The following quantitative study investigated staff turnover at Company H, a hardware retailer, where 174 former employees were telephonically interviewed via a questionnaire. The results showed that staff enjoyed various factors at Company H but found their present management better than that...

The retail sector has become a major service provider and employs a largeproportion of the population. It is the expectations and of these retail employeesthat form the background to this research. Retail employment has often beenthe selected response to unemployment as there is relatively...

Mergers and acquisitions form the majority of FDI deals in the developed world,but remain relatively scarce as a mode of entry in the developing world. Thepurpose of this research was to investigate the macroeconomic profile ofdeveloping countries which attract greater M&A activity in the...

Research has shown that firms within the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)sector are innovating and launching new products to sustain and enhancemarket share. For innovation to be successfully launched and supported,however, resources especially financial resources are required. Thisresearch...

Multinational Corporations (MNCs) increasingly realise the importance of acknowledging their dispersed subunits as individual organisations with the potential to formulate strategies and implement autonomous decision making in order to ensure the MNC‟s competitive viability. As MNCs need to...

The decision to expand the operational base of the company into developingmarkets is but one of the many decisions that executives of multinational companiesshould be considering in todays age of increased globalisation. As foreign directinvestment can provide excellent alternatives to formal...

Many innovative and successful companies exist in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector in South Africa. It is not clear why or how they exist. The research used a qualitative approach to determine characteristics of these companies. Senior managers, mostly owners or CEOs, of...

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the impact of foreign entrants on theSouth African commercials production industry during the period 1990-2007.This industry, previous to 1990, had only very limited exposure to theinternational commercial production industry and the opening of the...

Resource scarcity and resource abundance along with a mindset of scarcity orabundance was researched within an innovative environment. The methodologyinvolved the use of four different scenarios within an experimental context. Thisenabled the researcher to present different environments to the...

This body of research investigates the capability and propensity of a selection ofinks and coatings manufacturing micro-, small- and medium enterprises, based inand around Cape Town in the Western Cape, to export product Academic literature reviewed emphasised the fact that the size of the...