• Measuring the causal effect of women’s schooling on contraceptive use in Nigeria 

  Ajefu, J.B. (Routledge, 2019-09-03)

  This paper uses the 2008 Nigerian Demographic Health Survey to investigate the effect of women’s schooling on contraceptive use. In order to control for endogeneity of women’s schooling, this paper uses an instrumental ...
• Structure and an unstable business operating environment: Revisiting burns and stalker’s organisation-environment theory in zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector 

  Sibindi, N; Samuel, O.M (AOSIS (pty) Ltd, 2019-12-10)

  Background: Turbulent socioeconomic contexts coupled with volatile political environments pose a serious survival threat to business organisations. Complex operational environment of this dimension most often resists ...
• Subjective well-being impact of old age pension in South Africa: A difference in difference analysis across the gender divide 

  Umakrishnan, K; Mfongeh, N. E (AOSIS (pty) Ltd, 2019-12-06)

  Background: South Africa provides old age pension (OAP), a non-contributory means-tested income transfer to persons aged 60 and above. More than two-thirds of the elderly population report receiving the OAP. Women have ...
• Core values as drivers of entrepreneurial performance A study of SMEs in Ugandas central region 

  Ismail Kintu; Robert Venter
• Preventing compulsive shopping among young South-Africans and Germans 

  Duh, H; Thorsten, T.b (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2019-04-15)

  Purpose: Young consumers globally are susceptible to becoming compulsive shoppers. Having negative consequences and considering that compulsive shopping may originate from past family life experiences, this study aims to ...
• Lakatos revisited: Innovation and ‘Novel facts’ as a foundational logic for the social sciences in an era of ‘Post-truth’ and pseudoscience 

  Callaghan, C.W. (Cogent OA, 2019-01-01)

  : In what seems to be a “post-truth” era this paper argues that management theory development is necessary to provide insights into how to manage the academic research, or discovery system, itself, as it no longer seems ...
• The effect of transformational leadership on intention to quit through perceived organisational support, organisational justice and trust 

  Engelbrecht, A; Samuel, O.M (AOSIS (pty) Ltd, 2019)

  Background: The literature has extensively presented evidence to establish that employee turnover is costly and destructive to organisational processes and outcomes. Organisations in South Africa are experiencing a high ...
• An exploratory perspective of student performance and access to resources 

  Papageorgiou, E; Callaghan, C.W (Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research, 2014-11-01)

  This research investigated the relationships between potential constraints to students’ access to technological resources and student academic performance. Longitudinal data from 2010 (n=228), 2011 (n=340) and 2012 (n=347) ...
• South African business in the transition to democracy 

  Michie, J; Padayachee, V (2019-01-02)

  The transition to democracy in South Africa represents one of the most celebrated political moments of the late 20th C. While much has been said about the narrowly political and constitutional aspects of this period in ...
• Does having children affect women’s entrepreneurship decision? Evidence from Nigeria 

  Ajefu, J B (2019-05-16)

  This paper investigates the impact of fertility on women’s entrepreneurship decision in Nigeria, using the 2008 and 2013 cross-sectional Demographic Health Surveys data. In order to mitigate the potential endogeneity ...
• Supply chain partnership, supply chain collaboration and supply chain integration as the antecedents of supply chain performance 

  Mofokeng, T M; Chinomona, R (AOSIS (Pty) Ltd., 2019-02-26)

  Background: It is understood that improving performance has become an important objective of supply chains. As such, strategies have been adopted as an effort towards increasing performance. Amongst these strategies, ...
• Facebook communication and marketing influence on decision-making and choice of university student representatives : a student’s perspective 

  Chininga, Tapiwa; Rungani, Ellen; Chilliya, Norman; Chuchu, Tinashe (SNSPA - Facultatea de Comunicare și Relații Publice, 2019)

  Facebook has become the main platform for young adults to sustain their social presence as well as expand their social networks. The impact of social media on youth decision-making has attracted much attention in research ...
• Fostering diversity through South Africa's broad based black economic empowerment act 

  Ijasan, Eseigboria Grace Paula (2018)

  South Africa gained strong recognition all over the world after the fall of apartheid. Alas their quest to depolarizing the economy of the country has not ended. Several transformational initiatives have been set up by the ...
• Immigration Internal Migration and Crime in South Africa A multilevel model analysis 

  Kollamparambil, U (Wiley Online Library, 2019-09)

  A review of South African literature on crime confirms the lack of a study that considers the impact of migration on the crime rate in the country. The high levels of crime in South Africa aside, additional motivation ...
• The effect of transformational leadership on intention to quit through perceived organisational support organisational justice and trust 

  Engelbrecht, , A; Samuel, O.M. (AOSIS (pty) Ltd, 2019)

  Background: The literature has extensively presented evidence to establish that employee turnover is costly and destructive to organisational processes and outcomes. Organisations in South Africa are experiencing a high ...
• An investigation into the factors influencing the purchase intentions of smart wearable technology by students 

  Nkonko, E.K.; Chiliya, N; Chuchu, T; Ndoro, T (International Association of Online Engineering, 2019)

  The purpose of this study was to examine the factors which influence the purchase intentions of Smart wearable technology by students in South Africa. The researchers, guided by literature developed a conceptual framework ...
• Supply chain partnership, supply chain collaboration and supply chain integration as the antecedents of supply chain performance 

  Mofokeng, T.M.; Chinomona, R (Sabinet, 2019-02-26)

  Background: It is understood that improving performance has become an important objective of supply chains. As such, strategies have been adopted as an effort towards increasing performance. Amongst these strategies, ...
• A review of South Africa’s National Research Foundation’s ratings methodology from a social science perspective 

  Callaghan, C (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018)

  One of South Africa's National Research Foundation's (NRF) activities is to award ratings to academics who apply according to predefined categories. Explicitly or not, these ratings are part of submissions academics make ...
• Business rescue practices in South Africa: An explorative view 

  Naidoo, T; Patel, A; Padia, N (AOSIS (pty) Ltd, 2018-06-20)

  Given the seemingly low rate of success of the current business rescue regime (at just 13.6% as at June 2015), this study sought to identify whether the current business rescue regime in South Africa realises its intended ...
• Can progressive macroeconomic policy address growth and employment while reducing inequality in South Africa 

  Padayachee, M (2019)

  This article aims to set out some progressive, mainly post-Keynesian, macroeconomic policy ideas for debate and further research in the context of macroeconomic challenges faced by South Africa today. Despite some successes, ...

View more