Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Graduate School of Business and Leadership) by Title
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Toward the construction of a business bootstrapping model to equip emerging micro business in the first year of operation in South Africa.
(2019)SMMEs industry in South Africa contributes approximately 52 to 57 percent of the GDP. SMMEs sector is envisaged to 90 percent in the next few years towards South African GDP and employment. More than 50 percent of businesses ... -
Towards a management approach for sustainable social development programmes for orphans in southern Africa : application of systems theory.
(2010)The study explored transforming social development project management practice into delivering sustainable benefits for orphans in Zimbabwe, in particular and more generally, in southern Africa. The endemic failures to ... -
Towards a total disaster risk management framework for implementation of disaster risk reduction programmes : the case of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.
(2016)Man-kind for a long time continues to be exposed to many risks and disasters that cause destruction of property, loss of livelihood and lives. South Africa‘s commitment in Disaster Management (DM) gained momentum immediately ... -
Understanding the causes for a low success rate of technology- prompted change: a case study of Toyota South Africa.
(2016)Technological advancements are inevitable if a business wants to remain competitive, however, in addition to the multiple benefits there are also numerous difficulties associated with the implementation of new technology ... -
Unlocking informal small-to-medium enterprises’ potential in an African economy. a case study of the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe.
(2017)Entrepreneurship in Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which include informal and micro business globally remains innovative and perform to the extent where the economies of countries resolve around the employment and ... -
The use of the systems thinking approaches to develop a holistic model to improve stakeholder management in the eThekwini Water and Sanitation unit (EWS)
(2022)Challenges faced by the eThekwini Municipality’s Water and Sanitation Unit (EWS) in implementing water and sanitation projects include competing interests among various stakeholder groups who see water services from ... -
Using creative holism to inform new partnerships as a component of responsivity in the FET sector.
(2011)I see my research as an exercise in critical systemic practice, expressed as Creative Holism, an approach to organisational research in complex problematical situations attributed to Jackson (2003; 2006), which informs my ... -
Women at the top: unlocking the full potential of women in leadership in the petroleum industry. Abesifazane abaseqhulwini: siqaqa amandlakuzenzela aphelele abesifazane abangabaholi embonini kaphethiloli.
(2022)The study investigated the challenges faced by women in their endeavour to climb up to managerial positions in the petroleum industry in South Africa. The study was motivated by an overwhelmingly huge female worker ... -
Workplace harassment and its impact on staff performance: a case study of a South African Higher Education Institution.
(2013)Higher education institutions (HEIs) face many challenges that arise both from the external environment and from their internal structures. They have to comply with the Constitution of South Africa and employment ...