ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The business format, franchising, can be defined as "the granting of a licence for a predetermined financial return by a franchising company (franchisor) to its franchisees. The grant entitles them to make use of a complete business package, including training, support and the...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since packaging materials comprise a substantial percentage, namely 35% of the entire inputcost on a fruit farm, the four largest fruit producers in the Western Cape decided in 1988 toerect their own corrugated cardboard plant at Worcester, namely A P L Cartons.The driving...

Project management has grown from being mainly a tool for large single projects, to being used by organizations for running multiple smaller projects on an ongoing basis. Since this trend has caused scholarly attention to expand from studying the project itself, to focusing on the organization's...