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  • Perceptions regarding the Future of Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa 
    Nair, Kubendran (2012-10-04)
    The future direction of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in South Africa is uncertain. The literature shows divided views between CSR staying and CSR fading. The literature on the future of CSR is limited with the ...
  • PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING IN 
    Gaithi, Lucy Muthoni (2011-05-05)
    South Africa has since the end of apartheid struggled with the issue of poor public sector performance. Performance contracting for public servants, introduced to improve the public sector’s performance, has not borne ...
  • PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PREFERENCES OF SOUTH AFRICAN PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES 
    Ntombela, Moiloa Harry (2011-06-06)
    An efficient public sector is an essential element to unleash the full potential of any economy, and in creating a progressive society. Since 1994, major reforms in the South African public sector have brought about a new ...
  • THE PERFORMANCE OF 
    McLaren, Grant McLaren (2011-05-13)
    Previous research has reached no consensus on the performance of brokerage firms’ stock recommendations. This study evaluates whether brokerage firms’ stock recommendations have investment value, and whether individual ...
  • The Performance of an Efficient Portfolio Index During Extreme Market Conditions In South Africa 
    Surtee, Yaseen (2012-01-17)
    Modern portfolio theory dates back to the work of Markowitz (1952), when he first introduced the concept of efficient portfolio selection, suggesting that there is only one combination of shares that would maximise an ...
  • Performance of Low Price-Earnings Companies 
    Sin, Johnny Chong Chap (2011-03-28)
    Practitioners on the stock exchange have claimed that low price earnings (P/E) ratio stocks are generally bargains and do better than the stocks with high P/E ratios. This effect is usually known as the P/E ratio ...
  • The Performance of Standard 
    Harms, Philip (2011-04-13)
    The performance of the Yield Enhanced Security (YES) and the Yield Enhanced Security Plus (Yes-Plus) offered in South Africa by Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank was modelled over a ten-year period. Through combinations ...
  • The Persistence of Investor Overreaction on the JSE 
    Brand, Rian (2012-12-04)
    Since the 1980s, behavioural finance has chipped away at the efficient market hypothesis by pointing out several anomalies, such as market overreaction. The efficient market hypothesis predicts that once an anomaly has ...
  • Personality trait theories of online entrepreneurs in South Africa 
    Mupaya, Knox (2012-11-14)
    High unemployment levels plague South Africa and entrepreneurship is pivotal in addressing this problem. This study seeks to ascertain what the personality traits are for online entrepreneurs and permits to conclude whether ...
  • Planning consultant led organisational change 
    Dohmen, Tammy (2011-04-05)
    The contracting of consultancies to lead the implementation of many organisational change projects in the South African public sector has not always led to the successful implementation of these projects. Seeing as the ...
  • POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR HOUSING 
    MURANGIRA, SHEMA IDA (2011-06-15)
    The provision of housing as per the Housing policy in Rwanda does not effectively address the needs of low-income earners. The purpose of this study is to identify whether there an evidence-informed policy framework can ...
  • POLICY IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS PROGRAMME IN GAUTENG 
    Manthata, Maila Abner (2011-05-13)
    Policy implementation remains a critical and complex phase of the public policy process. Its complexity is based on factors that facilitate or hinders its success. Policy implementation requires the formulation of clear ...
  • POLICY OPTIONS FOR THE ENERGY SECTOR IN MAURITIUS 
    Philogène, Didier (2011-06-07)
    The objectives of this research were to identify the main issues which affect and influence policy decisions in the energy sector in Mauritius. The study aims at providing valuable insights to reinforce the energy sector ...
  • POLICY SHIFTS 
    Reetsang, Willie (2011-06-09)
    The birth of multi party democracy in 1994 brought about hope and an enabling environment to develop policies that will concretise the transformation process. The 1996 white paper was direct resultant of the Arts and ...
  • Political Leadership and Racial Harmony in Local Government 
    Maimane, Mmusi Aloysias (2012-10-02)
    This is a study on political leadership and the manner with which it seeks to create a society that is racial harmonized. Racial harmony is about development. A number of variables will examine how development takes place. ...
  • Popular Justice in a "New South Africa" : From People's Courts to Community Courts in Alexandra 
    Nina, Daniel (Centre for Applied Legal Studies, 1992-03)
  • POSITIONING AND INTERACTIVITY OF E-COMMERCE WEBSITES WITHIN SOUTH AFRICA 
    Bratby, Delwin (2011-03-22)
    The aim of this research was to investigate how developments within the Internet and ecommerce environment were perceived and used in South Africa. Pertinent literature was reviewed. Direct quantitative marketing research ...
  • POSITIONING FIT AND CATEGORY FIT DURING BRAND 
    SLADE, DOMINIC JOHNATHAN (2011-05-17)
    Brand extensions are a popular method adopted by marketers and brand custodians to enhance and augment brand equity and there have been numerous studies undertaken to determine the factors that play a role during this ...
  • Post-listing Performance of Initial Public Offerings in South Africa 
    Moodley, Kuvasen (2011-10-24)
    Initial Public Offering’s (IPO’s) represent one of the vehicles used when a company lists on a particular stock exchange. The listing process amongst other things may involve an underwriter, and the role of the underwriter ...
  • A post-training evaluation of a 
    van Steenderen, Margaret (2011-06-24)
    The research problem was to evaluate a “Grow your Business” training course that had been run amongst informal traders. The City of Johannesburg rolled out the training course to 962 traders during 2005 and 2006. They ...

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