Background: Reducing rates of healthcare acquired infection has been identified by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care as a national priority. One of the goals is the prevention of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI). At least 3,500 cases of...

This thesis aims at developing a better understanding of unstructured strategic decision making processes and the conditions for achieving successful decision outcomes. Specifically it focuses on the processes used to make CRE (Corporate Real Estate) decisions. The starting point for this thesis...

Storm sewer systems play a very important role in urban areas. The design of a storm sewer system should be based on an appropriate level of preventing flooding. This thesis focuses on issues relevant to decision-making in storm sewer network design considering flood risk. Uncertainty analysis...

The operational management of Water Distribution Systems (WDS), particularly under failure conditions when the behaviour of a WDS is not well understood, is a challenging problem. The research presented in this thesis describes the development of a methodology for risk-based diagnostics of...

SMMEs provide opportunities for employment and economic growth for South Africa.SMMEs need to be as prepared as their larger counterparts in the ever-changing local andglobal business environment. In order to become not only successful but also sustainable, thesmaller enterprise must be aware of...

Risk based audit (RBA) approaches represent a major trend in current audit methodology. The approach is based on risk analysis used to identify business strategy risk. The RBA has created a new set of research issues that need investigation. In particular, this approach has important...

This study proposes an alternative travel decision making model and situates itsarguments in the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) theoretical construct. The MOA modelsuggests that motivation, opportunity, and ability are major factors influencing decision making.Applying this model in the...

Herbert Simon (1955, 1956, 1957) suggested that, due to cognitive limitations and the ever-growing complexity of the human environment, some people develop a decision-making method called “satisficing” that simplifies choice situations. Schwartz et al. (2002) explained that satisficers seek...

This dissertation describes the development of a game-based methodology that facilitates the exploration and selection of research and development (R&D) projects under uncertain competitive scenarios. The proposed method provides an approach that analyzes competitor positioning and formulates...

ABSTRACT Much is known about the process of sponsorship selection with respect to the key personnel involved in the buying decision and also about the strategic objectives for sponsorship. However, few investigations have focused on how sponsors assess the relative value of different sponsorship...