ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The turbulent and rapidly changing world, including South Africa, has created a societycraving for speed and action. Future leaders, therefore, face incredible pressures todeliver immediate results, to do more with less and to manage an ever-increasingpersonal workload. The...

Corporate Governance has engaged the attention of academics and practitioners alike for some time now. It is sad to note, however, that most of the studies carried out in this area have been conducted in countries such as the USA and the UK. In recent times, interest in Corporate Governance on...

The law and popular opinion expect boards of directors will actively monitor their organisations. Further, public opinion is that boards should have a positive impact on organisational performance. However, the processes of board monitoring and judgment are poorly understood, and board influence...

Parrallel with theoretical developments in strategic management research, the ultimate goal in this thesis is to identify the reasons why some hotels outperform others in the Chinese hotel industry. Strategic management scholars and researchers have found empirically that an organization's...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Knowledge is increasingly being recognised as the key element to an organisation’s sustainabilityand competitiveness. Knowledge assets refer to organisational resources made of or incorporatingknowledge. These assets ultimately create the ability for an organisation to carry...

Traditionally, organisational performance and efficiency measurements have beenfocused on cost containment. Today, however, performance measurement systems ofworld-class organisations are tailored to drive manufacturing and service businessexcellence.Quality is crucial for gaining a competitive...

The primary financial objective of a firm is the maximisation of its shareholders’value. A problem faced by the shareholders of a firm is that it is difficult to determinethe effect of management decisions on the future share returns of the firm.Furthermore, it may be necessary to implement...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Now more than ever, organisations need to be resilient and sustainable. The world of business haschanged irrevocably since the industrial age and organisational strategies have not adapted much inresponse to this environmental change. Are there new organisational strategies...

As a form of expert labour and organizational resource, knowledge workers are important in organizational life as producers and consumers of knowledge. The role of knowledge workers and the ways in which they transfer their knowledge become important as they possess the symbolic and analytic...

In 1960 department stores were the sole form of large-scale retailing in Japan. The retail industry was otherwise comprisedof a very large number of small firms. Two significant trends have occurred since 1960. First, there was the emergence of newlarge-scale retail formats and their subsequent...