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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)) by Type "Thesis"
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The current descriptions of bricolage largely present it as a behaviour in new businesses in richer contexts. Therefore, more diverse context-specific explanations are needed in order to deepen our understanding of bricolage. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018-02-09)Although organisational capabilities have been recognised as a key source of competitive advantage, the empirical understanding of marketing capability and its associated components is still relatively under-developed. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Situated within the field of marketing studies, this research employs a transformative consumer research lens to examine the challenges of targeting markets that are increasingly multicultural. Extant studies, deriving ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Management scholars lament the lack of understanding of how organisation change actually happens. Simple reductionist models that describe planned, step-wise linear processes of organisation change fail to do justice to ...
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Customer perceived benefits and loyalty programme effectiveness in the financial services industry (University of Pretoria, 2018)The effectiveness of loyalty programmes continues to be questioned, especially as their cost to firms increase together with their adoption rate across industries worldwide. Given the divergent industry specific findings ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-04-12)South Africa is an emerging economy with a heterogeneous population. As South African organisations undergo transformation to address imbalances of the past, management teams are becoming increasingly diverse. The impact ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Extant brokerage literature is teeming with explanations of brokerage across structural holes (open networks), but lean on the accounting for brokerage opportunities in closed networks. Predominantly, brokerage is presented ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This study examined effect of partnering, infrastructure gaps and currency weakness on the implementation cost of infrastructure-building nonmarket strategy. Limited knowledge on cost of nonmarket strategy existed, leading ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The take-the-best heuristic is one of the decision-making strategies used to optimise organisational decisions made under uncertainty. Previous heuristics research focuses on the flaws emanating from using heuristics for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This study examines the link between emerging market multinationals’ home non-market advantages and their affiliates’ strategic responses to institutions in a host emerging country. Drawing on the agency perspective in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)As the practice of organisational development (OD) bifurcates into the traditional form of diagnostic OD and the emerging form of dialogic OD (Bushe & Marshak, 2009) it is especially important to obtain a better theoretical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The ability of entrepreneurs to incubate new venture opportunity remains an under-researched area of entrepreneurship studies. When engaged actors are motivated to pursue such activity venturing action is invigorated. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Within the third sector, scarce resources make it difficult for social enterprises to survive financially, become more innovative and entrepreneurial, and generally grow and develop to scale. Although there is no agreement ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-11-21)Value creation is central to stakeholder theory, which suggests that firms should take into account the interests of, and create value for, all its stakeholders. However, literature on stakeholder value creation has focused ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The challenges limiting agricultural development in underdeveloped markets relate directly to inappropriate storage facilities. These challenges are not unique to Uganda where majority smallholder maize farmers use ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This research focuses on the function of sport fan identity in seeking optimal psychological distinctiveness. The purpose of the study was to investigate the mechanisms through which sport fans balance the psychological ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)One critical aspect of a multinational's (MNE) non-market strategy is its political strategy the management of a firm's political capabilities and actors to influence public policy outcomes. Research on corporate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Entrepreneurs require some elements of human capital investment (work experience, education, industry-specific and entrepreneurship-specific experience) and skills to perform entrepreneurial activities in different ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This research investigated the impact of complexity on the effectiveness of intuition in decision making. Empirical experimental research was conducted to examine the relationship between the use of intuition and decision ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This research focussed on the performance of individuals in work teams. The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of the team processes which could explain time-associated differences, in the performance ...
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