Chapter 1: Introduction,- Chapter 2: A roadmap to business research -- Chapter 3: The effect of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards on foreign portfolio investment in Africa -- Chapter 4: Determining the impact of different forms of stationarity on financial time series...

The developing South African economy provides good business opportunities for global companies. Despite the popularity of mergers and acquisitions as a way to expand into a developing economy, many such business transaction fail to create sustainable organisations due to issues pertaining to...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A design science methodology -- Chapter 3: Systems thinking foundation -- Chapter 4: Business process considerations -- Chapter 5: Cost accounting perspectives -- Chapter 6: First EADR iteration: Problem refinement -- Chapter 7: Second EADR iteration:...