Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management (ETDs)

Permanent URI for this communityhttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/37778

Browse

Subject: search.filters.subject.Digital Technology

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Assessing the role of Digital Technology in bridging the gender gap for women in South Africa’s Fintech industry
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2024) Hassen, Zaahida; Magida, Ayanda
    Digital tech transforms finance and boosts inclusion. South Africa's fintech industry helps close gender gaps; research evaluates digital solutions to overcome barriers for women and promote progress in this evolving sector. Analysis shows how platforms and mobile banking improve inclusiveness for female empowerment towards financial equity across industries, including marginalised groups. This research aims to study how digital technology can reduce the gender gap in South Africa's fintech sector. The method used is quantitative, integrating the UTAUT framework and sampling 224 participants through a quota-based approach. Factors affecting women's acceptance of fintech are analyzed, including adoption levels, effort expectancy, social influence, enabling conditions, and behavioural intention for future trends among female professionals in the industry. The empirical analysis combined with experience-driven insights will enhance professional growth trajectories for underrepresented groups like females within larger organisational frameworks comprised mostly of elite bodies where access remains limited due to specific barriers hindering progressiveness. These efforts foster diversity, improve efficacy across value streams, and support the biodiversity agenda, increasing productivity when embraced rather than sidelined. South African women in fintech see digital tech as beneficial for financial inclusion and growth but face obstacles due to infrastructural and gender-specific work issues. Effort and social influence drive female utilisation of digital tech within the sector. Digital technology empowers South African fintech women for gender equality and economic growth. Suggestions include female-focused tech programs, inclusive regulatory policies, and collaborations between the government and private sector to promote diversity in fintech
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    The Impact of Digital Technology on Education in South Africa
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2022) Gupta, Shikha
    This study sought to determine the effect that digital technology would have on South Africa's educational system. The use of technology in educational settings may change how teaching and learning are carried out. Learning is made possible by technology, which can significantly reduce the growing gap in inequality and disparity and enhance the status of the economy. The research method used for this study is qualitative. To understand the motivations and behaviours of the target audience, the qualitative technique involves gathering perceptions and having faith in people's responses. Qualitative research aims to offer a more in-depth understanding of the problems. The following key themes emerged: Digital Technology, Willingness for Acceptance, Willingness for Implementation, Issues that Digital Technology Can Solve, and Advantages that Digital Technology Can Have. The results of technology in education spaces can have a profound impact and the findings are in closing the skills gap of the country, creating a more interconnected world, and giving access to educational resources, to mention a few
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    The diffusion of digital technology among Millennials and Gen X in the South African Aviation Industry
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023) Kgodane, Kabelo; Magida, Ayanda
    As digital technology continues to shape the aviation industry, it remains unclear how millennials and gen x help or hinder the diffusion of digital technology in the workplace to improve usage and shape the passenger digital technologies in the industry. This study examines the impact of millennials and gen x on the diffusion of digital technology in the South African Aviation Industry. A qualitative approach was adopted, and 12 participants were purposively selected and interviewed (with an equal representation of millennials and gen x). The participants were asked questions relating to their role as contributors to passenger digital technologies in the industry and as passengers (consumers of passenger digital technologies). The data was analysed thematically using an inductive and deductive approach to capture the rich responses. Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory underpinned this study and also informed the interviews and analysis of the data. The findings were in-depth insights that showed the two generational cohorts’ meaningful contributions in the workplace. Overall, the study found that millennials and gen x share similarities in their attitudes about the advantages and concerns of using passenger digital technologies in the workplace and showed differences in the challenges and disadvantages of using the technologies as passengers. Age, the social system, communication channels, and the role of time were found to play a big role in the diffusion process. The theoretical framework was useful in structuring the interviews and analysing the data collected using themes that emerged from the data and the framework. The findings indicated that the two generational cohorts belong to two important adopter category groups, which help the workplace diffusion process. This study contributes valuable insights that enrich the existing body of knowledge in the South African Aviation Industry. There are not many contributions related to the diffusion and usage of digital technology in the South African Aviation industry and in those that exist researchers use quantitative approaches to collect data. This study however illustrated the importance of using qualitative methodology in analysing the insights from the participants which provided a deeper
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Digital transformation of the interior design industry: selected case studies from South Africa, China and Canada
    (2021) Xiao, Jun Zhou
    In the context of the fourth Industrial Revolution, a series of digital technologies were derived. The emergence of these digital technologies has greatly promoted the industry's reform and innovation, among which the interior design industry is one. This paper mainly discusses the digital transformation of the interior design industry and studies the influence of digital technology on the operation of interior design enterprises, core design process, interior design products and users during the transformation process. This study is based on the feedback of interior design companies, designers and users in South Africa, Canada and China. By selecting different research objects of different digital infrastructure level, this study explores the role and effectiveness of digital technology in the process of the digital transformation of the interior design industry. By comparing the comprehensive data of different countries, this paper makes a comprehensive analysis of the interior design industry from the perspective of the digital transformation of interior design enterprises, core digital design process and interior design products and services to explore the importance and inevitability of digital transformation
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    The influence of incubation hub services on the post-graduation business performance of digital technology SMEs in South Africa
    (2021) Govind, Hasheel
    Digital technologies are disruptive technologies implemented across various sectors to improve business models, customer experiences, and value propositions. South African digital technology-focused SMEs arising through incubation programmes therefore have a meaningful role to play during this revolutionary period. Incubation programmes play a key role in providing services to SMEs with the objective of supporting the SME to become a financially sustainable entity after graduating from the incubation programme. The performance of an incubation programme is usually considered from the perspective of the incubation hub and not the SME, creating a lack of clarity in relation to the services that result in the business performance of the SME post-graduation. Thus, an investigation into the influence of the services provided by incubation programmes, with a specific focus on training and network development, on the post-incubation performance of the graduate digital technology SME is imperative, and was conducted through this study. The study was conducted from the perspective of the post-incubation graduate digital technology SME. This quantitative study utilised cross-sectional data collected from 130 digital technology SMEs, who participated and graduated from their respective incubation programmes. After performing hierarchical multiple linear regression, together with moderation analysis, the data was analysed. When performing the regression analysis with the predictor variables of network development and training and the dependent variable of financial capital raised, the value of R-square was 0.014, implying that the model was a poor fit. When the model was run with the same predictor variables of network development and training and the dependent variable of turnover growth, a R-square value of 0.43 was achieved implying that the model was good. Following the examination and interpretation of the data, it was found that the service of training provided by the incubation programme had a significant positive influence on the post-graduate digital technology SME’s turnover growth, but did not influence the financial capital raised by the digital technology SME post-incubation graduation. It was also found that the service of network development had a significant positive influence on the post-incubation graduate digital technology SME’s turnover growth, but did not influence the financial capital raised by the digital technology SME post-incubation graduation. It is therefore recommended that incubation hubs offer services that better equip digital technology SMEs with raising of financial capital post-graduation. This may be a contributing factor that assists with SME survival post-incubation