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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)) by Type "Dissertation"
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-07-08)Insider trading is one of the most unscrupulous financial crimes, as it results in people placed in positions of trust effectively stealing from those that they were supposed to protect. This research examined the volumes ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-29)One of the ways the world has responded to the threat of global warming is by drafting the Kyoto Protocol and the associated Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to reduce greenhouse gases. South Africa is an attractive country ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-21)The aim of this study was to investigate how Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in South Africa balance sustainability with developmental objectives. Twelve semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with microfinance ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-27)The competitive nature of the world of work today and the resultant opportunities in global career mobility for knowledge workers is gaining momentum across industries. This emergence of the global economy has prompted the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-21)The frequency with which acquisitions occur in the South African business environment served as motivation to evaluate the effect of acquisition announcements on the share performance of JSE listed shares. The basis of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)In active portfolio management, fund managers seek to follow an investment strategy with the objective of outperforming an investment benchmark index. Opportunities to outperform a benchmark in active fund management is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-01)Active weight, active expense ratio and active alpha are measures that can be calculated with relative ease for any fund using publicly available data. However, for active weight to be truly useful to an investor the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-07-06)This research project investigates the requirements or factors that will influence mcommerce adoption in low-income markets. The framework incorporated awareness, availability, convenience, affordability and acceptability ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Millions of people in South Africa watch television commercials on a daily basis. Advertising either shapes or reflects society. Either way, the relationship between diversity in advertising agencies and the diversity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-16)‘The state wants laws reviewed to turn around Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)’ Pressly, D (2007, p1) Business Report. Is it Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) or Black Economic Self Enrichment or Black Economic Embezzlement ...
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After the goldrush : willingness to pay for concert service and product attributes in South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2012)After the gold rush that was the recorded music business in the twentieth century, the industry finds itself in a difficult time of severely reduced revenues from recorded works distributed on physical media. As the industry ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-08)Many studies have been done to determine the benefits that the alignment of business and IT strategies can achieve. This has become more prominent as IT has evolved. Previous studies have highlighted that this has been ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-09)Recent economic crises coupled with corporate scandals have plunged the world into the greatest financial predicament it has faced in almost a century. Deregulation has empowered business leaders and their subsequent ...
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An analysis of internal organisational factors that support intrapreneurship in BoP business units (University of Pretoria, 2010-07-08)The Base of the Pyramid (BoP), the world’s four billion poorest people, represents an opportunity for large companies to grow their revenue. However, the challenges in the BoP require organisations to adopt an entrepreneurial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The purpose of sustainability reports is to represent the progress of a company’s sustainability effort and status to stakeholders. There is a need for stakeholders to benchmark sustainability performance of companies. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Globally, and within South Africa women are not well represented in the top echelons of leadership. Maria Ramos, the current Group Chief Executive of Absa Group Limited, is ranked the 11th most powerful woman internationally ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-01)This research studies the effect of enterprise risk management (ERM) on financial indicators that effect the shareholder value of Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed companies during the economic downturn of 2008 – ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The growth of FDI inflow to developing countries is increasing, so have the questions of why some developing countries have succeeded in attracting and absorbing FDI benefits. These countries are seen to have found the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-07)The cyclical nature of the automotive industry has been blamed for many dealership closures as well as thousands of retrenchments. Macro environmental changes like the recent spike in oil prices and the sub-prime debacle ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-04-10)Academic literature on the analysis of value creation in private equity industry is still in its infancy. The approach to value attribution is still a contended subject by both academic and professional writers. The purpose ...
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