Increasing customer demand for quality products and services have virtuallyforced organisations to adopt quality in every aspect of their business enterprises.Due to dynamic technological, political and economic changes in the world ofbusiness, the science of management is volatile. Higher...

Calculating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate change mitigation projects requires construction of a baseline that sets emissions levels that would have occurred without the project. This paper describes a standardized multiproject methodology for setting baselines, represented by...

The Department of the Premier: Orgnisational Development is mandated to coordinate provincial intervention that will assist the provincial departments of the Western Cape to improve the efficiency of their service delivery. Increasing customer demand for quality services have virtually forced...

The problem concerned the financial indicators used to evaluate the financial condition of the six sister higher education institutions under the authority of the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges. The purposes were to determine the financial ratios that best indicate financial condition; to...

Peter Drucker lectures about the future of the corporation. During his talk, he discusses: the amount of information customers have due to the Internet, the service revolution, the inclusion of floor to floor covering in mortgages, the Internet and local markets, transnational universities, the...

Oil has become a dominant element within the power capability profile of any nation. Nations enter into war because of oil. The Gulf War in 1991 is an example. In Nigeria the crisis is between the federal government and oil producing communities in the Niger Delta region. Despite the abundant...

The global economy is creating profound and substantial changes for businesses andindustries throughout the world. These changes make it necessary for businesses toexamine their purpose carefully and to devote a great deal of attention to selecting and following strategies in their pursuit of...

The Local Business Service Centre (LBSC) programme launched by thegovernment of the Republic of South Africa in 1995 to provide businessdevelopment services to small business, moreso in the Black communities, did notlive up to expectations. This is according to the responses of a sample of...

This thesis is based on a cross-sectional survey design that employed the simple random sampling technique. From an original sample size of 1900 that was split between the South African market (1300) and the Zimbabwean market (600), a total of 494 usable responses were obtained representing a...

South Africa has abandoned apartheid and re-entered the global economy where factors like the lack of global competitiveness and global recession, amoung other factors, are contributing to poor performance of South African firms. This poor performance has resulted in many firms restructuring,...