Management and Entrepreneurship

Distributive justice is associated with the perceptions of an individual of the presence of equity and fairness in an organisation and how employees compare their expectations to the actual outcome. The primary objective of this article is to critically assess distributive justice within the South African financial services industry. A quantitative research design was employed. Non-probability sampling was used and 436 usable questionnaires were returned. The empirical results revealed that trustworthiness of management, extrinsic rewards and organisational climate have a positive influence on distributive justice, while employee engagement and two-way communication were found to have no significant influence on distributive justice. Furthermore, distributive justice had a positive influence on organisational citizenship behaviour and reputable employee retention in the financial services industry.

The study explores the issue of innovative leadership in the financial sector and opts to use a case of a bank in South Africa. The existing empirical literature delivers a detailed review of leadership pioneering with the issue of risk management. Due to the constant change in the global space and evolution in the needs of consumers, in the taste of financial service providers, innovation from human resources is now the key to sustainability. However, risk management plays a fundamental role in the operations of financial sectors, and particularly for banks as their operational risks are also frequently financial risks. Hence, to ensure that all is well balanced this study explores innovative leadership in the financial sector in South Africa. The research project was qualitative in nature, with primary data collected using email interviews and document analysis. The research found that the main problem is the operational structures that guide the financial sectors. To this end, th...

Distributive justice is associated with the perceptions of an individual of the presence of equity and fairness in an organisation and how employees compare their expectations to the actual outcome. The primary objective of this article is to critically assess distributive justice within the South African financial services industry. A quantitative research design was employed. Non-probability sampling was used and 436 usable questionnaires were returned. The empirical results revealed that trustworthiness of management, extrinsic rewards and organisational climate have a positive influence on distributive justice, while employee engagement and two-way communication were found to have no significant influence on distributive justice. Furthermore, distributive justice had a positive influence on organisational citizenship behaviour and reputable employee retention in the financial services industry.

The leadership styles such as transformational leadership and transactional leadership have captured the interest of scholars in the contemporary world of organisational behaviour since it is associated with the perceptions of supervision skills to the presence of retentions within the organisational setting. The primary objective of this study is to examine the impact of leadership style on employee retention in the South African automotive industry. A quantitative research design was employed. Non-probability sampling was used and 96 usable questionnaires were returned. The empirical results reveal that transactional and transformation leadership have positive influence on employee retention. Evidence shows that a leadership style is a powerful instrument that can be used to retain talent within the organisational settings. The main aim of this study was to determine the impact of leadership style on employee retention in the context of automobile sector. By using descriptive and ...

Public-private partnerships (PPP) are likely to emerge as a new model for improved infrastructure development in developing countries. Scrutinizing the possibility of adopting the PPP model in addressing infrastructure challenges is the main objective of this paper. The study identifies the critical success factors for PPP project implementation based on the case of an emerging country. Qualitative research was used in this study. The target population in this study is a group of experts who are currently involved in infrastructure planning, development and policy making. The research concludes that lack of political will and government’s failure to develop policies to support PPPs are a major problem for this issue in developing countries. The research indicates the relevance and immediate necessity for governments of developing countries to develop a transparent and consistent policy and legal structure on PPPs to attract and promote private sector involvement in infrastructure pr...

The realization customer -value analysis is likely to emerge as a contemporary model for improvement of customer relationship management within the banking industry. This means that the cost of acquiring customer base has become expensive and organisations have developed strategies to create customer loyalty. The strategies that have been employed by organisations is to improve customer service provision through is through activity analysis. Activity analysis have been cited as a driver of superior services and a driver of customer satisfaction. It is in this light that this study the impact of Customer Value Chain Analysis on Customer Satisfaction in a selected a bank in a banking industry. A qualitative was used in this study where a phenomenological research philosophy was adopted to answer the research problem and primary research findings were gathered from 10 managerial employees of the selected bank within the banking industry. The research sample was selected using purposive...

Attraction of new inward foreign direct investment (FDI) globally, especially in the developing countries, is problematic. Economic development practitioners have recently started to prioritise the retention and growing of existing investments to enhance their economic development agenda. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and investigate the relationship between inward FDI and investment aftercare in South Africa (SA). Only a few studies have been carried out on the topic at the global level and none on SA as far as could be ascertained. A structured questionnaire was used to collate data, and 30 face-to-face interviews were conducted with 16 investment aftercare practitioners and 14 executives from the investment promotion agencies (IPAs) in seven of the nine provinces of SA. The main finding of the study is that although investment aftercare services are essential, they receive limited funding, staff and attention, and have not yet been developed in SA.

Attraction of new inward foreign direct investment (FDI) globally, especially in the developing countries, is problematic. Economic development practitioners have recently started to prioritise the retention and growing of existing investments to enhance their economic development agenda. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and investigate the relationship between inward FDI and investment aftercare in South Africa (SA). Only a few studies have been carried out on the topic at the global level and none on SA as far as could be ascertained. A structured questionnaire was used to collate data, and 30 face-to-face interviews were conducted with 16 investment aftercare practitioners and 14 executives from the investment promotion agencies (IPAs) in seven of the nine provinces of SA. The main finding of the study is that although investment aftercare services are essential, they receive limited funding, staff and attention, and have not yet been developed in SA.

Marketing practitioners and academics are increasingly applying the concepts and techniques of products or services branding to the branding of destinations. To date, most of these studies focussed on using product and services branding concepts for branding destinations on the level of an individual resort, city or country. This thesis extends this trend by considering to what degree these destination branding ideas can also be used to brand an entire region consisting of several countries with multiple destinations. The specific focus is on developing such a regional branding framework for the tourism industry of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). First the state of tourism within the SADC region was described, including the establishment of RETOSA and the tourism performance of the region. On the basis of this overview, opportunities for regional destination branding were then considered. Secondly, the core concepts of product branding and their application to destination branding were discussed. Four theoretical frameworks for branding were reviewed and then used to compare product and destination branding. Thirdly, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was used as a case study of a region that has attempted regional destination branding initiatives, with a view to what the SADC-region may learn from this experience. In conclusion a regional destination branding framework is proposed for the SADC region. The following list makes up the elements of this framework: the vision and mission, the destination brand and its proposition, core values of the destination and its brand identity, brand image, clear view of the market, audience and competitors, brand personality, brand positioning, stakeholder consultation process and tourism marketing research.

Attraction of new inward foreign direct investment (FDI) globally, especially in the developing countries, is problematic. Economic development practitioners have recently started to prioritise the retention and growing of existing investments to enhance their economic development agenda. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and investigate the relationship between inward FDI and investment aftercare in South Africa (SA). Only a few studies have been carried out on the topic at the global level and none on SA as far as could be ascertained. A structured questionnaire was used to collate data, and 30 face-to-face interviews were conducted with 16 investment aftercare practitioners and 14 executives from the investment promotion agencies (IPAs) in seven of the nine provinces of SA. The main finding of the study is that although investment aftercare services are essential, they receive limited funding, staff and attention, and have not yet been developed in SA.

Women’s economic empowerment has been South Africa’s policy priority since the country became a democracy. This paper examines the domains associated with the economic empowerment of small-scale female agro-processors in South Africa. A sequential exploratory mixed methods research design and a close-ended questionnaire were used to collect quantitative data from 503 small-scale agro-processors in five provinces. Qualitative data were collected during five focus group sessions aided by the focus group guide. The results show that production decision-making (β = 0,140; p = 0,003), access to productive resources (β = 0.140, p = 0.001), time allocation (β = 0.327, p = 0.000), and intervention (β = –0.353, p = 0.004) are the critical domains of small-scale agro-processing empowerment. The study revealed that only four domains of women’s economic empowerment have significantly improved the economic status of small-scale agro-processors. However, the combination of income, leadership, and...

Food insecurity is becoming a global problem. To ensure that households are food secure, numerous instruments to measure and assess food indicators should be developed using the food indicators measurement. Only a few research have investigated the evolution of household food insecurity indicators. This study aims to assess and measure food insecurity indicators in the Frances Baard District Municipality. A quantitative research design was used in this study, which includes descriptive, correlational, and explanatory research. For this study, a basic random sampling technique was used, with a sample size of 536 respondents. A total of 70.2 percent of the 536 households are large, with four or more individuals. The findings demonstrate a positive and significant relationship between not having any food [r= (534) = 0.452, p 0.001], household members eating few meals [r= (534) = 0.439, p 0.001], and a shortage of food for the households. These findings suggest that an increase in food-insecure households in this municipality might reduce food security by 11.6 percent (B =-0.499, p = 0.030). Home food security could be reduced by 11.2 percent (B =-0.547, p = 0.032) if household members go to bed hungry. Food security indicators in households should be used to assess food insecurity in the Frances Baard Municipality. Households with many dependents have a tough time getting food. To minimise food insecurity, it is suggested that domestic agriculture and food gardens be promoted and supported. The study revealed that women are mostly affected by food insecurity, government should develop measures to address food insecurity for women.

Entrepreneurship has been gaining popularity and attention across the globe as an essential source of economic growth and employment creation. Furthermore, entrepreneurship has increasingly attracted the governments and policy-making institution's attention in recent years. This chapter's purpose was to analyse entrepreneurship's influence on the economic empowerment of small-scale agroprocessors in South Africa. This research was carried out in the five provinces of South Africa of Gauteng, Limpopo, North West, Free State and Mpumalanga. Moreover, the study focused on the influence of entrepreneurship on the economic empowerment of small-scale agro-processors in those provinces. A concurrent mixed-methods research design consisting of a semi-structured questionnaire with 503 small-scale agro-processors was conducted. A stratified sampling method was used, and data were analysed using a multiple regression method. The study found that entrepreneurship significantly influences the economic empowerment of small-scale agro-processors compared to resources and infrastructure. The findings of this study may inform policymakers, government agencies and scholars that access to market and transaction costs are essential entrepreneurship parameters which will facilitate the economic empowerment of small-scale agro-processors in South Africa. The key limitation of the study is that the research was only conducted in five provinces of South

Introduction: While many emerging agricultural cooperative firms in the Central Free State of South Africa remain inclined to progress into mainstream markets, conditions of market exclusion continue to dampen their predisposition to exploit competitive opportunities. Since cooperatives determined to reach their full market potential must contemplate competitive positions in their value networks, the business strategy literature on cooperative firms foregrounds the theoretical assertion that the value network configuration significantly influences competitiveness. Purpose: This conceptual study challenges the assertion that emerging agricultural cooperative firms' value network configuration significantly influences their competitiveness. Methodology: Drawing on the transaction cost economics theory and a review of literature, the study sought to address the core constructs that constitute the claims, establishing, rather, that sustained competitive performance has a direct influence on the competitiveness of emerging agricultural cooperative firms. Findings: The findings suggest sustained competitive performance as the principal determinant of competitiveness and a function of the cooperative firms' ability to navigate through transaction interaction dynamics and configurational influences. Originality: The study links industry structure and competition intensity to configurational influences, manifesting in various drivers and indicators Orlu, Manasoe and Swanepoel 2 determining sustained competitive performance, a novel concept underexplored in cooperative entrepreneurial literature.

This study examined the impact of government funding on food security for subsistence farming, communities, households, and smallholder farmers in Frances Baard Municipality. Food insecurity has been a global phenomenon that has been on the increase since 2015, and it is thought to be a result of growing conflict, pandemic, and climate-related shocks. The analysis methods employed in this study were mainly cluster and discriminant analysis (DA). Simple random sampling techniques were used to select 533 farmers. The cluster analysis results reveal that Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) occupies the highest rank, followed by a Poverty Relief Programme and Land Restitution programme. In contrast, discriminant analysis (DA) results show that an Agricultural Starter Pack Programme is highly likely to increase the impact of food security in households when other interventions are held constant. The study concludes that to improve the food security of the Frances Baard Municipal District, the government should consistently improve the performance of these programmes. To improve the performance of these programmes, it is therefore recommended that the following programmes be resourced: the Agricultural Starter Pack Programme, Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP), Expanded Public