This study assesses challenges of financial service providers, specificallybanks, microfinance institutions, long term insurers and short term insurers, atthe base of the pyramid with respect to affordability, acceptability, availabilityand awareness in Nigeria. This was done through a...

With businesses operating in an environment of uncertainty, questions were raised around the role of rolling forecasts in this environment and how the current financial processes have changed as a result of the uncertainty. There are currently debates regarding the role of budgeting and other...

This report focuses on barriers women face within the petroleum industry, with regard to career advancement to senior positions. This research was conducted to identify the challenges that hinder such progression for women, taking key issues and themes raised by women currently at management...

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...

Human resource practices represent a major mechanism for implementing a firmsstrategic plan. These practices create a distinct type of relationship betweenemployee and employer which can be characterised as psychological contracts, thatis, the belief people hold regarding the terms of their...

As multinational entities (MNEs) seek opportunities and expand into sub-Saharan Africa, they need to understand cultural differences and the impact of this on decision making. This study demonstrated through a literature review as well as through research, that previous assumptions with regard...

This research focuses on the employment contract of low and unskilled workersin the underground coal mining industry in South Africa and aims to link theconcepts of psychological contract, blue-collar workers, race and genderdiversity. Due to the recent economic crisis, mining companies are...

Insider trading is one of the most unscrupulous financial crimes, as it results in people placed in positions of trust effectively stealing from those that they were supposed to protect. This research examined the volumes traded in shares listed on the JSE All Share index, to determine if it...

Much has been written, by academics, about media coverage as beingcontrarian indicators i.e. media headlines have an impact on the share priceperformance of featured companies. The objective of this study was to investigate if this phenomenon was true forlisted South African Companies. Thus the...