Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Testing For The Pareto Type I Distribution: A Comparative Study
(Springer, 2023)Pareto distributions are widely used models in economics, finance and actuarial sciences. As a result, a number of goodness-of-fit tests have been proposed for these distributions in the literature. We provide an overview ... -
Willingness To Participate In Marine Volunteering: An International Survey
(Springer, 2023)With the launch of the UN Ocean Decade, the value of inclusive approaches encouraging better stewardship and improving the management of ocean resources has been increasingly advocated. Public engagement in marine issues ... -
Effect of Behaviour change communication (BCC) on knowledge and prevention of malaria among women in Ghana
(SAGE, 2023)Behaviour change communication (BCC) remains a central component of theinterventions used in the fight against malaria in Ghana. However, there islimited evidence of its effectiveness. This study evaluated the effects of ... -
A regional analysis of the competitiveness of industries in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa
(SAGE, 2023)The Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality is situated on the Eastern Coastline of SouthAfrica. The metropolitan itself has the potential for major local and regional economic growth buthas experienced significantly ... -
The abuse of the beneficial ownership of trusts to conceal assets in insolvency and divorce proceedings: A South African study.
(Emerald, 2024)Abstract Purpose – Previous research has indicated that trusts are used to commit various economic crimes, but limited studies examine the exact method of how trusts are abused. This paper aims to determine how trusts are ... -
Intention to dropout and study satisfaction: Testing item bias and structural invariance of measures for South African first-year university students
(Emerald, 2023)Purpose – This study examined the psychometric properties of intention to drop out and study satisfaction measures for first-year South African students. The factorial validity, item bias, measurement invariance ... -
The “why” behind generation Y amateur gamers’ ongoing eSports gameplay intentions
(Emerald, 2023)Purpose – Technological advancements in games increased the popularity of online gaming. The rapid expansion of the eSports market may largely be attributed to the ever-increasing popularity amongst Generation Y amateur ... -
Occurrence, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Virulence Profiles of Salmonella Serovars Isolated from Wild Reptiles in South Africa
(International Journal of Microbiology, 2024)Reptiles are carriers of an array of microorganisms, including signifcant zoonotic bacteria of the genus Salmonella, which cause a disease referred to as salmonellosis that afects both animals and humans. Tis study ... -
Affective commitment, trust, perceived value and service quality as predictors of customer engagement in the South African open medical aid industry
(Department of Marketing and Retail Management (UNISA), 2022)The South African open medical aid industry is undergoing various challenges and is experiencing increased pressure to improve its service offerings. This is because customers of open medical aid providers are becoming ... -
Proposed framework for innovative business intelligence for competitive advantage in small, medium and micro-organisations in the North West province South Africa
(AOSIS, 2022)Background: Innovative business intelligence enjoys popularity amongst mainly large organisations, particularly in the private sector. However, very limited studies have validated the impact of business intelligence in ... -
An internal flow and heat transfer inside a solid rocket motor combustion chamber : a lie symmetry approach
(Elsevier, 2022)The validity of Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) stability calculations critically depends on the sufficiently detailed and physically correct representation of propellant velocity flow-field, which leads to well behaved flow. A ... -
Lifestyle influences changes in fibrin clot properties over a 10-year period on a population level
(Georg Thieme Verlag, 2022)Case–control and observational studies have provided a plausible mechanistic link between clot structure and thrombosis. We aimed to identify lifestyle, demographic, biochemical, and genetic factors that influence changes ... -
Identifying the drivers of trade finance in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Trade finance (or bank intermediated trade finance) plays an integral role in facilitating trade across the globe: most studies assert that trade finance (TF) forms part of more than 80% of total global trade. Although TF ... -
Identifying realistic export opportunities for Rwanda based on the TRADE-DSM approach
(International Growth Centre, 2017)Stimulating new exports is one of the most efficient ways that policymakers can drive structural transformation, by transferring resources from traditional activities to these new ones with the aim of uplifting and advancing ... -
Using a decision support model to identify export opportunities
(International Growth Centre, 2017)The main objective of this study is to identify new opportunities for exporting Rwandan goods and services using an alternative approach (also endorsed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)) and tool called the ‘Decision ... -
The impact of the recycling industry on poverty levels in South Africa’s informal economy: a case study of waste pickers in Pretoria
(2016)South Africa is gripped by high and rising levels of unemployment and poverty, which have conspired to create a society that is one of the most unequal in the world today. This is not helped by the fact that the troubled ... -
Realising the potential of services SMEs in developing economies
(International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), 2017)The tremendous technological advances that have taken place in recent years have created a new kind of world – one in which production processes are increasingly being split up and outsourced to different countries that ... -
Linking export opportunities of products and services: the case of South Africa
(2012)Trade in services has been playing an increasingly important role in the economic growth and development of many countries. In addition it has been found that services trade is more crisis-resilient than goods trade, leading ...