Investment Management, 2011)The Platinum Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) in the North West Province was initiated 10 years ago to address the spatial economic development challenges of the region. This revised commentary aims to re-evaluate ... -
Reactive versus proactive management system: Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) housing delivery’s unintended consequences
(Business Perspectives, 2015)The South African democratic government is overwhelmed by unintended consequences resulting from its objective of not only wanting to reconstruct and develop communities, but also to uplift people whose shelter and wealth ... -
Realising the potential of services SMEs in developing economies
(International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), 2017)The tremendous technological advances that have taken place in recent years have created a new kind of world – one in which production processes are increasingly being split up and outsourced to different countries that ... -
Reasons and strategies associated with positive interaction between work and home amongst managers: An exploratory study
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)Orientation: In order to facilitate positive interaction between work and home, it is necessary to understand the reasons for and strategies used by managerial employees to manage this interaction. Research purpose: The ... -
Reassessing the export-led growth relationship through cointegration methods
(The Social Sciences Research Society, 2016)The purpose of this study was to assess the applicability of the export-led growth nexus in the context of Namibia for the period 1990 to 2013 through the application of the Vector Autoregression (VAR) technique, which ... -
Reconsidering the role of food prices in South African headline inflation
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)The conventional wisdom is that food price shocks are temporary and hence do not usually warrant specific attention in policy formulation. However, more recently, empirical evidence has shown that food price shocks are ... -
A reflection on historical biblical principles in support of ethical stewardship
(Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 2013)Recent corporate history illustrates that, although accounting is acknowledged as the language of the contemporary business environment, it is not merely a detached technical activity, but rather a battlefield of diverse ... -
Reflections on operational competencies required of educators at public secondary schools
(2013)The primary objective of this study was to identify the operational competencies perceived by educators to be important in teaching at secondary schools. The secondary objective was to investigate the relationship between ... -
Reframing the Tower of Babel narrative for economic justice within the South African context
(AOSIS, 2016)The Tower of Babel narrative is profoundly connected to the history of South Africa and its interpretation in the Dutch Reformed Church document entitled Human Relations and the South African Scene in the Light of Scripture ... -
Regional determinants of entrepreneurial start-ups in a developing country
(Routledge, 2008)n this paper we use data from a developing country, South Africa, to empirically identify the determinants of start-up rates across different sub-national regions and in particular to investigate the role of access to ...