South Africa has an uneven distribution of economic wealth. The political history of recentdecades is the main reason for this phenomenon and has led to a situation where vastnumbers of citizens did not receive the necessary training and development to embark onself-employment or to be employed...

This thesis tests Oliver Williamson’s proposition that transaction cost economics can explain the limits of firm size. Williamson suggests that diseconomies of scale are manifested through four interrelated factors: atmospheric consequences due to specialisation, bureaucratic insularity,...

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The Home Depot, Inc. is the world’s largest home improvement retailer and thesecond largest retailer in the United States. The company made its debut in 1979 and hasgrown to 1,984 stores throughout the United States (including Puerto Rico and the VirginIslands) as well as Canada and Mexico....

Petranek's Pharmacy was located at 426 North Milwaukee Avenue near the southeast corner of East Cook Street and North Milwaukee Avenue. It was a successor to the historic Lovell's Pharmacy, owned by Kenneth Lovell, which opened for business at that site in 1876. Over the years, several people...

Petranek's Pharmacy was located at 426 North Milwaukee Avenue near the southeast corner of East Cook Street and North Milwaukee Avenue. It was a successor to the historic Lovell's Pharmacy, owned by Kenneth Lovell, which opened for business at that site in 1876. Over the years, several people...

View looking North on North Cook St. and Railroad Ave. R.R. Ave was a short street that was parallel to the R.R. tracks from E. Main St. then going northwest down to Hager's lumber yard office then on to North Hough St. The building on the right in this photo is 203 North Cook. The sign above...

This dissertation investigates the dynamics that underlie enterprise performance and takes a significant step toward showing how it might be predicted. In a novel approach, a comprehensive Enterprise System Architecture (ESA) is developed that introduces separate layers for strategic and...

The purpose of this study is to extend research devoted to the areas of organizational size and chief executive (CEO) compensation. The thrust of this investigation holds that diversification moderates the relationship between organizational size and CEO compensation. While research has...