The purpose of the research was to identify the reasons given by South African junior mining and exploration companies for their choice of listing location. This will assist the JSE Securities Exchange in developing a ...
Records management is an important component of information management.
Records represent a major source of information that provides evidence of decisions,
actions, and interactions between government and citizens. ...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has over the past number of years
become more predominant in business and a number of organisations
around the world have implemented various types of ERP software; such
as SAP, JD ...
The UN’s challenges and deficiencies such as the lack of; coherence, efficiency, effectiveness and relevance at country level is well documented, however there is silence in the literature on causality of these deficiencies. ...
Leave benefits are a source of investment for most employees.
Employees accumulate leave benefits as savings for encashment on
retirement. Leave benefits are commuted to cash when employees face
difficult situations ...
This study assessed the achievements of gradualist reforms in the financial
sector, particularly in the Indian banking sector, during the last fifteen years. It
identifies its effectiveness and critical challenges. The ...
Stock markets in Africa are small, underdeveloped and generally
undercapitalised by world standards. Until recently they have been perceived as
too risky to invest in by external investors. The “old” perception of Africa ...
In recent times, there has been a significant increase in the level of interest in
corporate social responsibility (CSR) amongst regulators, legislators, shareholders
and broader stakeholder groups. The major driving ...
The South African economy has, over the last 18 months, experienced severe change. The good times have been replaced with bad. The once buoyant consumer riding the crest of the wave and with an unquenchable appetite for ...
Exchange rate fluctuations are believed to affect the value of construction companies with foreign sales and/or operations for various economic reasons. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between ...
The study examines the relationship between the costs of initial public offerings (IPOs) and IPO underpricing within the South African IPO market. The sample consists of 59 firms which listed on the Main Board of the JSE ...
The project research investigated the inhibitors and facilitators of the relationship
that exists among the marketing and the manufacturing departments in a South
African manufacturing company. The increase in volume of ...
The volatility of a share or market is used as a proxy for risk in a number of
financial calculations. Volatility measures the deviation from the average value, and
is therefore an estimate of how much a share or market ...
Style indices can be created for any investment style by calculating the
weighted average performance of the shares that form part of a particular style,
be these value, growth, large, small, etcetera. This study ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of personorganisational
fit and espoused-organisational fit with organisational commitment.
The random sample comprised of employees belonging to six SBUs of a ...
The international accounting firms in South Africa are placing significant emphasis on relationship marketing of their professional services divisions. The reason for this is that internationally and locally, significant ...
The relative importance of the asset allocation decision versus the security selection decision in the investment process has been the subject of fierce debate over the last two decades. There is a common misconception ...
The recent rise in the numbers of high net worth and high net income individuals and
deregulation, globalisation and information access has driven the rapid growth in private
banking in South Africa. Competition is fierce ...
At the forefront of the marketing battlefield, Customer Equity and Brand Equity have been identified as important drivers of shareholder value. Fulfilling this role, Brand Equity is viewed as the inherent value of the brand ...
Marketers in the fuel retail industry in South Africa communicate with customers and prospects through advertising, sales promotions, the sales force, publicity and sponsorship and point of purchase communications. These ...