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Browsing Research Articles (Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM)) by Type "Postprint Article"
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Thopil, George Alex; Pouris, Anastassios
(Elsevier, 2016-09)
Being a semi-arid country with limited fresh water resources and also a fossil fuel based energy intensive
country, South Africa encounters the added pressure of allocating limited water resources. Roughly 90% of
electricity ...
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Hoefnagel, Ruud; Oerlemans, Leon A.G.; Goedee, John
(SAGE, 2012-08)
Little is known about the determinants of acceptance by the general public of virtual delivery of governmental services. The authors conduct and empirical study of the factors that influence the willingness of individuals ...
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Krijkamp, Annefleur R.; Knoben, Joris; Oerlemans, Leon A.G.; Leenders, Roger T.A.J.
(Elsevier, 2021-05)
A large body of the literature has found that occupying structural holes positively affect organizational outcomes. Structural holes pose strategic opportunities for organizations that are knowledgeable of their advantageous ...
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Abukalusa, Khalid; Oosthuizen, Rudolph
(Emerald, 2025)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this study is to present an adaptive organisational leadership framework using systems thinking (ST) to address challenges within volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) environments. ...
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Thopil, George Alex; Pouris, Anastassios
(Elsevier, 2015-03)
Energy-environmental impacts associated with non-renewable electricity generation have attained
critical importance in South Africa. These impacts are quantified in order to obtain a monetary cost
relative to local ...
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Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, Leon
(Wiley, 2021-07)
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Bambo, Thabang Lazarus; Pouris, Anastassios
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)
The South African bioeconomy strategy did not clearly articulate the measurement framework to monitor the implementation of the strategy. This paper provides an analysis of bioeconomy patents, the most prolific organizations ...
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Grobbelaar, Schalk; Visser, J.K. (Jacobus)
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)
The South African sawn timber market supply and demand are in equilibrium and significantly associated with the local residential construction market. During the great financial crisis (GFC), the local residential construction ...
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Mangena, S.J.; Brent, Alan Colin
(Elsevier, 2006)
The South African economy is strongly based on coal as a mined resource, and various grades of coal are supplied to local and international customers. However, the environmental impacts associated with the preparation and ...
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Broughton, Elena Konstantinovna; Brent, Alan Colin; Haywood, L.
(Multi-Science, 2012-12)
The current decision-making processes that are involved in Environmental Impact
Assessments in the energy sector of South Africa suffer from, amongst others, the lack of
coherence and the integration of the opinions of ...
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Van den Heever, Henk; Oosthuizen, Rudolph
(Inderscience, 2024-01)
This paper presents a validation workflow to support system requirements analysis. Systems engineering supports the development of socio-technical systems. However, the traditional systems engineering approach of reducing ...
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Brent, Alan Colin; Rogers, David E.C.; Ramabitsa-Siimane, Tsaletseng S.M.; Rohwer, Mark B.
(Elsevier, 2007-08)
This paper focuses on the application of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique in the context of sustainable development to establish and optimise health care waste management (HCWM) systems in rural areas of ...
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Woyo, Erisher; Nyamandi, Costantine
(Routledge, 2022)
event like the Comrades Marathon in South Africa. Regardless of these perceptions, managers of sporting events are encouraged to make significant investments for the strategic development of virtual sports in the wake of ...
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Labuschagne, Carin; Brent, Alan Colin; Van Erck, Ron P.G.
(Elsevier, 2005)
Business sustainability entails the incorporation of the objectives of sustainable development, namely social equity, economic efficiency and environmental performance, into a company's operational practices. Companies ...
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Schuman, Charles A.; Brent, Alan Colin
(Emerald, 2005)
Purpose – Asset management is often one of the last options to maximise cost savings in a competitive global economy due to its intrinsic complexity, especially in many developing countries. Asset management in the process ...
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Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Bekker, M.C. (Michiel Christiaan)
(Emerald, 2019-09)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to investigate how project managers, influence the assignment of project team members by directly assigning or specifying who they want or by indirectly using lateral influence ...
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Bambo, Thabang Lazarus; Pouris, Anastassios
(Springer, 2020-10)
This document provides an analysis of bioeconomy research in South Africa and it discusses sources of growth in the country’s bioeconomy literature in general. We performed bibliometric analysis as indexed in the Web of ...
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Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, Leon
(Inderscience, 2022)
Publication of research outputs is a method of researchers to capture their knowledge generated. Analysing the publication topics and trends in a research field can provide insight into the main research trends. A bibliometric ...
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Keebler, Daniel; Walwyn, David Richard; Welte, Alex
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Population-type models, accounting for phenomena such as population lifetimes, mixing patterns, recruitment patterns, genetic evolution and environmental conditions, can be usefully applied to the biology of HIV infection ...
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Walwyn, David Richard; Bertoldi, Andreas; Gable, Christian
(Emerald, 2019)
PURPOSE : Hydrogen fuel cells could play an important role in meeting the challenges of the Two Degrees Scenario. The purpose of this paper is to review the development of this technology in South Africa with the aim of ...