Ph. D.

Seventy two questionnaires returned by members of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, provided evidence for a negative relationship between the strategic intelligence function’s (SIF) success and a gap between the firm’s environmental turbulence level and its strategic...

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role of firms'scale and its effect on the economic growth. It also discusses whether a country with more large-scale enterprises has a higher economic growth rate than a country with fewer large-scale enterprises by the theoretical aspect and...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, published by and copyright Emerald.

Past research has established that South Africa has a problem of high unemployment rate.This is accompanied by a low entrepreneurship activity that tends to lag far behind that ofother developing countries as measured over the years by the Global EntrepreneurshipMonitor (GEM) research....

This paper estimates the interdependencies between capital formation, saving and output for Iran. The analysis is complicated because of the conflicting theoretical and empirical findings of their relative roles in other studies, the lack of research on Iran whose turbulent history makes it...

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between the size of government and the process of economic growth in Fiji. The results reported here present a mixed picture, in that the model estimated specifies two different effects of the government sector on economic growth. Using annual...

This paper examines the dynamic impact of interest ratereforms on economic growth in Zambia—using two models in a stepwisefashion. In the first model, the efficacy of interest rate liberalization isexamined by regressing the interest rate on the level of financial deepening.In the second...

.ABSTRACTThe main purpose of the study is to determine strategies for retaining valuablecurrent customers and acquiring attractive new customers for Corobrik; therefore, theproblem to be investigated is the reason for Corobrik’s inability to gain significantmarket share in the brick market...

The previous political dispensation limited black people’s participation in the SouthAfrican economy. Poor credit records, lack of training, resulting in skills and capacitygaps further limited entry into the lending market. These aspects are considered themain limitations in obtaining finance...