ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The business format, franchising, can be defined as "the granting of a licence for a predetermined financial return by a franchising company (franchisor) to its franchisees. The grant entitles them to make use of a complete business package, including training, support and the...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since packaging materials comprise a substantial percentage, namely 35% of the entire inputcost on a fruit farm, the four largest fruit producers in the Western Cape decided in 1988 toerect their own corrugated cardboard plant at Worcester, namely A P L Cartons.The driving...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This report is a literature study that focuses on the characteristics of successful project teams in the research and development environment. Successful project teams are becoming an increasingly important factor in business. However, traditional quantitative project...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The project accounting function is not adequately defined in project management and accounting textbooks. The objectives of this study were to identify the capabilities and potential involvement of the management and financial accountant in project management and to compare...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Clear Blue International (pty) Ltd (CBI) is a swimming pool construction companythat is in need of a high performance swimming pool pump in order to offer acompetitive tender for the construction of an intricate swimming pool at a prestigiousresort. There is one supplier of...

This paper discusses the literature on the management of projects with unforeseeable uncertainty. Recent work demonstrates that, when confronted with unforeseeable uncertainties, managers can adopt either a learning, trial-and-error-based strategy, or a parallel approach. In the latter,...

During the project early phase, considering a bidding process (BP), a client makes a request for a work or service to potential providers and then he chooses, by analyzing the responses, the one that will be accepted. From the bidder point of view, there are several risks when responding because...

This proposal is part of the thesis which is looking at the conception of the Campus Paris-Saclay (France) being part of the implementation of a nationwide public policy the main purpose of which to give France a higher education and research system of excellence. One of many reforms is to...

In this paper we propose to revisit two emblematic projects, Manhattan and Polaris, with the models developed by design theory. In particular we demonstrate, relying on recent advances in design theory, how these major projects, traditionally presented as radical innovations, are in fact quite...

El desarrollo local puede definirse como el crecimiento sostenible desde un punto de vista global, que considere a grandes rasgos aspectos económicos, sociales y medioambientales, lo que implicaría realizar una serie de proyectos enfocados a alcanzar metas en cada una de esas áreas. Los...